Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-07-13
Gen. TAYLOR and Slavery.

few months since, the whg editors and politicians
of this State indignant at the bare mention of
Gen. Taylors name as a wing candidate for the Pres
dency as they could have been at the thought of sup
porting John C. Calhoun for that office. SIS thy ser
want dog that he should do this thng" thought they
But the powers that be have imposed Gen. Taylor up
the wings candidate for the presidency; and now
the attempt is made to secure his electon-not, as he
is, or avows himself to be, no party, or all-party
man, the chosen instrument in the subjugation of
Mexico, and champion of the slave power; but nven-
ton is put to the rack to make him out a partzan
wing, friend of peace and Wilmot provso candid
ate and the embodiment of antslavery sentiment
This is done with the distinct knowledge on the part
of every man of ordinary intelligence that Gen Taylor
has been brought forward by the united demand of
almost the entire south, and imposed on the American
people presidential candidate for the express and
avowed purpose of subugating the free states to the
daboica purpose of the slavery propagandsts of the
southern sates In proof of this have but to re-
fer to the numerous popular assemblies throughout the
entire south during the past year, of all parties called
for the avowed purpose of combining action against
the Wmot proviso, and pledging themselves to sup
port no for the PRESIDENCY but devoted to the
southern interest Most of these conventions dis
tnctly named Gen. Taylor as their chosen man, and
more likely from his fresh military renown to receive
the votes of the north than any other southern man.
We give below the action of few of these conven.
tions and might burden our columns to the same eli
fect-leaving no to doubt for moment that Gen
10 opdtr e Al.
rankest slavery of the SOUTH Can nor
them men be blind or insensibe to such evidence?
The Macon, Ga. Messenger, wing paper, held tn,
following language Immediately subsequent to tn,
nomination of Gen. Taylor by the Georgia wings, las
summer:
fortunate is it that the wings are almost if no
quite unanimous in his support Still more fortunate
it, that there are scores and hundreds of democrat
in the country who are resolved to rally under the no
BILE standard of "Rough and Ready" Under sue
circumstances, we cannot doubt the result. The dem
ocras of Georgia have greater reasons than thei
brethren of New Jersey and Pennsylvania to advocat
Gen Taylor. He is southern mtn, both in Heory an
IN fac. Identified t0ih our institutions and tOvin
them his character is such nevertheless as to enabl
hun to accomplish great good for the nation at large
l,et us then, all forget past differences and rally k
brethren around him who can best protect and defen
both our rights and our Institutions
From the Matches Courier whig)
1t is well understood by those who were in the s,
ret of things at Washington last winter that the no
thern members, almost en- masse, had demanded tht
no moie slave territory should be annexed to the col
tederaton and the northern states possess the voti,
) POUer to carry out their determination.
3 The Southern States will not permit this terr;torv
a come into the Union free territory; and betwee
the two conendng interests it is not likely that n
smallest fraction of Mexican desert with its basest
i mongerel populations will be added to our areaf
: widely extended domain. On this question and m
others affecting Southern interests we believe Gen Ia
Tor to be as safe any man in the South. He W
II born in the South-raised in the South-hs interes
u are eOtirely Unidentified with Southern interests
/ closest sympathes and earliest recolections are all
is twined around Southern institutions-his family. f
g tune, first and Oldest friends, all bound up in
AZ Southare all sure guarantees that he will be true
the land that gave him birh-GS true as The mag,
10 to The pole
a. We have not the slightest doubt /
u that OLD JACK is as much opposed to the infamc
proposition Of that leading Locofoco of Pennsylvan
WilInot who first introduced the resolution to excu
slavery from any territory that may be retained W
OF the Rio Grande, as any man in Mississippi