The North-Carolina standard., 1848-09-27
GEN. TAYLOR ON SLAVERY.

Gen. TAYLOR in his Allison letter, says: "The power
given by the Constitution to the Executive to nterpose
his vcto is high conservative power; but in my oPin-
ion should be exercised except in of clear
violation the Constitution manifest haste and want
of consideration by Congress.
Mr. Badger in his Speech in the Senate against Mr..
Clayton's Compromise declares the Wilmo ProvisO
be Constitutional; and, speaking of in which
Congress exercised jurisdiction the question of slave
ry he says: Nor this instance of hGSty and
considerate action. o according Mr. Badger. Gen.
Tavor would not if elected President the Wimot
Proviso.
Gen. Taylor also says, in his Allison letter, that the
personal opinions of the individual who may happen
cupy the Executive chair ought not to control the action
Of Congress upon questions of domestic policy ought
his objections be nterposed where questions of const
tuona power have been settled by the various depart
mcnts of Government and acquesced in by the people
Mr.. Badger in his Speech delivered in this City,
the cath day of August ls4s, said: Z" He deemed the
true pivot which the ensuing election ought to and
he the question of the unlimited exercise
of the Veto power. If you would have the Legislative
departments Of the Country chambers for register
ing the edcts Of corrupt Executive for the advo-
of such a theory, Lewis Cass But if you would
the will of the People expressed and perfected through
their proper Representatives. you would preserve
your republican form OF Government IN reality as well
vote for that man ,chO IrW sacrifice his
pirate Pnfahties c opinio" to the ope" declarations
Of the popular 'ciH''
Gen. Taylors "privatcs partiaities of opinion
supposed by Southern Wings to be in favor of the slave
holding States but Mr. Badger here distinctly
that he ,ciH sacrifice" those prirute pGTfinftes
TO the wiH Of bare majority Of Congress That is if
the Representatives Of the nonsavchOing States should
pass law excluding the people of North Carolina and
of the South, from New Mexico and California, Gen.
Taylor will approve that law, and President of the
/ United States, that it is enforced.
Gen. Taylor says he will make no pledges and yet in his
Signal letter he stands pledged this efec "The
sion the Continent the Rio Ganc, of the Or
dinance of l7s7, 1.-THE Wimot Provso] is object too
hgh and permanent to be bafed by Presidential vetoes
In the great debate the Senate of the United States
in July last, on the Oregon bill, Senator Corwin said :
Could be made to believe that General Taylor would
veto any bill embracing the principles of the Wilmot
Proviso, certainly tcOuM not roe for him and will
take it myself say that of the free States
gould be brought to support him. But between Gen.
Taylor and Mr. Cass there could no hesitation as to
choice" Sec Congressional Globe LIST session, 3Oth
Congress, page 994.
AT large Mass Meeting of the friends of TAYLOR and
Fillmore, held in the City of New York, the night
OF the 22d August, ls4s, Speeches were delivered by
Mr. Brooks, OF the New York Express, and Mr.. Raw
mond of the New York Courier and Enquirer; and the
following Resolutions adopted
-"Rcsolvcd, That in General Taylor's early and
frank declaration that he whg, have an avowal
and pledge that he will carry the principles and
measures on which the whig party is based and for
whose asccndancy it has always battled.
Resolved, That in the promise he has given to the
country to leave the business of legislation the pco-
pies direct representatives. where properly belongs we
have an assurance that the odious anAmerican
power Will no longer ample beneath its feet the popu-
lar will expressed by Congress- and that the rivers and
harbors of the great West will feel the fostering aid of
the government in improvements which they require.
Resolved, That in this same promise we have secu-
rity that his and protection of human liberty will
not be bounded by any parallel of latitude and that he
aDN sanction and approve any act Of Congress upon
the nomentous subject of free soi ,vhether tie territory
to be affected be North or South of SO deg 80 intes
Resolved, That cordial thanks are due to the
Members of Congress who resisted the attempts the
Southern confederacy to extend the dominion of slavery
over our newly acquired possessions and fasen its b
curse upon the shores of the free and far Pacific
Resolved That on the great fundamental principle of
hostility to the extension of human slavery the position
OF the aOhtgs Of Neto York early taken md has
been usinchingy maintained, and ne point ,vith con-
Ldence to the unanimous cotes of ,chig members of
Congress on eUey question inO0tug this principle as
an earnest OF oar CONNECTIONS and frness we ap-
peal to our whig brethren stand by those who have
never compromised tracked never BETRAYED the
free spirit OF the North rather than the noisy
to free soil and free labor who ceased rucke to
the South until she had spurned them with contempt
from her councils and refused longer repay subsery-
cncy by Offices and honors."
If believed that Gen. Taylor, if elected, would use
his official influence in aid of the further extension of the
slave power, would oppose him, let him be nominated
BY whom he might. Daniel webster
believe that Gen. Taylor has BEEN from the very first
opposed the policy of the Mexican war; as unexpedent
impotc, and improper believe the best inforna-
ton can obtain-and you will take this as NV own
opinion, gentlemenI believe that he has no disnoso
extend the area of slavery, the influence of the
slave institution, Do7,;eI Weboto. :