Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1848-08-23
SHARP SHOTS AT THE TERTIUM OUID
CONVENTION.
FROM THE BOSTON Atlas.

we have said that we have desired that the
buffalo Convention might nominate VAN buren,
we have so desired, and rejoice in and wei
come him INTO the field antagonisiic candidate
to Gen. TAYLOR. We are ready and eager TO 90
before the people of Massachusetts upon this issue
In which we can have no fears for the result We
rejoice that this Buffalo Convention has thus stripped
oil the thin DISCUSSES under which this faction has
sought to conceal and cloak the hollow. hearted in
sincerity, the hypocrisy, and faseness of this move
ment we rejoice at 1t, because there were many
truly honest, sincere, and conscientious advocates
OF tree soll-men whom have ever respected
while we have lamented their blindness in endinp
themselves 10 movement at once impracticablc
SO purely factlous in lis inception and SO selfish
| and unworthy i'll the designs of its mananers-who
VIII now we are confident, be no longer blind to its
true character. They will not consent 10 be any
longer made the dupes of set of disorpanizers
VINO, under the pretence of serving tho liberty
cause, serve only the vile uses of 4 New York fac
ton, which had its origin in a fight for spoil,
wherein these agiators were worsted and whose
present show of sympathy for the cause of freedom
an atorethought, caught up only as weapon
with which they may beat their enemies. and
which they will throw aside as soon as it has sery
| ed their dishonest and selfish ends.
THE SAME.
Those Wings who called the Worcester Con
yenlou to oppose Gen. Taylor because he was snot
w hlg,, are requested TO meet at the town pump.
10 make preparations 10 support that true Wing,
Martin Van Buren,. Mr.. Wilson, of Natick, and
Judge Allen are requested TO bring with them CO.
pies OF their speeches made in 1910 The Van
buren men IN Concord are to bring the big ball.
a transparency Of Van Buren, giving his CASTING
vote 10 rifle the mails Of anti slavery letters and
papers will be exhibited
HE OREGoN BML--The President of the n
states, In returning 10 the House of Representa-
yves, with his signature, the bill establishing
Territorial Government in Oregon, (with the VIII
mot ffoVlsO attached) gave his reasons for so do
ing.
He signed the bill, because its provisions are not
inconsistent with the Missouri Compromise but
ne distinctly intlmates that he will not sion bills
WIN Inc same provision, for territory south of the
compromise line He states that he has an abid
Ing confidence that the sober reflection and sound
patriotism OF the people will settle the danoerous
question on the basis Of the Missouri Compromiso
or some other equitable compromise But is il not
litlIe singular, that the noble author Of the very
compromise winch once saved the Union and is
ever Teed upon in times Of difficulty should have
Oecn treated worse than enemy Of The countrv
and hunted down by calumny and detraction If 10
basesi sort ?-Jpin. Rep.
Potomac" the Washington CORRESPONDENT Of
the Baltimore Patriot. saws
The election returns, altogether. and fl,c do;pos
Of the buffalo Convention, look well for the snc-
cess Of Old Zack va VIC 'o'
The dOlngs in the two Houses Of Conrrcss ,,;,,
IN few days past. on the Missouri C0mpromise
and the Wilmot Proviso. have fixed Con- 60,
Hint. According 10 Senator Foote'S repeacd pro,
clamaon, he will not get the vote Of si1cio S,nfb
ern State. The Locofocos in Congress from Tho
North, he maintains, have done the deed. So LOT
II be- W ~