Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-10-12
With sincere esteem,
Your friend and obedient servant,
EDWARD A. STANSBURY


uluuiCoUlyb SEPl - LOtO
EDWARD A. STANsBURY, ESQ.,
Dear SH:-On returning recently from temporary
absence from home found your letter of the 2lst of
August in which you suggest that it is lntnated that
will not support the Buffalo nomination for Presi-
dent, but withhold my vote, cast it for Gen. Taylor;
and you ask an expression of "my views upon the
great question which has given rise to the Buffalo
movement and the duty OF Northern freemen in rea-
ton to the three Presidential tickets before the
people"
In complying with your request, do not assume
that the course shall take will, of ITSELF b. worthy
the regard of any body independently of the reasons
may give for it. have considered the nominations
of the Baltimore, Philadelphia, ana Buffalo conyen-
tons, and come the conclusion that it is my duty to
support the latter-the reasons for which, will now
proceed to give. Before doing this it would seem ap
propriae that should state my reasons for declining
to support either OF the first two nominations referred
to. Those reasons have given at some length, in a
letter addressed to MI Gidlings, previous to the Buff
faio Convention; and you now have them in a copy of
the letter. which herewith send you. Since the date
of that letter. Gen. Tayor's position has been more
fully disclosed and rendered more manfestly obec-
tionable.-Let me refer to few particulars.
He has been claimed by the wings Of the north as
in effect pledged TO Free Soil principles and there
fore safe for That he has no. intended to give
any such pledge even by implication, is now concIl-
syely settled by the following letter from him in re-
ply to the question among Others, s." Should you be-
come President, would you veto any act Of Congress
which should prohibit slavery or involuntary servltude
forever except for crime in all the territories of the
United States where it does rot now exist"
Baton Rouge, La Feb. Is, 1913.
SIR:-I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of your communication of the Sd inst. In reply to
your enquiries have to inform you that have laid il
down principle not to give my opinions upon, Oh
PREJUDICE, in any way, the various questions Of policy
now at issue between the political parties of the coun
try, nor to promise what [ would or would not, dc
were elected to the Presidency of the United States
and that in The presented in your letter. Iregret Il
add see no reason for departing from this principle
remain sir, with great respect,
z. TAYLOR.
Mr.. B. M. McCoNKEY Cincinnati
That Gen, Taylor is not pledged to freedom, Of
wing principles is furthermore manifest from the fol-
lowing extract of letter addressed to a friend il
Charleston, South Carolina, since his nomination a
Philadelphia.
81 have never had any aspiration for the Presiden
CIV nor have now, farther than the wishes of my
friends are concerned in the matter; nor would have
it on any other terms than stated when the subjec
was first agated, that my acceptance must be tothOt
pledges, Or being trammelled, IN any uaH so that
could be the President of the whole nation and not o
a party. have accepted the nomination of the Pha
dephia Convention, as well the nomination of pri
mary assemblies gotten up in various sections of thu
Union, in some instances irrespective of party; an
,Coutd haze accepted The nomination Of The Bditimor
ConUenton had It been rendered the same terms"