The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1848-09-22

why 1t was that Taylor was nominated:
From the New York Tribune.
LETTER FROM JOHN Nj. BOfTS.
Published by order of the Clay Committee.
RIcnMoND, Sept. 8, '4S.
My DEAR SIR:-I received your letter. es.
terday, by which | was delighted t5shear Of
the .Gred parpose-not an Albany fashin
the pan--of the determined friends of the
whig cause, and sofwhig principles, to nomi-
nate Henry Clay; for, as matters now stand,
admitting Gen. Taylor to be eotig candidate,
(which utterly deny,) the party ls doomed to
certain, inevitable and disgracefu defeat, and
every man not wilfully blind must see it. It
was an inexcusabe blunder 10 suppose that
from million and a quarter to million and
a half OF free, Independent whig voters could
be wheeled into line at the word of command
from some fifty or sixty Washington poti-
clans (most of whom had scarcely shed their
pin feathers in politcs) for candidate who
had never flied civil station, and who had
not for forty years, and perhaps in his life,
given vote for man or measure, without ex-
perience or knowledge of the practical oper
ations of any one of the domestic questions
about which we had differed; of no acquan-
lance with oul foreign relations; who had
said to the people, you must take me on
your own responsibility will not be the
candidate of a party nor 'wil be the expo
nent of your party principles, nor 'look to the
doctrines of your party as the rule of my ac
tom and while he prolessed to shrink from no
responsibility, steadily refused to give his
opinion on any one question, except the prac
ica use Of the Veto power; and declared his
determination not to be governed by the &C
ton of the Convention, but would be can
didate no matter who might be nominated; and
in my judgment his name never should have
been considered in that Convention after he
made that declaration.
But this last objection, it was said, had
been removed by the pledges made for him by !
Judge Saunders in behafofthe Louisiana del |
egalion, which he subsequently adopted by a
card written by his authority and published by
Baile Peyton, Bullet, &c--and this declar
alton was held up by the Taylor men and
wbig presses of the country as sufficient to
reconcile all wings to his election. The Pey
on Card and his cordial acceptance of the
nomination had placed him upon the whg
platform; and just at the moment that many of
rs had brought our minds to the conclusion to
vote for him, however reluctantly, he writes
, letterin which he says he would have accep-
led the nomination from the Baltimore Con
,enton on the same terms on which he ac-
,epted the Philadelphia nomination! What
becomes, then, of the Saunders pledge! What
becomes of the Peyton Cardl And if it be
rue that there were no terms expressed or i'm
,lied in the Philadelphia nomination that
would he inconsistent with an acceptance ofthe
democratic nomination at Baltimore, in what
an attitude does it place the whig party, Sc
ecting as their candidate one who could with
equal proprietv have become the candidate of
heir opponents! And ifno true, in what
position does it place Gen. Taylorl
But what desire to learn is this. TfGen.
Taylor is not bound by the action of the Phil |
adelphia Convention, who is! And if he may
disregard its recommendations, who may not!
And if he is bound by their action, what right
has he to lend the influence of his name to the |
defeat of Mr.. Fillmore who was associated
with him, by the same body of men, by ac-
cepting nomination with Gen. Butler, To-
cofo, whose election he thereby assists in
In short his whole course of con
duct is insulting to the whig party, and es:
pecially to all those who participated IN the |
at Philadelphia, and if they bad
any whig spirit left in them, they would re.
sent it.
fit is ascertained that the purpose Of that
convention was perverted from lis original
legitimate objects of sscertaining and giving
expression to public sentiment; BY smothering
it on the one hand, and manufacturing it on
the other, or in other words, fit has been as
certained, (of which there Is no Doubt that
the nomination was made through the instrn
mentality of politicians without the slightest
reference TO the public will, and that the in
terests Of the party are likely TO be sacrificed
BY il; then hold, that the error ought to be
Corrected BY the people themselves, snd ]
trust in God. the meeting yoo notify me Of
msy put the balm motion, that il may roll,
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