Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1848-09-21

exponent Of your Farty principles" nor
"look to the doc,rins of your party as the
rule of my action" and while he profess
ed 10 shrink from no responsibility, steadily
refused TO give his opinions on any one
question, except the practical use OF the
Veto power; and declared his determine
ton not to be governed by the action OF
the Convention, but would be candidate
no matter who might be nominated; and
in my judgment his name never should
have been considered ia that Convention
after he made that declaration.
Blu, this last objection, it was said, had
been removed by the pledges made for him
by Judge Sanders in behalf of the Louis
lana delegation, which he subsequently
adopted by card written by his authority
and published by BaiIie Peyton, BuIle,I,
S'c,-and their declaration was held up
by the Taylor men and wing presses of
the country as sufficient to reconcile all
wings to his election. That Peyton Card
and his cordial acceptance of the nomina.
tion had placed him upon the wing plat
form; and Just at the moment that many of
us had brought our minds to the concu
sion to vote for him, however reluctantly,
he writes another letter, 10 which he says
he would have accepted the nomination
from the Baltimore Convention on the
same terms on which he accepted the
Philadelphia nomination? What becomes
of the Peyton Card? And if it be true
that there were no terms expressed or i'm
piled in the Philadelphia nomination that
would be inconsistent with an acceptance
Of the Democratic nomination al Balli-
more, in what an attitude does it place the
wing party, selecting as their candidate
one who could with equal propriery have
become the candidate of their opponents
And if not true, in what a position does it
place Gen. Taylor'
But what desire TO learn is this! II
Gen. Taylor is no, bound by the action of
the Philadelphia Convention, who ISL
And if he may disregard its recommends.
tioHs who may not7 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 accepting a
nomination with Gen. Butler, democrat
whose election he thereby assists in pro-
noting. In short, his whole course OF
conduc, is insulting to the wing party, and
especially to those who participated in the
proceedings at Philadelphia, and If they
had any wing spiri, left in them, the,
would resent it.
If it is ascertained that the purpose o
that Convention was perverted from lis O.
riglnal legitimate objects of ascertaniue
aud giving expression to public sentiment
by smolhering it on The one hand, ant
manufacturing it on the other, or in Other
words, If ii has been ascerlalned, (of which
there is no doubt, that the nomination
was made through the fundamentally o
politicians without the slightest reference
to the public will, and that the interest.
of the party are likely to be sacrificed by it
then hold that the error ought to be cor
rected promptly by the people themselves
and | trust IN God, the meeting you notify
me of may put the ball in motion, that il
may roll, and gather as it r"ll., until tn,
whig party shall have its eyes opened tc
its true condition, and uniting as one mar
on the only one who lives embalmed in the
hearts Of his coun'rymen, we may com,
mand triumph, that our real strength
entities US to achieve. shall be in New
YORK very shortly.
Vou.a 'rnIy, in groat lnoio,
JOHN NJ. BOLTS.