The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-09-05

annexation of Texas. And every cote Qipe,
This gear By Wigs, for Van Buren, or any othei
third candidate, ,caS practically half vote tol
Cas-. He had warned the people against thi
third party folly in IA, and he would 40 ali
warn them of It's consequences.
| He spoke of the Buffalo platform He sale
what there was good in it, was what the Whic.
had always advocated, and Van Buren, snt
his friends always had gore against, and wha
there was new in it was unsound. He had nc
confidence in Van Buren,. If he was to ex-
press confidence in Mr. Van Buren's Free
Soil Principles it would appear ludicrous ;fol
he had opposed every thing that looked like
free soil all his life; and he had no doubt, from
the knowledge he had of the man, that were
they together. Van Buren, would laugh in his
face when the "free soil" question was named
and were we alone, said Mr.. Webster we
should probably both laugh at the folly that
had made MIR. Van Buren, an Anti-Slavery
candidate for President.
Mr.. Webster then went on, al some
length 10 show up Mr.. Van Buren's con-
duct. He had always been the supple tool
Of the South. and the alder and abettor OF
slavery. He did more, said Mr. Webster,
10 defeat John Quincy Adams, and elect
General Jackson than any fen men in the
country. He was the soul and centre OF the
opposition TO Mr.. Adams. He spoke OF his
conduct while Secretary Of State his oppo-
siiion to slave abolition in Cuba. He was the
only President who ever, in advance, threat
ened 10 veto bill, if Congress should pass
such an one, TO abolish slavery 10 the Dis
trict of Columbia. He referred TO his cast
ing vote 10 rifle the mails of an;i>slavery pa
II a caIh "a -ad n
more controlling Influence over lis friends
than Van Buren, and his friends all went
with him.
He was, and so were his friends, in favor
Of annexing Texas. Southern Wings, in
both houses of Congress, voted aginsi admit
ting Texas into the Union. The Van Buren,
men, those who now, for purposes of private
pique or revenge, cry out Free SOIL" were
the very men who were the most vuciferous
for Texas. Mr.. Webster had no confidence
it any Of Them. Talk about s'dough faces"
why said Mr.. Webster, the Van Buren, men
in Congress had not only dough faces, g. but
they had dough hearts and dough souls
They arere all dough-" He said that there
were gentleman, Wings, at the Buffalo Con-
vention, whom ne respected highly, but he
thought it would have been proper, before
they had taken up Van Buren,, TO have re-
quired OF him fruits meet for repentance"
lie then proceeded to speak Of Cass. He
held him TO be The most dangerous man that
could have been put in nomination. He was
the war embodiment. He was opposed TO the
Treaty of Washington. He was for the whole
OF Oregon, and the matter would never have
had his way. He was for continuing the
Mexican war, and he could have stopped il
any moment he chose 10. He is all war.
Now, said Mr. Webster, we are to choose be-
tween man like Cass and one like Gen. Taylor
One or the other is to be elected, and no one else
1t is Taylor or Cass. Gen. Taylor has been fair
" nominated by a Wing Convention. He is a
Wing. "If l believed him, (said Mr. w, 10 be
in favor of war, or of extending slavery, should
have opposed his election. BELIEVE HIM TO
BE IN FAVOR OF NEITHER. That is my opin-
ion."
Mr.. Webster proceeded to speak on various top
les connected with the Presidency, but to which
we have neither time nor room to refer to-day. He
concluded in an eloquent peroraton.