Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1848-10-03
Head him or die!


the right track this time. 1t was at one
time, the height Of his ambition to head
Capt. Tyler;-he is now giving his 'spc-
cial attention to the performance Of the
same delicate operation upon Capt. lack
Taylor.
1t will he recollected, that he was in
vi,ed to attend the great Clay den,onstra-
ton which came off in the city of New
York few days since. He Immediately
forw ardcd Telegraphic Dispatch telling
them to ego ahead all right!!-you
will get my letter Tomorrow" The let
ter was duly received and published by
the committee Of correspondence. Here
it is. We commend it to all good wings.
From the Ne,o York Tribune,
LETTER FROM JOHN.N. BOTTS.
| Published by order Of the Clay committcc)
| RICHMOND, September 6, 1913.
My dear Sir:-I received your letter
yesterday, by which / was delighted 10
hear of the .fred purpose-not an Albany
fash-in.the pan-of the determined friends
Of the wing cause, and of whig princi-
pies, to nominate Henry Clay; for, as
matters now stand, admitting Gen. Tay-
Tor to be vbig candidate, (Which utter
ly deny,) the party is doomed TO certain,
inevitable and disgraceful defeat, and
every man not willully blind must see it.
1t was an inexcusable bunder to suppose
that from million and quarter voters,
could be wheeled into line at the word Of
command from some fifty or sixty Wash
ington politicians (mcst of whom had
scarcely shed their pen feathers in poll
tics) for candidate who had never filled
q civil station, and who had not for forty
years, and perhaps in his life, given a
vote for man or measures; without expert
ence or knowledge Of the practical opera
tons Of any one of the domestic questions
about which we had differed; OF no &C
quaintance with our foreign relations
who had said to the people, "You must
tahe me on your own responsibility
81 will not be the candidate oc party"
nor evil be the exponent Of your party
principles" nor "Iook to the doctrines Of
your party as the rule of my action y
and while he protested to shrink from no
responsibility, steadily refused to give his
opinion en- any one question, except the
practical use Of tins Veto power; and do
clared his determination not to u5 govern
ed by the action Of the convention, but
would be candidate no matter who might
be nominaled; and in my judgment his
name never should have been considered
in that Convention after he made that
declaration.
Rut this last objection, it was said, had
been removed by the pledges made for
him by Judge Saunders in behalf of the
Louisiana delegation, which he subse-
quen,ly adopted by card written by his
authority and published by BaiIie Payton,
Bullet, &c-and this declaration was hel
up by the Taylor men and wing presses
of the country as sufficient to rally all
wings to his election. The Peyton Card
and his cordial acceptance Of the nomina-
ton had placed him upon the wing plat
form; and just at the moment that many
Of US had brought our minds to the con.
cusion TO vote for him, however, reluct-
an,lv, he writes another letter in which
he says he would have accepted the nomi-
nation from the Baltimore Convention on
the same terms which he accepted the
Philadelphia nomination! What becomes
then Of the Saunders pledge? What be.
comes Of the Peyton Card? And, if it be
true that there were no terms expressed
or implied in the Philadelphia nomination
! that would be inconsistent with an accept.
ance Of the Democratic nomination al
Baltimore, in what an attitude does it place
the whig party, selecting as their candi-
date one who could with equal propriety
have become the candidate Of their oppo
nents? And if not true, in what posi-
ton does it place Gen. Taylor?
But whatl desire TO learn is this! II
Gen. Taylor is not bound by the action
of the Philadelphia Convention, who isl
And if he may disregard its recommen
dations, 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 accept
ing nomination with Gen. Butler, 10.
cofoco, whose election he thereby assists
in promoting. In short his whole course
Of conduct is insulting to the wing party:
and especially 10 all those who par,icipa.
ted in the proceeding at Philadelphia, and
if they had any wing spirit left in them
they would resent it. ~"
lift is uscertained that the purpose oil
that Convention was perverted, from its
original legitimate objects Of ertaining
and giving expression to public sentiment,
by smotheriug it on the one hand, and
manufacturing it on the other; or in other
words, if it has been scertained, (of which
there is no doubt that the nomination
was made through the fundamentally Of
politicians without the slightest reference
to the public will, and that the interests
of the party are likely to be sacrificed by
it; then hold, that the. error ought 10 be
corrected promptly by The People them
selves, and l trust in God, the meeting
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