The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-18

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elect Dewitt Clinton by the aid Of New York democrats.
over Mr. Madison and thus break down the democratic
States of the South Mr.. Van Buren, is now )uS where
he was then, couding with the eastern iedsrssss to
and give it to the candidate Of the Boston aT'seocncy
He failed then and was forgiven He will TAU now Out
Harrison GRAY OTIS, the ambassador Of the Hartford
convention James Madison, is out in letter !or Ten
Taylor Otis and Van Buren, united on Clinton m iei2
ras are assn oss o that s eoe
The fourth struggle for rule or ruin the Hartford
convention and but for the delay caused BY the sturdy
England, and the thundsrs Of the democratic Demos
themes Samuel Dexter. that conspiracy would have been
oSa Adams
receptacle of things lost upon earth "
In 1894 the federss, by claiming 10 be nat;c1al r.
o M hna Ads%s DID divide Es southern and north
ern democracy, and gained the political power
II sas The ss 1 pos
broken for twenty-five years and win u zen cor
upt system Of hundred millions OF internal improve
taxation to labor and in short the whole incinent meas
ures of consolidation and British constitution. winch
Hamilton the elder Adams and the federal statesmen nad
so earnestly longed for as the consummahon OF strong
In $50 madness ruled the hour the democracy south
and north severed divided and scattered and 1877
title month federalism revealed in the halls OF the nation
and ruled in the closet OF the cabinet
Again we united in saa ana drove nacn tne I've ~
ea wing party for rule in the thirty States or Tor
ographical party line to split them in twain. or on the
whole
Political aboIonsm. in fact, originated in the Hart;
nine slavehodng States Every northern State but Yer
mont in the hands of the ederasts Every slave
holding State, except Delaware, was democIahc II the
slave representation (Which was in TACT IN Of
the representative right person against the South could
be abolished the federal North would rule in Congress
and the electoral colleges
was against what they then termed he responsiveness
of the slave power" The Hartford convention demand
ed of the South its terms of continuance OF the Union
FIRST, that slaves should not be counted IN representa-
ton; ~
Second. that twohirds vote should BE- required TO
admit any State, lay embargo or to declare war;
Third that nauralized citizen should ever hold any
civil Office whatever. - d ~a,,9, hte 80.
Had the federal party prevailed, this would have been
worse than the British constitution under which we
should have lived in order 70 compress the country with
in space small enough for the northern party OF Adams
The northern federal States adopted and proposed those
amendments the other free States They were indig-
their governors Simon Snyder and Daniel ID
TOmpkns Thus the northern democracy again saved
the Union But from that day to this the federal party
through all changes of to its modern appciahon
of whg has sought break down the democracy OF the
| South By agitation of the slave question.
] Massachusetts, which took the lead OF the Hartford
convention, has never ceased to drive the abolition
wedge of dsunion to rive these happy States her
legislative journals are full of reports and resolutions
| aggravang and injurious to the South ogs lisss
The fruit of these assaults upon the Union ID legiti
matey devoved in the recent organization OF the rst
sectional northern party that has existed since the Hart
ford convention calling itself the free coil party Atthe
head OF this party in Massachusetts,, and the free soil
candidate for the vice presidency. is the of Mr. John
5s years san g. wing ss q tbs
wings in all his bitter reports and resolutons but whom
they affect to denounce as traitor 70 their section
of the party when he only demands OF them to carry
their resolutions into their legitimate action and 70 DO as
well as resolve.
With him is associated Martin Van Buren. who. like
the second Adams has all the fancied gefs and privae
wrongs of his lost second election to the presidency to
revenge upon the SoHth And here are the elements Of
to complete what Adams and De Witt Clinton say was
begun in 1sOs-"the plan of northern confederacy,
originating with ambitious and disappointed men, who,
despairing of being able to control majority OF the
whole Union seek to form separate confederation in
which they can obtain the power"
And now we have .s new Chapter in
sets and New England after having thus petted political
abohonsm and hostility to the South for years. and in
Mexican war; suddenly found its policy turned back
upon itself by the availability" nomination of General
| Taylor. Paw ~
Now General Taylor "a gallant soldier, but no states
man, as far he has made known his opinions, or act
ed on the Texas and slave questions, has shown himself
|
northern wings denounced and opposed He ID in favor
of slave representation; for he works three hundred
slaves his plantation. He is in favor OF the domestic
traffic in slaves between the States for he has bought
and transported slaves his plantations in different
States, and has made purchases OF as late ~ May
1913. He was in favor of the Mexican war; Tor BE
headed the army and advised the march to tho Rio
Grande, which the wings affirm was the cause Of the
war; He was in favor of the vigorous prosecution OF
the war by invasion of foreign soil; for he called for
5000 from Texas Gas he himself sad) TO prosecute
the Nth energy and carry Il. a. should b, snto
the enemys co,tnry; and he declared to the committee
of the Mississippi Legislatures that che was in favor OF
the war; and decidedly in favor of prosecuting it vgcr-
ously to an honorable peace"
[See General Taylors official letters. Oct q ls45 and
Ap. &c. 1896 Report of the committee OF thirty mem
bers of the Mississippi legislature, and his letter to Gen
Gaines
He was for indemnity and the extension OF territory.
for he told the committee that he was Tor ndem-
nity certain and that territorial" and in his letter to Gen
Gaines he went for extension to the Sierra Made, en-
bracing Mexican States.
What he was upon the Proviso, they were to guess.
pon this most exciting earnest, and absorbing topic of
the election he and is ne xiby silent At the North
his oracle responded yes, at the South answered
Now at this point it not to be expected that the
conscience Wings, who, believing that the wing party
sincere in their denuncations OF southern slave
holders had honestly committed themselves TO the
dea could pursue any other than to the
wing party and resolve not to support General Taylor
all hazards
But the leaders, and those who had this after