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

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be duped into voting for the wing candidate BY rather
sy,rs AMOUNT Of ansiavery and free soil professions
Accordingly, the irs position taken by Their address
and unanimously carried was this:
.. The schigs the and original free soil party"
They then proceed prove this, by earnest appeal
10 the gratitude of the ubotoniss for having done more
against the South than the abollllonists themselves
The wings of the North (says the addess and espe
caIy the wings of Massachusetts, may rghtfully claim
the appela,ion of the tree-soa party Our wing dele
cation in Congress- for more than quarter OF century
have been uniform resisting the extension OF slavery
the wings in Congress from this Commonwealth haze
uaformly opposed the eatsaslon Of aapery and me en-
of petition denounced the gag rule and condemned in
the strongest terms the annexation OF Texas They have
voted against the slave feature IN The constitutions OF
Florida and Texas against the introduction of slavery
into Iowa and Oregon, New Mexico and California );
against paying for runaway slaves and IN favor of the
abolition OF slavery in the District of Columbia in every
form in which it has been presented All this has been
done by wing delegation Congress, not from any
desire to produce schism among the wings, to build
up a party; but from an honest conviction that
slavery evil, and ought To be cIcumscrbed. In
this manly course in Congresshe only field in which
the doctrine OF Tree can be made practical question
the wing party in Massachusetts have nobly sustained
their representatives May not, then, with propriey
claim 10 be a soil partyw
Now here is full endorsement OF the Buffalo Conven
ton and of the whole course of the conscience wings,
except barely in the selection Of candidates.
Mark this. candid men Of ali parties While the presses
and the ubant orators OF the wings proper denounce
the conscience wings traitors the solemn address of
their Worcester Convention endorses every sentiment
and act OF that party except the nomination. and charges
upon the soiers that they have in fact stolen the
wing thunder!
The address afirms, without qualification, that upon
the Wmo Proviso "the sentiments of Gen Taylor are
believed to be IN accordance wM those of the wStgs Of
MASSACHUSETTS, ,oaas those Of Gen. Cas- are known to be
directly opposed to them"
cepOn; but the faith to be put the address of their
convention is severely tried by the fact that find them
quoting the example Of Washington to sanction the
fusa OF Gen Taylor to give his opinions upon political
measures To dc this, they garbe letter from General
Washington to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, of March IL,
l7S9, in which he says:
OF government have determined to go free from all pos
tive engagements of every nature whatsoever"
This is used to apply to the principles of government
Collection of the Writings of Washington volume TO- you
will find that it is applications for office from Gen Lin
coin, benjamin Harrison, and others, to which alone
In fact the wings of the North expect to carry their
State elections and their members of Congress solely by
assuring the soil that they hate the South
feventy did their fathers of the Hartford Convention
And finally says the Massachusetts address: Under all
the circumstances OF the satisfied hnt the
election Of Gen Taylor is the most eect,ai ray of secu
ring TIE object We all hare at heart Such our con-
viclions, and such believe will be the conclusion to
which ALL FREE-SOiL WINGS will come on due re.
Fiction"
And there stands Taylor. pledged 10 two extremes,
North and South, by his followers, and uters never
And then the great wings of New England step for
ward to throw their personal character into the scale, as
witnesses for the abolitionism OF General Taylor.
Hon. Rufus Choate Is put upon the stand, and he
says: "But suppose Mr.. Van Buren, would not veto a
law Of Congress prohibiting slavery in the Terrific
On this ground, therefore, will do just much for
freedom with him as with Martin Van Buren,"
And lastly, Hon. George Ashmun, speaking from Con.
gress to his constituents, assures them that "Genera
Taylor opposed to the acquisition Of Teras opposed
toentrgtag The boundaries Of Union, and does not
desire or approve the extension of slavery"
So in other forms the play is kept up Mr. Truman
Smith OF Connecticut has some ones that he
has letter OF Gen. Taylor Mr. Bates OF Massa
chusetts, in favor of the Wmot Provso Mr. Abbott
Lawrence another confidential correspondent, and he
carries letter OF Gen. TaYlors in his pocket. which
to be never seen but to serve as sample for any sort of
goods called for in the market
Now fellow citizens, north and SOUTH this is the po-
ston OF the northern wings upon this absorbing topic
OF the presidential election Is it fair is it honest is il
At the south, precisely the opposite opinions are
vouched for as the fixed policy of General Taylor We
might quote volumes OF evidence that point Let a
few suffice. The committee of the Mississippi legisa-
ture affirm that General Taylor said TO them, '.the South
should never agree to the provisions of the Wmot Pro-
The General has never denied this. The New Or |
leans Bee, published under his eye, declared che is OPP
posed to the Proyiso and in favor of securing to
slave owners the privilege of removing with them to
newly acquired territory"
The Alabama Wing says, she lives in the South and
makes 200 bales OF cotton the banks of the Mssis
spp. His interests, his feelings, all with u.s."
AT Baton Rouge, the residence of General Taylor Mr.
benjamin, one OF the wing candidates for ELEcroR said
tia General Taylor wal promptly veto anything like the
Wlmo Prouiso. 1ne interests Of the South are safe in
his hands"
On the other hand the democracy OF the North stand
with the democracy OF the South, their fathers did in
the framing OF the constitution and the test of the
Union in the days of the Hartford convention Their
candidate has but one opinion and aspect on this
question II is to withdraw this unavailing and rita-
ing agitation OF the slave question from Congress- and
leave 1t with the people Of the States and of the Terri
tories, under all their constitutional rights and sin the
relations they bear to the confederation"
Upon this platform the democracy of the North will
stand, and those who cannot stand with there but
sever themselves from the democracy OF the Union by
Joining the disoganzers, will hnd that whether the
New York treason shall fail shall fall as fall il must
they will have been used by the wing party merely as
auxliares to break down the democratic power of the
Unon and make way for the restoration of federalism in
all Its FORMS
Fellow-cizens. there are other points and positions in
times would deserve attention With candidate who
avows no principles and yesays he has none to conceal
nominated by convention which could agree upon mol
one principle, except thanks to their presiding officer the
wings OF Massachusetts affirm this address that thew
do not abandon the utterly condemned doctrines of
bank to regulate the currency, high tariff of bounty to
capital and the distribution of the proceeds of the pub
lie lands
They avow that their aim is, by selecting quescent
PRESIDENT who has no opinions to make Congress alone
the supreme government OF this Union; and IT, under the
slavery at the South, they elect sufficient members to
control Congress they will then bring back all the meas
ures which The administration of Jackson abolished and
me people condemned eectualy that even the wsest
wings had pronounced them "obsOIee ideas"
10 these purposes, identified with the success of