The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1848-09-13
Fnom the Charleston Mercury,

cant among the most infatuated, that General
Tarlor has catered largely To Northern preiu.
d;ces for Northern votes. Aside from the as.
ser,ions of the entire Whg press, which claim
him as the candidate most in favor of the Will.
mot Proviso, and denounce General Cass as he.
ing in favor of the extension OF slavery. i; is
openy asserted bv his northern devotrs that
General Taylor has written letters fully SITS
tanning these assertions. At meetings held in
various places, at the North, persons, protesting
to be upon terms Of the utmost intimacy with
General Taylor, have been most explicit in
their declarations that he is opposed TO slavery
in the abstract, and also to its further extension.
Al recent meeting of the Wings Of Anhurn,
New York, the Fl H. Joshua Spencer delivered
an address, and was followed hy A. F. RighIor.
ESQ.,, of Louisiana. a sketch of whose remarks
we copy from the Auburn Advertiser, Taylor
and Fillmore paper:
After MIR. Spencer had concluded, Mr. Righ.
or, a nrighhur of General Taylor and Intimate.
|, acquainted with him for twenty years past,
aud therefore we'll understanding his opinion
upon public matters, u,ade a trw remarks IN
reference to General Tayor's political prinri.
| pies. particularly his views upon the slavery
r.ten<iun He declared from his orn perSondl
knorledge that General Taylor is now. az ne
alwavs has been, an uncomprnlnising and thor
ougb going whig, As true a one as Henry Clay
himself or any other man in the Uninn. Of this
be said there could be no doubt. He said. too.
that if the lcco (nros could have gn, from him
the slightest utimalion that he had any sympa'
lhy with their prnci pies, as they repeatedly al
tempted to do the moment he returned from
Mexico, they would have made him their can
ddate for President. But they could neither
ha,ler nor invelgle him into any such expression
of promise, an1 they gave up the effort. VI
this we have not particle # doubt, because
the whole tenor Of their press corroborat"s 1t.
Mr.. Rightor furthermore said. uhat ne kneu
to be true from the evidence of General 1dylor's
own lips, THAT HE WAS OPPOSED TO THE ExTEN-
SION OF SLAVERY, AND WOULD UNHEsrTAT1NGLY
SIGN BILL PROHIBITING IT. Mr.. Rightor is the
brother in-Ilw OF one of our most respectable
citizens. and gentleman of high character,
unmpeachable integrity, and modest, gentle
manly and unassuming man, indeed whose
appearance and manners will satisfy any one
! in five mnues' intercourse with him, that his
word is entitled to the implicit belief aside from
any knowledge of his character for honesty and
| integrity. We therefore considt his evidence
conclusive as to General Taylor's WhIg pri"cl'
PIES and his views upon the extension OF sIa.
very. We only wish that every man in the
country knep Mr. Rishror, and could hear his
testimony upon these points. They would then,
we are sure, be satisfied as we are. that Gene
raj Taylor is all right. not only on the great
question of Slavery extension, hut upon all the
measures advocated by the Wing party.
In addition To thi., we find in late number
of the Mobile Tribune a letter from cores
pondent now ON n visit to General Taylor at
Pasca roula. evidently a warm and devoted
friend, from which we make the following ex-
tract:
"I{e did moi hesitate 10 pronounce S1duery an
epil and blishiing in its effects upon The ngrirml'
tural and commercial prosperity OF The Sonth. lie
ny ofhis illustrations from ancirnth>tory. While
houeuer, he regretted the system; he dPprecd'ea
the foreign attempts TO abolish Sidrery. lie
though: the agitation upon tn" subject p'rn'ri.
ous to whiles and blacks. The two races co"'h
not exist together, and mixed race, such as
obtains in Mexico. was ,he greatest evil thai
society could be subjected to. No plan "t era
dicating slavery met his appreciation, unless the
freed negroes could he removed from the co'in.
try He would not emancpale his own slaves
except on condition they were willing to 60 TO
Africa
In a Northern man. sentiments such as these
might find pallialion and excuse in the pre- judi.
ces by which he is surrounded, and his igno.
rance of the workings of the institutions of
slavery. Gen. TAYLOR can plpah neither, and his
EXPRESSIONS be,ray a radical unsoundness of
opinion. or willingness to sacrifice ihe rights o
the South upon the altar Of political ambition.
Ir by any faInily the South should lend herself
to this snpport. she will he Justly Looked upon
as e,dorstnu his views, and surrrntlnrng herself
. 49, ,l,r r,,ro;os ,f N,r,bern E,no,icism