The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-08-25
Portugal and China quiet.

Spain, Portugal and China quiet.
General Taylor the Champion of Pop
ular Rights.
General Taylor, then, stands before the coun
trynot merely as a whig but asthe Great rep
resentative and Champion of the principles Of
the right Of man to selGgovernment. lie
maintains the principle that the majority have
the rightto govern. He stands precisely upon
the same ground on which Thomas Jefferson
originally made a party difference with John
Adams. Lot me quote a passage from the
letter Of Thomas Jefferson to John Adams,
stating the grounds on which the Republi-
can party Of 1898 commenced its opposition
to the encroaChmeGt oi the Executive power
and to which il owed its true origin. In the
4th volume OF Jelerson's Memoirs, page 2O2
we find the letter TO which | refer. 1t is dated
June 81, 1873, and contains the following pas
sages:
"qhe terms Of Wing and Tory belong to
n%utionul as well as civil history. They denote
the temper aid constitution of mind oidifrerent
individuals. To come TO our country and to the
time when you and | becume first acquainted
we well remember the violent parties which
agitated the Old Congress, and their bitter con-
tests. There you and | were arrayed together,
others cherished the monarchy of England,
aud we the rights Of our country.
But as soon as sthe constitution was put into
motion, the line Of division was again drawn
We broke into two parties, each wishing to
give the Government a different directions
Tie one (the Republican partly to strengthen The
most popular branch ~(Congress) the other the
more permanent branches, and TO ertend their
Prominence. Here You and separated forthe
first time, and one party placed your name
at their head-lhe other selected mine"
GEN. TAYLOR AND GEN. CASS.
Precisely upon that principle, Gen. Lewis
Cass and Gen. Zachary Taylor now differ, and
stand at issue before the country. General
Taylor places himself upon the Just
principles, laying the foundation of all repub-
lican forms of Government-the right Of ihema-
lority to govern. lie holds that the popular
branch Oft he Government possesses rights, and
that he II elected President, would be bound
to respect them. He says, therefore, in refer
ence to all those great questions which have
heretofore agitated the country, and which are
properly within the powers of Congress, that
he will be guided by the will Of the People
as expressed by their Representatives. On
The other hand what says General Lewis Cass?
He maintains the high federal doctrines Of an
cient days, that the President of the United
States with his veto power shall control the
will Of the people. He stands up as the cham
Plon of the Executive power, and has received
his nomination. from a party convention, under
circumstances which / think, when carefully
examined by the American People, will seal
his fate as a candidate before them, What
were these circumstanc
LoCoFCoISM OPPOSITE TO THE RULE
OF THE MAJORITY.
The every first rnle adopted by the conyen.
ton assembled at Baltimore was, that the viii
OF the majority should not govern-that the vote
OF two thirds should be necessary to nominate
the President. They had laid down that doc
trlne before on a memorable occasion, I re-.
Ter to the Baltimore nomination of l844.-
The result reminds me Of one of these games
at cards which is called " Solitaire" in which
you know a man plays against himself. Did
YOU ever see a man sit down to play that game
who did not cheat himself? The Democratic
leaders, on this occasion, undertook to play
" Solltalre"-the Wings weore not present 10
be cheated-and the very first decree was one
amounting, in my judgement, to flagitious
fraud, not only upon the country but upon the
party itself. II ordained that the will If tho
people should not govern, and tina, no man
should be nominated for the Presidency with.
out the vote of two-thirds of that convention.
Wen, now, what must be every BODY knows
what was the consequence in this casel the
CO consequence Of the establishment
Of soch a principle by any party? We can
all Verywell estimate thepower o fone hundred
oitice-holders, many of them anx-
ious to perpetuate thir dynasty. They can
pack a Democratic convention with more than
one third Of its members, though they might
not be able to control a majority. They can
send. on their relations, their ftiends and de.
Pendents, as their delegates, and under the Or.
eratlons ofthis two-thirds rule, govern the con.
1t was SO on this occasion. All the
who composed the convention went
to Baltimore bound to nominate some Candi.
date for the Presidency. To fail to nominate
bya convention would be to dissolve the mar.
ty' They were compelled, therefore, to make
a nomination, and when they entered the con-
they were met with a rule de-
that the vote oftwo-thirds was necessa.
ry to nominate their Democratic candidate for
the Presidency. They knew that within the
walls OF the convention there stood a pack ed
minority, Of more than one-,hird, represent
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