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


| Union OF whixery and Abolition In Michigan.
| We call the especial attention of our readers TO the
suboined extracts from letter of George c. Bates, esq
of Detroit dated September 80, 1913. TO the whg
mtee, notifying him of his nomination the wing
ddae for Congress in the first district Mr. Bates is the
leader of the wing party in Michigan-a gentleman oil
talents lawyer OF eminence, and late district attorney
of the State After stating his regrets that the convention
had not selected capable &c, he says be feels
constrained to bow the will of his political friends and
accept the nomination This he does owing to his long
connexon with the wing party. amid the dark hour of
their political adversely, well in the bright sunlight
of their prosperity" lie then adds
Anoher reason, too presented in the present
that adds additional force the command for my humble
services behalf of my old and tried friends and which
would in itself every vestge ofdoubt in my mind
to the to be pursued 1t is found in the fact thai
the chosen standard bearer of ag-of the flag of the
peopleof the country and the Union, Zachary Taylor
whose purity of purpose, whose patriotic services
for forty years under the and stripes, whose retiring
modesly whose gallant and unlinching courage whose
honesty and eadiness of purpose well in the field in
the and devious paths of political correspondence
find parallel except in the character and life and ser
vices OF the Father of his country"
After pledging himself to the whole catalogue of wing
measuresbank, tariff for protection distribution, the
limitation OF the veto power to Gen Taylors standard,
he thus proceeds: n
Yet shall endeavor especially demonstrate and prove
by sound argument and standard authorities, the following
propositions of real present interest than either
or all of the above, however important they may seem
First That Congress possesses the constitutional power
10 exclude slavery.
econd That in the establishment of Territorial govern
ments for New Mexico California any other Isrr@
Of the United States is the solemn and imperative duty
Of Congress engra in each and every of them much
Of the ordinance of 1887 will forever exclude slavery
involuntary servitude therefrom, except as punishment
for crme after conviction thereof
1hird That compromise by which slavery shall ever
any time be extended or diused into any territory
of the United States where il does not exist by law
the part Of the American people, would be everlasting
stigma national escucheon, libel the declara
ton of independence, and the American revolution itself
Fourth That if Congress should pass any by which
slavery should be extended permitted to extend to any
part of said territories, it would be the solemn duty Of the
northern aud free States forgetting all other political differ
eac and dev0te theseUes the agitation and dis
cuOn of the subject until such repealed, slavery
abolished from such Territories, and the ADVOCATES Of
promise should be forever politically dead and
damned
'Fh That if slavery should be introduced in these
Territories prior the absence of any prohbtory
of Congress, it would be their duty pass
of abolition and that who would bill en-
bracng any all of the above propositions, ought TO
receive the surages of either wings democrats Of the
North.
"sirth That while neither Congress the people should
ever, in manner, directly indirectly interfere with
slavery in the several Sates where, by the constitution
permitted exist, is recognised yet that toheerer
Congress constituonally reach it, immediate steps
should be taken for final determination and abolition
believing the sounness and xpedencY of each
one the above principles, shall in the present
and in any and all positions may hereafter occupy
give my effort their successful and final estab
shment-and shall spare neither time nor labor, what
talent God has given me, their trumphan vindicu
ton"
Here is broad declaration of wing candidate for
Congress in favor of the most ultra abolition doctrine
Nothing stronger be found from the pen of Hale Gid
dings g. Co. This is put in nomination as the Tay-
or candidate in the district where Gen. Cass resides for
the purpose of making battle against the we'll known
opinions of the democratic candidate for President
We ask our southern wing friends who are now ia
voring the election of Taylor and Fillmore, to point
to single instance where any democratic candidate
and supporter of Gen. Cass, north of the Potomac and
Ohio, has sought eleva to office by traduclng the
South or her institutions Wilmot himself, who is the
friend of Mr. Van Buren,. has gone far as to
favor the abolition of slavery in the District OF Columbia
Gen Dix voted against the in the Senate and
none but the most ultra fanatics have before taken
such high and dangerous grounds. But the wings OF
Michigan no doubt acting under the advice OF Truman
Smith and his federal committee at Washington, to de-
feat Mr. Buell. the democratic candidate for Congress in
the first district and to show that Gen. Cass is not
tanned by his neghbors home give the nghhand OF fell
owship to the abotoniss and embrace all the doctrines
of the Buffalo convention in more decided and offensive
language But comment cannot make it stronger We
again ask our southern friends contrast this declara
ton with the course Of the northern democrats.
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