The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-07-04

To the leaders of both parties, it was an un.
welcome conviction that they must and for such
reason, at once hold themselves prepared for a
change of posture and OF policy. To many of
them ii was cause OF patriotic solicitude, since
they feared the results of sectional division in
volved in the slavery question, and were appre-
hensive OF other consequences which modifica-
tion of parties might produce. The fixed fact
was plain to all OF them that the savebolding
States would remain, as ever, united and unyield-
ing in the maintenance of their claim and they
saw that there could be practically no alterna-
tive Tor the North but to meet the issue, shrink
from it. To those bent, as usual, upon policy
OF Cancellation and compromise, it was an embar-
Passing circumstance thst the North could hardly
with show of decency, again withdraw its
claim to the candidate for the Presidency, while
it was understood that no Northern candidate
would be accepted by the South, whose views
and purposes upon the slavery question were not
all that they should demand. In the Democrat
ic party, however, this difficulty proved to be
less formidable than in the Wing, since every
Northern aspirant to the Democratic nomination
was found to be prepared to make his submission,
in almost any terms, to the Southern dctation.--
Especially was this true OF the more anxious and
the successful aspirant, who has sealed his char
acter and his fate by his recreaney in this in
stance for whom it must be destined to be the
last utSunctlOu tndI Sndli HHReF ABOUT his menu
Dry, that he was successful, beyond all candi-
dates for the Presidency, in destroying, by sin
gle act, his party and himself. Aa9s t1
The leaders of the Wing party determined
like their opponents, to risk the result of main
tanning their organization. The hope was enter
tanned for while, that the obligations of the
party to Henry Clay and the public sympathy,
which, in some striking modes, had been express.
ed in his behalf, might enable them once more to
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ring the risk Of the division that otherwise seem
ed inevitable. It's fact to be thought of. that,
but for the prospect Of an union upon Mr.. Clay,
the Wing party must probably have been dssoly-
ed at the commencement of the canvass. No
Northern Wing, acceptable to the North, mas been
named. of whom it is believed that the South
would vote for; and II has been all along under
stood and virtually conceded, and the whole &C.
ton OF the party has proceeded upon this assunp-
ton, that the North must accept Southern
candidate. and must not even claim any other
With the approach of the time for holding Con-
vention, the hope of succeeding with Mr.. Clay,
and even oil uniting upon him, became visibiy
impaired. There was want of confidence in his
political strength he was thrice defeated cand-
idatet; he had not done enough Tor either party
as OF course be could not do enough for both--to
bring HIMSELF into full communion with the North
or South upon the great question Of the day he
seemed disposed to maintain his old stand upon
the ground otlcompromise, and it failed from un
der him. He. was still not without his friends
for. no man has been surrounded with warmer and
truer ones; but. there acre those scho called
themselves his friends, aoh0 had resolued to obdn
don him. 8esfs 80 ss ~.
1t was in this emergency, that the yet tardy
movement towards the support of Gen, Taylor
began to acquire an increase of interest. The
hero has received the nomination Of the Native
American party, and had accepted it. Some de-
tached portions of the Democracy had rendered
him their support,an he had acceptedit. Sundry
meetings OF the people, almost exclusively in the
Slayeholding States, had agreed to go for him
without distinction OF party, and he had approx
ed their purpose, and encouraged it. All this
had been done, manifestly without any expecta-
ton on his part, that the movement would make
any further progress, or assume any other shape,
than to place him before the public as a COMPETE
tor with the regular candidates of the two great
parties and facts made it certain that he per-
mitted the movement, and promoted 1t with the
sole expectation and wish Of encouetering the
candidates OF both parties, and OF defeating them
In this state of things, the Wing politicians otthe
South, readily perce,ying that, upon the abandon
ment Of Mr.. Clay, there was no other slavehold-
ing Wing in behalf Of whom the Northern Wings
could be expected to sacrifice their admitted right
to a candidate, began to contemplate the position
OF Gen. Taylor. They duly estimated the adj
vantage Of his military reputation, and the poli-
cal value of the popular applause, which, for the
moment, was every where concentrated upon
him. They recognized in him STAKEHOLDER, all
whose interests were deeply staked in the main
tenance Of slavery, and who had allowed himself
to be described BY his friends as being "ds true
to The South as the needle to the pole. They
sa TOO that the glare OF his military reputation
would be sufficient TO conceal this fact tthe