The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-03-28

IT,. ssDd. Of Gen. Taylor are now changing their
.,scs They began with declaring themselves IN favor
o,ma,terly inactivity" lie was noparty mamie would
-, oue his election to paryhe would give no party
,..dgssif elected at all, the people must take HIM
= mir own accord and place him in the chair Suci
-. their original system OF acnon. They would 60 INTO
40 national convention All they would admit was the
domination by the people, or by State conventions.
Now. their tactics have essentially changed Ihey
mus, send delegates to national conVehnoh' ohefws'
This "no-party" candidate cannot be elected MI Gay
will obtain the nomination, Gen Scott and becomes
Gen Tayors friends to appear IN person ana OBTAIN I'M
.om;ns,on This movement is earnestly pressed upoI
-. ,vbigs Of the south and souhwssi in Friday,
ph,delnbia Ipouirer II warns them Of the danger the,
,rs running Ii tells them, that if they appear by deputy
49, nav succeed-otherwise he will be defeated thai
he cnn get the necessary votes to nominate him (agans
Mr. CLAW of course) by allyng the south in his behalf
and !, snumea,es eighteen States lay. eighteen which
ii, rive him las votes out of the whole number-390 ;
close cu,iog BY the byD Blu, to exc out these l46
i comoeled TO give Gen Taylor the II delegates of Mr.
Claws own Kentucky State, besides Missouri, Illinois
Indiana Tennessee, Maryland, and Delaware, &c, &c
W. do NOT pretend to understand these Statistics but il
,,v shows how distinctly the Taylorites going
for national convention and abandoning their no-party
no convention, original doctrines.
The wing State central committee of Maryland have
sed an address, calling upon the Generals friends TO
abandon their independent State organization, and trust
his fortunes to a national convention. Five Of this cen
ra committee epudiate the advice, and have Withdrawn
their names from the committee They declare openly
that they are not ong to be bound by the action of any
Dary contention, because, by the maneuvres of poi
Clans and the influence of party drill. many hostile in
tssss, insignificant separately, but strong in combna
lion, may be suecsy used TO defeat their candidate be-
fore contention, and they believe that the people ,c
no, submit to such dication" On the contrary So wings
have disclamed call for the late famous meeting at Bal
tmoe lest that meeting should act independent of reg
ular wing organization"
The National Inteligencer of Saturday morning halls
the wing State convention of Louisiana of the l4th inst
as "wheeng into ne, because they appointed eighteen
delegates to the national convention. Several members
declared in favor of MIR. Clay with reservation of
General Tayors availability Mr. Brashea the presi-
dent declared, that though for fifty years he friend
of Mr. Clay he should 60 as delegate to the national
"during the late visit of Mr. Clay in this city, he had
conversed with that gentleman upon the subject OF the
presidency and Mr. Clay had told him. that if his health
sufficiently good to enable him to fulfil the duties OF
the presidential office, he should have objection to
rum provided he could feel assured of the certainty OF
his election"
One thing is certain that if General Taylor is nomi-
mated by general convention, he must be pledged as
whig. As Mr.. Clay's neighbors lately declared in a
meeting at Lexington the 18th, they will stand by
him "until the wings of the Union, through their
national convention, shall have decided whether they
will deem it most expedien to have for their candidate
him whom they would prefer for their President-an
unquestioned and iustrious whig, nominated only as
whig and whose election. therefore, ,ohig, would
such prevalence of conservative principles and
policy would reccue his doomed country" &c., &c.
In fact the tactics of the wing politicians regards
Gen. Taylor to catch democratic votes, and
thus elect him by the wing votes. Mr. Stewart, senator
Of Alabama, pointed out in his speech at Mobile an
other odd trick to be by this sort of play He said
that certain democrats of the State had agreed to sup
port General Taylor, known whg-as much so as Mr.
Clay; that it was idle to think OF carrying the State for
the wings under the Of Mr. Clay but that those
democrats would attach themselves to the wing party as
Taylor men and their position being thus fixed with the
wings. they would be of the wing party without the
wish ability to return to the democratic party In this
way only could Alabama be made wing"