The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-07-04

| hemmed in by superior numbers of the enemy,
with apparently little hope of escape; now achiev
ing, against tremendous odds, the brilliant victo-
ries of Palo Alto Resaca de La Palma, Monte
rev, and Buena Vista The memory of those
exciting events, the enthusiasm of those stirring
days, comes back upon the minds of all with
thrilling force-they enlist the feelings of the peo
pie irresistbly in favor of the Wing nominee 1t
will be no easy matter to prevent his election!
All the prominent Wing Statesmen have long
70 fully committed themselves in favor OF the
n animation. Not tauenty thoroughly Wing papers
1t Of the twelve hundred or so in the Union, are
standing back from supporting the regular NOM
mated ticket. There is not Wing paper in Ver-
mont, that does rot take decided ground for Tay-
lor and Fillmore. The temporary disafection in
New York has burst like any other bubble. How
great discord may be created within the small
sphere of Mr.. Giddings' influence in Ohio,we will
not attempt to conjecture-nor is it very import
ant to inquire. The motives of Mr.. Giddings
are probably very good, but since his attempt to
defeat the election of Wing Speaker in the pres
enr House. his position in the party has been very
equivocal, if he may now be properly termed a
Wing at all. His zeal, certainly, greatly outruns
his prudcnce.-Mr Greeley,who has been waiting
to head movement Of the Northern Disaffected,
gives over and allows that there is no longer a
prospect of getting up any respectable resistance
The meeting to assemble at Buffalo will amount
to nothing-and is not worth inquiring after any
further The Ultra Abolitionists in Massachu-
sets may do enough towards electing Cass to
show their good will-but they can do no serious
harm.--Harmony prevades the Wing ranks
throughout the Union, therefore, with only here
and there some insignificant movements ofinju-
dicious men-Had the Bainburners brought for
ward candidate not utterly repugnant to every
true Wing, they might probably have drawn off
many who feel some dissatisfaction about voting
for Southern man not pledged in favor of the
Wilmot Proviso. But in nominating a man who
volunteered, when formerly candidate for the
Presidency, to pledge himself to vetO any bill a.
polishing Slavery in the District of Columbia
who exerted all his influence TO overthrow the
Right of Petition in respect to Slavery and who,
in short, earned the name he always bore of "a
Northern man with Southern principles they
leave no plausible pretext to any Wing who feels
inclined to disorganizing movement. We re-
spect the motives of such as have been reluctant
10 vote for a man not distinctly committed, in so
many words, to the Wilmot Proviso. But we
think they cannot fail to sec that with Taylor's
views of the Veto Power, the question Of Free
Territory ismuch safer in his hands than in the
hands of Cass. And if we may rely at all on the
statements of Gen. Taylor's personal friends,
widely circulated long before his nomination, the
Free Territory principle has the entire approval
ofhis own judgment-as is the case with many
of the leading Wing Statesmen at the South.
We have every reason TO believe his views are es-
sentially like those of Mr.. Clay, Mr.. Mangum and
Mr.. Clayton. We have never intended to claim
more for him in this respect-and it is with such
belief that we have from the first sustained
him.