Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-06-23
EsOL MS,


Independence Square, Philadelphia, Friday
night, June 0.
!. Resolved, That the Wings Of the United
States, here assembled by their Representa-
tives, heartily ratty the nominations of General
ZACHARY TAYLOR as President, and MIL
LARD FILLMORE as Vice President of the
United States, and pledge themselves to their
support
q Resolved, That in the choice of &c neral
TAYLOR as the Wing candidate for President
we are glad to discover sympathy with great
popular sentiment throughout the nation-a sem
timent, which, having its origin in admiration OF
great military success, has been strengthened by
the developement, in every action and every
word, of sound conservative opinions, and Of
true fidelity to the great examples OF former
days; and to the principles OF the Constitution
as administered by its founders
3. Resolved, That General Taylor, in SAYING
that, had he voted in 1874, he would have voted
the Wing ticket, gives us the assurance and
no better is needed from consistent and truth
speaking man)-that his heart was with us at
the crisis of our political destiny, when HENRY
CLAY was our candidate, and when not only
Wing principles we're well defined and clearly
asserted, but Wing measures depended on sue
cess The heart that was with us then is with
us now, and we have a soldiers word of honor
and life of public and private virtue as the Sc
curity.
A. Resolved That we look to Gen. Taylor's
administration of the Government as one con-
ducive of Peace, Prosperity, and Union U
Pedce-because no one better knows, or has
greater reason to deplore what he has seen sadly
on the field of victory, the horrors Of war, and
especially of foreign and aggressive war. ~
Prosperiiy--now more than ever needed TO re-
lieve the nation from burthen Of debt, and to
restore industry agricultural, manufacturing,
and commercial-to its accustomed and peaceful
functions and influences. Of Uhion-because
we have a candidate whose very position as a
Southwestern man, reared on the banks OF that
great stream whose tributaries, natural and arti-
fetal, embrace the whole Union, renders the
protection of the interests Of the whole country
his first trust, and whose varied duties in past
life have been rendered, not on the soil, or I'M
der the flag Of any State or section, but over the
wide frontier, and under the broad banner Of
the Nation.
5. Resolved, That standing as the Wing par
ty does, on the broad and firm platform of the
Constitution, braced up by all its inyiolablc and
sacred guarantees and compromises, and cher
shed in the affections because protective of the
interests of the people, we are proud to have, as
the exponent of our opinions, one who Is pledg-
ed to cons,rue it by the wise and generous rules
which Washington applied to it, and who has
ance)-that he will make Washington's admin
istration the model OF his own.
6. Resolved, That as Wings and Americans,
we are proud to acknowledge our gratitude for
the great military services which, beginning AT
Palo Alto, and ending at Buena Vista, first
awakened the American people to just esti-
mate of him who is our Wing candidate. In the
discharge of painful duty-ior his march into
the enemys country was reluctant one; in the
command Of regulars at one time and volunteers
ut another, and Of both combined in the deci
sive though punctual discipline ofhs camp, whert
all respected and loved him; in the negotiation
of terms for detected and desperate enemy
in the exigency OF actual conflict. when the bal
unce was doubtful,-we have found him tn
same, brave, distinguished, and conslderate, NJ
heartless spectator of blood-shed, no trihcr witt
human life or human happness and we do no
know which to admire most, his heroism in with
standing the assaults of the enemy in the almos
hopeless fields Of Buena Vista-mourning il
generous sorrow over the graves of Ringgold, O
Clay, or of Harding giving in the heat o
battle terms Of mercifu capitulation to a van
pushed foe at Monterey, and not being ashamed
10 avow that he did it to spare women and chill
dren, pless infancy, and more helpless age
against whom no American citizen ever wars
Such a military man, whose trumphs are neithe
remote nor doubtful, whose virtues these tria
have tested, we are proud to make our candidate
Z. Resolved That in support Of such non
nation we ask our Wing friends throughout tn
nation to unite, and to cooperate zealously, re
olutcly; with earnestness in behalf of our cal
.didate, whom calumny cannot reach, and wit
respectful demeanor to our adversaries, who:
candidates have yet to prove their claims on III
gratitude Of the nation.