Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-11-06
IT WON'T DO.

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A We exoected, the Wing and the Times 70
solved, il possible, . break he force Oh INC
startling developement about Gen iayi"f ~
,.- !, favor of the Wilmot Proviso cmptiiy pro
,,o;,, n. whole matter an "election trick, a
'sfabrication," "false story, &c Indeed 'He
.r;rrs makes out Mr.. F. ta!lett(our informant
IN whom we have full confidence TO be shci "al
,dent in The art" Of trckery, as "cunnnsy 10
send his despatch, 50 as 70 be published II FRI
DAYS country Enquirer" Truly Mt H. must
be well posted If he knows that the country h"-
ouirer is Published on Frida'
To throw all the light we can on this SUBJECT
=. ouo,e from the Union the following compi-
meptary accoun, Of Gen Ta!lor's Northern Ia
rod letter 10 Wm Ct. Bates, 3 distinguished
Wing Of Massachusetts.
PirrsrlsLD Mass, Oci. 80, lc45.
Tctie Editors of ~ U4tGn;
Dear Sir Si1ce ! last wfote you OF 'oe
use,,chirr operation" performed by MI idiieu
- uursnil OF me letter oil General Taylor 10 W "
Ian q Ba, 5. Of TIN. STATE, pIedcins ne Gen'-
raj ! taver Of he VIM. frovlso, conclusive
evidence has cone 10 lisii, lhal MT. oaes has
such a leucr either genuine OF iuist,: to- -,
,ttered 4 eynibi' L. In proof q ms, SEED 90
~. anc.xc- noe rom one Of he most iespec =
ole citizens ot Springfield, whose integrity ! hs-
yond a. question:
"SfRlSdF,rLD, uc. %, 1915.
..Daa, s.. some iouI ur six weeks SI.Gt
aon Vim. G. Bats lodged a, ~ house, Rad iooi
breskiss, uih me; While Al breakfast, v. We
conversin. on ,,cse,al Tsylu's position aH =
Ihe Slave question, when Mr.. B sad hat h l. 4
a leler from General TaY.ur, which nc was -
ing 10 show me- IL which IL salt ne Wou'X -
veto bill containing tn Fro,l'irns y 'he /" y,
no, Pruviso; and, r. added, ia lc't& aoi at"'o .
90 BE- p,sbisss,d This was said when ao'" 70 ~
from The table was . take tie c"is ~ 10!
ampton, Just starting, aEd hai ~ 'ihe - iei';'
rs Desired 10 10, d ms Youu'aiy onsi, - /" So
amin The lercr. Ms /. head he conversation,
and understood ii a 10. ~fi:e II great haN'f'
"Trnly youis. ,...a,,
Thus i wil! be seen that All your cia'ses W
an Truman smith and Mr. Bates, IN ms cohsti-
racy. are sustained, an! that ihe shuiii,ns eY"-
sions +; hos. gentlemen, and OF Senator ba'3" ~
have been me result oi the Apprehension 'hd' =
gan 10 he fei bg ihe managers, maj ms e4pos".s
III General Tayiof's northern lace Souiu 'nJuie
him al me SCUM, Messfs. BaleS, otni'i, aHa -.
rest doubtless. ebtained This letter BY the Same
"yehement application" that Truman admits ne
ospa 10 oet up Inc inst Allison ieuer. /! was sup
,os.d 10 be indispensable, = quiet me lfee'so'
who's AMI thus save Mas tchascts and Cubhe'
,icul 10 General Tayluf. Iac wife WORKERS go
not r, A Ct upon the southern asFsci Q. M quee
lion. aaG therefore irer1 -. & : isder A his.'-
Gu, wne., ;ap 'Ua.o:.' rr.aca upon thcu, 'h'i
dew N .ntH cane tvd>:ss ara secret; oa' ~
,oihis az init. y has sy' 9'iga'e'y used a'ie
ou5,iclt REFEREED - b. u con-pita,oi>, % sai'
tree.su, ya.s- ii New EGeani.
Here J, w,Ii be seen ,ha; 50 far from IN:
letter being known for some time, and student!
sprung upom TIC South on The eve Of the cec
ton. the information IS Just communicated y,
Mr. La,hrop, and is given to The world as sool
as ascertained. But Il is in vain Tor the "bi:
press to hope to convince IN" puoiic oy
round denial OF the statement. TINS ieitcr wa
spoken Of by the press many weeks ago, am
abundant time given to General Tay lor to den,
us .enuineness. He has refused to do So Ton
Corwin in Ohio is showing letter from Genera
TAYLOR in favor Of the Wilmot Provlso. 70
lumbus Deano, an ayowed Fay Tor Abolitionis
in Ohio said lie had seen pled5A from Genera
TAYLOR, ia black and white, that he would no
veto the Proviso so says also Cooper, iot
Whig Attorney General of Pennsylvania Al
these positive statements have been made long
since, aud 10 the most public manner, and mus
have reached General Taylor. Yet ne hos no
dsnisG item, and We are bound TO believe ina
they must be true and that General Taylor con
siders himself pledged not TO veto the Wilmo
Provso.
The last n. Y. Express, (sood Wing auihori-
ty) quotes the following from The New Lisbon
(O.) Palladium, when shows that the editor OF
me last named paper holds a siwiiac ieitr from
Gen Taylor, posimarkrG last January, SHh:
Gen. Taylor, ii elected President, will leave
10 the people, through their Representatives, and
not veto any bill containing the Wimo, Pfovi-
10. or in other words clause iieing down slave
~ 10 IFS present limits. We i0lt hls language,
heretofore unpublished, i'll these wor IS, THE WILL
MOT PRoyiso WILL De SETTLED BY TaE PEOPLE
WITHOUT THE INTERVENTION or THE PREslpESr. =
And this decla ration was made N January last,
ami rcceivei BY us early in February. The Pct
marx is The 9th Of January
But we have more evidence, OF most weigh
" character. Green Adams, Taylor man
from Kentucky. ami Boyden, Taylor man from
North Carolina, said boldly in Congress, in Au-
gust, that General Taylor would not veto the
Proviso-and not Southern Taylor member
rose TO correct them On the 4th September
Colonel Haskell, a TAYLOR STAKEHOLDER from
Tennessee (who addressed the Wings Of Rich
nond) declared 10 speech in Brooklyn, New
York, that General Taylor "is pledged, fully
emmited 6y his ,eords and IN his heart against
The extension of Stare territory. lie sad II Bs-
CAUSE He KNEW IT" In Marion county, lndi
ana, several weeks since, Senator Mc,calIe
from slavcholding Kentucky, proclaimed that
General Taylor steod pledged tefore the coun
try 50 under,lo North and South, not 10 veto
the Proviso, and ho WOULD pIsHoSoR HIMsELf
WERE HE TO DO IT. The Wings of the South
would scorn 10 resort TO the one-man power to
defeat it, or any other measure of deliberate
legislation At Cincinnati this same Southern
TAYLOR Senator, Melcalfe. said that if General
TAYLOR were to veto bin containing the pro- |
u:.an, of ,ba lr;l,,ot proy;so no awould con 1