The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-11-22
MFR. Erllmorn,. Letter.

our inability 10 agree with that paper In lis hgh COM
Dsoda,on of he truly patriotic and NATIONAL character
of the letter
"To me there is manifestation of popular
sentlmen, which calls up such deep feelings OF gratitude
generous Of my old friends and early constitu
ant, of the county Erie 1t is twenty since
thew first elected the assembly, and from that day TO
This they have stood by through good and through evil
sport and sustained under all circumstances with
zeal and fidelity almost unknown in this country and the
m crownju, ac of continued kindness and confidence
awakens the deepest emotions of a grateful heart.
90 ,rust too that you will blame me for expressing
the Qualification and pride which feel in receiving so
aterine vote in my native State But these things
i, measure personal myself and therefore of little inn
variance But the cordiay and unanimity with which
the wing ticket has been sustained everywhere North and
Souh East and West is just cause OF national felicita
ZION 1t proves that the wing party is truly national
Marty that pies that safe and conservative ground
which every section OF the country all that has
right 10 claim under the guaranty of the constitution
that such rights invoate and as to all other ques
tons of mere policy where Congress has the constu-
ona right to eg slate the will of the people, express
ed through their representatives in Congress, is to
troll and that will is be defeated by the arbra-
ry interposition OF the veto power This simple rule,
which holds sacred all constitutional guarantees, and
leave, the awmakng power where the constitution placed
it-n Congressrelieves the party at from all the
questions that arise of sectional differences
of opinion and enables tremendously for the good
of the country When the Presiden. to control the
law making power his individual opinions, oil what the
Dug to be- become comparatively unim porant Hence
we have seen General Taylor, though attacked save-
holder and pro-savery ut the North. cordially sup
ported mphanty elected by opposed slavery
in all its forms and, though have been charged at the
South the most gross and wanon manner, with being
AN aboionist and incendary, yet the wings of the
South have these caumnies the winds, and, with
out asking expecting anything more than what The
s,imtion guarantees them this subject they have
yielded hearty and enthusiastic support
rlv in NJ IN nj
violent.
Really, these southern wings are noble fellows. Would
you lament the Union dissolved, if for other
than that separated from such true, noble, and
hghminded assocates But regard this election put
ting an end all ideas of disunion. il raises up
tIOna party, occupying middle ground and leaves the
fanatics and dsunionists North and South, without the
hope of destroying the fair fabric of our constitution May
hte perpetual"
This letter open to much criticism, but we will only
hastily touch some of the points we pass on.
ls Is it certain that Gen. Taylor his election
tey the swing pary" Is he not partly indebted for
his success his military fame, and in part to several
democratic voters who early committed to him the
supposi,on that he was democratic We know perfectly
well that one of the s,rices State rights construconsts
the South, who approved OF Mr. Folks administration
Of the best, because it the most democratic,
voted for Gen. Taylor The great body of the Generals
supporters certainly wings; but has he not been
assisted BY an extraordinary combination of interests
the odds and ends OF all clques and parties If this be
the fact how does his election prove that the great
wing party is truly the national party" An intelligent
and honorable wing told in December, 1916, that the
wings preferred Mr. Clay any other candidate but that
they would run Gen. Taylor, because they wanted
than the whig TO elect him, and that he would re-
not only all that VOTE but the vote of many demo-
cra who would be caught by the lustre OF his military
fame
I'd How does Mr.. Fillmore prove that the wing party
is 'safe and conservative in securing to every
ton Of the country all tina. it has right to claim
der the guarantees of the constitution ' Does he refer
to the right to national bank, which the constitution
does not guaranty any section, and when only spe
cities the power OF the government to 'eoin money and
regulate the value Iereofrhat is, gold and silver Mr.
Webster used to contend that this was "hard- money
government Does Mr.. F. contend that the power TO
regulate the labor and capital of the countryin other
words, the right to protect species of domestic labor
at the expense of anothers power conferred upon the
government, and right guaranteed by the constitution
Does Mr. Fillmore contend that the saveholdng States
are safer under the auspices OF the wings than OF the
democratic party That the South is more exempt from
the danger of emancipation of slaves in the District
Of Columbia, of forbidding the removal Of slaves
from State another, under himself or his political
associates than she is according to the principles Of the
democratic party Are not the wings, party,
disposed to adopt the Wmot Proviso than the demo-
cras' In all these respects, and, indeed, upon the
broad principle of construction, the wings more for
bearing in the assumption of powers, and disposed
10 respect the nghts reserved to the States and the peo
virtue of the wings in all these respects a
3d. Is the wing party conservative when it sub
stanhally strikes out instead of preserving the veto
power from the constitution Mr.. F. contends that the
aw-making power isvesed in Congress alone and thai
the President has right to csntrol the action of Con-
gress by his individual opinions; and therefore his
opinions are comparatively unimpouant" But whence
does MIR F. deduce his views Is it from the constitu
hon which declares that bill shall become law until
the President "aPprores and, signs it within ten daysi
II be his duty, therefore, TO approve every BILL does
the Vice President elect consider conservative to den,
him tins power; rather to strike it from the constit
ton VIII he consider it his duty TO waive his own
power OF giving the casting upon any bill on which
the Senate may be equally divided by surrenderng h
own judgment the will of the House of Representa-
lives, which has first passed the bill Would this too
be conservative
4th Mr.. Fillmore has some reason TO cry up the
southern wings nobe fellows" in his own case be.
cause, though an abotonist in his view in relation 10
the District Of Columbia they have sacrificed their own
mimic,