Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-09-21
LETTER OF HON. ]. M. BOLTS.
Published By order Of the Clay COMMITTEE
RICHMOND. Sent. 9th, IL

Published by order Of the Clay COMMITTEE.
RICHMOND, Sept. 9th 1845
My DEAR SIR:-I received your letter yesterday,
by which delighted to hear of the fred purpose
not all Albany flash in-the pan--of the determined
friends Of the Wing cause, and of Wing principles,
to nominate Henry Clay for, rs matters now stand,
admitting Gen. Taylor to be Wing candidate, (which
utterly deny the party is doomed to certain, newt
able and dlsgracefn defeat, and every man, not will
fully blind, must it. It an neXcusablc blum
der to suppose that from million and quarter to
million and half of free, independent whig voters,
could be wheeled into line at the word of command
from some fifty or sixty Washington politicians most
of whom had scarcely shed their pinfealhers in poll
tics) tor candidate who had never filled civil sta
ton and who had not for forty years, and perhaps in
his life, given his vote for man measure; without
experience or knowledge Of the practical operations
of any one of the domestic questions about which we
had differed; Of no acquaintance with foreign
lations who had said to the people, 'You must take
NE on your own responsibility"-"I will not be the
candidate of party" 'nor will be the exponent of
your party principles" nor "look to the doctrines of
your party as the rule of my action" and while he
protested to shrink from no responsibility steadily
fused to give his opinion on any question: except
the practical of the Veto power; and declared hi
determination not to be governed by the action of the
Convention but would be candidate, matter who
might be nominated; and in my judgment, his name
never should have been considered in that Convention
after he made that declaration.
But this last objection it said, had been Temov-
ed by the pledges made for him by Judge Saunders
in behalf of the Louisiana Delegation which he sub
sequenty adopted by card written by his authority
and published by Baie Peyton, Bullett &c.-anC
this declaration was held up by the Taylor men ant
whig presses of the country sufficient to reconcile
: all wings to his election That Peyton Card and h'
cordial acceptance of the nomination had placed hin
6 upon the wing platforms and just at the moment whel
many Of us had brought our mind to the conclusion t.
vote for him. however reluctantly, he writes anothe
: letter. in which he says he would have accepted tn
T. nomination from the Baltimore Convention on tn
10 same terms on which he accepted the Phlladelphi
s nomination What becomes, then, Of the Saunder
Il pledge? What becomes of the Peyton Card2 An
if it be true that there were no terms expressed o
IT. implied in the Philadelphia nomination that would
&c inconsistent with acceptance of the Democrat
u nomination at Baltimore, in what an attitude does
u place the wing party selecting as their candidate on
who could with equal proprety have become the can
- didate of their opponents? And if not true in whf
a position does it place Gen. Taylor?
But what desire to learn is this: If Gen Taylor
not bound by the acton of the Philadelphia CONVEX
Us ton, who is? And if he may disregard its recon
IL mendatlons, who may not? And ifhe is bound b
Oh their action, what right has he to lend the inhuenC
III oil his to the defeat of Mr. Fillmore who was al
y' ISOLATED with him. by the same body of men, by al
tn cepting nomination with Gen Butler, Loco-Foc
r whose election he thereby assists in promoting.
Oh Short his whole course OF conduct is insulting to tt
all wing party and especially to all those who parcp
ted in the proceedings at Philadelphia, andlf they ht
nc any wing spirit left in them, they would resent it.
fit is ascertained that the purpose of that conve
ton was perverted from its original legitimate obec
EF of ascetainng and giving expression to public sem
~ mcnt; by smotherng it the one hand, and man
70 featuring it the other, or in other words, if it
* been asccrtalned, (of which there is no doubt til
ol the nomination was made through the instrumental
me of politicians without the slightest reference to
ny public will, and that the interests Of the party
Ior lkeyto be sacrificed by it then hold that the Ell
'G 5, ought to be corrected promptly by the people the
all Selves and trust in Cod the meeting you notify
'to of may put the ball in notion that it may roll
". gather at it rolls until the wing party shall have
VII eyes opened to its true condition, and uniting
- man, on the only one who lives embamed i'll the hea
nIi of his countrymen, we may command triumph, Il
' ai our real strength entities to achieve. shall
~, M in New York very shortly.
III, III; Yours truly, in great haste.
~, JOHN NJ BOTTS