The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-01-12

teal form, as to encourage the hopes of ulti-
mate success, even in spite Of two organised
factions and proposed conventions Of wings and
democrats.
We will state the condition and prospects of
Gen. Taylor up to this day.
In Alabama, large masses of people, heretofore |
composing the two parties there, of wings and
democrats, have abandoned the old organiza-
tons, and united together in calling State
convention, which was to have been held at
Montgomery, in that State, on the 9Th
instant. This convention was to have met
TO nominate electoral ticket, pledged to
give Gen. Taylor the votes Of Alabama for
the Presidency. This ticket is already nomi-
mated, although we have not yet received the
intelligence. Gen. Taylor may, therefore, now
be considered distinctly as in the field for the
next Presidential election.
The next important movement was in the
State of Virginia, and took place among the
wings of the Legislature of the ancient Dom-
Mon. The whg members of the Virginia legis-
lature met voluntarily, and expressed their pre-
ference for General Taylor, and at the same
time warmly recommended him for nomlna-
ton by national convention. They also
took steps for calling State convention,
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next month, for the purpose of nominating an
electoral ticket pledged to General Taylor
This is a second distinct, and practical move
ment, favorable to the hero of Buena Vista.
1.-The next, and an equally inn ortant movement,
is that in Pennsylvania. This popular move
originated principally among those who call
themselves democrats, though the great mass OF
the wings, also, in that State, are favorable to
General Taylor A State convention was here
also called, which is to meet at Harrisburg on
the ED Feb. for the purpose of nominating an
electoral ticket, pledged to give their votes, if
elected, to General Taylor, for next President
These are all distinct practical movements,
without reference to national conventions-ex-
cept in one modified instance, that in Rich.
mond-whether whig or democratic. This policy
has been adopted entirely by the natural i'm
pulses of the popular mind, without any design or
secret process set on foot by intriguers or poti-
clans Webelieve that the system thus adopted by
accident and chance, rather than design, is the
best method of brins ing forward General Taylor
with success, before the people ofthis country.
Let the people Of every State in the Union,
without reference to the proposed nominations
of caucuses In Washington, or national conven-
tons any where, organize in each State sepa-
rate State convention. Let every such conven-
ton nominate an electoral ticket, and then let
the people 60 to work and canvass for that for
the next ten months, and on the election day give
the majority to that ticket This would be the
best plan. If the wings as party will nominate
Taylor, no harm; but if they are determined to
nominate Mr.. Clay, let them do So If the demo-
Gratis as party are determined to nominate one of
their own candidates, let them do so. General
Taylor, by this practical process-the nomination
by State conventions of electoral tickets before
the people-will come out of the contest, we
believe, victorious and triumphant
Such, then, being the best practical view of
conducting the canvass of Gen. Taylor, forced
upon us by the natural impulse of the people, in
three of the greatest States of this Union, we
really think the people of the State of New York
ought to adopt the same policy, to come forward
at once in the shape of state convention, and
nominate an electoral ticket pledged for Gen.
Taylor, without paying any regard to any nomi-
nations from any other quarter. If the people
from every county of the State would send their
delegates to the Tabernacle on the ed February,
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and the whole business completed in one day
Let, therefore, all the friends of Gen. Taylor go
to work and effect nomination, as we have de-
scribed, by State conventions, and our word for
it, we shall hear nothing of national conven-
tons, or Of any of their doings
This was the mode in which General Jackson
was first carried by the people into the Presiden-
tial chair. Every State took him up on its own
hook, on its own responsibility-he was the
nominee of no national convention or exclusive
party. Nine months are before us; but by means
Of the telegraph we now do as much work in
nine months as could then have been done al
most in nine years. Be up and doing.
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TRoLLsR's REPoRT.-Our exquisitely pious
contemporaries, the Albany Evening Journal and
the New York Journal of Commerce, threw up
their eyes the other day in holy horror, at the
wickedness which we perpetrated, in publishing
the Comptroller's report ahead of all other jour-
nails, and in endeavoring to procure an early CO.
by of the Governors message They cried out,
bribery and corruption, awful wickedness, afro
'cious conduct, &C. &c. sc.
owmark their own conduct We understand
from the Daily Advertiser of Rochester, and
also from the admissions Of the EUening Journal
itself, that our contemporary in Albany, entered
into secret and private arrangement to commu-
nicate the Governors message through the tele-
graph to certain favored parties in different parts
of the State, one day before it was delivered to
the Legislature, and excluding other parties
We also learn from our contemporary in New
York, that he had copy of the Comptroll-
er's report, received privately from the printing
Office in Albany, several days before it was
delivered to the Legislature. hose editors get
very angry with us, not for any thing else but
merely because we attempted to anticipate them,
and hence all their noise about bribery and cor
ruption.
Now what is bribery and corruption?
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