The Arkansas banner., 1848-10-03
sa. wERsTgR,S SPEECH.

,,A l.st arguments that couid De usea tn sne 'ous VI @'.., of Mir. cAss. The Nashville Union con- ,.,., the following extracts and comments which =. deem sufficient for the present
 u, wr,srrR said "We gre on the eve of ,,.stv ,mportaut Presidential election In two or s.s. months the people of this country VII Do eal- s IA, to elect President Of the Unieee States;
 .I see and ak feel that the great interests of the
 auntry are to be affected, for good ort tor evil, by ~. ,s.ah of that election. Of the important and a,.restus subjects which tho person who shall t elected to that oEice, must necessarily exercise .,o,a ar less control, there are, in my judgment, ,S,.s vt.l ones connected with the honor and hap hines. of this country In the first place, thc bon z, and happiness of this country impegatively re- mira that there shall be a chief magistrate elected 'Irha ,il not plunge us into another war of amhi- lon and conquest. (AppIause.) In my judgment, ,hs interests of the country, require that Presi- dent of the United States shall be elected ssAo riN s,I a,e Ais oeai iHfaeRes to promote any dsposi- tipa tO permit the ftAer crteason o staceiy in Ais
 o,ntr1 or fYtkfy the iafWence Cf f iR our pn6lsc soaacils. la the third place if have formed any nuiust estimate of my experience, (not now short oae. if 1t has enabled me to know anything of what he public prosperity demaRds-I say that the state .ftke country does require aA essential reiofm In iss system of revenue and fiRance -sach ss will restofe prosperity by fostering The industry of tie country sa its various branches There are other ,ablects cfimp9daace, which shall not, however, rt present alldde to. These three hold to be es- sendaEy so, There are three candidates for the Presidency presented tO the choice of the American people Gen. Taylor is the whlg candldahe, stan cing on the nomination ol the whig N ational Con- veRtien. Gen. Cass is the candidate, of the oppo- sing and now dominant, party in this country; and ihe ihird candidate is presented in the person of Ar- Van Balen. by convention of bis fellow -cit- 1ens at Buffalo. whose object. whose main object appears to me- is contained in one Of those con alterations have mentioned, and that is the preven- ion of the further increase of slavery an object in which you and l. gentlemen, entirely concur, as far as that goes, am suFe--Mcst of us here to-day are whigs- Massachusetts whigs---nationaI whigs-Old Coneg whigs and Marshfeid wligs; daughter; , and fl the whig nomination made at Philadelphia are entirely satisfactory to theU States and to us our path of duty IS plain. But the ,somiaation of the candidate Tor the presidency by the whig conven. tloa m Philadelphia, is not satisfactory to the wh gs c Massachusetts. That is certain, and it would De Idle to attempt to conceal the fact IL is s.rely last, and more patriotic, 10 take fac and things & they arc, aud to deduce our own convictions of duly from what exists before us. However so much respected aud dis inguished in the line of his owu profession, or however so much esiimable as a pri- yaie citizen Gen. Taylor is military man merely lie as no tfainin. ID civil affairs, he has per0raed VI CbH CUdEdCtGf HIificF tIiS c0nSlllu- ton of his country; he has been known, and only AnOwn, by his brilliant achievements at the head 9i The army. Now the whigs of M 'ssschaselis, and among lhen, are oi the opinion that tt was mol "e or discreet 10 go to the army for the selection ol candidate for the Presidency Of the Uaited Sales. It is the first instance in our history in "hieh any man os mere military character has been opposed for that high office. Washington had . sfsat military, but by far greater civil character asaA sr. ,F rom the earliest dawn of the revolution. He AAd osei. m the Coatinental Congress. He had es, abilshed great character for wisdom and ildg. aeht Tn eisil affairs. After the war, as you all Nhow, he was elected lne mber of that convention ahIch framed the constitution of the United States nd Il was one of the most honorable tributes eye 'A'd 10 hi'n, thai, by that assembly Of great anc "se men, hs was selected topIeside over their de. aOeTations, and had his name first at ached to tht under which we live President liar. rson was oiavs soldier, and. al different period. oi hS h'e, fendered important military services; ba he nevertheless; for fbe greater part of his lite xa. more employed ia civil than in military afTairs-- fof twenty years he was either Governor of Ter. n'ofy' Helnoer oi Congress, or minister abrosd and He ciSciisssed all the dutiss appertaining to those oihees To e salisfaetoa of the country This rase thereiore--ihe noainatiou of Gen. Taylor- 'sads by itself. wiihort preceden, and without us- iAcahon rom any thing m our previous history s on thiE account, l IoAy wclf imagine, that the wings Of Massachusetts feel dissatisfied with his hou inaiiou.
 Note the lines in Ia!;es.)
 tir Webster then goes on to compliment Gen. Taylor at some length, and states the reason of his asgIinaton thus:
 "i know the leading men of that (tl,e Phiadel. phial convention. l think understand t.leir prin- ''P@s and ihe motives that governed them. Their 'sasOhing Was this: Gen. Taylor Is whig, not 'ninent in civil life, not known la civil life, bat 'ei man oi sosnd whig principles. CiFcnm- taDees have given him reputation and the eclat d me eeua'ry. As he is the whig candidate he will 's caosfa, and with him as our candidate, we will 'e able to elect members to the two houses of Con- s'ess' get an augmentation of wbig strength, the Hig majority in the House of Representatives will e increased, and the ocofoco majority a the Senate Sdl be diminished. That was the view, and that WAS The motive, however wise or unwise, which sVerned great portion of that assembly in Phil. ''0phia' NOW, gentlemen, m my opinion, this was aaNise policy. IL was not suitable to the Whig cAAr'e'er-it was not reconcileabIe with true wis 'oai-a was short sighted, and ternporising on ,'ea' question o priGciple but acqnt all persons Osaeerned m 1t oi all such motives us have been ai'oed to them, and especially of those menlioa ed the Buffalo platform. Suei, gentlemen, are ths
 circumstances connected with the nomination of ten Taylor"
 Bat notwithstanding Mr. Webster dislskes' Gen. slo'' and disaPproyes of his aenination, he con
 aess tlst i Is best 10 vote for him as a choice of "@' lie takes up more than a third of his speech
 sonslng Van Buren; which shows how much the 'a'ss fear him; denonnces Cass with much bitter
 '~' and concludes that Taylor i', ou the whole,
 We omit tae denuneations of Van Barren, and
 pas on 10 what Mir Webster says of Csss and Tay-
 W. And to these extracts we ask the particular
 1sa'i0n Of the people of Tennessee- They have
 9@ n ~hig papers and have heard from whg
 Teakers that the south shoald rally on Taylor for
 - own security. Listep to what Daniel Webster
 Ss about this security.
 'en'emen, il is for you and me. and all whigs,
 consider whether ia this state of the case we can
 AoN We Will or not. give our vote to the whig
 Tnlaa'en' leave that 10 every mans conscience.
 % -''t enoeayored to state the case us 1t presents
 & a 10 me. Before Gen. TayioE's- nomination
 said, when the subject was mentioned by
 Y RisAds' that did not and could not. recon
 .s 14 ue nomination of military man for the
 az 'N ei President of the United States. It was
 s.ss my convictions of what was due to the best
 TIes~ CT 'he country. stated, too tlsat if Gen.
 @.'S. ,H 'ooa'd be nominated by the wbig national
 ''aloa iary, should not oppose his election.
 4"2 new on the same dpcfaraffaa, ha has hean