Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-09-22


Boris UPON TAYLoR-There are few per-
sons who have paid any attention 10 the poll
teal history of the country during the last tlf-
teen years, who are not familiar with the
name of JNo. MINOR BoTTs-the wing repre-
sentative in Congress from the Richmond dis
trict, Virginia. For years past be has been
distinguished leader in the wing ranks he
is the same who was to head Captain TYLER.
after his veto of the Bank bill and who has
always been wing dyed in the wool. The
following letter, addressed by him TO the CON-
mittee of the great Clay meeting, held in vaux-
hall Garden, New York, 10 one Of the most
truthful and spicy commentaries on the nomi-
nation OF Gen. TAYLOR we have met with. II
is particularly interesting, when it is consid-
cred tina: it comes from the pen of so distin-
guished wing. We commend its perusal TO
our wing readers. They will acknowledge
that it's perusal is very interesting:
RICHMOND, Scptembe s, 1o48.
NV Dear Sir Il received your letter yes
terday, by which | was delighted to hear Of
the fred purpose mot an Albany fash, in the.
pan-of the determined friends of the Wing
cause, and of Wing principles, TO nominate
Henry Clay; for, as matters now stand, admit
ting Gen. Taylor to be Wing candidate,
(Which l utterly deny,) the party is doomed
to certain, inevitable, and disgraCeful defeat,
and every man not wlfully blind must see it.
It was an inexcusable blunder 10 suppose that
from million and quarter to 4 million and
a half of free, independent Wing voters could
be wheeled into line at the word of command
from some fifty or sixty Washington politi-
clans (most of whom had scarcely shed their
pin-feathers in poltics) for candidate who
had never filled a civil station, and who had
not for forty years and perhaps in his life, given
n vote for man or measure; without expert
ence or knowledge of the practical operations
of any one of the domestic questions about
which we had differed; of no acquaintance
with our foreign relations who had said to
the people IS You must take me on your own
TesponsibiIity''-" will not be the candidate
of a party" nor " will 1 be the exponent Of
your party principles" nor look to the doc
trines of your party as the rule of my acton;"
and while he processes to shrink from no re-
sponsibiIity, steadily refuses to give his Opin-
ion on any one question, except the practical
use of the veto power and declared his deter
mination not to be governed by the action of
the Convention, but would be a candidate, no
matter who might be nominated; & in my judg
ment his name never should have been con-
sidered in that Convention after he made that
declaration.
BIT this last objection, it was said, had
been removed by the pledges made for him by
Judge Saunders, in behalf of the Louisiana
delegation, which he subsequently adopted by
n card written by his authority, and published
by BaiIie Peyton, Bullet, &c and this declN-
ration was held up by the Taylor men and
wing presses of the country as sufficient TO re-
concile all wings to his election. That Pey-
ton card and his cordial acceptance of the no.
mination had placed him upon the wing plat
form; and just at the moment when many OF
US had brought our minds to the conclusion to
vote for him, however reluctantly, he writes
another letter, in which he says he would
have accepted the nomination from the Balti-
more convention on the same terms on which
he accepted the Philadelphia nomination =
What becomes then of the Saunders pledge
What becomes of the Peyton card? And fiji
be true that there were no terms expressed OF
implied in the Philadelphia nomination that
would be inconsistent with an acceptance of
the democratic nomination at Baltimore, in
what an attitude does it place the wing party,
selecting as their candidate the one who could
with equal propriety have become the candi-
date of their opponents? And if not true, in
what position does it place General Taylor
But what desire to learn is this! If Gen
Taylor is not bound by the action of the Phil
adelphia convention, who is And if he may
disregard its recommendations, who may not
And if he is bound by their action, what righ
has he to lend the influence of his name tC
the defeat of Mr.. Fillmore, who was associa-
ted with him, by the same body of men, BY
accepting nomination with Gen. Butler, a
lOcofoco, whose election he thereby assists in
promoting. In short, his whole course o.
conduct is insulting to the whig party, ant
especially to all those who participated in thu
proceedings at Philadel phia, and if they haC
any wing spirit left in them, they would re
sent it,
If it is ascertained that the purposes of tina
convention was perverted from its original le
climate objects of ascertaining and giving ex
preston to public sentiment; by smotherng i
on the one hand, and manufacturing it on tn,
other-or, In other words, if it has been as
cGEtained (of which there is no doubO tina
the nomination was made through the instru
mentality of politicians, without the slightes
reference to the public will, and that the in
terests of the party are likely TO be sacrificed b,
IT; then hold that the error ought TO be cor
rected promptly by the people themselves, AM
trust IN God the meeting you notify me o
may put the ball in motion, that it may roI
and gather as it rolls. until the whig marty
shall have its ewes opened 10 lis true COnullOII
and uniting as one man, on the only one wh'
lives embalmed in the hearts of his country
men, we may command a triumph, that ,ou
real strength entities us TO achieve. shal
be in New York very shortly.
Yours truly, in great haste,
JOHN Nj. Bolts