The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-07-25

or tarnis hed-and which is lar dearer 10 hin
man political success or party prefermeni
that he will MOI interpose the executive We
10 "where questions of constitutional power
have been settled by the various departments
OF the Government and acquiesced in by the
people"
4. Resolred, That the principles upon which
Gen. Taylor is pledged to conduct the Admin
istration of the government, as laid down in
his Allison Letter, are sound aud,conservative
Wing Principles, and meet with our entire
concurrence. We repose perfect confidence
in the honesty, purity and firmncss ofhis char
acter: And in his repeated declarations that
he is a Whig-that his efforts as the Chief Ex-
ecutive of the Union will be to restore the ad-
minstration TO the standard of the car
lier Presidents of the Republic that he
would be the President of the Country and not
the proscriptive head of party-that "the
power given by the Constitution to the Ex-
ecutive to interpose his veto is high conscr-
vative power and should never be used except
in cases of clear violation of the Constitution,
or manifest haste and want of consideration by
Congress that upon the subject OF the
Tariff, the Currency, the improvement of our
great highways, rivers, lakes and harbors, the
resentatives in Congress ought to be respected
and carried out by the Executive" ''war
is at all times and under all circumstances
national calamity that 4" the principles of
our government. as well as its true policy, are
opposed to the subjugation Of other nations,
and the dismcmberment of other countries by
conquest; = in these declarations we recognize
great principles for which we have ever con-
tended and which have received the explicit
sanction Of the Wing Party. And for the
maintenance of these principles in the Admin
istration of Gen. Taylor, "we have a soldiers
word of honor, and life of public and private
virtue as the security"
5. ReSoIred, Therefore, that reposing en-
tire confidence in the political integrity, the
fidelity TO Wing Principles and the patriot
ism, OF the Wing National Convention recent
ly assembled at Philadelphia, and fully recog-
nizing the relation which subsisted be-
tween us as members Of the Wing Party and
its accredited representatives, we hereby frank
~ and cheerfully accept and ratify their Off
cial action, and will beStow upon GEN. "a
CHARY TAYLOR and WILLARD FILLMORE.
our cordial support for the offices of President
and Vice President of the United States
6. Rcsoired, That we receive the nominal
ton of Willard Fillmore ofNew York with en-
tire and hearty concurrence; and that his ell
ovation TO the Vice Presidency will be de-
served tribute to one of the soundest, ablest
and most faithful Of the Wing Statesmen of
the Union.
Z. ReS0ired, That the maintenance CT the
" isc and moderate counsels which have dis
tinguished the government of Vermont for so
a long period,-pure in lis measures and men,
simple and bencfccnt in its arts and its
mcans,-its highest aim the welfare of the peo-
pie, and the honor of the State, will be secured
and farther illustrated by the election of the
whig candidates this day presented-men as
distinguished for their virtues in private ifc,as
they have been for their abilities in public
life, and while we are urged on by the addi-
tional motives arising from the magnitude of
the pending national issue, we will omit no
honorable effort 10 win for cur principles and
our candidates an old fashioned, decisive, Yer
mont victory.
The convention was farther addressed by
Hon. Solomon Foot, who also read letters from
General Leslie Coombs of Ky, land from MssrS
Phelps and Upham of the L. S. Senate, and
Mcssrs. Collamcr, Marsh and Henry of the
House, from Vermont, hioh we have been
compelled TO omit, but which will appear here
after
On motion of III. II. Reed, Of MONTPELIER
the convention dissolved.
CHARLES PAINE, President
D. W. c. CLARKE,
L. I. WALTON, .JR., Secretaries.
GEo. ii. BEAMAN,