The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1848-07-06
"THE SLAVE POWER" -"SOUTHERN DO.
MINATION" &c

M1NATION," &c.
A Wing Of thirty years standing connected witt
our party by public and private services ever since
and before it had q name-closes an able letter &c
the Editor of the Tribune in favor of the National
Candidates, with the following quiet and happy
erttn9mSnem of the senseless cant of the Northern
Disunionists about triumph of the Slave Power
in the nomination of Gen. TayIor-the determine
ton of the South to permit no President to be Sc
lected from the Free States &c. Even if such our-
like, snarng contention over the bone of the Prcsi-
oehcy were not in itself unutterably contemplate,
and beneath the dignity of well-bred dogs Ito saw
nothing of MEM still it is astonishing that so many
Northern men and Presses hitherto respectable can
DC SO graceless as to forget how recently the noble
and patriotic Wings of the South rolled I'D their
tremendous ma orities for a Northern man who bore
throughout all their borders the stigma of ADOLF
TIoNIsM" Sacrificing the peculiarly keen feelings
of Southern men to support candidate who was
far more justly an object of suspicion to them than
Gen. Taylor can be to the North in a generous re-
lance on the honor of their Northern friends, they
then set us an example which must be confessed to
1AN''IS'
greedy spirit of portion of Northern Wings is put
to shame by this noble example of self sacrificing |
devotion to the Union and confidence in that of
others. As one-and we know also that we speak
the sentiments of mighty multitude around us
we cordially extend in return to the faithful Wings
Of the South the right hand of confidence and patr-
otto fellowship, and will work with them for our
partial aims and no sectional interests in this cause
and pedgng ourselves and trusting them, to betray
the Union to NO faction pro-savcry ant-slavcry.
And now, sir, in conclusion, allow me to
refer you to an example, recently set us by
the South. 1t is well known to you, and
most of your readers, that Gen. Harrison,
who received the nomination at Harrisburg
in December, 1889, was not the favorite of
the South. On the contrary, that he was {
obnoxious to Southern politicians
During the whole of the ballotings upon
that occasion, eleven l think in number) 7
neither Gen. Harrison nor Gen. Scott who |
were supported by Northern and Western f
Wings, received single vote south of the h
Potomac and Ohio, and when it was announc- f
ed that Mr.. Clay, for whom the South had d
presented an unbroken 'front.' was defeated !,
such scene Of disappointment and sorrow II
never witnessed. And yet what was the ft
course of our Southern brethren upon that O
occasion? A Southern Delegate rises and W
moves that the nomination be unanimous, and n
prevails Every Wing paper at the South
promptly places the name of our candidate at
he head of its columns, and advocates his
ams with signal effect. Southern orators
anyass their own and other States with T
idelity and zeal not surpassed-and the re. a
ult: Maryland, overshadowed by Govern yc
1ent patronage and power, but nobly spurn- sa
1g both, gives to the ticket majority LARGER fit
han at any previous election for fifteen years. Pc
kentucky sends up her majority of 25, 900 tn
ouble the number she has ever given to her n
wn favorite son. North Carolina, slow but pc
are, reports u majority of 10000; Tcnnes- T.
,e, the home of jackson and Polk, II, 900; tr
ieorga where parties are always nearly ne
nlanced, 5000; Louisiana, an unparalleled tr,
lajorty; and Mississippi, now represented O
! the Senate of the United States by an in We
ividual who aspires to add to his other hon pr
RS that of public executioner-even Missis- gu
ppi declares for the Hero of the Thames.- co
Wigs ofMe North and WestI shat his er- hi
'nple be lost upon US I trust not, 81
Now AND ALWAYS A WIG" NJ