Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-08-24
MR.. EVERETT'S ADDRESS TO
THE PEOPLE OF VERMONT.

THE PEOPLE OF VERMONT.
We have read and re read this document. and
now evnce our respect for the past services and
character Of It's author by expressing our iudg-
mcnt kindly as II can be done. Mr.. Everett
went 10 the National Convention a strong friend
of Mr.. Clay, and bent upon securing union of
the North and the South in his support this
was his darling purpose lie foresaw that Gen.
Taylor was the stumbling block in Mr.. Clay's
way; and he went prepared with every thing
that he could bring to bear to Gen. Taylor's pre-
JUDGE. AS the lawyer brings himself to be-
lievc his client right and his opponent wrong,
(oven though the reverse is the truth, lby sud-
oLsy dwelling upon the good points of his own
SIDE and the bad points of the other side so
we believe Mr.. Everett had become partial 10
Mr.. Clay and preudiced against Gen. Taylor
had become entirely untitled by Partially and
prejudice to be fair and reliable Judge in the
case. Thus he went TO the Convention; he came
away bitterly disappointed; he hastily pledged
himself 10 "uncompromising hostility" to Tay
lor; and broken in spirit and bodily health, he
has brooded gloomiy over the untavorabe views
of Gen. Taylor which were originally taken for
the purpose of arguing against him, and given
us the result of his unfortunate condition in the
pamphlet before us. 1t is remarkable for its in
Justice TO Gen. Taylor-tor strained, unwarrant-
able and inconsistent differences from alledged
focs - for its abuse of the Convention and the
Wing pariy--and for the sadly absurd conclu-
sion to which it brings Mr.. Everett. lle--an old
and honored Wing opposes Gen. Taylor be-
cause che refuses to be the candidate Of the
Wing party" (which turns out to be mstake,)
and concludes to prefer such old and ardent
Whigs as LEWIS CAss and MARTIN VAN b.
REN! All this we think can be easily and fully
substantiated by review Of the pamphlet.
few specimens of It's injustice and inconsistency
will suffice however. On page 6, an extract
! from an address of Mr.. Bolts, dated March 30,
1913, covering a mere report OF conversation
of loco committee with Gen. Taylor, is made
the very basis of the worst of Mr.. Everetts OBJ
jections-to wit, that Taylor is for all Of Mexico
for iCars of compassionate for the eternal SUI
prcmacy of the slave power! That mere report
of a conversation, recolected by II ocotoco and
reported in order to help Clay against Taylor,
must stand; yet when Mr.. Everett comes to the
Signal letter, he argues that that approval OF the
Wilmot Proviso, signed by Taylor HIMSELF was
reuoked by the Allison letter Of April y (See
page l01 "Any reports or publications, ,critien
or uerbai, from any source, differing in any es
sential particular from what Is here written lin
the Allison letter. are Unauthorized and untrue "
said Gen. Taylor himself This, says Mr..
Everett, reroteS the Signal letter, but neither re-
vokes nor invalidntes ocofoco reports, slavocrat-
tons that are piled up in strange confusion all
through the pamphlet, from beginning to the APP
pendix. Again. Mr.. E. quotes and misconstrues
letter after letter to show that len. Taylor would
not submit to the decision of the W hig Conven
ton; vet when he did authorize the Louisiana
delegation there to submit his claims, las they
did in the very presence Of Mr.. Everett) we are
gravely told that his subsequent airmance of tn,
fact and ratification of the deed, was only evI
Al, IA do
Sill again in the same way he argues tina
Taylor is not Whg-and yet Gen. Taylor ha
d himself asserted that he is Wing, in variou
r. declarations which find no place in the pamphlet
Still again: we find much labor bestowed L
i prove thai the South wouldn't have man unles
IS he was against the WIlmot provisu; and the con
IS illusions are that Gen. Taylor is against the pro
N vlso. since the South supported him, and tn
Wings of the North have basey succumbed t
the savocracy But Mr.. f. might also have al
er gued with equal force that the North wouldn
81 have a man who was not for the Proviso, an
10 therefore Gen. Taylor is for IT. &c. &C. whic
10 is precisely as absurd as Mr. Everetts ratiocina
ton. WHY has the obvious fact escaped his no
&c tee that neither the North the South have sue
IS cumbed to each other, but that both stand o
equal ground, with Gen. Taylor as a candidat
'' bound to no faction bound only to carry out tn
}; will of the people? Why could he not fairl
N state the facts as they are ? that Gen. Taylc
chose his own ground true republican and con
l. stitutional ground, ay, and genuine Hhig groun
e to - in the Allison letter; and that both tn
's Northern and the Southern representatives too
10 him that ground, simply as he is, and not whi
IN Tom, Dick or Harry would make him? WIN
y indeed, is not Gen. Taylors own platform fairI
is and fully given, that the man may be adjudge
lc and stand or fall upon his own ground: w
IN find the reasons in Mr.. Everett's untOrtunat
n condition as a jealous Clay mana delegate VII
- had prejudged his case, and disappointed maj
W We are sorry that he should do such injustice
~ Gen. Taylor to the Wing party and to himself