Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-02-18

IL ItlitI Hpll JOliN Dpl lS: thc uO'S anu w.
luent Wing representative in Congress of the
District, Virginia, which in our judy
nent takes the true and only patriotic ground in
-cgard To ,he enor.tha, appears to be making to
lragoon She Wing Party into the support Of
General Taylor. With Mr.. Boris, we say eve
nave had enough of no-pariy men," Give us a
candidate whose views Of National Policy are |
well established, and whose political principles |
are known, and then the PEOPLE OF this country,
who are to be called on TO select their Chief
can vote Understandings as TO the
of their votes. If General Taylor
is Wing, and Z" Clay Whig," as his friends |
assert he is, every motive, both of self respect
and honorable dealing towards both political par
1t is but shabby compliment to the trankncss
of the Soldier, as it would be little crcditable to
the exalted station to which it is proposed to el-
evate him, to say that a raightiorward avowal
of his opinions on all the great issues before the
People (and especially those momentous issues
connected with, and likely to grow out Of. the
existing war; would hazard his popularity
Jancs Il. PoN got the vote of Pennsylvania by
such subterfuges and double dealing the
" Kane Letter. and "Polk, Dallas. and The TariQ'
Of ~" Do the indiscrect friends of Gen. Tay-
lor wish to place him in the same position 1t
is the idlest thing under heaven to expect the in
telgent people Of the North, at any rate, to sur
render their principles and their Judgment, for
the purpose of displaying blind admiration of
military deeds. They won't do it If the cleo
tive franchise is worth anything no lover of his
country should ask or expect those who exercise
it to triile with it in this manner. 1t is all idle
and worse than idle, too, to say that Gen. Tay-
lor is an honest patriotic man, of sound judg-
mcnt and strong sense. What if he is? There
are at least ten thousand other citizens of this
Republic of whom the same thing may be said,
and who therefore, unless military achievements
a!o-0'sre to- turs the scale. are equally emitted
to be President Of the United States. But mill
tary achievements ought not to turn the scale,
and we hope the time has fully arrived, in the
blood-stained history of this contentious world
of ours, when it will be so determined With
the solitary and sublime exception Of WASHING
TON, we do not believe that good ever came of
eevatng men distinguished chiefly for military
services or genius to exalted civil office. 1t cer-
tainly is, in the judgment of great and good men
the severest experiment to which you can sub
iect popular and free Governments, whose OIL
ces should be filled, in contemplation of reason
and philosophy, by those best qualified, by study
and previous pursuits, to discharge their duties
But we are keeping our readers from the let.
ter of Mr. Boris. Those of them who rcmem.
Der this gen,eman's short but eloquent speech
to the Vermont Delegation TO the Young Mems
National Convention, in their parlor at the Elk
change, Baltimore, in 1914, will recall the i'm
preston it left upon them of the intleXible Wing
spirit and The incorruptible integrity of the
speaker, and will greet the following extract
from the letter alluded to as they would the face
of a friend -
| have been aboring for twenty odd years in thi,
great Wing cause for the triumph of my principles
and the principles of the party with which have beef
associated-wl,h what zeal and success let my owl
district and Others answer, cannot lle II please OF
offend whom it nay,l ,riH not, be brought to The
confession that my struggles and efforts against The
cOlteuun1u party HuNt Dtth huh e'Hiiul"'
only by desire to put the ms out and the ants n BY
giving IN my adhesion to a candidate whose PRIME pie
are unknown TO me and 10 you,
Political life has lost many OF its charms Tor me-
The only gain have derived from II, hasbeen nan
for honesty and devotion TO principle which am no
yet prepared to sacrifice, by yielding my principles t
the custody of one, whose policy, elected, Is yelled
secrecy and mystery.
Ii Gen Taylor is "no- party candidate" which i
the only position he has yet assumed, then am not O
his pany-ior am party man, and that parry IS i
@,s g, RHg i nave nothing to ask and want goln
eiye, and viii Us. j. ,.ba, would reen I'd as sur
rende, of my pinc,.des to make any man Presldeiif
and therefore, cannot advocate the nomination OF
r gentleman who has never filled political position
who comes fresh from the tented field, heralded on
by his military achievements, and whose political
views carefully concealed as well from iils HleHd
as his opponents
}, While am not Indifferent to the domestic policy @
our Government, look with much more anAou
eye TO foreign policy tor NE present, lar NOR
important question is presenied-one that overshad
ows and absorbs all others mean the Mexican wal
and the objects for which il is to be prosecuted,
) am unaterubly opposed to the sublugatlon OF Mex
leo, and TO the annexation Oh any pait oi lp
territory and viii support no man ior the fresidelc
who is in favor of admitting the Mexican race to n
te1ua participation i'll the administration oil our itee III
stitution. Nay, more than that can support n
man who is not known TO be opposed to 1t. belev
that the suhueaion of Mexico, and its annexation
, the United States (which is now the object avowed
will decide the fate Of this Union and think 1t mat
, tefS little how soon IL sildll
scheme of inatuation and mad mess shall have bee
7 accomplished: And am asked, at such time, an
in such crisis OF our fate to discard wise practlca
experienced Statesman, who commands the conhienc
and esteem OF every true Wing throughout the hroa
limits OF the land 10 take up soldier from the iiel'
flushed with victory and whose trade Is war'-whos
opinions upon Tins great question are unknownto IN
and to YOU from whom we have not hpd the sllgh'
est nna,ion OF purpose OF wlsh-on'y because h
? comes recommended as committed To no principlt
and no policy beyond his own will and Judgment :
Throw physlc to the dogs III none OF IT,
have had enough of your no-party men,
; Let me ask one question; i Gen Taylor Is eecte
as mo party" candidate, will he prove "no-party
PRESIDENT fine should, then he Will not suit me,
any other Wing Ii not would he not disaPpoini tho'
: who elected him II majority OF the people are ;
dissatisfied with the principles and measures OF bot
the great parties of this country as TO elect Pieslde
belonging 10 neither, could he select Wing Cabin,
and adopt Wing measures, without betrayal OF Il
u trust confded to him by those who elected him 20
in no other words he is elected upon the ground tn
. I've will not ayow himscfa Wing. aud commit hlmsc
il TO Wing policy, would he not be as fully justified
!, selecting Locofoco asa Wing Cabnet-and in adop
u ing l,ocoioco as Wing policyl Mus, he not Of nece
: sty have either nopariy or d'r'ded So""f