Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-06-29

states; and beyond this, they offer US a Prsi
dent bound to stand on neutral ground and in
terfere with neither party through the Veto.
As between ZAcutRY TAYLOR and LEWIS
CAss can we therefore hesitate Is there a
whole souled Northern man of any party who
can sobery, seriously, candidIy look at the po-
sition of the two these important questions,
and doubt for a single moment which is the man
to choose? We do not doubt. Our first and
clearest duty is to do tohnt zoe can 10 defeat The
Veto porer in the person IF Leicis Cass for it is
utterly in vain to labor for Wig majorities, or
Wilmot Provlso muiorirs, in either branch of
Congress, if the Executive is to defeat them at
last.
CAN WE 30 BETTER!
But can we not do b,iter rr'n N IN his }? Can
we not only defeat Gen. Cass. but Gen. Taylor
also, and elect man over them hoth-a man
firmly pledged to take the strongest ground a
gainst the admission of territory or the estab-
Martin Van Buren,. or John P. Hale. or some
body else? We have deliberated upon this 49,
we have waited TO see the signs of the times, -
until satisfied that this cannot possibly he
done. Suppose the attempt were made, and
that the Wings should give even plausible CO.
ior to the project by resolving en- masse to 90
against Gen. Taylor. The first step in all prob
ability would be firm union of the South upon
an ultra Southern man, or more likely upon Cass,
a Northern man of ultra Slavocratic doctrines.
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North to unite would actuate the South We
think there can be no mistake about this. The
question then is resolved into this -Can there be
50 complete fusion of all parties in the North
as to elect a President without the aid of n sin
gle Southern electoral vote? To elect requires
l45 votes the North has l6S: VIC must there
fore be able to carry all but % or we shall fail
Ohio or Pennsylvania alone would defeat us; il
we could carry these, the loss of Maine, Illinois
and Michigan would be fatal if even these are
saved, the loss ofN. H., Indiana, Wisconsin and
Iowa would be fatal. Other combinations from
these states would be fatal; and yet, with the
exception Of Ohio, the whole of these states are
now in the hands of the Cass party they have
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suming then that the Wing party of the North
stands as nucleus around which the people
could gather-with JONI Mclean for instance
as candidate we do not conceive it possible
to elect him by Northern votes alone. Let us
however take things as they really arc Our
readers well know that we tcoud have had the
Wing party in this positions: but it is not there.
The Wing Convention has not dared to place the
Wing party in that position it has Judged that
1t would not do,-it has detcrn med to offer us a
man whom both the North and South can con
sistently support, leaving the utmost latitude for
deciding this great question of Slavery, without
intermingling the Presidential question with i,
at all. Now what has been the response of the
wing party? A precious few have waited, like
ourselves, TO deliberate -,still fewer have Jump,
ed at bound from the Wing fold, and are now
phrenziedly looking hilher and yon to find where
they may 60. The great body of the whg
press and of the whig party has already determ
ined to support Gen. Taylor. Excluding por.
ton in Massachusetts, in New York and on the
Western Reserve in Ohio, all the rest, with in
dividual exceptions, have settled down upon that
With the democracy the dissatisfaction is inf
nitely stronger in particular localies-as for in
stance IN New York, where the party has beer
rent by bitter personal feuds, and on the shores
OF Illinois where the Veto of the harbor bill has
appealed strongly to the pockets of the people
against the party in power. But elsewhere, viii
individual exceptions, the main body of the par
~ adheres to Cass. If there is an undercurrent
1t is not much ielt yet, and when seen and felt
we are persuaded it will be found tending ire
slstlbly 10 Gen. Taylor. As in 1910 it swtp
thousands to support Gen. HARRIsoS, SO in IS4s
it will bring strong and enthusiastic support {,
Gen, TAYLOR
There is no great party as point, strong il
numbers, around which the disaiiected may raj ,
with a reasonable hope of success. The abo
tionists present the most available point in JONI
p. HALE; but they are comparatively few they
are even divided among themselves into no les.
than three distinct bodies, the Liberty party
the Liberty League, and the anti voting men
To elect Mr.. Hale there must therefore be gen.
erai fusion THE Wings and Democrats into
the Liberty party general, not only as to all the
Northern States, but in each particular states fol-
if New York, Ohio, Massachusetts and Yer
mont should consent, it would be in vain with
our a goodly portion of the rest. Nay-noI
merely in pain; it would without peradyenture
ensure The election of LEWIS CAss. Partial sue
cess in such scheme is but total defeat re.
member 1914. But can we count upon fusion
of the Wing and Democratic parties into the alb.
clifton party? Is it possible at blow upon
the instant as it were-in the four months now
left US, to break down all old party organizations,
to overcome old party preiudices-to do this so
tnipersglly through all the Northern states as 10