Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-10-13
THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS PAID FOR
THE NOMINATION OF GEN. TAYLOR.

delivered in New York, at Vauxhall Garden.
We regret that our limits will permit US to
give only few short extracts in this number.
No doubt our readers will be startled at the
disclosure made by Mr. Bolts, and so would
we, if we did not know that the Wings" are
capable of doing anything that's calculated 10
gain for them the ascendency. But we have
the facts from Mr. Botts-good authority,
with his party, we should think-that money
was paid 10 secure the nomination OF General
Taylor by the Philadelphia Convention
What spectacle does this present to the A
merican people !? g Has it come to this" asks
an exchange paper, that nominations for the
Presidency are bought and sold in the market
like cattle in the shambles: Have we so soon
adopted the Roman practice, in her days of
corruption, of selling the Imperial purple to
the highest bidder? Where is the honest de-
mocrat or wing who does not turn with shame,
who does not hide his head in very sorrow
mingled with Indignation at such proceedings
as this But we will say no more. We only
wish to call the attention of our readers 10 the
bold and manly proceedings of this Clay NEE
ting, and when he reads with what utter dis
gust the honest wings look upon this nomina-
ton of Taylor, let him ask himself if he will
not buckle on his arrnor and work with renew
ed vigor for the election of Cass and Butler,
the brave old soldiers and eminent statesmen.
| Here follows the report of the Clay Com.
mittee, who had been appointed to form Clay
| Electoral ticket for the State of New York
but from the refusal of " their illustrious chief
to permit his name to be used as a candidate
the Clay party had TO knock under, but not
without first passing some singing resolutions
of censur upon the Taylorites, which we copy
Resoired, That in the ardent attachment and
profound regard, so unfaIteringly manifested for
Henry Clay by the people, overlapping the ma
chinerY Of party and of managed nominations
we have the consolation ofknowing that patriot
ism is yet dear to the people. and that an unfal-
tering dev oton to Principle" and Right" in
defiance of Availability" and " Expediency" will
be sustained before the people and by the people.
ResokUed, That preserving the same front we
adhere only to true whig principles. TO the wing
platform, and unfurling the wing banner, we can
find no place there to inscrhe its broad and lu-
minous folds the name ola candidate, whose sword
is and has been his only exempar-- unknown to
the people as civilian, and endorsed only by
| =. a~aiInbili.y-''
Resolred, AS the deliberate and expressed con-
vict0n IF the public mind that Henry Glars
nomination demanded by the GENERAL VOICE
OF THE COUNrrI-and nothing on earth was
surer than his election by an Unprecedented ma
jority.
ReSoired, That we recommend to the friends of
Henry Clay, who his friends " through sun
shine and through Storm" to hold fast to their be-
lief in another-to act In this contest like men
who in p tics walk by sight and not by faith-as
behooVes those to whom coaxing fattery or threa S
are alike unheeded-to stand by their principles,
and bid those who revile to remember " that Hen
ny Clay is dcarer every day"
ReSOlred, T'het we now, in closing our honor
able trust, resign it to the associations clubs and
other organizations of true wings, to hands and
hearts capable of determining for themselves their
own present and future course: unawed by threats,
uninhuenced by the seductions of power, and rea-
dy now and at all times, to " hurl defiance at the
mischievous measures. which, through selishness,
seek to ally the old Wig party of principles to a
man without principles"
and spoke in a most eliminating manner Tor
about two hours. He said:
That my great friend is Henry Clay, Cloud
cheers,) my great, my ardent, my devoted per-
sonal and political friend, and that prefer
him before all the universe, | think it is unne-
cessary should tell you here Ay, sir, if you
were to hold out the prospect-the least
prospect for him, would go for him, against
the world, convention or no convention, nom
ination or no nomination. Yes, sir, [ would
go for that man who is embalmed in the hearts
OF the American people! Cloud cheers.) That
man, 10 whom the people of this country are
more indebted than to all the other political
men Of the country. That man who is the
founder and builder up of the party to which
| beong-the man who has given all IFS
strength, all It's vitality, to that party. But
am not factious man. and | connect myself
with no faction, whether the object of that
faction be to promote the election of Lewis
Cass. or OF Martin Van Buren, In the histo-
ry OF this country, we find, after nominal
ton made by a convention met to represent
one of the great parties of the Union, that not
only here in the city of New York, but in ev-
; cry place, in every spot throughout the Union,
we find ourselves divided. Why is this SO ?
Why are we thus divided %
] ask, then, why do we see
this division in our ranks? 1t is because the
nomination made at Philadelphia were made
by politicians in Washington, (cries of 'thats
t,') without consulting the wishes of the whig
party. That nomination was made by men,
selfish, designing, artfu, and traitorous, who
Hoped to get the power of the government in
to their hands by the mbecility Of their can
didate. (Cheers.) 1t was a nomination made
by few of the older heads of the wing party,
backed by men who were hen-feather politi-
clans, without giving the least regard 10 the
popular voice and wishes of the people,
Loud cheerS.) Yes, sir, there is a story TO
be told-there is book to be written in rela-
ton 10 this Philadelphia nomnation-not BY
me, do not deal in writing books-which
will show in what manner that nomination
was managed and contrved- Tho managers
of that nomination knew we'll that if they
went al once honestly into the convention,
; Henry Clay was the choice of nine tenths OF
the whole wing party throughout the United
States. Therefore. for their purpose, nine
tenths of the party were TO be deceived, cheat,
ed and trampled upon by raising the cry against
, Mr.. Clay of availability" know the par
> ties TO this-I know their secret workings;
found it out by some leaky vessels among
themselves. The cry of Non-avaiIabiIity
was got up against Mr. Clay, whom all pre-,