The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-08-29

him. and with the South, in previous efforts
promise if should withdraw all further opposition and
thus permit the Oregon bill TO become law al the next
of Congress TO unite with again. and heartily
in extending the Missouri Compromise line to the Pa
cihc and thus settling this vexed question forever Up
this assurance agreed to let the bill become law
spared II from destruction, when II undenia
bly, in power Who can doubt that this understand
ing will be carried out IN good faith Surely no one can
do who knows anything of the high character OF those
from whom II emanated Thus have every reason TO
believe that this controversy will be terminated next
winter or at least as early the succeeding session OF
Congress- by the associated action of southern and
northern democrats, and such southern wings as shall
prove themselves true to the South repeat that II IS
all surprising, under the circumstances specified,
that instead of a falling off in the South, our ticket
should have been greatly strengthened by later events.
Indeed it is so obviously true, that leading wings from
the South have hestaed in my hearing in the course
of conversation at all private, to declare their convc
ton that the only friends 10 the constitutional rights OF
the South TO be found In the whole North, are to be
looked for among the supporters OF Cass and Butler In
deed several of late have gone farther, and confessed
their belief that might become necessary, in the even,
of complete union between the bambuners and wings
of the North support OF Van Buren, and Adams at once
to withdraw Taylor from the field, with view OF enabling
the South to stand up man against the unprnciped
combination now arrayed against her. Whatever Others
may think, venture TO predict that General Taylor vii
be Withdrawn, will spontaneously" retire | OF
opinion that his friends in the South will be Just &c
his character TO expose him to disgracefu defeat
is unquestonably store for him, am q opinion tina
his own good sense will induce him to withdraw wheth
er counseed by his friends to do or not | am o
opinion that the wings OF the South will prove them
selves patriotic to distract sectional strength by
hopeless struggle, which, If determined against the demo
cratic ticket, only result in the election of Van BureI
and A1ams and the destruction of the Union. | shall
continue to believe that Taylor will be Withdrawn
up to the last moment when he can be withdrawn
with effect | will not believe easily that car
be found in the Ancient Dominion willing to ex
pose us farther to the fearful perlls by which W,
are surrounded. Wings and democrats! Virginians
Descendants of the heroes and sages who compa
triots and coaborers with Washington, and Jefferson
and Madison and the Lees and Patrick Henry and thou
sands OF Others whose names immortal upon hstory
by the glOres OF the past by your hopes for thu
future, by the achievements OF those whose ancestra
remains quietly rest in your sacred SOIL by your
tors and statesmen of the olden tme whose spoken
written words in defence and maintenance OF free nsttu
tons have been the light OF true moral illumination
around the habtable globe by the characte
of your noble State, heretofore the exemplar of un
waverng political consistency, in behalf of the age
which live, distinguished for the advance of mar
in all that belongs 10 the true moral grandeur of his
ture in behalf of the unborn millions 10 whom it
fond hope transmit the blessings of civil and religious
liberty forever; in behalf of the great movements iT
progress throughout the civilized world which have beer
melted by your example invoke you. beseeeh YOU
peril to your fathers to yourselves, TO your country and
the general hopes of mankind
Mr.. Foote having his seat amidst loud applause, Geo
w. Brent, esq, OF WarrenOn, was called for. Mr. b
made short, but spirited and amusing speech. He al
luded in ELOQUENT terms to the new and alarming ele
ments which were introduced into the present
and he sterny Tebuked the course of southern wings
the veto power which question southern rights are
deeply involved The war with Mexico was rapidly
touched upon and the glazing Inconsistencies of thu
march TO the Rio Grande yet that denounced as the
cause of the war, and Gen Taylor is the wing can
ddate. MIR B. reviewed the conduct of the " no-party'
wings in 1910, who had then deceived the people why
would they not deceive them again Mr. B. illustrated the
course of the wings by most amusing and capital
dote An old woman had lost her husband, who was
drowned and n.the midst of her lamenation the news
brought her that the river had been dragged ant
the body OF her venerable companion found in the mud
covered oyer ,oh fishes. The old lady wiped away the
better set the old man again "' So with the wings who
in $780, had done so well with their "no. party sno
principles trap that they had resolved to set the old man
again"
The company then adjourned, to partake of liberia
collation. spread very long table along the banks
the river, and there leave them for the present