The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-12

General Cass nor any one else with entertaining IL
Gentlemen, General Casss friends the ioor OF Con-
denied that he maintained any such doctrine IN his
Nicholson lefer. which rs certainly capable OF that con-
stuction Blu, my object In delivering that speech was
by means limited to Gen Casss position. | feared
and think had 10 fear. that the southern dem
ocats might be divided as TO the rights of the South, by
portion OF them supporting this doctrine II with
view 10 the South, far more than 10 Gen Casss posi-
on that spoke early. with what ability possessed, to
save the southern democratic party from schism Ii
divided knew that all was lost We did not divide !;
and the doctrine OF Territorial sovereignty may for all
practical purposes hereafter be considered as dead Ii
had purposes had It's dangers, and has passed away
IT is held nowhere by any considerable portion OF any
party; whilst public opinion IN the North will not allow
Congress be negative this subject Ii will force
legislation over the Territories the subject OF slavery
And agree with MIR Webster that the practical al
Tentative now is, the WamOt Pr0uiso, The Missouri
Compromise. agree also with him, that il Gen. Cass is
elected TO the presidency, the party that places him in
power will establish the Missouri compromise
Territories But whether II does not, have no asarm
for anything that Gen Casss administration may do to-
wards the South.
Gentlemen, ii would be fortunate for the South if the
Wimot froviso was the only form IN which slavery is
implicated in the presidential election. But is far other
wise Supported for the vice presidency, the wing
ticket with General Taylor, is Willard Fillmore of New
York Mr. Fillmore, IN 1885, was candidate for Con
gress and the aboltioniss in his district demanded OF
him whether he subscribed to their creed. That creed
OF four points, so far as the general
was concerned:
LIST Do you believe that petitions to Congress on the
subject Of slavery and the slave trade ought to be re-
ceved, read and respectfully considered by the repre-
I'd Are you opposed to the annexation of Texas TO this
Union, under any circumstances. so long slaves
held therein :
3D. Are you in favor of Congress exercising all the
constitutional power it possesses abolish the internal
slave trade between the States
ith Are you in favor of immediate legislation for the
abolition of slavery in the District OF Columbia
His answer in the affirmative TO all these questions
placed him in full communion with the abolltioniss,
and he received their support What constitutes an
aboitionst IN the politics OF the Union? IL rs one
who asserts African slavery In the South to be an
evil and that the general government has the power,
and should exercise It, to prevent or abolish IT IN our
Territories, and in the District OF Columbia-and abolish
the internal slave trade they call it, between the States
that is, prevent slaves from ENGRAVING with their mas
Tuck go no further They all have disclamed the floor
OF Congress, and over and over again. any design
right to interfere directly with slavery in the States In
what does Mr. Fillmore then differ from them in his opin-
ions If he is not abolitonlst, they not abol-
onistsand there is no such thing aboltonlsi IN
the land Yet former wing governor of Alabama, and
the whole southern wing press declare that because Mr.
Fillmore dlsclaims interfering with slavery in the States
by legislation IN Congress- that tins is all the South has
right to ask, and that he is perfectly sound on the sub
ect of slavery. Gentlemen, Mr. Fillmore owes his posi-
lion the wing presidential ticket TO the he
owed his election to Congress-his abolltonism The
wings in the Philadelphia Convention had not orgoon
the detection OF the abotonlss from their ticket in the
last presidential election by which they lost the State of
New York, and with New York the presidency Mr.,
Fillmore placed their ticket to win to its support
the abolitlonss; whilst Gen. lay lor, with his 400
groes, would carry the South Negroes for the South
abolition for the North The a, guments were powerful
the combination irresistible The Little Magician how
ever stepped and threatened defeat the abolition por
ton of the arrangement This very bad; but when
General Tayors friends in the South threatened the
breach of faith; and Mr. Fmore's friends in the North
let off their indignation accordingly Gentlemen, our
Taylor democratic friends have unwttngly been great
benefactors TO the South They were knocked by
bu they held hands
Fillmore and his aboiiOnsm. They cut him IRON their
ticket account of his opinions the subject of slave
ry and proposed TO support the democratic nominee for
the vice presidency. General Taylor, always ready
to receive votes from all quarters accepts in the waest
terms their nomination OF him for the presidency The
northern wings take the alarm They suppose that Gen
Taylor and the southern wings about to repuiaic
their cunning and common arrangement What they say
TO Gen. Taylor we OF course do not know; but the
suit is, that instead of regulating the opinions OF Mr.
Fillmore, he says, in second letter TO Capt Allison,
"the National Wing Convention met In June and select
ed their candidate | accepted that nomination
with gratitude and with pride; and may add that
these emotions were increased BY assocating my name
with thai of the distinguished citizen of New York,
whose acknowledged ability and sound consrcattre
opinions might have Justly entitled him the first place
on the ticket" Now, what are the opinions OF MIR Fill
more, which he characteTizes here sound and con-
servave' Are they not the opinions which occa.ioned
all the diculty-hose which the Charleston democrats
repudated-those which constituted the arrangement OF
the ticket-hs abolition opDions The southern wing
press, speaking directly Mr. Fillmores opinions
tegencer, used almost the very words of Gen. Taylor.
Bat suppose that General Taylor did allude exclu-
svey TO Mr.. Flllmores abolition opinions, IT is clear
that he did not deem these opinions such 10 hinder
him from chaaceriZng Mr. Filmores political opinions
''sound and conservative" How any southern man,
not abotionst himself, characterize politician
who supports the aboitonsts IN all their measures in
Congress against the south being sound and conser
vave IN his opinions, II is not easy to understand And
Mr. FlllmOres opinions are not only 'sOund and con-
servatve, but they JUSTLY ente him to the first place
on the ticket The aboonist ought TO have been first,
and he second; and his "pr,de and "grat'de' at the
wing nomination increased by being associated with
cendiary, and spurnng any political association with hun,
General lay is his most grateful and aiectonae ad-
mrer, and endorses all his 'sound conservative opin
lons!' No wonder Giddlngs says that when walking
amongst shareholders he feels if he twelve feet
high. Ii it not for General Taylor's character
plain. blunt man, it might be supposed that he was only
dealing in refined irony. The political opinions of the
where must that policy end In dissolution OF the
Union or the desoa,ion OF the south. Most sound and
cOnsev alive results certainly My friends, look at the
rapid progress OF things the slavery question II had
been told you four years that at the coming presl
dental election an aboltOnist would be nominated by
one OF the two great parties OF the country as Wee Presi
dent of the United States, to be President If the President
dies and to have the casting vote all questions IN the
Senate, there is not of you who would have be-
lieved it. But if you had been told still further, that he
would be upheld in the South whilst the whole wing
press in the South would declare that his opinions were
all the South had right to require, your alarm would
have been equal to amaZement But II, yet iurther
dent on this ticket with abolitionst Vice President
would endorse his opinions sound and conservative,
and express increased pride and gratitude at being
cated with him. your Indignation would have equdled