Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-11-02
OUT AT LAST.
Gen. TAYLOR Against The PrOYisO !

short time since, DR.. PannilE of Virginia. the
wing County Elector, in speech in favor of General
Taylor, IN Orange county, read letter from General
Toylor In relation to his opinion respecting tho VIII
mot Progiso, which was decidedly against that meas
ure. A person who heard the letter read, gives the
following as its substance:
"The letter from Gen. Taylor fs of recent date and
acknowledges the receipt of communication from Dr.
Pannill, in which he Gen. Taylor is informed that
Democratic speakers endeavning to make il an
pear, from his letter to the editor of the Signa that if
elected President, he would favor the Wimot Proyiso
Enclosed by General Taylor in this letter was sliD
from some newspaper containing his views as EXPIRES
sed IN letter to some gentleman III Alabama and ex-
pannory of his Signal letter. in which explanation he
denied positively that he intended to commit himself
to that measure; and then, in his letter to the doctor
he goes en- to say that if after this and the many 9TH
er public evidences of his hostility t. that measure to
say nothing OF his extreme southern location and the
fact that he owns some one hunded working slaves.
there those who will yet persist in saying that he
would favor it, then he must despair of setting them
right, and leave them to their conscences and their
Cod"
A writer in the Richmond Enquirer having called
on DR. Panni to gre Gen. Tayors letter to the pub.
lie, the doctor replies follows through the columns
of the Enquirer:
"From the Richmond Enquirer.
ANOTHER LETTER FROM GEN. TAYLOR.
We cheerfullv give place to the enclosed notesfrom
Dr. Pannill, the Taylor elector from Orange the ma
tive county of Gen. Taylor
To THE EDIToRs OF THE ENQUlRER:-
| Gentlemen Il send the following for publication in
the Enquirer.
Very respectfully, gentlemen, your obedent SER
want, DAVID PANNILL
"TO DEMOCRAT OF CULPEPPER.
! SIR:-.Your communication, addressed to me- and
published in the Richmond Enquirer ofhe Doth inst,
requesting the publication of letter in my possession
from Gen. Taylor, IS so respectful and complimenta
that cannot suffer it to pass unnotced
| III had an assurance that you, my friends of the
Enquirer, and other democrats, would be made good
Taylor men by the publication of this letter then there
would be strong lnducement Tor me to Weld TO yonr
polite request but feel confident that though the
views expressed in this letter might be in accordance
with yours in relation to the subject treated Of the
Wmot Previso, yet your political hostility to the
brave old man would be undated. You will there
fore, excuse me for not complying with your request
inasmuch, too as stated 10 Gen. Taylor that [ did
not desire reply from him for newspaper circulation
Suffice it to say for the present. in the language Of
distinguished democrat, Gen. Smith, applied to Gen.
IT., he Is pure gold
Very respectfully, your obedient servant
DAVID FANNll4l4.
Orange County, Sept 28th
Can any rise from the perusal of the foregoing
without being convinced that Gen. Taylor has express
y repudated the Wilmot Provso In that letter 10 Dr.
Pannill? person who heard the letter read not on.
y certiies to its existence, but 10 its contents in
substance-Dr Pannil admits that he has letter from
Gen. Taylor on the subject ofthe Wilmot ProuisO-und
then concludes by saying, in reference to the contents
of that letter, that Gen. Taylor is PURE GOLD"
Freemen of Vermont, will you longer be gulled by
those who tell you that sen. Taylor is a ProrSO man,
and that he tcN not peto that measured Do you want
any further evidence hear what Bale Peton who re.
sides near Gen. Taylor and who was one of those,
who at the Philadelphia convention secured the nom.
+ nation of Gen. Taylor, says At meeting of Taylor
Wings, at Paducha, Kentucky, on the 9th of Sep
tember last, in reply to question from Linn Boyd
Mr., Peyton said
CHAT FROM GEN. TAYLoR's RAISING, HIS POSI-
TIoN--HE Mr.. Peyton) BELIEVED, AND HAD NO KIND
OF DOUBT, BUT WHAT GEN. TAYLOR WOULD We
, TO THE WILMOT PROVISO, IF IT SHOULD
, PASS THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED
STATES"