The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-11-10
no THE ELECTORS

0n 14AAA v tA CJGSSEANESSSkONAl AL
For two or three weeks past, some OF the
friends of Gen. Taylor, in this City and else
wht re, have been busily insnuating, that discIo-
sures, injurious to my character, would be made
to the public. Curiosity has been kept alive, by
the daily promise of the forth coming charge and
proof, Still, the charge has been kept back,
until this late hour, when it was doubtless sup
posed the calumny would reach many minds
which could not be disabused, before the Con-
gressional and State elections should have taken
place. The True Wing and Egis, of ednes-
OF the present week, have spread the charge,
without giving shadow of pl oof In support of it.
In long and ostensibly editorial article, full
oil Vlrulence and personal abuse, headed "The
Iraitors-The Verdict" | find the following
accusation.
Charles Allen was himself an accomplice in the sole
irauo winch has yet attached discred 10 the Phadel>
phd Convention Con>pHator, be met with his uI,ra"
wing friends on the first day Of last June tc prepare
a protest against the nomination of Zachary Tavor -
mat protest was prepared and were affixed tie sig
natures OF tie entTe Mutual Admiration que, Charles
Alien among the cumberland hen with his hands tied
WI his "ree lips" struck dumb by pledge that he
would not acquesce IN its possible determination tins
same Charles Allen went to Philadelphia and with>
oul blush TOOK bis scat as delegate among honorable
men,
ellis name already in print, before the candidate
mad even been selected, signed 10 circular OF which The
publication was only the act in the del herate ma
Ignanl treason. The Fifth District was betrayed in
Boston, on the first of June"
The answer to this gross attack, prepared by
individuals, who have not the manliness to give
to it the responsibility of their names, is briet.-
The accusation is FALsE-UTTERLY FALSE.
1 attended no such meeting. signed no such
protest or circular The paper, to which allu-
sion made, is doubtless the circular, which was
published in the Boston Wing, after the Phila-
depha nomination was made. When, and by
whom, it was prepared know not, TO this day
1t was not prepared with any knowledge or as.
sent of mine. 1t has not received II signature,
to this hour. When the paper was first published
in the Boston Wing, it will be found, on recur-
renee tot, that it did not purport to have my sig
nature. Many days afterwards, with additional
names, which had been procured, subsequent to
the original publication, mine was associated,
upon the presumption OF the Editor, that, after
my return from Philadelphia, had authorized
it. But even in this mistake, though a harmless
one, was made by the Editor.
My first knowledge of that circular was OBJ.
tanned at New York, several days after the Con.
vention was dissolved. / need not add, that after
the nomination If Gen. Taylor was made, | re-
Jolced to see such evidence as the circular fur
nished, of popular movement in Massachusetts,
in the right direction
Allow me to add, that my whole course of ac-
ton, as your Delegate, is known to YOU There
is nothing concealed, and, therefore, there is
nothing to disclose. My instructions were con-
tanned in the following resolution of the District
Convention, which appointed me their Delegate,
ReSotred That in the opinion of this Convention no
Candidate TOR the Presidency receive the Electoral
vote OF Massachusetts, who not publicly known TO be
opposed 10 tie extension OF Slavery over territory now
| free.
endeavored, earnestly and faithfully, to select
such candidate, and such only, as the District
Convention declared could obtain the electoral
vote of Massachusetts,. When the National Con-
Ventlon nominated man, whose opinions on the
SUBJECT oil restricting slavery, there was every
reason to believe, were in direct opposition to the
frequently expressed sentiments of Massachu-
sets, declared, in few words, written after |
had voted for the last time, my belief, that her
people would not sanction that nomination. Has
not the popular vote justified that opinion?
| ! have thought that the falsehood, related so
circumstantially, might misead some minds, and
since the authors, for the purpose OF giving pIau-
sibity to the fiction, have the hardhood to
challenge responsible deniar' of it, that de-
NAL is made. Let the anonymous, but perhaps
not wholly unknown, writer's now give to the
calumhy their own responsible names.
The article contains other statements alike des.
tit"te JJoundation but being made with less
minuteness and particularly, there is little pro-
liability that they will impose upon the public
mind. Among these, | might allude to the
charge of preferring Taylor to Clay, the intervie
with the Ohio Delegation, and the insnuation
foreign to the subject, which introduces the other
accusations, but yet properly associated as it par
taxes OF the same characteristic OF falsehood
that had, in former years, made application for
Judicial office, and had since boosted that | had
refused it, when offered.
But, address you for the purpose of refuting
the lie circumstantial," which constitutes the