Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-10-03
BOARDING THE LION IN HIS DEN.
n HOME THRUST

ready informed oar readers took place al bat'n
Rouoe (lhe residence OF Gen. Taylor on the "a
ulr a very large number nj people ol oo'h pa!-
lies were IN attendance The Wing speakers
were 5. S PIeniiss, Bale Peyton and Mr.. Ben
lamin the Democratic speakers, l. J. Signr !.
T. Preston and ]. C. Larue. The New Orleans
Della (neuttal paper) contains report OF Inc
speeches. which were all very able. we
give 10 our readers the conclusion OF Mr..
Larue's speech. The people should see wnat IS
said al Gen. Taylors own door on The subject OF
his position on he slavery question. Gen. l.,
il will be seen, has been accused 10 his lace OF
occupying doubtful and suspicious position on
this vial question, and his friends. Prentss Pey-
ton, &C., could give no authoritative assurance
that his position was not correctly represented ny
his friends ia Ohio, Rhode Island, MassachI-
sets, &c. Will not Wings, as well as Demo
Gratis, agree with John Minor Bolts on this sub
ject' "Why, (says Mr.. b. are we left in the
permitted to know what are General Taylor's
views of the Wilmot Proviso' 1t is very evil
dent that every press, and every man at the
North that supports General Taylor, does it on
the ground that he will not, AND Is PLEDGED
soT, TO veto that measure"
But we call particular attention TO the re-
marks of Mr.. Larue made "within sight Of Ge-
neral Taylors residence Mr.. Larre said
Bu, now, since they ['he Whigs] seemed 10 be
dissatisfied with Gen. Cas- opinions in relation
u the Wiimot Prov.so, he should like TO know
what were Gen. Taylors opinions on the ques
ZION, il i! were only 10 have The opportunity OF
comparing them; and as i! appeared that Gen.
Cas- was not sufficiently sound in his Southern
views Tor such Southern men as Badger Of North
Carolina, Bell OF Tennessee. Stephens OF Geor-
.ia, or Adams and others of Kentucky ne wonld
repeat t.ial ne woul like 10 know what were Gs-
neral Tayor's opinions on the WiImol Proviso.
the gentlemen had not yet deigned 10 tell them
Charles NJ. Conrad was asked the gu sion al
inc Philadelphia Convention. He could not tell:
The qnriis, knew as much about Gen. Tayiois
opin,ouS On The Wilmo, proviso as he did: all
he know was, that he was good Wing. Col
Hasae was asked: he did not know. Governor
Jones OF Tennessee was asked he did not know.
Adams NJ ~ I'D -. L--, s-,'t - a on were
passed, forming New Mexico into a Territory.
excluding slavery, he believed he would san, ton
il; aud h., Adams would commend him for doing
il. Now. why all this mystery imperuI-
babe silence on the part Of Gen. TAYLOR and his
Southern friends ahou! the Generals views on
the Wimot ProviSt? When all were SO anx-
ions 10 know why was mol the public curiosity
grati6edl Gen. Idylor'S residence ,ca, ,cithia
sight Of tho scene Of h2t meeting, and ia ten
minut.s a. anu tine, If he Woull consent 10 tell
N m, his opinions could be knowa. But this
was 20 part ~ IN political tactics Of the nC-pauy
Ru, ID. h.. L.,.pf in,
found doubt and darkness on this subject (Wil-
mot ProvisU) The Wings OF the Norh seemed
sufficiently enlightened on IT, The gentleman
(Mr. BeuJamial ,ok delight in quoting Demo
cratic authority; indeed he boased OF having be.
come Democrat himself. Now, he would
make use Of lille Wing thunder, though he
prayed Heaven that he might never turn Wing.
He then proceeded 10 read from The Wing ad
dress OF Ohio-iom the proceedings Of The
Wing Stat Convention OF Rhode Island : from
the Boston Courier and other Northern Wing
au.hori'y-to show that the parties whose Ian
suage he quoted were all satisfactorily satisfied
that Gen. Taylor would no. veto any bill cr-
eanZj1s Government in California or New
Mexico, in which would be incorporated The VIII
mot Pruv:so. Now. his friends here endeavor 10
make you believe hat he would-;housh they
lake car. never 10 assert the iaci.
MIR. L. then went into defence Of General
Cass, views on the subject Of the Wilmot Pro.
viso, as expressed in his letter to Mr. Nicholson.
arguing that he look--aud that he was the first
10 take-the true southern ground on this sub
iect that he was in advance even of South Ca
rulina; for hat the views Of Lewis Cass, pro
mulgated in December, lSi7, were adopted by
John G. Calhoun, aud Incorporated in the Com
promise Bill Of 1918. He next reviewed the
votes given by the Wing and Democratic mem
bers of Congress, both in the Senate and in the
House during the last session-maintaining, as
sequence, that the Democratic PARTY has been
always true TO the South-the Wings never.
Oh! but Mr.. Yancey Of Alabama offered rcso-
luton on the subject Of the Wilmot Proviso
which was rejected by the Baltimore Conyen-
ton; General Cas- approved Of the proceedings
of the Convention, aud, therefore, General Cass
is not TO be trusted by the South. Truly, this
is an argument worthy Of tie no-party purity.
The Baltimore Convention did reject the rc,o.
luton OF MIR. iancey and they would have
been fools not 10 have done 50. To say nothing
of its grammatical construction, il involved
gross absurdity in politics. Here is the Yancey
resolution:
Resolved, That the doctrine of NON INTER- E
RENEE with the rights of property of any portion
OF The people of this Confederation, be it in the
States or ~ the Territories, by any other than
the parties interested in them, is the true Repub
lican doctrine recognized by this bcdy''
II wi bear no grammatical analysis but il
the language meant any hing, il meant tina no
one could interfere with the property of ci,i-
zen but those who held property Of like kind
Thus Legislature would &c incompe tent 10 Law
a tax ON horses, unless all the members owned
horses, nor on cows, except every man possessed
al. In, ,bol., ~
surb, and il was very properly rejected Mr.
l.. then read a portion from the pamphlet of
Cas- Life, 10 illustrate still further the sound
ness of General Cass' opinion on the Slavery
question:; il was from his blue life, too, he said,
he read The gentleman (Hr. Prentiss) said that
General Cas- has as many lives as a cat; he
would find h,m, too, as hard 10 kill
The gentleman Mr.. Prcntissl had read \
passage from this pamphlet, 10 show that Gene
raj Cas- hal reyed the Soulhe n States before
the whole Of Europe. He had quo ed part Of
the passage, unintcntio1ally, no doubt, omittins
that which gave meaning and force to the
whole. Let US see that passage:
I'VE are no slavehodcf We never have bsen
We never shall bs. We aeprcca,e lis existence
10 principle, and pray for lis abolition every |
where, where this can BE- effected iustv and
aeaeeably ard safely tor bati parties"
So Tar the gentleman had read but il he had |
NJ woad have found iuuher:
Ba, We would aai carry fe and acrasta,an. |
md murder, and Iuic, int a peaceful commune.
', 10 pusa on the accomplishment Of The otleci.
SUI alter having visited ta'ee quarters OF The Oid
;oE!inent, re say,bsilre God ind The world. lhar
se have seen TAI more, and more irshful mise
y, since We landed in Europe, and ps hare no,
tsa'ed Irelem4 yet, lhan We have ever seen among
his class in The Uuitei States Whatever NAV
Ne said, there is much Of the paliarchal relation