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? The WhIg Meeting.

FILLMORE. % motion, JoHN A. VINCENT
was called to the chair, and JOAN CooN appoin-
ted Secretary.
The President having announced the object Of
the meeting, B. WHITE. ESQ.,, was loudly called
for, who took the sand and proceeded TO address
the meeting. Mr.. White expressed great con-
hdence in the nominees Of the National Conven-
zion, and enjoined upon the wings the necessity
Of immediate and thorough organization for the
coming contest. His remarks were received with
the heartiesI demonstrations Of ofaPPlause. While
speaking, a committee Of gentlemen entered the
Hal! with the Hon. Frpncis Granger, Of New
York, who was escorted TO the stand amid the
loudesI Plaudis. When Mr.. White had con.
cluded, the President introduced to the meeting
Mr. Granger, who spoke al much length in his
haPPiesI style.
Mr.. G. remarked that when he arrived in
Cleveland few days since, he found himself in
the midst Of community feeling precisely as
he did, and looking TO the action Of the Wing
National Convention with the lveliest interest.
And it so happened that all seemed to feel the so.
liciIude which he felt for the nomination of an
other well tried and deserving soldier-one
whose great services had been rewarded with the
ingratiiude of the Administration. But the
Philadelphia Convention, composed as il was Of
prudent and sagacious men--men Of the highest
standing in the great whg party Of the nation,
and coming from every section Of the country,
had after the maturest deliberalion, presented
the name of Gen. ZACHARY TAYLOR. Ii did not
become him Mr.. g. to tell the wings of this
heart of the Reserve, the Gibralter of the State
of Ohio, what course was proper for them to
pursue in the premises. They needed not TO be
told that the candidate Of such Convention was
in every way worthy Of their confidence and
support.
Mr.. G. then proceeded 10 consider the objec-
lion urged against Gen. Taylor on the ground
of his being Military Chieltain. After our
father had achieved our independence, and at
the most critical period Of our history, militia.
ry chiefan was found to be, in every particular,
the iuest man to be placed al the head Of affairs.
Ii was not indeed merely because Washington
was military chefain, but because in all the
perilous and responsible positions in
which his profession of arms had placed him,
he had evnced not only the highest qualfca-
lons Of a commander, but also, in the highest
degree, all the requisites Of civilian. So was
it with Gen. Taylor. In the recent unloru-
note war with Mexico, he not only fought with
matchless bravery, bu, wherever he had been
placed, his great, good sound common sense, his
keenest discernment, and profound sagacity had
commanded the admiration of the world.
But there was reason why military chief.
tain should, above all others at this particular
time, be chosen president; and that was because
Of the wholesome moral lesson it would teach
demagogues. Mr.. Polk had plunged the coun-
try into the Mexican war for the sole purpose of
building up for himself name, and by the
means perpeIualng power in his own, or the
hands Of his party, The old soldiers of the ar
my are sent into the field to wage an unnatural
and bloody conflict against sister Republic; TO
encounter all the sufierlngs, prvations, and per-
lis of war, and the pestential diseases Of a tro.
pical climate; while the president and his cabi
net, sitting quietly and securely in their Offices
at Washington, reap the full reward of glory
Let political men once know that their own pre-
cious bodies must be exposed to the shock o
arms if they would be rewarded with the sol.
dier's praise, and they will be exceedingly chary
as TO involving us n another war.
Mr.. G.. then reviewed the principles Of Gen
Taylor as announced in his letter 10 his friend
and relative, Capt. Allison. lie declares at the
outset that he is Wing, but no. an ultra Wing.
Now, said Mr.. g., put it TO every whig pres
ent, if the time has not come when some of the
old issues Of the party should be discarded
What whig is there in the land who would wish
TO see revived the question Of the United STATE.
Bankl The organized and powerful opposition
TO such an institution has rendered il certain tha
We shall not very soon enjoy the advantages o
another. In the language Of Mr.. Webster, 81
has become an obsolete idea" And what whis
is there who, under existing circumstances, dc
sires TO see the present system of Free Trade
mmedatety abandonedl have not converseC
with single Manufacturer that desires change
now, for every intelligent man must see at
glance thai the present and fast approaching OK
gencies of the Treasury will, by the hand o
necessity, drive the Government into Protec
tive Tariff Gen Taylor assures us that on "th,
subject Of the currency and Tariff" he will
il elected, carry out the wishes of the people a.
expressed by Congress.
On the subject Of internal improvements
Mr.. Granger conlrasIed with great effect the art
iul shuilling of Cass with the frank, stragh
forward, honest expression of sentiment made
by the old Warrior. lie says that "upon III,
subject of the improvement Of our great high
ways, rivers, lakes and harbors, the will of III,
people, as expressed by the Representatives il
Congress, ought to bo respected and carried ou
by the Executive"
Mr.. G. then alluded to the Wilmot Proviso
tIe remarked that wings had attached an undu
importance to this; that there existed in the cir
cumstances of the case stronger barrier in tn
way Of the extension Of slavery, in the countr,
TO DO acquired underline Treaty, than could pos
sbly exist in mere declaration of Congress. =.
Men thought that American Slavery would OK
tend itself over that country as promptly, on it
acquisition as it did through Texas on its annex
alton. But ii could not be so. Texas had al
ready revoutionized her institutions, and ha
herself established the institution of slavery
So annexation brought Slavery, in full condition