Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1849-07-26

RIG I'll vi ON ID, VA.
Thursday Morning, July Goth, 1874!
"THE VOICE OF MAINE. !"

Our readers saw, yesterday, what obsequous de-
ference, the Washington Union counsels General
Taylor to observe towards the solemn expressions
of State sovereignty, which were embodied in GER
tain abusive resolutions of the Legislature of New
Hampshire, and the Democratic Conventions OF
Maine and Iowa. We showed that these ominous
"voices" from New Hampshire and Iowa coupled
with their denunciation of the administration, the
most offensive avowals of anti-slavery doctrine the
one declaring for the Wilmot Provso and for abol-
ton of slavery in the District of Columbia the other
proclamng that all sufficient abolition law is now
in full force in California and New Mexico. If Gen.
Taylor was bound to respect what these 'voces'
said about removals from Office, he was, of course,
equally bound to respect what the same "voices'
said about slavery. We wish to supply an
omission in our article, regarding ''the voice Of
Maine" and in order give both of its notes fair
hearing, suboin two ofthe resolutions adopted by
the Democratic Convention which lately assembled
at Augusta, one assailing Gen. Taylor, which the
Union quotes, the other assailing the South, which
the Union omits Here they are
RESOLVED, That when the President shall submit his
nominations to the Senate for confirmation will become
the duty Of that body vndieate fellow citizens
convict him OF the violation OF his deliberate pledges
Resotoed, That the institution OF human slavery is at
variance with the theory OF our Government abhorrent
Inc common sentiment ofmankind and traught with dan
ger to all who come within the sphere of its influence that
the Federal Government possesses adequate power
b its existence in the Territories of the Cnion that the
constlutonaRy OF this power has been settled by judicial
construction, BY conemporaneous exposition and by re-
peated acts Of legislaon and that we enoin upon
senators and Representatives Congress make every
exeruon and employ all their influence procure the pas
sage OF law forever excluding Slavery from the Terri
torres OF California and New Mexico"
= Ihere Is doubtless one respect in which Gen.
Iaylof VIII give serious con~iler0ou resolutions
like these, though far their assaults upon him
are concerned, he will probably think them "vox ct
preterea nlhl" They must serve to satisfy him,
as they will satisfy the Southern people, that
the Free Soil party is in truth the only party
now opposed to him in the North, In Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Ohio, Indiana
and Michigan, the old Democracy have openly
gone over in mass to the Free Sellers. In New
York, the bans of the contemplated union have
been published blythe Committee of arrangements,
and there is no reason to doubt that the Hunker
faction, which voted for Gen, Cass, will no longer
have Or being FREE So1L is henceforth to
be the watch-word of the whole Northern opposition
The hostile coalition is undeniably formidable, but
Zachary Taylor is not the to quail before diff
culties, however imposing. The Wing party Of the
North, which magnanimously united with Southern
Wings in eecting him, will stand honestly and firmly
by him now The Wing party of the South, who con-
tded Southern interests to his hands, trusting in his
patriotism Alone without pledges have no reason to
desert his side, when they see him threatened by the
legions of Northern Abolition and Democracy COM
bined There remains but one other political class
in our country--the Southern Democrats-and it
has become an interesting question what position
they will assume in the great contest now pending,
in which Gen. Taylors administration will afford
the only possible rayng point for the friends of the
constitution. This question time only can solve
The leading presses and politicians will doubtless
strive to hold to their old party organization
Hardly any pill will be too bitter for them to swa-
low, in order to accomplish that object. But the
masses will not follow them. In the mighty issue
between Southern rights and Northern aggression,
with Wing administration on one side and Free
Soil Democratic opposition on the other the great
body of the South cannot be divided