The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-11-27
FALL OF TAYLoRIsM- SOUTH.

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Our purpose is briefly to expose one of the pol
iticol iaAcies current among the Wings, and
perhaps not without its influence over the minds
OF other men. Ii is this. "TayIorism is almost
everywhere repudiated South in the election o.
members OF Congress The south is opposed tt
any restriction or the march OF slavery there
fire, aylorsm is regarded at.the south as 0pp0s
ed TO the extension Of Slavery, and therefore, I'd
Taylorism is Free Soil.'''
There is something plausible in this, especial
ly 10 mind whose interest aud desire it is to be.
lieve 1t, but alter all it is but allacy. Let us
expose it; And frst,-The slave power never
trusts to chance. 1t requires absolute security
both for the present and the future. In lS4S a
President was to be elected Cass had pledged
| himself TO veto the Wilmot Proviso So lar
good but on the other hand, Cass had declared
the opinion that the people Of the territories might
prohibit slavery therein. This was unsatlsac-
tory. 1t is not the doctrine OF the south; and
besides, Cass had once approved the Wilmot Pro-
vlso, and II he was base enough to renounce his
opinions Tor the sake OF office, he might prove
base enough to violate his pledges when pow er
should be securely placed in his hands. II e was
therefore regarded as an unsafe man. The vote
Tor Tayorism in consequence swelled to an ex
traordinary height. General Taylo was su stain.
ed by Democrats as well as " higs, but there was
no foolish, formal abandonment on their part Of
Cass, such as would necessarily excite alarm
and lose them their hold rpon their northern
brethren. 1t was the design and purpose oil
southern Democrats to elect Taylor with Just as
much support OF Cass as would not endanger hls
triumph. The plan succeeded The TAYLOR
vote was increased throughout all the southern
States, and the Democratic vote was diminished
Taylor was not called upon to waste words in use
less pledges. HIS bond OF allegiance to the spe.
Cuiar institution was sealed by the blood of three
hundred immortal beings A man, every NOR
sci of whose food to use the language of Mr..
Buckingham, sis seasoned with the blood of the
slain, needed no additional sanctions to his will
ngness 10 scatter the inhuman curse all over the
earth. Taylor, the warrior and STAKEHOLDER, was
elected-eected to be the cloud by day, and the
pillar Of fire by night'--a guarl warning and
a defence against all assaults upon the prison
house Of the south What then? WHY, the
Democrats quietly go back to their own ranks,
and do duty as formerly There is no difference
, among southern candidates for Congress on the
| question OF slavery. Both may be trusted, and
| The party landmarks once more appearing, after
the work OF securing safe President has been
accomplished, the Democrats triumph simply be-
cause they are majority. But they are no more
numerous now than at the date of Taylor's cleo
ton. Cass being northern man, they proved
treacherous TO him and their northern allies, but
as soon as a southern STAKEHOLDER is placed in the
Presidential chair, they return to swell the tide
OF Democratic victories in the several Congress.
sional districts, Tor the double pur ose of secure
ing the election of their own brethren to seats in
Congress, and OF reviving in the breasts of the
northern Democracy that confidence which they
have but just betrayed, and will again betray
whenever the exigencies Of slavery shall dema nd
it. Such is the method of the South. Both DO
litical partids at the north are but puppets in the
hands Of the STAKEHOLDER. They are cheated
and betrayed by turns, and yet by turns bend
their necks and hug their chains, and submit to
insults, and all for brides Of Office, or tariff, or
rewards still more disgraceiul and infamous
While the Democrats are receiving the rewards
of their baseness, the Wings abuse and deride
them, and now that the Wings are battenine on
the proceeds of violated principles and lost honor,
the Democrats deride and insult them What do
these facts prove! They prove that man who
could sincerely maintain the position and princi
Piles of the Wings in lS445-6, could belong TO
the Wing party Of lS49 only by consenting to
become amenabe TO every charge OF dish onor
meanness and depravity, which, in the height Of
the political contest of 1874 he had urged against
his loeo-enemy. The Wing batteries of 1914 g.
6 are the same batteries which are now pointed
at them. The same thunder which zoe manu-
featured for them in 1874 is, in 1S49, our chief
resource against them -ROrbmy Gazette.