Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1849-01-09
From tho Raleigh IN. c. STANDARD.

III" satlsiieu, anu IL is win pain that we
confess the Notifying fact, that in this
State we have lost hundreds of votes SOLE
~ on the ground that Gen. Cass was
northern and Gen. Taylor southern
man! A friend writing us from one Of
the counties says: ~-. s~.s.
~ ne falling off was principally in the
democratic vote, owing doubtless 10 the
impression, which it was impossible to re-
move that our candidate, being north
ern man, was at heart opposed to the
south upon the slave question:"
This tells the tale and is one of the
main causes Of our defeat in this State
That Gen. Taylor's military services and
military renown had considerable effect
upon the ma ses, it would be useless to
conceal or deny; but, above and beyond
all this, the slavery question was the on
! ly one boldly in issue here, and the re-
suit was shaped and fixed according to
the opinions Of the masses in regard to
the locations and supposed views of the
respective candidates. .... ...
The cry raised by the Wings, and
which we had to meet everywhere, was,
Gen. Taylor is one Of us-he ewns slaves
himself, and is interested in the protect
ion and prese rvation of the slave institu-
ton; and if HE deserts us, upon whom can
we rely? 1t was in vain that we replied,
Gen. Cass is an eminent statesman and a
man Of honor. He has spoken and voted
against the Wilmot Proyiso, and he stands
pledged to veto it. All this, and more,
was answered by pointing to Gen. Tay-
lor's three hundred negroes, and by the
grossest misrepresentation in regard to
the character, the position, and the views
OF our candidate. What could we do?-
What could we say? Our leading men
in this State fought on with gallantry
and steadlness unsurpassed in the annals
Of political wa rlare; but all the while this
under-current was against them; and
when the day raction arrived, it at once
swept away, at least for the present, all
the fruits of their cloquence and wel-di-
rected labors True, it was known and
generally admitted, that Mr.. Fillmore
was unsound upon the slavery question;
bu! the masses ofthe Wings were not al
lowed to think Of that, for the whig ora
tors seldom mentioned his name; and
when they did, it was with strong asser~
vatlons and with one-sided arguments to
| prove that he was at least as reliable as
General Cass.
We have no hesitation in asserting that
the contest in this State turned mainly
upon the slavery question; and that as
many as forty thousand Wings, and pro-
badly thousand Democrats, have voted
for Gen. Tay lor, because they believed he
acould veto the Wizmot Proviso; while on
the other hand, the Wings have opposed
Gen. Cass, and Ia tew) democrats failed to
vote for him, because he vas q northern
man, And has it come to this? Is spot
less patriot, brave man, and world-re-
nowned statesman, TO be repudiated, dis
trusted, cast aside, merely because he was
born in New Hampshire and resides in
Michigan? Is this state of things to con-
tinue? Is brother still to be arrayed a.
galnst brother, and friend against friend?
Are we of the South to have no peace, un-
til we are crushed, and find silence only
/ in degradation and dishonor, or in the is
sue of civil strife and fields of carnage?-
10 every northern man-are. the sound
men of the nonsaveholding States -such
as Cass, Douglass, Dickinson, Woodbury.,
Dallas, Buchanan, Bright, Breese, and
Hannegan-to be put under the ban, and
mari ed and thrust forth and kept out from
the high offices of the Republic, because
Van Buren, seeks revenge, or because they
happen to be surrounded with fools, fana-
tics and madmen? Do we owe them no.
thing for their struggles and sacrifices in
our behalf? Is Fillmore, who is in favor
of abolishing slavery in the District of
Columbia, and who was opposed to the in
ternal save-trade between the States, to
be cried up as a Union man Of the first
water, and (riynd of the South, while
those leading democrats who have stood
by us in all trials, and hazarded their We
ry political consideration and existence at
home, to secure to us our rights under the
constitution, are ostracised fromall nation
al posts Of honor and power? If this is
to be the game, wings Of North Carolina,
our doom, and the doom of the Republic,
has been pronounced! Be warned-we
pray you, be warned in time! You tri-
file upon a precipice which crumbles a.
round you, while below you, and as far
away as your vision can penetrate, roll
the dark clouds Of battle and internal
strife. And will Tayor's election help
you or us? What if he should veto the
Provlso? Think you the people of the
North will submit to it.? Would not the
people ofthe free States bear such veto
more patiently from one Of their own cit
liens, than they would from Louisiana
planter with his three hundred slaves?--
Let Taylor veto that Proviso (and we fear
he will not, and al once :he whole North
is aroused. Parties will blend, and par
ty lines will be expunged; and at the E.
lection of 1859, an avowed Wilmot Pro-
visost will 60 into the Presidential chair
solely on the strength of the non-slave-
holding States. They have the power
and they will use it. But what if Tay-
lor should approve it, as we believe he
will? Either the Union ,ciH be Dissolved,
mr. tho hono,. onJ tLo .;n6}c IF The co,,JL ,r;77