The North-Carolina standard., 1850-05-01

I MEssRs. DoUGLAs AND SEWARD. The followin,
recent passage in the United States Senate betweel
Senators Douglas and Seward, shows exactly how th
fraud that elected Taylor was commenced and CON
I summated:
Mr.. Douglas-And here will notice a remark o
the Senator from New York, Mi. Seward. in his
speech delivered few days since. He went out o.
his way to get an opportunity of bearing his ndivid
ua testimony to the fidelity of the northern Democ
racy to what he and his associates are pleased to cal
the slave interest. Measured southern Senators tha
the Democracy of the North were and ever had beer
faithful and reliable allies of the slave power, pndel
all circumstances and in every emergency. His kind
ness in this respect is fully appreciated His motive
is not difficult to comprehend. 1t was necessary fol
him to say thus much in order that his speech might
appear to be consistent with his representations to the
people during the presidential canvass. Did he not
support the election of Gen. Taylor2 And with a
pledge Gen. Taylor to the approval of the Proviso?
Mr. Seward-The Senator will allow me to answer
this questlon-not from any consequences that may
result to myself at all. however. never did pledge
Gen: Taylor to any thing; I expressed my own be-
ted States, would leave the question of the organza-
ton OF new territories to Congress-; and that in my
own Judgment, founded altogether on the means Of
Information IN possession of every body, Gen. Tay
lor would not veto bill which would be passed by
Congress; which bill, to be passed by Congress, I
said, would be one containing the Proviso, and no
other.
Mr.. Douglas-That comes pretty near it. The
Senator made no pledges; he only made representa-
tions. He did not say that Gen. Taylor would do so
and but expressed the opinion that he would and
succeeded in making the people of New York believe
that the opinion was well founded. will now ask
the Senator from New York if the people of that State
could ever have been induced to for Gen. 1aylor
1t they had not been made to believe that he would
have approved the Proviso?
Mr.. Seward think not. I think undoubtedly
the result would have been otherwise.
Mr.. Douglas-The Senator ihnks not. One thing
is clear; the people of New York were cheated out
OF their votes; yea, another General Taylor was
elected by fraud; Whoperpetrated this fraud Z Who
tells that he made the representations he expressed
the opinion; he gave them the sanction of his name,
the weight of his authority that he was one of the
agents who infused this false impression into the
minds and hearts of the people of his State, and
thereby induced them to give their votes for man
for whom they would never have voted if the truth
had been told them. The Senator does not distinct
y inform US whether he did these things on his own
account and upon his individual responsibility or up
the authority of another. This point is important
in order to detect and expose the guilty party The
circumstances would throw the responsibility
upon the other of the two important persona
ges. The one is the eminent citizen who occupies
The White House by virtue of this fraud according to
the Senator's confession; the other is the Senator
himself The President, according to all appearan-
ces, has vindcated himself by the direct and unequv-
cal dsavowa in his several messages, of the sent-
ments and opinions imputed to him by the Senator
from New York. Under this view of the case, the
responsibility with all its force and odium upon
the Senator from New York.