The Daily spy., 1850-02-05
Nomination for Congress
TAYLoRIsM AND CAsslsM IDENTICAL.

TAYLORISM AND CASSlSM IDENTICAL.
During the last Presidential election the greatest of
all arguments by which people urged to vote for
Gen. Taylor, was " to defeat Cass," whose doctrine
of non-intervenon, advanced in his Nicholson letter,
rendered him Justly obnoxious every Northern voter
while old Zach, it was every where proclaimed at the
North, was opposed to slavery yextension, and would
willingly sanction any bill with the Wilmot Proviso
attached for the government of the territory which
Congress mig devise, without nteposing beforehand
any influence or recommendation on the matter, what
WE'LL with these lying pretences on their lips,
the friends of Taylor carried the day. and what do we
now see :!
In two separate Messages of the President, see
distinctly urged propositions in direct violation of the
pledges of principles, the strength of which he
elected second time, says he in his late Message,
in regard the great Proviso question: in reference
the territories about which he was to be SO ndf-
ferent to pray for the opportunity to sign any bill
Congress might present to him:
ssNo material inconvenience will result from the want
for short PERIOD of government established by Com
gress that part of the territory which lies east
ward of the State of California and the reasons
for my opinion that New Mexico will at no distant Pc
unofficial information, which suppose is common to
all who have cared make inquiries on that subject
Seeing, then, that the question which eXcites
such painful sensations in the country, will in the end
certainly be settled by the silent operation of causes n-
dependent of the action of Congress- again submit TO
your wisdom the policy recommended my annual Mes
sage OF awaiting the sauary operation of those causes,
believing that we shall thus avoid the creation of geo.
graphical parties and secure the harmony of feeling so
necessary to the beneficial action of political sys-
tem.''
Here see the grossest Justification of all the repre-
sentaons the Tay presses and orators the North
made of their candidate in the of as. This
great "Whig" President is found, soon as official op
portunity occurs, repeatedly endeavoring Aave off al
effort by Congress, stay the progress of the scomge
slavery, and to avoid such nefarous action recommends
the continuance of anarchy and nongovernment in the
new territory To get rid of such an odous necessity
approving a slavery-resriction bill, or exhibiting
openly his sympathies by veto, he adopts broad,
and fully, the lately denounced doctrines of Cassism
and breaches in his Messages, the identical nonnter
vention sentiments of Cass's Nicholson letter. which
the Taylor press had to often denounced as Infamous
and to be tolerated Gen Cass said in his letter
Nicholson, as brief synopsis of his views
81 am in favor of leaving the people of any terri
tory which may be hereafter acquired the right to reg
uate it [savery tor themselves under the general prn
cipes of the Constitution
Gen. Taylor says in his recent Message, on this sub
ject
sit is TO BE expected that in the residue of tn
territory ceded to us by Mexico, the people residin
there will, at the time of their incorporation into Ii
Unionas State, settle all questions of domestic polio
to suit themselves
In these two aTewas of opinion, as expressed by IL
authors themselves under their own signature, not
hadel difference Of policy is seen. Both are utter
agaast the Proviso, against any action of Congress
thg subject, and in favor of letting the people the
slopt or reject slavery as might suit themselves DC
icy which the Wings rejected as the height of folly
'4s but whichthey willingly adopt in 80 at the recon
mendation of their chief Such weathercocks have IL
Toylor politicians made themselves out to be. Not
Wing paper in the whole North, Gf we may except IL
N. Y. Tribune and New Bedford Mercury lisps
word against these base declarations of the Messap
With singular unavimity, they are willing to walowo
through whatever mire of pro-savery filth their gre
slayeholding chiefmay lead them, no matter how muc
in opposition to all former professions c.