The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-01-23
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. ~, 1850

WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 90, 1850.
The Game or Demagogues. -The Policy the Admin-
istratiOn. S
In Of Sunday copied the resolutions passed
the wing OF the State OF New York upon the SUBJ
ect Of slavery known the Geddes resolutions and also
we copied extracts from letter which appeared in the
Albany Evening Journal the central organ Of the wing
party New York. explaining the policy Of the admins
ation in relation the question OF slavery in the Terri
tories and also stimulating the wings of the legislature
of that State the immediate and hasty passage Of those
resolutions. ,aE M
We had very good to believe that the Geddes
resolutions were actually penned by the Hon. William
H. Seward. one of the senators from the State Of New
York. if not actually penned by him, that they were
drawn up this city by his advice and under his mme
date direction and forwarded to Albany, to be introduced
into the legislature Of that State and passed that body
We were SO we'll assured that Mr. Seward the real
author of the resolutions, that felt authorized to call
upon him deny the fact it were not 50. Both be and
his friends have remained silent, and therefore we have
right to assume that correct in charging the
authorship to that gentleman. m A eaav
Mr.. Seward is believed to possess the full and intimate
confidence of Gen. Taylor and the cabinet He was the
confidential friend of Gen. Taylor and Thomas Ewing,
and was commissioned by them to defeat the Walker
amendment by which the territorial question would have
been settled had passed Congress. in order that the
administration might have the benefit of the agitation of
the slavery question in the elections to take place during
the then ensuing summer, and from which the admins-
tration hoped gain. nasmuch nearly all hoss elsc
tons, involving the choice Of members Of Congress. wers
be held in the South Where General Taylor pledged
against the Wilmot Propiso Mr.. Seward, also. during
the last summer, had the almost exclusive disposition Of
the New York appointments, to the great dissatisfaction
and chagrn of the friends Of Mr. Fillmore These facts
show that he is the confidential friend Of Gen. Taylor and
the cabinet. and 0ouid take no important step pitAosa
their previous advce and consent Therefore. we have
right to assume that General Taylor and the cabinet
were cognizant of the movementwhich has been made
in the New York Legislature in reference to the savsy
question; that the Geddes resolutions were. in fact,
drawn up by the advice and consent Of Gen. Taylor and
the cabinet -ata eaf psislte4
We were reuc,apt to come to the conclusion that the
cabinet. with Gen. Taylor nominay at its head. would
be concerned game desperate 30 infamous and 70
criminal as the attempt thus unfoded in the Geddes res
olutons and the letter written by under the nspec-
ton and advice of Thurow Weed the rght-hand man Of
Mr. Seward who is now in this city, from which letter
we made sundry extracts in our paper Of Sunday.
Our readers will bear in mind that the Geddes resolu-
TONS penned in this city by Mr. Seward, were ssnt on
to be passed by the legislature Of New York The Thur
low Weed letter urges their passage, and endeavon to
lash into excitement and foment the anti-savery pas
sons OF the North. -s 7aitsss ~
II then goes on to say that IT, in the couneracting
element produced in the South upon this interference Of
the North with the slavery question, violent action should
succeed and attempts should be made by southern Sntss
to secede from the Union. General Taylor viii put such
attempts down by the strong arm OF power i n s4eA
Thus does it appear--and we invoke the American
people to note the factat the Cabinet in concert uith
i-knopn aboition Of its confidential lsadsrsin
the Senate. concerned plot first tcfomsnt ts anti
slavery ereement Of the North to seh pitch to pro-
duee reaeon at The South TO such ertent may Dc.
onsrak itself attempts to secede from the Union. IN
order TO giue General Taylor and the csbina an oPpor-
tuniy to run up e Union flag, call its party the Union
party and thus rescue itself from inevitable defeat and
prostitution scea must be its fate 1t cannot BE- savsd BY
some such desperate and dangerous experiment. tfso,
This is the infamous--nay the reasonable and crmi-
nal--plan Of the administration, as unfolded by the
Geddes resolutions and the Thurlow Weed letter. ~
thus the existence and desnes Of this great and glorious
republic are to be impered in most desperate and
progate game for political power II Is thus nst 40
sparng and reckless demagogsm attempts TO supply tns
place Of wise and manly saiesmanship and endeavon 70
save itself by desperate and perilous stratagem. ~
And the policy in relation to the territorial question:
darkly alluded to in the message, but mora distinctly
Swallowed forth in the cabinet organ, and by ettsrwr
ters in the confidence Of the cabinet in conformity with
the character Of the scheme unfoded by Mr. Stewards
agents and organs in this city and in Albany Gen. Taylor
declares in the message that the people Of the Territories
should have the right settle this question of slavery 20
far they concerned. So far he is right And ne
proposes to enable them to do it by Eos-AorroN-'n
other words by having Congress refrain from all action
upon the subject We do not regard this - me osa
mode OF settling the question. On the contrary We 20
eve that territorial governments should Dc essAonsnsa
with the principle Of non intervention incorporatsd bot
sosAcrros we do believe is better Sasnoush sus WY
little indeed than the wmot Provso and the sgtsiicn
and dangers which will grow out Of its passage.
But while General Taylor, or the cabinet in HE nanss
proposes sosAcros the true policy, he does not give
any assurance the country to carry it out in pactcs
fe does not pledge himsel in the event that Congress
will not adopt his principle Of NoN.AcrIos, TO sus-