Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-05-09

strained to their Utmost Tension for the laures of
victory upon the plains, and along the gorges of
Mexico.
The Whig party is as closely marshaled; that
secs tile honor and ghtry of the nation in keep
ing, and adornieg whatthey have, and not covet-
ing ancihers. War with them, at best is a great
national evil; but when wagcd for conquest and
pillage, is heaveR-darng crime. The wealth,
the lterature--tho religion of the country is in
Voked and aroused to arrest this unhallowed out
rage upon our republican neighbor. Stay the
carnage, and with it dishonor and disgrace" cry
the wings. Let every pulsation Of the heart"
shout the Democracy" Let every throb of the
warm blood in American veins, be for the honor
and success Of the army. The honor of the ma.
ton demands that the American eagle shall
waive from the battlements of Montezuma."-
The democracy meet in Convention at Baltt-
more and nominate Gen. Cass as the representa-
tive and exponent of their principles. The
wings are about to meet at Philadelphia for the
same purpose. Who shall be the candidate p.
There is the bold and manly statesman of the
west, who has fought hundred battles, and new
ct lost his colofB or sullied his honor. There is
the mighty New England man, whose massive
intellect towers, like Chimborazo, in colossal
grandeur, above all else in The nation. Then
begins species of political fnesse never before
seen in thE country.
The American army had just gained a signal
victory and the Chief in command was Zachary
Taylor. He had no political sentiments had
not cast vote for 40 years. He had never done
an act connected with the civil or political his
tory OF the Government. Florida blood hounds
and Mexico, were the three chapters which COM
prised his history, But there was at this time Il
generous sympathy, among the chivarous of the
nation, with the martial honors of the victorious
general.
A few jockeys and gamblers of New Orleans
conceived the idea Of nominating Gen. Taylor
for president! They had no political principles
to be subserved they played for The stakes -
the Western frontier there was strong current
strongest among the democracy; high ma
tional feeling 10 honor and sustain the army;
and that honor would of course fall most lavish.
ly upon the chief in command. This current
and this feeling mad no connexion with politics.
The corps of gamblers and blacklegs from New
Orleans, and upon the steamboats, along the
Mississippi, uniting with detachment from their
own body, who followed the army, as does the
Jackall, for ofal; with the double business of alb
enny prints Of he Western cities Conceived the
purpose Of welding this chivalrc and generous
feeling of the people to subserye their own sell
fish ends. Taylor was to be the instrument
They make the attempt; they surcharge him
with immagnary virtues; They overload him
with laurels; The people enquire who and what
is he? They reply, The second Washington ~
Behold the wisdom Of his letters. See this
"The ordinance Of 1887 is of too high purpose
to be bafled by presidential Setoes," See his
heroic devotion to fseedoml Northern Gam.
bers split their threats. But the craft of the
Southern blackleg is in danger Hence comes
second letter for tie balmy South; "In speak
ing of the ordinance did not mean to endorse
any such sentiments, only meant to be cour.
teous and polite" The press assail him; the
old man is agitated; 81 am as much democrat
as 4 whig n am as much wing as democrat.
would have accepted the nomination at Balt.
more, as readily as ut Philadelphia Where's
BhSS?" The bubble is like 10 burst: wiser
men must be invoked: Clayton and Crittenden
concoct the Allison letter. A kind of bulletin
from which every one is at liberty to inhale such
sentiments as either his desire, or his aginn-
ton may suggest; kind of bottomcss cavern
into which one may gaze at
-" Vacancy absorbing space"
Until tho imagination supplies the weared Wis.,
ion with creatures of its own fancy.
Let us look in, for moment upon the whig
party, assembled in Convention at Philadelphia
to nominate candidate for President. Behold
the medley There is the +" lean and hungry"
Puritan, with hollow eyes and salow cheeks -
there is the selfsuficent and impertinent polits
cal gamblers-there is the sleek and oficiou-
backleg side by side may be seen cotton
growers, cotton spinRers, section whigs," and
F cotton heads-all comingled into one heteroge-
NOUS and nameess mass. Who shall be noni-
mated? At first it was cautiously and subly
whispered among those of the baser sort, "let
us cast behind us iohig principles, and appopri.
, ate to ourselves the tCdr spirit which Folks
Administration has aroused, and by that means
r we can appropriate to ourselves the spoils Of
, fice." Tell it not to Harry's frends"-speak
, it not loud in the New England ear. A caucus
is got ny and adroitly managed. The hlackleg
has gained his end at last the resoEue IS made
"Let our principles be blank, and our candidate
its exponent" Zachary Taylor is nominated
; Zachary Taylor with his locks CORY, and bis
sword dripping with the warm blood of murdered
UiciimS-naught ese--this was his whole hsto-
ry--this The tohole man. But Judge Allen de-
mands that he must accept the nomination as a
tOhig. "Away with your whiggery is
Taylor Republicanism SAYS Mr. Campbell
of the great west, one thing must be conced-
ed-that we oppose the extension Of slavery in
to free territory" under the tribe Nth your
, trash-H,Trah. for Old Zackn
The Convention dispsrse-the canvass begins
Taylor is represented by his managers to be
all things to all men. He favored both sides oil
every antagonist interest. He ID a provisoist
6 and anti-provisoist-a nulliier and unionist-
for slavery and against it-for conquest-for
= Cuba, and against them. He was represented
by them to be all things-he was himself-noth.
i. ing. Disappointed politicans--al the dlscord
ant elements of the nation, each pursuing differ.
ent ends; all actuated by different motives-jag
ends and renegades, were brought together, and
for the time beng, held there solely "by the CO.
. hesive bond of public plumber" The plot sue
! ceeds; Taylor is elected, and then follows a
, scramble for plumber. Whoever can grab d
fragment sticks to the wreck-the rest leap, and
swim FOX the shore.
The " Western lion" emerges from his retreat
at Ashland, and walks into the Senate of the
: United States,
4 "Though aged he $50 iron tf limb,
Few of our youth can cope with him."
He looks across into the Executive Chamber
anu tleTe seUs siient, thoughtesS, lnuiHerent
stOlid old military-ooking man, who has neve
done an act-who has never uttered sentiment
t even remotely nonnected with the development
c and growth of the natlon-- sitting in solemn
4 mockery, and in wicked burlesque-in ludicroul
4 irony, grasping the ton thousand DELEGATE cords
in one Executive centre, which erect and con
troll the vast machinery Of the nation. Whie
, principles are discarded, and buried, "The Sub