Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-08-21


a. Special qualifications come in aid of
these general Recommendations. He is a
surviving associate of Gen. Jackson, and
one who took full share in all the labors
| and Responsibilities Of thar brilliant admins.
trat;on, 10 which Jeffersonian democracy
| was revived and Observation-Disclosures
an constructions Of the CONSTITUTION rebuked
and repressed-the public debt paid Off
economy made the order of the day, wing
contrivaaces for debauching the people with
their own money, and juggling them with
their tricks, repulsed and defeated; political
parties rel laced upon the basis Of political
principle modern whiggery shown to be
The federalism OF ancient times; the consti>
tutional currency restored, and The monied
independence Of the federal government es.
tablisI,ed by relieving il from the thratdom
of local, and the dominion OF national banks.
Mr.. Woodbury. was disciple and fellow
Iaborer Of jackson. working with him all the
time, and receivinga iull share Of all the at
lacks lavished upon his administration; and
this constiiui es special Recommendation IN
his favor.
| S. Economy is in him a special charac-
teristic-that quality SO respectable IN pri-
vate person, so essential in public func-
| tIOUdiys WuuOUt WHICH All uhuhS, uOtu pun
lie and private speedily 60 to ruin, and new
er more wanted than at present in OUT feder-
al government. The wings are now in pow
era party in whose vocabulary the word
economy has no place, the word retrenchment
no meaning, and a public debt signifies a
public blessing. The public expenditures
are now fifty nilli0ns per amnum and not
word said about reducing them. The new
| Ia
bred. and thiHy.iour millions; and not
is ahead. seen of all prudent men, aud no
preparation 10 meet it, On the contrary,
open schemes 10 make bad worse-increase
expenditures. and to squander resources-io
debauch the people by local internal i'm.
provemenls, and the plumber Of the public
Iand-to jugge them with a cry of saving
the union. when they could not break it If
they tried-and to purchase continuation
of whig power by abusing power while they
possess ii. The public finances are running
10 ruin with railroad speed: and N these
circumstances the economy of Mr.. Wood.
bury becomes not only special qualifica-
,ioh, but public necessity.
g. He is a aeic man, with the experience
of an old statesman. Six years retirement
from the political arena, and close attention
TO judicial duties, have made him a stranger
10 the intestine divisions and the subaltern
distractions which have disturbed the party
during that lime. He stands as a man ne,c
TO the present circumstances, unconnected
with any subdivision OF the party, the same
national democrat that he was in Jackson's
time; aud the impartial, disinteresred and
concilIatory candidate, in whose favor any
feelings, whose heart belongs 10 the party
Ii is fortunate for the democracy that they
can find ne,C man in the present posture OF
affairs, and rally upon him without dspar-
agement TO Others; and in that respect the
six years retirement from political strife be-
comes a special recommendation ia favor of
Mr.. Woodbury.. .....
q. There is nothing in his pasi life, on
the subject of slavery, TO excite any section
of the union agains; him. All his votes and
speeches on that suhject-(and he was in
congress when the subject was sufficiently
exciting, were SO exactly in accordance with
The compromises of the constitution, both in
their letter and spirit so just in relation both
TO the north and The south, as to give entire
satisfaction to both sides Of the union; and
thus to leave him, as to the whole period OF
his past lie, without any word or net, on
that sensitive subject, to explain or qualify;
without anything to deny or retract, without
anything TO confess or avoid, without a point
IN the case in which his opinion is not
known, and satisfactorily known. The same
of his present life. His administration of the
fugitive slave act in Boston, while il COM
mands The general appreciation of the mod
erale of all parties, leaves his conduct with
...,t L. fro. H.. II
This responsible anil steady consistent man.
Hesitation Of his principles on the slavery
question, both in past and present time, is a
most special recommendation in his favor.
1t dIspenses with all necessity of putting in
ierrogatories, obviates all dagger OF compos-
ing, or being suspected of composing,
creed tor the occasion, end constitutes of
itself pledge, and the best of pledges for
the future.
8. But there is no future in this slavery
question. The wings are trying TO keep up
themselves as saviors Of the union but it is
all trick and juggle, new phase of the old
coon, with his hard-ciIer and log. cabin tao
tics, and thorough wbig belief in the guilt
bility of the people. There is no future for
any slavery question. II is all serlled, and
settled in way TO stand. There is no long
er al inch OF terrriiory in The whole broad
expansion Of the union, from the the Allan
tic TO the Pacific and from Mexico 10 Cana
da, in which the question can be raised. 1t
is settled everywhere in all the remainder
of the old North West Territory north of
the Stale Of Wisconsin, by the ordinance OF
l7SI--m all the remainder of Louisiana by
the Missouri compromise line of lS2O-in
all Oregon by the ordinance of the people
and the act OF congress Of 1S4S-in Utah and
New Mexico before they were coded to the
United States-in California by the State
consttution-in Texas by The act of annex
alton and her own consliIution--and in the
District OF Columbia by the suppression OF
the slave trade and the refusal 10 abolish sIa-
very while II exists in the adjoining States.
There is, therefore, no territory in the United
States not one inch square-on which The
slavery question can be raised-noi an inch
Of ground 10 stand upon 10 raise that ques.
tion-and it is all wing trick to pretend
that there is in order to glorify themselves
as defenders Of the union. The fugitive
slave act is carried into effect every where
by all courts, STATE and federal, without The
least necessity for army and navy There
IS, therefore, no chance for future slavery
question; and if there was Mr.. Woodbury.
is the exact mau to meet it-be who in thir-
ty years action on the subject has held
course SO constitutional, upright and concii-
atory that MOI breath of censure has fallen
upon hlf1-not even from the extremes of
either north or south.
9. lie is not self made candidate, nor
the candidate of any man, or set of men, nor
OF any coterie; nor of any segment, clique,
or fragment of the democratic party; but
has tor six years retired from politics, aud
secluded himself upon the judicial BENCH