New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-10

Gen. Tsslor a. you now pretend, pnt IN ia'oi VI S
Wig party Of that State, then engaged m desPe'a'
contest for ascendancy AZ their State election IN AP
and 70 sustain lie faithful and steadfast Delegation III
Copcres. with whom YOU had voted and proiessed 70
svmuathize in favor Of excluding Slavery by positive
oc, of Congress from all the territory then about to
he obtained from Mexico. Judge, then, whether II
likely that Won told that people that, IN supporting
Mr. CLAW or Gen. Taylor, they would have to ignore
"tle W7mot ProrisO," and % kt SldreTy alone
You. Sir. were then Wing, as l was. You were
professsdly Clay Wing, as was. If hostility -
Slavery Extension were, az you now pretend, synony
nous with Abolition, then You had just placed your
self indelibly on the record as al Aboltonist II TO
support Mr. Clay for President and to sustain the poll
CIV Of Slavery Restriction were las you now pretend
pcompatible then you were one Of the individuals
who stood and stand thus Substituted. leave you
TO settle the account with yourself as you best may
certainly did not 90 to Connecticut to persuade the
peoule 10 vote for Mr. Clay the next November-they
needed no persuasion TO hat-but to urge them to
sustain the Wing ticket and cause in the Election then
pepdng. And l. most manifestly did not 90 there IN
March "a to persuade them to vote for Gen. Taylor
the next November in case he should be nominated al
PHILADELPHIA in MAY for had not yet persuaded my
,elf TO do that thing And / should never, never,
have supported either Mr. Clay Gen. Taylor in that
contest, had not been fully assured that he would
not veto any BILL resolve, proviso, which Congress
might zee fit to pass excluding Slavery from the new
Federal Territories. You may have voted for such
exclusion without meaning it, 1, certainly, did mean
it. And took in all things to act accordingly.
Ard you, Richard W. Thompson! knew me then, as
You know me now-an earnest, open determined OPP
pone1t of Slavery Extension, and advocate OF posi-
tive action by Congress TO secure the desired end
tlie il Abolition now, it was Abolition then;
if il made heretical or unsound Wing, what does
your vote above recorded make you!
But you now intimate in your letter that you changed
your ground prior to leaving Congress in ls49, and
came out against Slavery agitation Let us see'
The Wings of Connecticut triumphed in April 49,
| Gen. Taylor was nominated over Mr.. Clay IN May,
and elected in November. | was at the same time
chosen to fill vacancy in that XXXth Congress for
It's brief second session as Member Of that House OF
which you sTere so distinguished an ornament. OF
course, we both know all that generally known
about the views and opinions of Gen. Taylor, whole
election we both had supported. OF course you, at
least were prepared to cooperate in supporting and
| carrying those views into effect. Let us see:
Congress reasssmbled on the 4th of December on
the 18Th Mr.. ]. NJ. RoOT of Ohio offered the fol-
lowing:
RfoIrod That the Committee Territories be instructed 70
report this House with little delay as practicable bl or
and Cafois, and relndiag Sarey t'ee
! from.
Mr.. Roor moved the Previous Question.
Mr.. HALL Of no. moved that the resolution do lie
on the table. Negatived: Yeas co. including all Gen.
Tayors Southern supporter; Nays l07, including the
four Connecticut Wings with Greeley, Giddings, &c,
and the four Indiana Whigs-George G.. Dunn, now
here again. i Embree, c. H. Smith, and Richard w.
Thompson.
The Previous Question being sustained, the vote
was taken directly the passage of the resolution az
above cited and it adopted by the triumphant vote
Of log Yeas to go Nays-Dunn, Giddngs, Greeley
Pmbree. Caleb B. Smith, and Richard ". Thompson,
all together in the affirmative with nearly every Free
| State Wing. See Cong. Globe, vol. XXX, P. 39.l
| Mr.. ROBINSON Dem.l of Ind. moved a reconsdera-
| ton and dec. Isl got the floor and made speech
| against the resolution. When he had finished, MIR.
WENTWORTH moved that the motion to reconsider do
lie on the taJle. Carried: Yeas lO5; Nays s3-among
the Yeas, Dunn, Gddings, Greeley, Embree, {. b.
Smith. ard Richard W. Thompson aforesaid.
might track you further but il cannot be necessary.
AID although you were well understood TO be fshy
before the close of the Session, voted on the last
night Of it, with my friends aoresaid for your propo
ston with regard to the Territories coded by Mexico,
that, until the 4th of July, 1880 unless Congress
should provide for their government "he er-
listing iaps thereof shall be retained and obserred,
as expressly intended and calculated to exclude Slave
~ from those Territories With that understanding it
was adopted by the House-Yeas III, Nays lOJ-and
because of that effect your amendment rejected
by the Senate and no provision at all made at that
Session for the government of those Territories Aud
there, believe closes the record of your public life
and mine. And if You, az you now assert made a
speech at that Session leaning to the other side from
that which received your votes it attracted no atten
tion and has escaped my recollection.
Such Sir, were your votes, along with mine for the
exclusion Of Slavery by act Of Congress from the Ter
ritores acquired from Mexico. They given both
before Gen. Tsyors nomination, when you and
were Clay Wings, and after his election, when We
were If you please Taylor Whigs-or, if you prefer
| it, National Wings, in favor OF I" the union of the
Wings for the sake of the Union" never asked
how Mr. Clay or Gen. Taylor liked ny votes in favor
Slavery Restriction; / did not seek to control their
opinions that subject, nor permit them TO control
mine. All l required of them was that they would
not abuse the Veto Power 10 crush Slavery Restric-
ton by Congress; and on that point was satisfied
| would iain hope that you did not give the votes
above recorded, either before after you helped
elect President TO nulify and destroy them.
This is all care to say in reply to your long parade
Of fippant mpertinences. One Of rs i an spostate
from the principles we professed TO hold in common six
eight years ago. appeal 10 the record TO determine
whether it il YOU or l. One of then hollow and
false in his support of the views we seemed to
in: Let the record say which OF it the