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Nomination Of Gen. Taylor

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
May
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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The popular movement in tavor of Gen. Tnylor has produced difTerent eöecls on different portions of the Whig party. Tho more corrupt and conservative portion, who care little for principie of any kind, nothing for theiï country, and cvery thing for sucness, hail the movemenl witli the highest anticipntions of a glorious campaign.far exceeding in onthusiasm the Log Cabin and Hard Cider canvass of 1840. The New York Courier anti Enquirer, ediled by the notorious J. Watson Webb, approprialely heads this class of Whig papers. Many papers of that party, however, do not comrnit themselvea at once tohis nomination, but are rendy to join in the hue and cry whenever the candidatc shall prove to be tuiliciently available. A second class of Northern VVhig prpers, many of the m influential and popular, and desirous of koeping all their subscriben, aro preparing to support Gon. Taylor if he should be tlie candidate of the party. They have been known as very mach " northern rights " papers and somewhat antislavery : vet they dare noi at once take a manlv ítand, but lie to, as it were, with their sheets flnttering in ihe breeze, vvaiting for Ihe gale of popular favor lo blow thom whatsoever way it wil). The New York Tribuno, and Albany Evening Journal, and we believe the Seward papers generalij', ma y be rcckoned among this class. A tbird división comprises thoso Whig papers which have spoken out roanfully in defence of antislavery principies they have hitherto avowed, and deprécate ihe nomination of Gen. Taylor as a nol her triumph of the Slave Power over the rights of the Frce States. Foremost aniong these are the Clfivelnnd Tnie Democrat and the Boston Courier. These p.npers are well aware that the support of Gen. Taylor vvill commit the Whig party most fully to an alliance with the slaveholder-s for many years to come, and endanger iis perpeiuity at ihe Nonh. - The present is u trying time wilhthat party, tlow many years have the Northern Whigs professed to be " favorable" to antislavery views ! Yet the neminalion of Gen. Taylor is to bring the most ultra antislavery Whigs into the closest friendship and lovr The Slaveholders generalij' will of course suppoit Gen, Taylor : nnd we shall perhaps, behold John C. Calhoun and Gov. Seward laboring togethf-r lika brothers for the election of a ['lantntion flaveholder : Giddings and McDuffip, Gov. Hammond and John Davis, Sam Houston ond Charles Francis Adams, Gov. Woodbridge and Thomas Benion, Henry W. Taylor and Senator Bagby, all marching up to the polls tngether, with shouts and rejoicings, to elect this embodiment of the Slave Power to the highest seat in tbc nation ! What a spectaele wotild this bo ! Yet we may expect to sec this very cxliibition, should Tnylor be nominated. That lie will be nominated, however, is by no menns certain. Many things mny prevent. H isown refuta] : the events of the war: future victories of Gen. Scott : llie nction of the next session of Congresa : the resistance of antilavery Wliigs, mul olhor circunitnnces which niüy present tliemsêlves during 11 i o ycnr to csinr1, will 11 have their weight in deiermining ihe reult. In the mcnniimc, regarding ihis movement as deeply important lo our cause, we bhall keep our readers apprised, from week lo wiek, of every thingof impoitance that transpires in reference to t.

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