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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
May
Year
1847
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Public Domain
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Should Mr. Cnlhoun, his friends, and the whole body of Slaveholders, go in for the nomination of Gen. Taylor, and secure his eleclion asilie national Whig candidato, the Slaveholders, br the time being, will all belong totho Whig party. The Slave Power will find its embodimentin the Whig pariy. Though that it will triumph for Tour years. But what will become of the Democratie party? It will have lost entirely its southern wing; and 11 connection with Slaveholders, though thel.r defection to the Whigs, will have ceased. Vhat will it do? Will it continue to fawn and whine around the Slaveholders for four years Tor a restoration of iis favor and support? We greotly mistnketheintelligenceofits leaders fit would do any such Ihing. Ithasalrendy displeased and disafiected the South by its advocacy of the Wilmot Proviso. It would have the vvhole North beforo it; and a frank ar.d ful] adoption of antisloverv .principies - becoming ft party enlirely disconnecteu with Slave-holders, would enablo it to sweep the whole of the Free Stnte?, and elect its candidalc (br President. Let not tlie reader be ttartled by a suggpstion like this. Tho grear difficulty in the way of either party assuming Liberly grounds, has been the connection of both parties with Slaveholders. Let ihnl connection be severedby [either pai'ty,nnd from that moment t becomes its interest to tnke the ctrongest antislavery ground, because n that will be Is only hope of siiccess at the North. fone party appeals for help to he Southern Slave Power, jhe opposing one will fi:il it3 interest in socuring the aid of the Northern Liberty Power. - If one party becomes thriroughly proslavery, the other will become thornughly onli-slavery. If lbo Wh'gs form an alliance with the Slaveholders to elect Taylor, they leave the whole antislavery field of the North to be occupied by their adversarias. And if the Northern Democracv wero to profess antislavery at all, wli y should they stop at Wilmot Provisoes? Why not take the broad ground of using all the powers ofthe Constitution for the overthrow of Slavery, vvben by doing it, they could elect a President enlirely by Northern votes, and vet have twenty four votes in the Election College to spare. There is another considcration worthy of notice. Tho triumph of a party established on this basis would bs at tended by the exclusión of Slaveholders from office. This would follow ofcourse When the VVhigs are in power, do they uot exclude Locofocos from office1? - Ceitainly. When. Democrats nre in power, are not Federal.sts excluded ? - They are. On what ground? Because tliey are members of another opposing polilical party. This is, and nlwnys has been, considered reason eriough. W'ell, if the Slaveholders were all Whig=, and the Democrats as a Northern Antislavery party, were to come into power, the slaveholders would of cours?, according to party usngps, be excluded from national offices, during their conlinuam-e in power. Now, both parties revolt at tlie idea of excluding Slaveholders from office, but the renson is that both parties hïive adherents among them. Tnke nway that reason, and either would be willing to do it when;ver its interest might require. The Domocrats ofthe North are ninrmed at the rmnifeslations in favor of Taylors nomination. They well know he would have the elements requisita to secure very strong popular support. But they have yet no distinct conception of the manner in which it might be best withstood, and perhnps prevented. In case that event should take place, we believe that the leaders will soonget their eyes open to the true state of things, and be prepared to shift their ground in favor ofFreedom nnd Northern Rightsns suddenly as they shifted in 1844 for the Annexntion of Texas. But so thoroughly and slavishly have they boen subjpcted to the Slave Power, that so great and radical a change coiild scarcely be efFerted in season to be successfully available for the next Presidential election. These remarks are made only on the supposition that tho Slaveholders generally should support Gen. Taylur. Shouid that notbe the case, the Democrats will continue, doubtless, to bc, as a party, just as humble and ohcdient to tho Slaveholders, as mny bo nccessary to secure their support.

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