Slaveholders For Presidents

"Bul il issañi, f, in the coming Presidentinl e'emion, we are delermineJ not to have a slnveholder, orone who sympathiïts wiih the 'peculiar instiuition,' for a carvdidne, we assume a posiiion at oivc novel and dnngerous. Nuvp), because il1 tbre Presidente, f rom Washington to the present time, wiih but two, or ot most, three exceplions, have been slaveholders ; end dangerous, because f will be j lent to disnnion ; Tor the south will never submit to an ekction conducted on sucli a principie. A writer in this poper, with the signature of 'New York Correspondent,' is the author of this most wondeiful nrray of argument against any opposition to General Tnylor, on the ground of Slavery. We havo no desire to enter inio any controversy wi:h him,but as he stands as a representntive of a class amongst us, that liold to similar notioiis, and them we would seeli, f possible, influence. "Ii is tiue that our Presidenta hV noarly all been nunured in the school of Slavery. H was to the compromisihg disoosition of the freeStatea, the willingness of the Norlh to foregothe powtowriotl of office, and i's atiendant honor, :o subtnit to some privation, and to waitn gradual enlighteninent of public opinión that should cause the slave system to be abolished, iha; sucli men were permittcd to exercisethe functions of tlie government. Some of thetn were anxious to remove the system Trom among us, and publicly deprecated its continnance. But in the progress of the nation, a different class of men have come before the country ; - men possessing no enlarged view of the destiny of this people, having no exalted nmbition for its honorable rank in the history of the WÓrW, caring noihing for the protperity of all paris of ilie land : bu1. narrow, bigtted politicians, to whomself agg'-andizement is the great ambitiol), and in whe eyes the section of territory, which they inhábil, is the only portion to be cultured, and investfd with privileges. In their eslimation, they are the country and the people, having a right to assume the whole power of the governmenl, and nppropiinte all its resources. "Under such circumstances, our relation to slavery and slaveholdcrs isentirely e'innged ; nnd though it be novel that any should oppose the nornination of a slaveholder to the Chief Magistracy, wc do it unqualifiedly, because of the very fact that he issuch, and conssquently.by whatever other name he may be called, whether Whigor Dt-mocrnt, we denounce his nomination as nol only unwise, but an insult to the free States, nnd the age in which we live. We are ihorotighly prepared to have the Unes distincily and unequivocally drawn in the coming conlest, between the Notth nnd the South ; to have Fi-eedum and Slavery arrayed for once, openly in the field, ngainst each other. We are in favor of no more compromises ; if Southern Whig refuie tó uniie with the Whigs of the free State-,in elevatin a non-slaveholder to the offire of President, we are prepared to stand nlotie, and enter inlo the con'est wilhout them. The free Slaes can elect a President from among themselves if they chooseto do so ; ihere is no necessity for asking a single vote from beyond their own borders. We believe the tirr.e is come when the north should insist upon its rights, and upon the rights of humanity, nnd no longer bow the knee to southern dictalion, even to save the Whi2 party from ruin. If that party has not principie enough ;o come off successful in such a contestas we hrvve indioated, let it be dissulved; let tti leaders go into retirement - they ore not for this age, it does not need their services."