Free Soil Banner, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1848 — Page 1

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Mr. Adams’s Letter, Accepting the Buffalo Nomination.

[correspondence.]

New York, Aug. 16, 1848. Hon. C. F. Adams, Quincy, Mass. Sir: We have the honor to inform you, that after you left the Chair of the National Free Soil Convention, lately held at Buffalo, and of which you were President, we were appointed a committee to apprise you that you had been nominated by the Convention, as its candidate for the office of Vice President of the United States, and to solicit your acceptance of such nom-

ination.

Your personal knowledge of the objects, character and proceedings of the Convention, supercedes the necessity of saying anything, in this place, upon either of these points; and we trust also, that a simple reference to the unexampled unanimity and enthusiasm with which its principles were proclaimed, and its candidates selected, will be a sufficient argument to induce you to accept the nomination you

received.

While each of the undersigned cordially unites in this sentiment, it is due to the State of Ohio, represented by one of them, that he should especially express it, since the selection of a candidate for the Vice Presidency was, in the first instance, accorded to that State; thus making you, in a peculiar sense, her nominee on the ticket proposed by the Convention to the American people. We are, Sir, with high respect and Esteem, your obedient servants, B. F. BUTLER, J. L. WHITE, S. P. CHASE, Committee of the National Free Soil Convention, held at Buffalo, New York.

At the same time it would be unjust to

accompany such a victory with any feelings of acrimony or ill-will towards the individual members of the losing side.— The slaveholding section of the Union merits our sympathy, even while the aggressive policy meets with the firmest resistance. For the time may yet come when those who now regard the declarations of the Buffalo Platform as a vindictive assault upon their dearest interests, will construe them rather to be the preservation of their highest moral and political rights. Ours is not a contest with geographically defined sections of country, nor with organized communities of men It is a struggle to sustain principles of inestimable value in every land, of general application wherever society is established.

Success with us is the synonym only of

that extension of the greatest blessings which good government can most certainly be expected to confer upon the human race. As such we hail its approach, not so much for the good it may do to us as to all those who may now regard it as portending nothing but injury to themselves.

1 am, gentlemen, with sentiments of the highest respect, your obedient servant, CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

The Bargain.

have evidence that goes

party candidate. But after the game of/' pestilence to blight the land, and thus deto show, /setting up evil spirits has been tried two /prive others who have rights equal with

themselves, of the full enjoyment of their

We

that there was a pre-existing understand- / or three times, and has failed on account ing between Gen. Taylor’s particular / of the ity of the “conscience

friends and his northern supporters, that/party"

” their scruples will be recognized, their moral tastes propitiated in the

and their moral tastes propitiated in political arrangements of both or all

ties.’

the Wilmot Proviso was to be PUT DOWN in the Convention. Would this have been done if Gen. Taylor was in favor of the

Proviso? No one will credit it. Hilliard of Alabama, a distinguished whig, was/ Rights of the South. drawn out as follows, in a debate in Con-/ gress, on the 1st inst. ! While we would very strenuously and “Cobb, of Georgia, asked the gentle-/ with great vigilance oppose the extension man, (Mr. Hilliard,) if he believed a ma- /of slavery over any portion

jority of the Philadelphia Convention

rights.—Ohio State Journal.

of

Ex-Governor

on Free

Thomas

Soil.

The following is the letter from the Hon. Francis Thomas, Ex-Governor of Maryland, to which we referred in yesterday’s paper. It will be seen that it was addressed to the Committee.of Correspondence, and of course it would have been read before the recent Convention at Union Hall, had it been received in time. Coming from such a source, at this extra- ; ordinary juncture of political affairs, it will doubtless be perused with interest by all classes of readers. We therefore place it on record, as a part of the history of the times.— The Sun.

To Hon. B. F. Butler, J. L. White, and S. P. Chase,Committee of the National Free Soil Convention, held at Buffalo,

New York.

Quincy, August 22, 1848. Gentlemen : I have just received your official letter, apprising me of the great honor done me by the Convention which you represent, in nominating me as its candidate for the office of Vice President of the United States, and also soliciting my acceptance of the nomination. In reply, permit me to say that it had been my hope and my expectation to be able to act in the present canvass as one of the humblest, but not of the least earnest and devoted servants of the great

Allegany County, Aug. 26, 1848. Gentlemen :—Your letter, dated on the 19th of this month, inviting me to be present at a Mass State Convention, at “Union Hall,” in the city of Baltimore, on Wednesday next, has been forwarded from my house in Frederick to my temporary residence in this county, where 1 have been detained for more than a month past attending to private business. From your letter I learn that the principal object of the proposed Convention will be the formation of an Electoral ticket, to be voted for by the people of Maryland, favorable to the election of Mr. Van

Buren to the Presidency.

I have not participated in the proceedings of any political meeting, large or small, since my canvass for the Chief Magistracy of Maryland closed, at a public meeting in the town of Cumberland, early

cause in which we are engaged; but since

it has pleased my fellow-laborers, and es-/ in October, eighteen hundred and fortypecially the noble representatives of the /one. I am, therefore, under no obligagreat State of Ohio, to whom in your let-/ tion. express or implied, to support or vote ter you particularly allude, to call upon / for either one of the nominees of the Name, most unexpectedly to myself, to stand /tional Conventions held by the whig and in the front ranks of the contest; since it/ democratic parties, respectively. Being is their will, unequivocally expressed, that/ free to make choice of a candidate to be

I should be a candidate for the second office in the Union, I am not the man to refuse to acknowledge the obligation, or to shrink by a moment’s hesitation, from the post not less of duty than of honor, which they assign me. I accept most cheerfully

of the nomination.

The fathers of the Republic, nurtured in the great school of Liberty, opened by the reformation, aimed to illustrate, by a practical example in America, the excellence of their cherished theory of gov-

ernment. To the general success of their

experiment, commenced in 1776, and carried forward in 1789, a lapse of more than half a century has borne witness.

voted for from the three gentlemen who have been brought before the public through the agency of others, I shall most certainly, if I live, and can attend the polls, vote for that electoral ticket which shall stand pledged to vote for Mr. Van Buren for the Presidency, and Mr. Adams

for the Vice Presidency.

Having neither leisure nor inclination, at this time, to elaborate my reasons for this determination, I shall content myself with saying, that I have great confidence in Mr. Van Buren as a tried Statesman, eminently qualified for the duties imposed by the Constitution on our Chief Magistrates : that in my opinion the whole coun-

But unfortunately, the same period has/ try owe to him much for his distinguishalso developed the existence of an adverse /ed agency in giving proud predominance influence incautiously admitted at the out-/ to those great measures of public policy, set, which has thus far done much to qual-/ to the success of which my own political ify the beneficial results which have been /life was, in a very small sphere, devoted; attained from it./ and that my preference for him, arising That which at first seemed only a de-/ from these considerations, instead of being flection from the path of justice in favor/ diminished, is increased by the pledge he of vested rights and a privileged class,/ has given, to follow in the footsteps of has, by degrees, shown itself to be so wide those illustrious patriots and philanthroa divergency, that the only choice now left/ pists who, by adopting the Federal Conto the people of the United States, is either/ stitution that clothed Congress with power to turn back or else, by going farther for- /to prohibit the African slave trade, signiward, voluntarily to abandon the princi-/ fied, distinctly, their desire to have the ples with which their fathers started. The/ further extension of slavery arrested, and alternative is clearly presented of the ex-/ who, by adopting the celebrated ordinance tension of slavery over the whole breadth of /of 1787, forbidding the introduction of the North American continent, or the main-/ slavery into all the territory then held by tenance of the fundamental doctrines of/ the United States, set an example that the Declaration of Independence. The ought to have been followed by their pos-

two things cannot exist in the United States./ terity.

Regret it as we may, we can neither evade /The opinions here indicated, I have nor refuse the issue made up for us. Not/ long entertained, and know of no reason

to accept it is equivalent in my mind to deserting a great moral, social and political truth, at a moment when every known rule of human duty would seem to demand the complete establishment of it over the minds

of a free people.

With these feelings, I have read, again and again, the Platform of Principles laid down by the Buffalo Convention, 1 hail it as the signal of return to the path of the revolutionary patriots, as the area of advance in the theory of Free Democracy. There are now but two living antagonist principles in the politics of the Untied States. The one which shelters itself under the cover of human force, and the other which draws its vitality from human reason and human sympathy. To all those who have confidence in the capacity of man for self-government, it must be a source of great satisfaction to believe that the period when the last of these principles will triumph in the United States is

rapidly approaching.

why I should not on this occasion give to them distinct utterance. Indeed, so far from feeling any wish to conceal my opinions on this subject, I know of no public question, to be decided in the approaching Presidential election, of so much moment as that particularly involved in the nominations at Buffalo, or better calculated to awaken my decided preference for the Electoral ticket you propose to have nom-

inated.

Seeing that 1 cannot attend the sittings of the Convention to be held on Monday next, 1 must be content with tendering my best wishes for success to your commendable purposes, and am, very respectfully, your fellow-citizen, FRANCIS THOMAS. Messrs. W. Gunnison, R. Gardiner, E. B. Cunningham, T. H. Stanford and J. E. Snodgrass, Committee, &c.

were opposed to the Wilmot Proviso ? “Mr. Hilliard replied [mark this] that the northern gentlemen of that body assured them, that the resolution should be put down if it was offered; and by a motion of a northern man, a member from Pennsylvania, (Mr. Brown,) when the Wilmot Proviso was brought forward it was laid on the table by an overwhelming vote. He asked if there could be a stronger expression of sentiment of that body, and of respect of southern rights than was shown on that vote? “ Mr. Cobb again asked, that there might be no equivocation, did the gentleman from Alabama believe that the majority of the Philadelphia Whig Convention were opposed to the principles of the Wilmot Proviso ? Mr. Hilliard said that, when the Convention, in the open light of day, thousands looking on, did vote to put down the Wilmot Proviso, it gave him the strongest assurance he could ask, that they would stand by the South against it.” It is plain to see what ground the true Taylor men intended to take. It is this —that the Wilmot Proviso was brought into the Convention as a test question— that being voted down, the Convention and the party are pledged against it, and that Gen. Taylor, if elected President under that nomination, would be bound to veto a bill containing the Proviso. In connection with these facts take the following. Some of our Congressmen have written home, very pathetically urging upon the Whigs, the obligation to support Gen. Taylor, on the ground that his friends had originally intended to run him as an independent candidate, but that the Whig members of Congress having induced them to go into Convention, it would be a breach of good faith not to sustain the nomination. Now, it may be very pertinently asked, who authorized the members of Congress to bargain away the party to Gen. Taylor, or to make any such arrangements as they did make?— And what inducement did they offer to the Taylor men to bring them into the arrangement? We can imagine but one, and that one, that he should certainly receive the nomination; for the Taylor men had always professed to believe, that he was as safe with an independent nomination, as he would be if nominated by either party. They would not, then, of course, yield what they considered a certainty for an uncertainty—they would not let his name go into the Convention, without an assurance amounting to a moral certainty of his nomination.— Worces-

ter Spy.

Choice of Evils. Rev. A. P. Peabody, a distinguished New England clergyman, well known by many in this city, has written a letter to a friend, in reply to the question whether a professing Christian can consistently support for the Presidency, either Cass or Taylor. Answering only for himself, he expresses himself strongly against both, and handles the common notion about choosing between evils, in the following admirable and conclusive style :—Herald.

the earth

now exempt from its blighting influence, we would carefully avoid abridging any right which belongs to any citizen of the United States. It is by a proper respect paid to the rights of others, that we most effectually secure and protect our own.— And when a difference arises between the fellow citizens of a common country, touching their respective rights, it becomes a matter of great importance to them that such rights should be clearly

defined, and well understood.

With regard to the territory which has been “acquired” by our government as the product of the war upon Mexico, there can be no doubt but that it belongs alike to all the people of the al States; and that every citizen stands upon an exact parity of right respecting it. No one citizen possessses, or can rightfully claim any privileges or immunities in relation to such territory in equal degree, to every other citizen. All this we claim for ourself, and concede to all others, as a matter of course, and about which there can be no ground

of dispute.

But our Southern countrymen claim the right to settle in the territories, and to transfer their property thither; and their slaves being their property, they have as a consequence the right to take and hold their slaves there. This, we think, is begging the question. We admit their perfect right to settle in the new territories, and to take their property there, precisely as the citizens of Ohio have that right.— And we admit their right, if they choose to take their slaves with them. But we hold that the moment their slaves set their feet upon the soil of these territories with the consent of their masters, from that moment they cease to be slaves. They are now the property of their masters, because they are made such by the laws of the States where they reside. There are no such laws in the territories; and by the help of God and the people of the United States, there never will be. Our brethren of the South complain that such restriction is an abridgement of their rights—and claim, that as a matter of right laws should be framed for those territories, constituting that property therein, which the Almighty has invested with immortallity. We recognize no such claim. On the contrary, we insist that to do so would be a manifest and vital infringement of the rights of the people of the free States of this Union—an infringement which has already been too frequently perpetrated, and too quickly acquiesced

in.

That territory is now free of the plague spot; and the people of the Southern States have all the rights there that are possessed by the people of the North. An exact equality of right prevails. To change the institutions of that country so as to authorize the introduction of slavery, would destroy their equilibrium. The citizens of the free States who might wish to go thither to reside, would very naturally wish to take with them their schools, which are found very inconvenient concomitants with a state of slavery. Being generally men of comparatively moderate means, they would wish to cultivate their small farms with their own hands; this would be exceedingly unfashionable by the side of the oppulent planter, whose fields arecultiva-

An Old Hunker Fight.—The New Hapar- ven Palladium, one of the “decency” organs, has the following in relation to Gen.

Taylor:—

They know he's a Whig, and genuine game,

Worth a dozen such men as Cass,

Who without spelling the C of his name,

Is rightly described as an Ass.

To which the New Haven Register re-

sponds :—

II this be a fact how surprising it is That he does not attract the Whig masses! Who in following Taylor, before he has brayed, Proved themselves the most verdant of Asses.

“But, I am asked, is it not your duty, /ted by labor extorted from unwilling hands, even if you approve of neither of the two/ They could not, under such circumstan-

The doctrines of the Free party are spreading like wild fire.

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candidates, to give your influence in behalf of the one whom you least disapprove ? In reply, I grant that it is not my duty always to insist on the best men and measures, and to withhold the vote from the better, when I cannot have my best. But the case is different, when, in whichever way I vote, 1 must recognize some false or vicious principle. This 1 conceive to be the case in the present crisis. Cass and Taylor are both the declared and the as-good-as-pledged representatives of the policy of slavery extension and pro-slavery action; and if they represent aught else, it is the war spirit in the most truculent and revolting as-

pects.

“Time and again, conscientious Christian men have been asked to give their votes for candidates whom they could not approve, on the ground that the only alternative was the election of such men or worse. Now the responsibility for the occurrence of the greater of two evils rests with those who offer to the public only a choice of evils. So long as conscientious men will vote without hesitation for the candidates of their respective parties, moral distinctions and moral principles will remain unrecognized in the nomination of these parties. But let any considerable number of men avow their dissent from their respective parties on moral grounds, their consciences will command and receive respect in future nominations. If Moloch and Belial be the two rival candidates, even though Moloch be the least foul spirit of the two, let good men stay away from the polls, or cast scattering votes for Gabriel. The result may be that Moloch will lose his election, and Belial be chosen. If so, Moloch’s party will profess to lay all the blame on the good men, who would not go for the

ces, maintain any sort of parity with the man who habitually lives and thrives by the vicarious toil and smart of others than himself. They are assigned a position in social rank, approximating far nearer the servile property of their neighbor, than that of his neighbor himself. In a political view he is degraded to a most humiliating standard, by the fact that five of his neibhbor’s chattels tell as much at an election as himself and two of his peers. Is it reasonable—is it right—that men, schooled in the lessons of freedom, should be asked to submit to such degradation ? But what wrong, pray is inflicted upon the people of the South, by refraining to pass a special act for their benefit? What warrant have they for demanding that the institutions of these newly acquired territories shall be radically changed, to adapt them to the peculiarities of the South?— If they are so wedded to these peculiarities that they cannot live apart from them, let them content themselves to remain where the sad peculiarities are tolerated. The very fact that slavery begets a sort of dependence in those who are subject to its influence, is itself an argument against its extension. Men accustomed to selfdependence, loathe the contact. They would no more embrace an institution, the effect of which they are well apprised would be to deprive them of their self-de-pendence, than a man of temperate habits would deliberately cultivate a taste for in-

ebriety.

The people of the South have the undoubted right to settle in the newly acquired territory — and when so settled there, they have a right to all the privileges which belong to any other people there. They may take their property there, and enjoy it as other people may. But they may not take with them a moral

Information Wanted.—Any information concerning one Lew Cass, an unfortunate gentleman, supposed to be in an unhappy state of mind, will be thankfully received by his anxious friends. In 1840 the Whig party was buried in the meshes into which it involuntary plunged. Tyler, whose principles were not known, was elected by the Whigs to betray them. But it seems that this party is determined not to profit by experience ; for they are advocating the election of a man who insists that he is not a party candidate, and whose principles are less known to the country than were those of Tyler. This was like the man in the ditty that got his eyes scratched out in the briar bush, and took the same means to scratch them in again—thus:— “There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise, He jumped into a briar bush. And scratched out both his eyes, And when he saw his eyes were out, With all his might and main, He jumped into the briar bush, To scratch them in again.”—Cin. Sig. Freemen Arouse! The Fires nre

Raging.

Friends of Free Soil! Let your hearts rejoice at the rapid progress of your principles. Gloriously are they advancing.— Throughout the whole length and breadth of the North, thousands are daily enlisting under the banner of Free Soil, and buckling on their armor to do battle for their country and their God. The great principles of human liberty are sweeping through the land like a raging wild fire, demolishing in their triumphant march every subterfuge of the Northern recreants, and exposing them to the scorching rebuke of an uprising people, determined to maintain their rights. Like the Crusade of the Eleventh century, which in its enthusiasm loosened all Europe from its foundations, and hurled it upon Asia, so this crusade against the extension of the accursed system of human slavery is arousing the whole North in its strength, to the defence of the sacred principles of freedom, and causing every patriotic heart to vibrate in unison with the call of Liberty, and every breast to swell with indignation at the attempt made to blight the virgin soil of the far west with the curse of human bondage. The energetic and talented young men of the Free States, born and nourished in freedom, are flocking in crowds to the standard of Free Soil and Free Labor—are rallying under its broad banner and raising their voices against the violation of man’s dearest rights. Intelligence from all parts of the North shows how the cause of freedom is bearing down every thing opposed to it.— Roll on the Ball, and let the whole North speak in one voice for freedom at the ballot box next November. Fear not, your cause is just—it must triumph.— Era. Wlaat they Think. The following is from the Charleston Mercury, and shows how the wind blows : “Our readers will perceive by the intelligence from Washington, that the South has been vanquished. The Wilmot Proviso is incorporated in the Oregon bill, and the poor protection of the Missouri Compromise has been denied by both houses. In the House it was voted down by 121 to 82, every Representative from the North, with the exception of four voting against it. In the Senate the action of the House in rejecting the Missouri Compromise was concurred in by a vote of 29 to 25—every Northern Senator voting with the majority, while Benton of Missouri, Houston of Texas, Spruance of Delaware, played trai tors to the interest of the States they represented. The contumely and insult are complete. There is nothing to be added except the submission of the South to the attempted degredation. The Southern States, by the joint vote of the Senate and House of Representatives—the unanimous vote of the Northern members, comprising a numerical majority in one House, and the addition of three Southern Senators to the Northern in the other—are pronounced inferiors in the Confederacy. There is no protection in party. Whig and Democrat are alike trustless when the issue is made between the North and the South, and the compromises of the Constitution, and the Missouri Compromise, are spurned alike by Whig and Democrat.

The Wind Changed.—No intelligent observer of the signs of the times, it seems to us, can have failed to remark the change which has so recently taken place in the political atmosphere. For years the prevailing wind has blown from the Southblasting with its hot sirocco breath every thing lovely and dear to the hearts of freemen. The celebrated Professor Espy— nicknamed ‘the Storm King’—maintained with a goodly show of logic that by kindling fires in certain places, he could produce a change of the wind, or beautiful showers, whenever human convenience or necessity rendered it desirable. The experiments of the New York ‘Barnburners’ have thus far verified the Professor’s theory. The fires they have lighted up on the old watch towers of liberty, in the Empire State, are producing even greater phenomena in the political sky than the potent ‘storm king' in the height of his philosophy ever dreamed of. They have almost complely rectified the course of the wind.'Straws show which way the wind blows,’ says the old proverb, and we have watched them, for the past few weeks, with a degree of interest we never felt before. We cannot be mistaken. They all tell the same story. The wind has shifted! It now blows a stiff, cool breeze from the northwest, and from one end of the continent to the other the people are inhaling new life. They breathe freer and deeper —more quick—stand stronger! The Star Spangled Banner floats more cheerily — and flings out once more its glorious constellation, every star glittering with hope for the oppressed ! We tell the people the wind has changed. Let them look to the weathercocks!—Standard. Hon. J. M. Root.—The Old Hunkers of this gentleman’s district appearing disposed to make adherence to Taylor a test of whiggery, Mr. Root, in a letter, thus explicitly defines his position: “So far as I am concerned, I am ready to do all in my power to relieve all embarrassment that my position occasions them. I can neither vote for Taylor nor Cass; and I feel well assured that if the whigs of our district knew as well as I do what kind of motives and instrumentalities produced the nomination of the former by the Philadelphia Convention, not a score of them would vote for him; but I have no quarrel with any of them. “ It is not for me to say whether I am to be re-nominated or re-elected, nor by whom it shall be done, if done at all. I have neither changed or abandoned any part of the old Whig creed; but I adhere to it, and shall. If a majority of the electors in the district desire me to represent them in Congress, I shall not object; but if they desire another to represent them they can elect him. “ I am for Free Men and Free Land, and hold myself in readiness to defend them whenever they may be assailed. If I shall only by the action of the political parties of our district, be relieved from the duties of a candidate, I may find time to address my fellow citizens on the state of the nation.”

From the N. Y. Evening Post. Freedom vs. Slavery. Martin Van Buren.—I am in favor of prohibiting by law the introduction of slavery into territory now free. Lewis Cass—I will veto any law prohibiting slavery in territories now free. Gen. Taylor—1 say nothing on that subject, I keeps mum. The Yankees guess I’m for freedom. The slaveholders rekon I’m for Slavery ; but as I have myself only 300 slaves, I let them rekon and guess. The People—We no go General, you must show your colors. anti-smoke.

Liberty.—The right to carry Slavery into free territory. Equality.—The three-fifths Slave representation. Fraternity.—Two Hunkers of the old parties damning the Bolters. A Spectacle to laugh at.—A Cass man and a Taylor man, whose faces as so covered with unbaked bread that they cannot stir a muscle, trying to call each other dough face. Stupidity.—Asking Gen. Taylor for an opinion on politics.—Akron Platform.

The Taylorites, who cast off' all their principles at Philadelphia, are complaining that the Free Soil men have stolen all the first rate “Whig” principles, and adopted them in their platform. A similar achievement was performed in olden times by Prince Voltiger’s grandsire — for we read that— “A painted vest Prince Valtiger had on Which from a naked Pick his grandsire won.”—Boston Republican.

Save me from my friends.—If any one ever had reason to fear his friends more than the crowned heads of Europe do Gen Cass, it is poor misrepresented Gen. Taylor. The Whigs insist upon running him for the Presidency, and he insists that he is not the “candidate of the party;” the Whigs insist that “he is pledged,” as the Indiana State Journal says, “not to interpose the veto on this question” of slavery extension, when he declares he is not pledged ; the Whigs insist that he is a Free Soil man, while the old General tells his brazen foul libelers to look at his own soil -that which he owns, and see for themselves, that it is not Free Soil. It can’t be that he reads the papers, or he would take a military turn on these friends.—Cin. Signal. An Exquisite Bull—A Mr. Pollard, one of the Baltimore Reformed Drunkards, recently in a speech before a temperance assemblage, made the following unique bull: “Fathers,” exclaimed he with the most ardent enthusiasm, “you have children; or if you have not, your daugh-

ters may have.”

John Van Buren, it is said, was offered a foreign mission if he would cease his oppositiou to Cass. He replied that he prefered the home missionary service.