Fellow Citizens
The election of a President of the United
States is at any time one of the
most serious acts that can engage
the attention of the [...]. The
direct Constitutional powers entrusted
to the President are few in number
but of enormous effect in the
practical operation of the Govt.
The Veto of Laws he may not
approve - The command in chief
of the Army & Navy of the United 
States & of the petition of the 
general states when in actual
service - the initiation of Treaty
the privileges of recommending
to Congress from time to time
such measures of Domestic Policy
as he may deem conducive of
the Public Welfare - an almost
unlimited control over the Foreign
Relations of the Govt - the appointment
of all Federal officers - holding
except in cases of [?] officers
where Congress have expressly
ordered [?] the power of
measured fines office in a

practical mind of the provenience of
the Constitution expressing their
powers upon the Executive Dept,
may but seem some of the immense
influence that can be [carried]
in the Presidential office upon
the Rights of the States. The
power of the Country - & the [Destiny]
of the Union; The Collatteral
& indirect influences to be exercised
in an office of such magnitude
must circumstantially be very large. 
May you readily percieve not only the material interests
& Domestic Prosperity of the
Country to a great extent depend
upon Executive Action, but
that
the Union Peace & Dignity of
the Country in the circle of the
world society are substantially
for the friend of four long years
in this [?]
of the President. At [?] then 
was withering at stake but a [?]
everything in the abstract to
appreciate the powers & to [?]

the duties of the office, the election of a
President for the Union must present
to the Popular mind an act of
the grievous character. But there
are peculiar circumstances
that in part are extraordinary interest
to the election now rapidly approaching.
I think I may venture to say there
has been no election since the time
of Jefferson when the great question was
decided that this Govt should be
administered in the light of a
Democratic & not Aristocratic
Construction of the Constitution, in-
volving [?] more
vital in their nature. I am aware [?]
that it has become quite the [?]
among our political opponents 
to declare that the two great Party
seems so closely approximated 
that there is nothing of im-
potance at issue between 
them. The assertion is either by 
void of truth oft is an
amending whig mistake or 
more likely another although 
amending then many which have

heretofore been made from the same
question to [] & [] lead the
People. The [] between
the two parties concerning [] of which
the [Whig] state [] Peoples -
[] questions of mere codependency
in at most of [] difference [] Constitu-
torial []. But the
questions now may seem []er than country
effect the left of the []
-ther [] [] & existence of the Nation
[]. There are these proposiations
of the last importance which the
People hear at present to
[] & decide.
1st. Shall the People of the U. States
conform the precedent [] established
in the case of Genl. Taylor
by the successive election of
military Rulers to the
Presidency.
2. Shall the Govr be administered
in the [] in spirit of
its pristine purity & Economy
or shall it be put upon the
[...] of a large & corrupt

Nerolit[] hear & mark it at I
[] to say for I speak [truth]
& that [truths] [ard] [acies] a [preguard]
Jail. The very men echo [com-]
[paired] the [Galf...] Laborist - the
very men who [] [] the
circumstances I leave related dig-
nified by Webster & Freeman's
then every man with the
friends & parasites are those
who have against the earnest
country of the better practice of
their party recently procured.
The nomination of G[...]
at Baltimore. It is for you
to decide whether you will
trust these [] & traitors
[again]. I appeal equally to Whigs
& Democrats for you have an
equal stake in the Country.
Will you suffer []
again to be led blindfold &
[] to the very verge
of the dreadful precipice [...]
which you [hear] [] [].
And if you do so again

for the American people in their
potential relations as states and
People than the American Con-
stitution. Than it must - it
might at least to be evident
to the plainest comprehension
that the best days of the Republic
have already [passed].
We [] Citizens that
we may already understand
the position we occupy. We
[] to the first propo-
sition about which I propose
to make a few remarks at
this time - it is necessary that
we look a little into the Past.
When Genl Taylor's nomination
was [...]ed in what a peni[...]
Whig called the "Slaughter []"
Convetion at Phila, the[..oint]
new in the Country [] the
principle in which it was
made with under [] []
-nance. This [...]nance was
not [confirmd] to the states []
is to the [...] of the

of the Democratic Party, but it is [...]
[...] that Mr. Clay understanding
his strong party attendants gave to
The nomination a cold & difficult
support & that Mr. Wilster per-
-nounced it to be a nomination
"not fit to be made. Well-
citizens whom [] Tyler was
nominated on [] our plank
Platform of [] military
availability - he himself
[] his eastern event
of civil gratification to the
[...] even of declaring that
he had never voted in his life,
I thought as no doubt others did,
that the Whig Party had [crowned]
the [wrong] [] I []
measures they had advocated
(fortunately without affect) with
an act still more useless &
[] than all the rest. The
object to be [efforted] by this
[unprinciples] movement was
not even plausibly maskd.
It was simply to attain []
at all [] was a

clear, unequivocal, indisputable
effort to attain possession of the
power & spoils of office at
the [] not only of the
[] of the present generation
& often most [] principles of the
Govt but of the [] [] trial 
character of the Country. The
occurrences of that day are com
-paratively recent & []
to your [] [latinces] 
to hear me not in the truth
of what I say. I here assert that
the Whigs appeald []
to the popular [] of respect
& gratitude for the [] recent
military services of Genl Taylor
-that they deliberately rejected
the claims of Mr. Clay, Mr.
Wilster, Mr. McLean and of
many others states was in
their party & that they expended
hundreds of thousands of 
dollars in a too []
effort to [] the Public
mind into [] for

the Presidency of an [] in the
regular array [without] any
[posture] of civil qualifications-
-of admittedly indifferent ability
of who had taken no [...] instead
in public affairs - either
this negligence is incapacity 
that he had never put
a ballot in the Ballot Box in
his life. [There] for the first
time in the nation's history
the atrocious doctrine was
publicly [] & publicly
advocated thro' the [] &
[] of the Union
that [] qualifications
not needed by the incumbent
of the Presidential chair.
[Citizens], [] [] no idea
more dangerous to this - there
could be no [] [] to the
foundation of the Gov't- their
[] no [] [stain] in-
flicted on the political morals
of the Country. No doubt
the Whig Party sought to

accomplish what afterwards really
did happen. To plan the [universal]
President in the hands of a Cabinet
who should administer the Govt
in his name. But did not this
Cabinet [], as the event
[proved], & as every intelligent
man must have [forever] all
Executive power not recognized
by law acting in the dark, in
fact a [] & []
[] []. And what was
this I say, citizen, but a [concept] I could
attempt to introduce into this
Govt by precedent, example &
practice, a principle [still]
more tyrannical & absurd than
these relating to [executed] [Prom-
ise] the British [].
Where the [roles]
may be unimportant short
of downright idiocy,
When the manner [] that the
"[King] can do no wrong" but
where ministers at least
are held responsible for their acts.

Yes [] Citizens, this nomination
of Genl Taylor was a fitting
climax to that [] of []
beginning with the [Alien] &
Sedetion Laws & a Bank of
the U states & ending with a
huge national Debt "as a []
[]" & the entire abrogation
of the naturalization Laws
to which there was an "awful
[]" seen few years ago,
by which the Federal Party
under its various designations
have sought to [find] [its off]
upon the Country on a [harem]
[supports] & [] Policy,
& to prevent the [differs] [can]
of Knowledge & Power []
the Rights of the People. Very
well Genl Taylor was nominated &
elected & what was the result
of the experiment? owing to the
Van Buren [depletion] in the State of New
York in 1848 He was elected by
a minority of the American

People & after a brief & disastrous period
of Public service he was unexpectedly
[] by the vasilation of [],
Citizens you remember the feeling
of []by and they [] [] [] [gehl] [Taglons] death? You
remember that altho' the []
regretted & even mourned the
loss of a brave & patriotic
soldier who had fought its
[][]  distant []
south so much success & glory
that neo[...] the [Galphian-Sewain]
Cabinet who had plundered the
Treasury & [miseeled] the Nation
in his name, were [] from
their official positions amidst the
applause of the whole Country.
Their official conduct had been
so flagrant that even a Whig 
President succeeding to power
did not dare or even wish
to retain them about his
person. If there
is any one thing on earth con-
nected with political morals
utteraly [] - if there
is one [thing] []

hostile to your pain & honest [] of
[] Govt - it is the idea of placing
incompetent men in high public
office with the expectation that
he may leave or other men in
the discharge of his duties.
If this nation does not profit
from the history of Genl Taylor's
short administration - if [the]
course of that administration
does not convince our People
of the folly & danger of appointing
Public agents who in the [faces]
of their incompetency may be
compelled, as from Genl Taylor
did to [] [] to the
[] of competent tho' ir-
-responsible & []
persons, then it will
be difficult for one Public
to appreciate the [] of expe-
rience. You recollect that
for some [] before Genl
Taylor did the unfortu-
nant [] agitation was
at its height [] recollect

that amidst all the earnest & []
-sing efforts to [] a catastrophe
that despair for the peace & [sobriety]
of the Country had willingly
[served] upon the hearts of our
[best] & wisest statesman - that
in the then unfl[...]ed state of Public
opinion the safety of the [union]
served almost to hang upon
a [] & that at this []
[] the compromise []
were devised by the []
evidence of all one leading
statesman as the only practic-
eable means of precedenting
a dreadful result? Nevertheless
the [] Cabinet &
Genl Taylor under its hideous
influence resolutely oppose
every effort at conciliation
& adjustment. On the contrary
they brought every power
they would command in the
Govt & stained every []
like [first][of]  mischief to & [predicate] the passage this
[] of these salutary &
health - giving measures

[] which the Country has since
so much [] & by which
a sentiment of [peace] & []
has been so [] []
thro' all its party. For instance
citizens - so far few []
-[]ing to adjust the [] & difficult
claim made by Texas to the []
[] purchased by the Govr []
that states, it is well [known] that
Genl Taylor under the civil
influence of his advisor had
resolved to send to the disputed
[Territory] a [baoy] of Govr []
with orders to [] out the
Texas state [] - if any 
should be found there - at
the point of the bayonet. Now
who dare not [] - who [dare]
not know that if a body
of United States Peoples had
[] into a [company] of
[matter] in any Southern
State at that time of [] [] at [] that a [] was had
become inevitable [] [belited]
at the time & I get []

between that [] to service 2 years of [] for
Sewerd & that Cabinent were one
had intended to []
[....]
Civil war in the slavery [-]
& if they could not salvage the
lost confidence of their Country
at least to return their ill-[]
[] their ill-gotten []
in the midst of the circumstances
evident to such a state of things
     [] [them] was but
one way of [] their