It should be preserved in a form more enduring than the leaflet, of which I possess, perhaps, the only copy in existence.
"TO THE PEOPLE OF MASSACHUSETTS.
"The Whig National Convention have nominated General Taylor for President of the United States.

In so doing they have exceeded their just authority, and have proposed a candidate whom no Northern Whig is bound to support.
"HE IS NOT A WHIG, when tried by the standard of our party organization.

He has never voted for a Whig candidate, has declared that the party must not look to him as an exponent of its principles, that he would accept the nomination of the Democratic Party, and that he would not submit his claims to the decision of the Whigs, acting through their regularly constituted Convention.
"HE IS NOT A WHIG, if judged by the opinions he entertains upon questions of public policy.

Upon the great questions of currency and Finance, of Internal Improvements, of Protection to American Industry, so far from agreeing with the Whigs, he has distinctly avowed that he has formed no opinion at all.
"HE IS NOT A WHIG, if measured by the higher standard of principle, to which the Whigs of Massachusetts and of the North have pledged themselves solemnly, deliberately, and often.

He is not opposed to the extension of Slavery over new territories, acquired, and to be acquired, by the United States.