He is a Slave-holder, and has been selected because he could command votes which no Whig from the free States could receive.
"To make room for him, the trusted and faithful Champions of our cause have all been set aside.
"The Whigs of Massachusetts, by their Legislature, and in their popular assemblies, have resolved, that opposition to the extension of Slavery is a fundamental article in their political faith.

They have spoken with scorn and upbraiding of those Northern Democrats who would sacrifice the rights and interests of the Free States upon the altar of party subserviency.
"The Whigs of the Legislature have recently declared to the country, 'that if success can attend the party, only by the sacrifice of Whig principles, or some of them,' they did not mean to be thus successful; that they are determined 'to support a candidate who will not suffer us to be over- balanced by annexations of foreign territory, nor by the further extension of the institution of Slavery, which is equally repugnant to the feelings, and incompatible with the political rights of the Free States'; and that they 'believe it to be the resolute purpose of the Whig people of Massachusetts, to support these sentiments, and carry into effect the design which they manifest.' "Believing that the support of General Taylor's nomination is required by no obligations of party fidelity, and that to acquiesce in it would be the abandonment of principles which we hold most dear, treachery to the cause of Freedom, and the utter prostration of the interests of Free Labor and the Rights of Freemen: "The undersigned, Whigs of Massachusetts, call upon their fellow-citizens throughout the Commonwealth, who are opposed to the nomination of CASS and TAYLOR, to meet in Convention at Worcester, on _Wednesday,_ the 28th day of June current, to take such steps as the occasion shall demand, in support of the PRINCIPLES to which they are pledged, and to co-operate with the other Free States in a Convention for this purpose." My first political service was folding and directing these circulars.

The Convention was held, and Samuel Hoar presided.
It was addressed by men most of whom afterward became eminent in the public service.

Among them were Charles Sumner, Charles Francis Adams, Henry Wilson, E.R.Hoar, Edward L.Keyes, Charles Allen, Lewis D.Campbell, of Ohio, and Abraham Payne, of Rhode Island.

Richard H.Dana was present, but I think he did not speak.