And if the new convert be as yet but half converted, so much the better.
This I confess a little tries one's patience.

But I can assure you in my own case, it will not either change my principles or my conduct.
It is utterly impossible for me to support the Buffalo nomination.
I have no confidence in Mr.Van Buren, not the slightest.
I would much rather trust General Taylor than Mr.Van Buren even on this very question of slavery, for I believe that General Taylor is an honest man and I am sure he is not so much committed on the wrong side, as I know Mr.Van Buren to have been for fifteen years.

I cannot concur even with my best friends in giving the lead in a great question to a notorious opponent to the cause.

Besides; there are other great interests of the country in which you and I hold Mr.
Van Buren to be essentially wrong, and it seems to me that in consenting to form a party under him Whigs must consent to bottom their party on one idea only, and also to adopt as the representative of that idea a head chosen on a strange emergency from among its steadiest opposers.

It gives me pain to differ from Whig friends whom I know to be as much attached to universal liberty as I am, and they cannot be more so.