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Mr.Seward, who possessed the unbounded confidence of the anti-slavery men of New York, led a most earnest canvass in favor of General Taylor, and was especially successful in influencing Whigs against Van Buren. In this he was aided by the organizing skill of Thurlow Weed, and by the editorial power of Horace Greeley.
Perhaps in no other National election did three men so completely control the result. They gave the vote of New York to General Taylor, and made him President of the United States. MR.
WEBSTER'S MARSHFIELD SPEECH. At an opportune moment for the success of the Whigs, Mr.Webster decided to support General Taylor.
He thoroughly distrusted Cass, -- not in point of integrity, but of discretion and sound judgment as a statesman.
He had rebuked Cass severely in a diplomatic correspondence touching the Treaty of Washington, when he was Secretary of State and Cass minister to France.
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