ASHLAND, July 4, 1848.
DEAR SIR,—I comply
so far with the request contained in your note of the 23d ultimo, as to
acknowledge its receipt, and to say that, submitting to the decision of the
Philadelphia Convention, so far as I was personally affected by it, I can not
give my countenance or encouragement to the use of my name in connection with
the Presidency. Abstaining from the expression of any opinion in regard to the
nomination which was actually made, I will only observe that Ohio, Indiana, and
Massachusetts, and other Northern States, had it in their power to prevent it,
if they had chosen to unite upon one whose attachment to the Whig cause was
never doubted; but they did not think proper to do so. Ought they then to
complain of what was done, upon the ground that General Taylor is not pledged
to the support of Whig measures and principles?
I tender my thanks
to you for the friendly sentiments toward me which you were kind enough to
express, and I am, etc.
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