But the nomination of General Taylor, a Southerner, one of the largest slaveholders in the country, whose laurels had been gained in the odious Mexican War, upon a platform silent upon the engrossing subject of the extension of slavery, could not be borne.
Hoar critiques the nomination of General Taylor, highlighting the tension between Southern interests and the anti-slavery stance in the North.
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When the treaty was signed, the struggle began between freedom and slavery for the control of this imperial domain.
The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
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