Litchfield Enquirer

The Hon. Truman Smith has just written a reply to an invitation to address a whig meeting at Syracuse, which breathes the true spirit of a patriot. We have room only for the concluding passages:

"In conclusion, I will only add, that Gen. Taylor is well known to the people of the West, Northwest and Southwest. He has spent his whole life in their midst; they are familiar with all the noble and generous attributes of his character. A multitude of them have, under his lead, rushed to the field of battle, and have fought, bled, and triumphed in the cause of his country. He has the entire confidence of the masses; and no arts of party leaders, or violence of an unscrupulous press, can prevent them from yielding a hearty support to the good man who now upholds, and will carry triumphantly forward, the glorious standard which bears our proper legend, 'The Union of the Whigs for the sake of the Union.' We can not only elect General Taylor, but we can sustain his administration when elected, and thus we can secure to the country all the substantial benefits of a Whig victory. I know there are those who are endeavoring to sow dissensions among us—men who took an active part in the enactment of the Texas iniquity; who have waded ankle deep in the blood profusely shed in a war, which, to say the least of it, was wholly unnecessary; who have gone the whole figure for wresting from Mexico her worthless territory at the point of the bayonet, only to lay the foundation for a quarrel between different sections of the Union on the question, whether it shall be slave or free; and who, after spending a whole life in profound subserviency to the South, in full enjoyment of place, power, and patronage, all at once, when they find themselves in the private station, aroused as from a profound lethargy, and exclaim, 'Where are the rights of the North?' I shall enter into no such political companionship, but shall continue to look steadfastly to the union of the sound conservative and patriotic feeling and principles of all sections of the Confederacy, as the only means of affecting whatever of good I expect for our beloved country. Let Whigs everywhere, then, rally in support of The Philadelphia nominations, with the full assurance that victory is ours if we choose to accept it. In Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore we have candidates entirely worthy of our confidence; and we of the eastern and middle States, so far from objecting to the former on the ground that he is from the South, ought on our bended knees to thank the Giver of every good for raising up a man so preeminently qualified to 'rule the hour,' and who can say to the great leviathan of modern radicalism, 'I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.'"

With sentiments of high respect, I have the honor to be, truly, your friend,

TRUMAN SMITH

Hon. Daniel Gott, Of the H. of R.