Democratic banner., 1847-05-24
The Federal Nomination Of General
TAYLOR.

| HE eUer01 nomination OF General.
Taylor.
II is a bold stroke for the spoils of office,
this attempt of the Federal leaders to make
Gen. Taylor the tool Of their party pur-
poses. The Mexican party of the country
seeks to come into power on the glory ofthe
man who has bravely contributed to fight
down the Mexican armies! The men whose
traitorous tongues have, without ceasing,
denounced the soldiers battles as murder
and raPine,' now seize upon the soldier
renown as their passport to power! De-
.nouncers of their country's war while it is
yet to be Congratulations TO the cause of
their country and advocates of the cause of
its foreign foe while the battle is yet rag
ing-this herd of ofice-beggars would make
the hour Of hard won victoy, their. jubilee,
and weave for themselves a crown of party
triumph out of the ~laurels which adorn the
Victor's brow. We have already said what
we deem it necessary now to say of this
master stroke of ef%frontery, BY which fede-
ralism would claim as its peculiar represent
tative and the selected agent of its
pitiful party prescription, the victorious
leader in a war which federalism as a par
ty has not only refused to support, but has
constantly DETAINED as in its deeds a nation
al disgrace,' and in its fruits a national
calamity
But, well as we knew the utter shameless
ness of the greedy and traitorous Partisans
who have sought thus to degrade to their
'base uses the name of General Taylor,
there 'cas one height of outrage against him
to which we thought even their impudence
would not dare to climb. There was in
the country one companionship which we
thought even Federalism itself would hest
tate to force upon the soldier of the Mexi-
can war. But We were mistaken.
The 'yVhtionai Whtg,' a Federal paper
in this city, with a special view,
we understand, to the next Presidential
canvass, has actually placed upon the same
presidential ticket the name Of Zachary
Taylor, Of Louisiana, for President, and
the name IF Thomas Corwin, Of Ohio, for
Vice President! The heart of the country
will sicken with loatl ing at an insult like this
to its veteran soldier. The ~turpitude of the
proceeding is unspeakable. Corwin, the abo-
litionist, by the side of Taylor, the southern
Corwin, whose tawdry and fac
tious rhetoric grew drunk in the fury of its
denunciations Of our battles in Mexico as
murders, side by side with Taylor, whose
high renown is, that he won those battles
for his country! Corwin the Senator, so pa
triotic that he would not vote 'one dollar to
sustain the war, and would at once recall
our gallant army from beyond the Rio
Grande in ignorminious failure and disgrace,
now placed side by side on the same ticket
with Taylor, who, at the head ofhis volun-
teers, rushed forward from Saltillo to Crap
pie with Santa Anna against four-fold odds,
in the bloud-stained defles o fBuena Vista!
All that is noble, all that is manly, all that
is proud, all that is patriotic, all that is sOi-
in the character Of Gen. Taylor,
must trample with utter scorn upon the base
Of sordid and unprincipled Office
mongers to force upon him, for the meanest
ends of Partisanship, such an association
and such an alliance! And yet the attempt
odioIs as it is, will not be without its uses.
It must show General Taylor how federal
faction regards him, and what use it seeks
to make of his g~lory.-lWashington Union.
Uarnrng.-:My son. said an old tur-
baned Turk one day, taking his child BY