Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1847-07-13
Tuesday Morning, July 10. lsi7.
TurIrTTEps ONCE MORE

miserable, mean, lying leiloW. WHO Mo'ia s's 81
your purse, OF stab you IN lhe pach u "n oppo.'
tunity only Offered OF uoins e''Hei "i"o"' es''e
/ ton.
1--WE close for the present with The declaration
thai IRE S7eac CEN Taylor 10 he a Hhag 81 IN
strictea sect, and hence our prompt remuneration
Of This forgery. by which il is sought 10 nure The
fair fame of the old hero. In the mean time We
call upon every Wing paper in The Union 70 ie e
publish This article, and 10 assist IN arass,ns -
The light the perpetrators oil Tins wicked anu O"'''
able fraud"
The Cincinnati Enquirer, however, settles Inc
poin, by the following lsc;s:
awe have the original leller before us, ~ !he
hand writing as are assured OF MAJOR Dii1S,
with the bold signature oil The Ole Genera attain
ed. which we have compared with Tie one ap-
pended 10 The letter furnished Mr. Atwood, .he
painter,-and il one is genuine, both are So bul
beyond this, we have The statement oil uis'i'i-
euished officer direct from Monterey that he was
present when the letter was written, and was re-
ouested by Gen. Taylor himself 10 say TO the ed
iior of The Signal lest he should consider II PHI
vate letter, thatn ,eas intended for gaD''eaf'0"'
1.-THE Wing thought that il was not intended
for the public eyel
A Cincinnati correspondent oil The W. Union
confirms this statement
ne ~. i "Hici hisN t~I
the Hag of Gen. Taylor, says that The Signal lei
Ter was exactly what il ought 10 be, and that had
Gen. II. written different letter, il would sllihe
lis flag. We Yesterday published another letter
of The old hero (from The Troy Posl,) breathing
the same sentiments. THIS the n. 7. Mirror
sliemalizes as "hoax" in such insulting lam
guage as the following:
"The Troy Post pubisheda letter purporling TO
have been written by General Taylor, which IS,
in all respects, so utterly dissimilar 10 any of his
authentic dispatches, That we strongly suspect mat
IL is hoax. III General Taylor wrote ii, we can
only say, with regret that he has lcritfe's h,mseU
on.--wlich we do ncl believe. or that his friends
have done what his enemies have never been atle
10 do.-vanouished him. We sincerely ply The
old hero,-boheIed To death as he must be, by let
Ier.wrners; harassed and annoyed as NJ 49, u nc
should chance 10 forget himself, and write hum
drum letter between sleeping-and-w waking, We
should not think The worse Of him Tor II but he rs
not The man 10 be caught III that way.
"For the benei, OF idle fellows who wish to
amuse themselves by writing letters from Gen.
Taylor, we publish the following genuine letter.
that they may he able 10 get up rather better I'M
ilations than very many that have been circulate
ing through The newspapers.
[Here follows The letter declining The nomina-
ton by The Native American Association, alTea-
dy published by us.
The Baltimore Patriot, another Taylor organ,
quotes the positions Of his "boax" letter as 'lden-
tcal with those taken by Gen. Washington. and
as needing no other sanction Than that oil The
"Faher Of his county," 10 yndcate lis propTlely.
Most harmonious ana consisen, critics and
commentators! One says that, 1.-THE letter he &C.
mime the old man has "wliiten himself our;
another lha, il brealnes The sentiments o.
Washington. From such protesting friends Gen.
TAYLOR NAV we'll ask TO be delivered. They have
dragged his honorrd name into The dusty arena
.nch nioys3 70 rbG e. an Mh nsu' his letters
We quote here lew o. The choice sayings OF
Wing papers upon the Signal letter, showing
how lille real laid and comfort" they extend 10
the brave old General. The Boston Atlas SAYS
mWhal will those papers say 10 this, which al
vocare lis claim 10 he The Wing candidate sub
,scr IN the decision al The Wing National Con-
yenton2 General Taylor says he will mol Per.
nit himself 10 lie 4 candidate Tor the nomination
at any Paly Convention, and we are to under
stand by the tern, party schemes, maj ne WIZ
no, Weld himself 10 any PARTY MEASURES. What
claims, then has General Taylor la The vo!es oi
Wings, as Whis>2 No man can have The yoi's
OF The Wings for President Of The United STATES,
unless he BE- lirm unfinching advocate Of their
principles. The whole interest and Importance
Of The next Presidential election grows out ol The
present stale OF affairs in this Country"
Hear also the Wing Boston Courier, endorsing
The Boston Atlas:
The concluding paragraph OF the article IN The
Atlas gently rebukes General Taylors 3o-parfy
ism, after the following fashion,
ga great deal is said about party men aud no.
party men. For our part, We like parry men,
As we define The lelms il means men whose poll
tical action is regulated by certain fixed rrincl-
pies, and who adhere 10 those principles with the
same infeyibili,y that they do TO any principle oi
religion or morals. A tue party man. therefore,
is sincere in what he says and does. BY The sue
cess of his party he believes that lasting benefits
are TO accrue 10 his country and to the whoe peo-
pie He cannot abondon his party, because ne
cannot give up his principles. a no-Paity man
is term viii h has no meaning. II is m'sno-
lner-a deception. We never knew man out
Of bedlam that was not, in some sense, parry
man. Even no-partyism is railizan. Indeed,
The strongest parlizaus We ever knew were men
,eio protested 10 hare no,hag 10 do lrh politics"
II General Taylor wishes 10 be President, he
had best say which party he belongs 10, 'raiont
ann TttrihcT hOUScHSt9t tcOtt dpous ueIHS VIC VAN
ddate of no.rarty.
The Hamilton (O) News, Wing, declares that
the Wings are chargeable with ''moral desiitu-
ton" il they support such man as Gen. Tay-
lor, "merely because he smells OF blood and gun
powder" at is time says The Editor tor The
Wings 10 cease riaing; md call some man 10 ouI
lead who is a Wing, and 'chO is '7i'hng 10. b cali
ed a Wig"
The Lebanon CO., Wing Star sneers al Gen
Taylor as having 'no opinions for the public
eye" and as "wishing 10 be elected President "a
hua," and, The Editor says, Gin this he'll lind him
self mistaken"
But we have quoted enough to show that Gen
Taylor's worst enemies are in the Wing ranks
and that cannot have much sympathy for sucl
party. His late letters have thrown that parry
into the widest confusion. and, like MIR. Webster
the leaders ask, "Hheye shall go z"
We arc mol surprised to see the Whis denonnce