Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1847-08-10
Tuesday Morning, August TO- 1917.


Among the rest, the Savannah keP"ohcan says
othis reply (the Signal letter. was made 10 pe-
mocractic editor, subse quenliy TO which ne mas
,,,,eo,>d and in the mos iatierins Terms, The no.
,r;n,,on Of the JIarss OF New Jersey" Our
,eaaers will recolleci the character OF his reply
10 Inc Wing nomination from New jersey. 60
far from accepting the nomination. he virtually
rebukes the movement by saying Thai, II the
.soplc al large (,lot he Wings choose TO make
him President, he cannot decline. But, II 'hefe
werc any doubt on This point, il would be Ic-
moved by The following very laIe letter from Gen.
TAYLOR. |, will be seen that, in terms even
stronger, II possible, than The Signal letter, ne sun
refuses 10 be the candidate OF any party. liow'
with these iull and late revelations, The wing
AMI The Savannah Republican can sill contend
,b,, Cen Taylor will be ''the Wing candidate,
masses our comprehension. Their logic must be
If a new and brilliant school, i! they can make
good their proposition:
nr.pouARrERs ARMY or OCcurArloN,(
Camp near Monterey, July T. lSil.
Sir. The PROSPECTUS OF Native American
paper 10 be edited by yourself, forwarded 10 Inc
with attached remarks from You, has been duly
received.
lJpon the points alluded to in those remarks,
and 10 which members Of The Naive American
party require as>en, from those whom they favor
Tor the Presidency can only say with all can
Jo. that il elected that office II must be 10y The
Sp,ntancous ril n he people al large, and without
agency or pledge on my part IN any particular
If | ever fill tina, high office, j, must be natTa'-
aleiled icith party obligations or inJsIeSfs ~ am
KIND, and under a.onc bnttios ,cd,ch ne CoaStiin
ton and The high interests OF ale natt"a ~ large
mast seriously and sOlemnly demand.
| do mol desire the Presidency, aud only weld
thus far my assent 10 he considered candidate
in the same proportion in which II IS desired by
The people, irrcspectlre 81 party.
Your paper 1.-The number which you were kind
enough to promise-will be very acceptable;
meanwhile can only hope IL will prove useful
To the country.
Very truly and sincerely your obd't seivt,
Z.TAYLOR,
Maj Gen. U. S. Army,
Peter Sken Smith, E>q, Philadelphia, Ia.
While on this subject III Stealing" Con Tay-
lor as candidate (he Wing employs word
which most properly applies 10 The efforts Of liz own
party 10 appropriate 10 Whiggery the old hero
who openly rejects their advances,) we deem II
not amiss 10 rcfe- 10 4 remarkable article in The
n Y Tribune, leading and enc o! The abeSl
Wing papers in the Union. The editor taxes iof
his text the following passage in the letter OF a
Washing.nn correspondent, OF the ~ Y Journal
oil Commerce, "who would seem 10 be remarka-
bly, we'll posted up in regard 10 Presidential Tay.
lorism":
"So far from submitting himself 10 The arpro-
baton of any Wing Convention he iGen. lay
LORI is opposed 10 any partv Conpsnticr. Tie IS
the Anti. Contention cendiG0tc-ihe Peoples can
ddate No one who is in favor OF party ConTcn-
ton is in favor OF General Taylor as candidate.
Here follow the comments Of the Tribune,
which will be satisfied with 10 hallway explana-
lions, bnl demands prompt, frank and explicit
reply. Ii calls ~pon It's Wing associates 10 "de-
fine their positions" anu Let the Wing party
know where they stand. l, clearly AMI Justly in
dictates, that, as matters now stand, The nomins-
ton OF Gen. Taylor so lar from leading 10 Whis
triumph. would amount to nothing else than 'liis.
organization" oithe Wing party, and hatthaI par
,y and its principles wouldb scattered lot the winds
The Tribune speaks frankly, and with an ap-
pareny honest and sincere devotion 10 The pIin-
ciples of the Wing party, which it sees about 10
b. sacrificed Tor The sake OF availability" We
publish its remarks entire, as showing The drift OF
the leading minds of The Wing parry, and as
going 10 prove that The Wings have 10 serious
notion Of making General Taylor their candi-
date. As soon as The elections shall pass over.
they will drop The curtain that yelled their de-
signs, and pledge themselves 10 support no man,
unless he is endorsed by National Wing Con-
vention, aud pledges himself to carry on, The
batch OF Wing doctrines This General Taylor
will never do, and The Wing party will drop him,
wi,hou, conjunction.
Referring to the remarks of the correspondent
OF the Journal Of Commerce, above quoted, The
Tribune says:
$50 far as this manifesto assumes 10 speak for
Gen. Taylor ONLY, we have nothing to say. His
RICH, TO Judge Tor himself, and 10 &c! as his own
feelings shall dictate, is not here called in qucs-
lion. But we think those Wings rio forcr the
Taylor Increment erplaaat IN 10 tter sonc-
time brethren who do not concur with them on
that point and that this explanation cannot DC 81
ven loo promptly nor too frankly. II will not
serve 10 say tina, The Journal Of Commerce man
is i'll informed in The premises; The essential ones
ton concerns no, the extent OF his knowledge, bu;
something OF far greater moment-socd faih cor
dialily and harmony among ourselves. |. the
writer OF the above is not clearly Informed with
regard to The character and tendencies ol The Tay
lor movement, there arc q good mann Others an htS
predieamcnt, ,rio think ttcy ought mt 70 Tenatn
there We will thank, therefore, the Editors CT
Northern Wing journals who lavor The nomlna-
ton OF Gen. Taylor for President Tor explicit; an
swers 10 Inc following questions:
N, Is il your understanding and purpose that
there shall be Wing National Convention, some
time within the year ensuing, Tor the nomination
of Wing candidates for President and Vice Pre-
siden,? Will you favor or discourage The call
ing OF such Convention by the Wing members
Of the Congress soon TO assemble!
"2. Suppose Gen. Taylor should be induced or
constrained to declare himself opposed 10 the
principle OF the Wimot Proviso, would you con-
linue 10 support hun Ditto Of Protection 10
Home Industry and liberal system OF National
Improvement, of Rivers and Harbors?
"3. In case no Wing National Convention
shall be held, by what means is il 10 BE- settled and
declared that Gen. Taylor is the choce Of the
Wing pary2 What il a respectable portion OF
our friends should insist that he is net and that
supposing new candidate is 10 be taken up, he
ought TO be, must be, a Northern Statesman: what
are we 10 dol
"4. What will be the probable effect OF running
Gen. Taylor pell-mell, mah all The bands Of party
organisation rclared or rather cast 10 The w'nds,
on The growth and expansion of The Liberty Par
ty,' so caled2 And ,caere aciH the Jpaic party bc
s,ot alone IN As, but afterwards, il that parry shall
thus be enabled 10 poll 10000 votes in this State
10000 each in Ohio and Massachusetts, 10000
in Vermont, &c. &C.,
"These questions are asked in no invidious
spirit but in that mpelled by an earnes, desire 10
promote the National well being through The in.
s,rumentalily Of Wing harmony and Whig as
cendancy. Shall they in like spirit be answered."
The New York Mirror, which like The Repub.
ican of this city, repudiaes all Conventions, says
emphalically, on the contrary:
"The Tribune's call for declaration OF senti-
men.s from the Wing press is doubtless made in
alcandid spirit, and il candidly responded 10 will
show Gen. Taylor where he must look Tor support
in the coming contest. After his explici, avowal
that he will no, be the candidate OF any parry, (
and thai he will only accent OF u nomination 10