Democratic banner., 1847-06-21
SANTA Annals ADMISSION.

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all shapes, and made to answer all argu.
1t is a little like tile story told of
an itinerant Snowman who once had a wax
figure made to represent Baron Trenck, the
Prussian prisoner. After the
curiosity had subsidized, the Baron
was made to figure respectively as Bolivar,
Lafayette, Jackson, and finally as Santa An
Doubtless the efigy will shortly be
transformed into "a perfect likeness Of
General TAYLOR. But this expedient in
hands Of the Gazette may be carried
too far. There are, for instance, many pur-
poses which it WiH not answer-many sins
of omission and commission which it wiH
not disprove.
For instance, it does not disprove the
FACT that every Federal Governor in the
Union has denounced the war, ridiculedth
cause which led to it, and exaggerated the
expenditures necessary to carry it on, and
the dangers incident to it.
Il does not disprove the fact hat all the
leading federalists Of the c~ountry-with a
few honorable exceptions-have concurred
in a policy which opposed the war, and by
their Industrious and malignant party man
Guvres, interrupted its prosecution.
1t does not, because it cannot. deny that
the United States Gazette denounced Gen.
Taylor and his men as "INvApERs"-that
it endorsed the calumny which applauded
the Mexican murderers-and thatit calum-
mated the conduct of its present candidate
for President, Oh the occasion Of the Ca
pitulation at Monterey, as "impotent and
unsaGsfdctory;'' as worthy Of "censure,"
and as wholly d~isreputable and disgraceful,
or terms as strong ss these.
1t does not disprove the fact that the Fed
eIal legislature Of Massachusetts, refused
to subscribe funds to the support of the
Massachusetts volunteers--that it refused
to compliment General Taylor-and that it
closed its session with insults equally to
the country and her soldiers, and with COM
mendations of the common foe.
1t does not disprove the fact that the Fed
eIal!egislature Of our wi State refused to
aid our volunteers, although urged by the
Governor SO to do. and perfectly conscious
that any such advance would be repaired
by the General Government.
1t does not disprove the fact that the on.
ly persons in Congress who refused to vote
supplies to General Taylor, at the time he
and his army were supposed to be surround.
ed by masses of the enemy, were leader:
Of the Federal party.
1t does not disprove that one of these
leaders, MIR. Webster, proposed to impeacl
the President, OIL account of the war, and
that another Of these leaders, Mr.. Corwin,
advised the Mexicans "to welcome" Gen
Taylor and his troops "with bloody hands
and a hospitable grave"
1t does not disprove the fact stated in
highly respectable neutral papers in New
Orleans, and contained in letters from the
Mexican capital, that the speeches of Fed
'eral members and the articles from FEEDER.
al newspapers-6rst among which were
doubtless, the scandalous attacks against
the war, of the Gazette-wsre copied into
the Mexican papers with unbounded ap'
proval.
1t does not disprove the fact that wher
the Wings with the liberal, noble, ST. aight.
forward course of the great Democratic
party. We know no distinction among the
States in the Union; we scorn to designate
one section as free, and the other az SzaOe
States. We never stopped to ask whethe,
Washington, Jefferson or Jackson owned
slaves. We reposed confidence in their pa.
triotism, their integrity, their worth and
talents. They all owned slaves, and tool
care Of them as they did of their children:
and were these men not an honor to the
world as well as to their own country? As
we expected when we first saw the name
of General Taylor brought forward as
candidate, a storm will soon rage in the
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