Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-10-12
JOLIET SIGNAL.
10 LET I'LL.
TUESDAY. OCTOBER h, 1s45.
Gen. TAYLOR and the Presidency.
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Tor at the head of their papers as a candi-
date for the Presidency, still it is plainly
to be seen that their first choice for that
high Office is Henry Clay. In thus at.
tempting to rally under the name of the
old Hero, they expect the principles Of
their party-those principles which have
ever been repudiated by ''second sober
thought" of the people of this Union.-will
be yelled. SO that they may by some lucky
circumstance obtain the control ofthe Re.
public. 1t is the object of the party. by
pretending TO support the name ofthis dis.
tinguished patriot, to acquire a name for
patriotism and nislead the nation as res.
poets their true designs. These senti.
ments need no proof, as the articles in
nearly all the Wing papers will plainly
show All join in opposition to the war;
AID the administration is denounced as
"blood-thirsty aud corrupt" but at the
same time they profess to support one who
"won his laurels" in this ''unjust and
damnable war.
Gen. TaylOr's determination to 20 into
the presidential chair ''untrammeled and
unpledged' to any party. is hardly confor-
mable with the views of the wing party.
They begin to anticipate that he will he
too "Rough and Ready" to answer their
purposes. Gen. Taylor's declaration that
he had not ye: formed has opinion as res
poets the creeds of the two parties, place
those wing journals who so eagerly adj
vOcated his claims in rather a singular
dilemma. They begin to fear that they
cannot turn the old soldier ''into a whole
rhig and nothing but a whig," as easily as
they at first anticipated. They now think
that they have gained sufficient strength
under the cloak of the old General, hence
their assuming grounds for tenant of the
White House, upon whom they can rely,
and who is tried party lnan. MIR. Clay
is the first choice Of the wing party and
ever has been, and ifthey think that they
can elect him, he will doubtless be the
nominee Of their National Convention
ifnot, it will be Gen. Taylor or some body
else. This is conclusively shown by the
manner in which the wing leaders have
urged General Taylor upon their party.
We now have it from high wing authority
that the Taylor movement in the wing
party has answered their ends land they,
doubtless, will not support any "no party
man."
But should the whig party conclude to
run Gen Taylor as their dernier resort
for the Presidency, we predict that no
democrat will abandon the ancient plat.
form Of his party and unite with his oppo.
nents in electing 'no party candidate"
Let Gen. Taylor make frank declara-
ton of his political principles. Such
declaration is due to himself and country,
and no man who loves his principles and
country will vote for him unless the meas.
ures be is in favor of is known.
The democratic party have men who
have been tried and fourd true, and whose
principles Of democracy have long been
known by our nation. Will they support
any one for the highest office in the gift
of a free people unless he is opposed to a
national bank, protective tariff. and all
the attendant measures of the wing party?
They UiH not The benign effects Of a
democratic administration are too visible
to DE mistaken. The prophecies of ruin
and ''disaster" which sounded throughout
our country on the repeal of the tariff of
'42 have failed, and the currency of the
country and all its affairs (even in the
midst of war; is in highly promising
condition. The people. if they view the
matter rightly, will not desire any change.
Let all sectional feeling in the democratic
party cease, and the tranquility of the
Union and the good of the party be the
motto.
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of every farmar in tho WaSs I,.oo