Litchfield enquirer., 1847-06-10
THE ENQUIRER.
LITCHFIELD. JUNE 10, l947.
Geas, Taylor Sg1sG tlbe Pres
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l various parts of The country are zealously advocating the nomination of the gallant Hero of the Rio GraAde as the Whig can didate for President of the United States at the next election. That Gen. Taylor has a strong hold upon the affections of the peo> pie of lhi country, and enjoys personal popularity which few men ever attain, are facts which cannot be controverted. But there are other and perhaps more important questions to te answered satisfactorily, bs> fore he should be placed before the country for SC high and responsible a station.
 l. What are his political principles
 This is most essential item to be taken into consideration by the great Whig party of the Union. They have been 7yler-ized onee-and experience should teach them to beware of men of unstable or doubtful polls tics. From ail the information which has reached us. we are led to the conclusion that Gen. Taylor, having been in the army for upwards of thirty years, and consequent | ly to some extent removed from the area of politics, has never been an active politician; that his predilictions are nevertheless deci> dedly Whis that he is an ardent personal and political admirer of Henry Clay that he is friend of Protective Tariff, oppos> ed to the Sub Treasury, and disapproved cf ,Ap Anne, aA; An of Texaq Efforts have beea made to prove that Gen. Taylor, while at Corpus Christi, pro> posed to the Secretary of War that the army should be removed to the banks of the Rio Grande. In order to show this, our oppo> nents have garbled and mutilated the old hero's letters in a most barharons manner.
 The extract from General Taylor's let. ter of October 4, ls45, as published in the Loco Fsco pa CTS, commences as follows ::
 T cannot doubt that the settlement will be greatly facilitated and has,ened by our taking possession at once of one or two suitable places on or quite near that riy- CT. Our strength and state of prepara- ton should be displayed in manner not to be mistaken
 By reference to document No. l96, of lst session, 29th Congress, page 94, we find the whole of this letter. The para graph thus garbled. to prove that Gen. Taylor advised an armed occu- patton. reads as fellows:
 his seitA great deference Mat make any sMggsst,ons on topics tctich may Jerome mat ter of delicate negotiation; but # our gooern- nsent, in settling the question of bomndary, makes Me Rio Gra,sde AN ULTIMATUM, cannot doubt that the settlement will be great ly facilitated and hastened by our taking pos session, at once, of one or two suitable points on or near that line,' Sc.
 All that portion of the paragraph prin> ed in italics, is omitted by the Polk papers, and, in this way, the character of the whole extract changed. It was only iu case the government had decided to make the line of the Rio Grande AN uLr1- NAHUM, In their negotiations for boundary, at Gen. Taylsr recommended it's occu- patton.
 It mus. not he forgotten that the Score tary of War, under date Of June l5, (near- ly four months prsvious,) had written to Gen. Taylor as follows:
 The point of your destination is the Western frontier of Texas, where you will select and occupy on or near the Rio Grandt such q site as will consist with the health of tho troops, and ,oin be best adaptsd to repel invasion,' &c. .
 Again, under date of July 30, tho See re,ary says:
 .The Rio Grande is claimed to be ths boundary between the two countries. and up to this boundary you are to extend your protsctioo, &c. 1t is expected that in selecting the establishment for you troops you will approach as near the boundary ine-the Rio Grande-as pru' dence will dictate. With this view tht President desires that your position. for [ part of your forces at least, should be yves of the Nuecss.'
 Again, oa August 30, the Secretary
 writes Il. .And should Mexico invade it, {Texas , you will employ all your forces te repuls' | knS IUv0d0SS uUO 0FtVe 0H xWGStCOH kTeOP beyond the Rio Grsnde
 oae .hins is positive. Gen. Taylor i ' very far from being a Polk man. This hi
 letters to Gen. Gaines and to She Newar Committee, etfsctually prove. Even if h ever had tendency that way, the scandal
 oas treatnent which he has latterly receiv ? cd from the hands of the administration
 would ere this hane worked cure.
 2. Is he capablei
 Il This question we propose to notice | E our next, together with some other intel a esslng matters relative ts General TaylC l. and the presidency.