Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1847-06-15
fErom the Richmond Times


WHAT GENERAL TAYLOR 'WOUI n
DO WITH THE Wharf.-The Cnr0n, quolins
statement of some other Democratic jiurna1
thai The MeIcans were relying upon The election
OF Wing President, in The United States, for a
favorable peace, asks
"Would il not be striking anomaly if Gen
Taylor should be the executive upon whom hi,
expectation should depend for lis tulhlment2 The
fedefalisls have made him their candidate. and
have announced their purpose in favor OF peace
by wilhdra wing our troops. But would General
Taylor swallow SO disgusting dose r.
Gen Taylor explains The anomaly very salts
facloriy, in his lale letter 10 citizen Of Louisi.
ana, in which he says:
my GREATEST, PERHAPS, ONLY WISH has BEEN
TO BRING, OR AID IN BRINGING THIS WAR TO -,
SPEEDY AND HONORABLE CLOSE"
The Baton Rouge Democrat, published in II,
town where Gen. Taylor resides, and Democrat.
ic in party afinilives as in name, undera6inpre 70,
Gently 10 clear up all difficulties about his op:1.
IONS assured the public that
"GES. L. THOUGHT THE WAR WITH MgY.f
COULD AND OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN AVOIDED"
u now We "put This and that together" il /.
sufficiently apparent, that should The war be ur.
happily proracled until the expiration Of NJ
Polk's term OF office, The policy OF Gen. Taylor
as President would be just what the Wing par
" would desire. Disappearing OF lis commence.
ment, in performing his duty Of conducting il, l..
has constantly had in view its SPEEDY aud hone
rabe close" Filled with he same sentiments
when The war shall be universally acknowledged
as it is even now by majority considered, az
inroerable nuisance, il is mol 10 be doubled ils
Gen. Taylor would earnestly endeavor ic adlu,
the unhappy controversy on terms that should l.
both honorable 10 The United States and gene,ou.
,La.r ~ nj help all
From the Philadelphia Pennsylvania
! As this is SHE other Democratic Journal al.
luded 10, and The one which asked Inc question
attributed 10 the Union, il may not be out Of place
for us 10 add few words Ia The comments Of he
Times Without going out oil The way TO le.
marx upon the extraordinary spectacle OF max.
ing hero cut OF a soldier whose lauiels have
been won in war which will abe universally
acknowledged, as il is even now BY a majority
considered an lHioicr0Je nuisance, il is clear lha
any peace that would please such journal as
The Times would be disgrace,ul AM dishonura.
Bile How, indeed, could any treaty he "honora-
bic 10 the United States" when made BY poli.
clans who teclare the war 10 be "an nulefable
nuisance" and denounce and mirepiesenl its oil.
| gin and lis objects? To make Gen. Tayler the
medium By which such policy was 10 he car.
lied through would be, in The last degree, huml.
liating 10 his noble nature
But General TAYLOR has not been as euiel as
TO the way 10 close the var, as his Federal friends
wou faller themselves. In his letter 10 Ger.
GAMES. dated last November and pub ishe,:
in The New York Express OF January last. he
ayows himself in favor Of sezins "six or seven
States or provinces" as "lhe line We will acceR
by negotiation" with Mexico Here he is al ii.
| reef issue with those who now profess 10 he his
friends The Baton Rouge Democrat, which Is
a so.caled "Whig," and not, as The Times al.
leges, Democratic paper--says that Gen. TAY-
LoR is with The administration on The Tariff
making another great cause OF difference with his
Federal friends
The ease with which The Times ccnvinces IL
sell of General TaYLoR's policy, when ne is elect
ed President, shows a disposition rather TO he
pleased with wha, may, than 10 predict what ~A
ensuei