The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-11-11

SIN; Accompanying | send the proceedings of a
meeting OF the Democratic Republican Electors of
the City of New York held In the Park on the 18th
June last, for the purpose OF nominating you us a
candidate for the Presidency.
If the spirit Of the resolutions meets your approval
please signify the same.
am very respectfully your 1se an servant
Major Gen. ZACHARY TAyLon.
HEADaUARTERs Amy OF OCCUPATIONS,
Camp near Monterey, Sept %, l647. !
SIN have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter Of July 10Th enclosing me the pro-
ceedlngs OF meeting held by the Democratic Repub-
lican Electors Of New York CITY, for the purpose OF
nominating me for the Presidency.
In return most respectfully and cordially tender
to the citizens composing the meeting my deep obi
CATIONS for the high honor conferred upon me in the
resolutions they have adopted.
In regard to the Specification of my approval of the
spirit Of the resolutions have respectfully to say
that, agreeably to the spirit and intention of the
course which have thought 1t advisable to adopt
do not feel myself at liberty to express any sentiments
having the nature OF pledge to any political party
have the honor TO remain with high respect,
your most obedient servant,
Major General U. s. Army.
VIM. G. Woop Esq, President, &c.
The above remarkable correspondence
serves, more than any thing which has yet
occurred, to place General Taylor in his
true position before the country
From the hour that the popular heart be-
gan to beat in his favor for the Presidency,
he has been beset by that despicable band
of politicians, known to the country, as Of
flee Seekers. They have ladened him with
impairment correspondence, have set traps to
betray him into expressions favorable to their
views and have annoyed him in a thousand
ways, and on every possible occasion.
Thanks to his sterling good sense, he has
never suffered himself to be made prey to
their ignoble designs, but has steadily re-
fused to become party to their aspirations.
On no occasion has the rebuke been so sig
nal as it is in the present correspondence.
So whitening has it been, that the New York
Mirror informs us,-it had the immediate
effect of dlssolving the Club. Happy result
But happier results still await this wise deter
mination of the old Hero Not an office
seeking association in the land will be able
to stand before his patriotic breath. Every
one will disappear in good time.
What did this New York Club desire
They desired that the old Hero should accept
their nomination of him for the Presidency
knowing that if he did, they would have
claim upon him, in the distribution Of the
public patronage, in case of his success.
They wanted to draw from him response
favorable to their partisan resolutions, and
they designed to regard it and hold it up as
a pledge on his part to remember them as
his partisans when the time came to select
the officers Of the Republic under his Admi-
nistration. They cared nothing about the
old HERDS views upon political measures. II
was his views as to political men that they
sought for with so much eagerness. They
thought to fatter his pride into betrayal Of
his judgment. But they, as well as all others,
have erred. The old soldier will make pledges
to no political party, by which he can be
controlled in the Executive appointments to
Office, if he is made President. This is the
obvious meaning of all his letters reiterating
this statement. Delicacy forbade his COM
ing to the point more plainly. =
And we would here make remark, which
will not be gainsayed by any one. 1t is this.
The Wings, in their correspondence with
Gen. Taylor have never asked him to pledge
himself to their party as party candidate
surely in no correspondence that has vet ap-
peared from them. But it is the Democrats
who have had the impertinence to make this
request, and invariably he has refused to ac-
cede to it in as delicate terms as he could do
so. This remarkable difference between the
course of the two parties is characteristic Of
their true dispositions. The Wings, as a par
ty, care not for office, but the Democrats, as
party, do care for it. Gen. Taylor, like
Gen. Washington, refuses to be bound by
the office-seekers in the disposition of the
public patronage. In this he is right. The
Wings know him to be Wing upon public
measures, and they are satisfied. They do
not desire to see the President the tool Of
partisans, but would leave him free to act in
all matters of administering the laws accord
ing to an upright Judgment The Demo-
Gratis, on the other hand, desire the very re-
verse.
In saying that the Democrats desire this
state of things, we mean not to impute to the
honest body OF Democratic voters such SEN
tments. Our remarks apply to the leaders
and wire-workers of the party. Nine-tenths
of the Democrats of the country will APP
plaud Gen. Taylor's sentiments, and when
the time comes for them to record their votes
they will one and all give them to the honest
old soldier Of Buena Vista. The sequel will
show whether we overestimate his hold up-
on the popular affection. That the Office
seekers will for time make show of re-
sistance to him, is to be expected, but they
will not long stand out They will soon
mingle with the masses, and they will still
be known by the loudness of their vocifera-
tons in behalf of the old man whom they
could not seduce into their unholy measures.
SPECIE -GoINo.-The French
packet of yesterday took $4,000 from N
Y The New World has $lOO oOo on