Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-06-03
The Man Of Principle, and the Prin-
chile of Man.


attached to the federal party both exemplary in
their department, and Christians by profession but
one is an Ofhce-holder, and The other is
versation ensued.
0tfee-holder.-Well, John the political campaign
is opening with fine prospects for We shall
thrash the locos awfully next election!
JohH.-That is capital news; but how are we to
do il!
OGce-holder.-Why, with Gen. Taylor for our
candidate, we overwLelm them. As Judge Day
ton said, sink their ship deep that not
bubble will rise 10 tell the story Of their wreck
.JOhn-Well, L like the wrecking part of your
prophecy very well but | must confess have some
spprehensOns that the rock will be disastrous
our opponents. What are the political
opinions of Gen. Taylor.
Ofce-holder.-Oh, he's an out-and-out whg; goes
all the whig measures entire voted or meant TO vote
for Clay at the last election; and every inch with
.John-Who tells you SOL
ODice-hoder.-I it in at least dozen wing
papers.
,John.-Any authority given for it-or was it mere
ly the opinion Of the editors!
Ofce-h0lder.-The opinion of one or more of the
editors, believe; they had copied from each other
pretty much
.John.-That's no authority. Has any respectable
said or written, that of his knowledge, lac
knows General Tay lUr TO be whig!
OGce-hoLder.-Not that know of.
.JOhn.-Have any of his family authorized any one
to say he Is a wing
O6fce-holder.-Not that have heard.
John.-TO which party do his relations belong, so
Tar as you have learned
Office hOlder-lt is said that his son-in-law, and
his brother are democrats.
John.-Did the General support Jackson for the
presidency!
OGcc-holder.-I understand he did
JohH.-Which of the whig principles has General
Taylor expressed himself favorable to, in any letter,
e that
read
Ofce-holder-Well, can't say have ever seen
any expression of political principles from him.
JohR.-Well, IS that being wing!
OGce-hoder. (drolIy. jill was, you know in 1910,
''no princ pies for the public eye" motto.
.Johr-Yes, but | got enough in 1910, and
thought you had too Is not the General large
STAKEHOLDER, and a southern cotton planter; and do
you expect he will 60 for repeal of the odous Brit
ish tariff Of 1916, and for the WilnVt proviso, to
which we are pledged!
Observation-Disclosures no use of talking tariff,
John, when the farmers getting the present prices
for their grain; and to slavery, cant say care
a great deal about it after all. You know Clay
u STAKEHOLDER, but never stuck at that.
Jotn.-No! you didn't, bat great many did; and
Mr.. Clay was beaten.
O6fce-holder.-Not that ground for Mr.. Polk,
who succeeded was much of pro-slavery man
MIR. Clay.
.LoIn-Just so, but Mr. Folks party did not pre-
tend to be otherwise. They expressly refused their
sympathy to the anti-sayery cause; were honest,
though blinded; they succeeded while too many of
the wing party professed one thing and practised
another: made promises TO the ear, and broke them
to the hope preached virtue and practsed vice; IN
a word were anything for Office, and nothing for
principle. Docs Taylor hold this yillainous war to
he unjust!
OGce-holder.-I 'spose so.
.John-Well, | 'spose he don't; for ! believe the
general be a of truth. His correspondence
with the war department. and his proclamation to the
Mexicans, upon invading that country which his
military prowess has crimsoned, made desoate, and
filled with wailing all show that he justified the
war in it's fullest extent Indeed, if he did not |
should think him the yeriest murderer in existence.
For while hold to the business of defensive war,
deny that In unjust war, any man so believing,
from the general down to the lowest private, can
voluntarily become a human butcher and plead In
defence the orders of his superiors in command If
aat doctrine is then for six thousand Mexicans
killed, but one man is responsible-I mean the Presi-
dent. | don't believe in that, and therefore ! am
glad to excupate Gen. Taylor by supposing, GER
tainy DO that he justies the war on our part. But
if he does this he is whg.
OGce-hOlder.-Johp, my dear fellow. you over
nice iu these things, and you surprise me. You
Presbyterians fighting sect, at least you have
not enter-d any special protest against m the
general, while here are our Quaker friends, whose
testimony against all resort TO is old their
sect, all going for the general with perfect rush.
Look at James, and Samuel, and Stacy, and Ralph,
and William, all of the purest George Fox blood and
how they scramble to be foremost shouting for
the general!
.JohH.-Aye, aye! what you say of these indivld-
uals is true; they have Offices to hold on to, like
yourself, and probably not much principle to let go
FROM but when the West Jersey Quakers vote for a
STAKEHOLDER general, and the destroyer of men in
war believed 10 be unjust, hope they will erect a
monument at each of their meeting houses TO the
memory of Andrew Jackson, and inscribe upon the
pedestals retraction of the loud they
peatedly pronounced upon him. If justice to the
living requires the you advocate justice to the
dead will everywhere commend my suggestion.
O1fce-holder.-Well, for my part / think it is a
capital thing to punish the ocos by eectng Taylor,
man made by the very war they created.
John.-Good thing, eh to take poison yourself. If
you can only thus get your enemies TO drink it Bot
are you sure you can elect himi Whose votes will
ne get besides the whgsl
ODice-hotder.-He'll get all the native voe, the
ani-rent vOte the Tyler vote, and the custom-house
vote-preuy much all the Office holders in the coun-
try are going for him; and only yesterday loco
paper in this State, edited BY custom-house man,
who is for him. Besides, the hurra-boys of the
locos will 90 for him.
Join.-Excellent company! Natives who burned
the churches; ant-renters who murdered their land
lords; the Rynders of the customs and the offal OF
the loco party Well, if that amt dose for a weak
stomach, should like to learn what is If thought
there drop of that Indifferent complacency that
tolerates the idea of an association with such
materials in me, would step into Chumar's, buy a
double dose Of EPSON. and purge it out don't
think ever understood you before, neighborI You
''sto1P to conquer!" suppose. Good morning.