The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-07-22
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
From the Delaware Gazette.


Practice though doubt an excellent instructor does
not always make perJsot-periection in fact not being
properly attributable To humanity.
This idea was suggested to our mind upon discovering
how dreadfully friends the wing politicians editors
speech makers &c, squimed and wriggled under the
effects of the exposition of their last grand iuggle-he
attempt to pack their party buds upon the back of Gen
TAYLOR.
These same performers having frequently exhibited
Their feats OF egerdemain for the amusement or decep
ton OF the American people heretofore with less
success became self assured, believing that no humbug
was toe great for them TO palm upon the public.
They thought that the nomination of Old lack would
certainty be ga good enough Morgan until after the
ing fall elecuons;' but in this they calculated without
their host
They forgot that there thousands of pens in the
democratic party who could, and undoubtedly would
write 10 Gen Taylor the subject when his name be-
came connected with the next presidential candidacy
Such was the natural result OF the movement How
dreadful the disappointment in which it involved those
who were It's authors They either intended TO ride into
power upon the back of Gen. Tayors popularity, with
out knowing or caring anything about his principles
political views, they intended 10 humbug the voters of
those States in which elections speedily to be held
with the idea that Gen Taylor attached to their par
y and measures; and that therefore and they must be
excellent, since so excellent supported them,
well as to take advantage of false sympathy attempted
TO be raised by themselves on behalf OF Gen Taylor
man prosecuted by the administration But next comes
the denouemen and dscoses the fact that Gen. Taylor
does not agree with their notions on the subject OF pro-
ecve tariff that he endorses the editorial views OF the
Sgnal in favor of the independent treasury system,
the very worst bugbear to wing eyes and ears.
approves OF tne 10 honorable con-
clusion and says this is the highest object of his ambi
ton This conclusion since he desires to effect 1T, and
his trade is arms, is TO be brought about of by
arms, and not by withdrawing the troops" the favore
wing idea.
He advised the march to the Rio Grande," which
bids fair to become celebrated that of Cesar to
Rome. The crossing of the Nueces which in the
eyes of the wings the Rubicon done at his espe
cial suggestion Thus agreeing in of these impor
ant matters with those ever friends who affect
ed such desire back" him for the presidential race
What followed' In Pennsylvania, where the of
his name was all that wished for the present, and
which was wished for SO devouy that even the now
hdeunct United States Gazette, much Its editor
known to be opposed to- and bitterly he had censured
him, was induced to raise his flag. In Pennsy vana,
then, we say, while the Pennsylvania lnquirer-a mild,
agreeable, and sweet tempered paper, well suited for
lady poiticans-retained his name at its head, the North
American, the organ especially recommended by "the
wings OF Congress to the wings of the Union" swallow.
"Gen. Taylor and all, at one gup; and though it blew
out of its mouth ribbon with the conjoin names
"Norh American and United States Gazette impressed
thereon. entirely forgot that under the after halt of the
new tle there should properly and justly have been m
scrbed, "For President. Con. Zachary Taylor" This
was clear case of Ching swallowing Yang. together
with the lighted candle which the latter held in his
hand" These the only two Pennsy vana presses,
SO far as our knowledge extends that had hoised Gen
much infected with abotionsm and anti-masonry
der the thing popular About the great city, and eastern
portion of the Slate only, could it be manufactured into
wing capital But il should also be remarked that "he
North American and United States Gazette" few days
after the union effected, out with bitter and
violent philippe, directed especially and clearly against
support the party views of the wings. And Joseph r.
Chandler, at the wing 4h Of July celebration, gave
structure upon him for the same act alleging that he who
thought light of the wing party could never be inrusted
with the support of wing principles
This conduct upon the part Of this Boanerges OF the
whg press and is next friend plainly shows the shower
bath chill which the refusal of the old hero to aid in this
whig juggle has given to his pretended friends.
But as ii is said that msiounes seldom come singly,
but m troops so was i now with the whg jugglers,
whose performances had been thus unmasked
We had scarcely heard OF the army at Saltllo having
burned the efigy of Tom Corwin, the abolition whig
senator of Ohio, who refused 10 vote supplies, and de-
bounced soldiers in language of the blacklist kind,
before Colonel poniphan arrives from his wonderful
march with his distinguished regiment at st LOUIS and,
all wing he is, and about to be nominated the wing
candidate for the gubernaoria chair OF Missouri, tells
Colonel Benton and the popuace assembled to greet his
return, that when on his arduous and painful journey
from chihuahua through the holds of mountain passes
and the dangers of desert sand prares 10 Saltld that
when he encountered on the way newspaper from the
States, the first he had for near year. containing
Tom Corwn's speech, he felt as though he had expert
enced a Pressing shoper-boh
Read what he says in his own language-read and re-
read it, Here il Isl
"FEIIow-cIrzEys wish that the same patriotic feeling
had existed in the councils of this nation wish that Mex
leo could have seen the same unanimy in people in
forces in the field recolcct well the impression made
my mind on one OCCASION when express sent by to
the ensai cs spp ' st' dae 3 Of
the 18th OF November; consequently, had nothing
Of the proceedings of the last session Of Congress- the
Presidents message The first thing my eye upon
speech OF Mr. Corwin, from Ohio, denoucing the
war; and those engaged IT, Hte better than band of
robbers Gentlemen, ctnr oper bath conh hare BEEN
pleasant compared rtth my sensation reading Freezing
chWtng! Such speeches might have been deemed patri
otto IN the United States but, place yourselves where
have been and endure what have undergone, and then
imagine sensations We in city numbering in
population at least twenty times force surrounded by
and found when had arrived in Chihuahua, that we
were locked upon as lte better than band Of robbers
Feowcitlzens, the speeches which made in opposition
to this said from the peace party; but
say that they nude by those pho posponng the peace
efernaHy."
Now, what do you think, dear reader of the patriotic
wing papers that published and commended-yes, eulo
glsed to the skesths cut throat speech of the
traitor Corwin, which froze the wing blood in Colonel
Donlphans wing veins, at the very time that they
anathematzng the Executive for not supporting General
Taylor with sufficient reinorcements and intentionally
proongng the war.
We ask, what do you think Of the Delaware Republic
can, for example, which published the foul document
with ecstatIc comments, now , What do you think of
the euoges of its wing allies? Was not this a con-
temptble juggle and effort to play off miserable hoax
upon the public' And has it not signay failed-ds-
closing, the bursting of its bubble the hollowness
within, the faseness of those who employed
coctng and promulgng it, and the infamous character of
the end sought TO be promoted by it?
Alas for the jugglers