Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1847-07-29
GEN'L. TAYLOR AND THE WINGS.

we are truly grateful.
GEN'L. TAYLOR AND THE WINGS.
An absurd story has been going the rounds
Of the locofoco press, -in fact some of them
/ have derived so much consolation from il that
! they have published it more than once,--the
substance OF which is, that Gen. TAYLOR on
being shown Wing paper containing his
nomination for the Presidency, flew into
violent passion, and swore that such persons
were no friends of his, and that the editor who
expressed the opinion that the war might have
been avoided with honor to the country, "was
worse than Mexican" SC. No responsible
name was ever connected with the statements.
and the only answer vouchsaied to the earnest
demand for the author, was, that the story first
appeared in the columns of "a highly respecta-
bic Democratic paper in Pennsylvania" The
miserable shifts 10 which locofocoism is dri-
ven, is exempliied by the fact that this bald
humbug was actually twice paraded in the col
umns of the Richmond Enquirer to be sure,
thee ditors would not say in express terms that
they believed it, but there il was,--the reader
might believe ii if he could. We now have it
in our power to present our readers with re-
futation of the calumny upon no less authori-
ty than that Of Gen. Taylor himself. We
commend to the serious attention of the reader
the italics in the first resolution, and the reply
of the General
| Alta Wing meeting held at Trenton, the
following resolution was passed:
| "Resotped, That the character of Gen. lay
lor for plain spoken honesty, assures US that
he will never dsappoint the expectations nor
| betray the confidence OF his countrymen +; that
his past political course is a guarantee of the
soundness ofhis principles and that i, author
ICES us 10 confide in his fidelity 10 the protective
system, and his opposition to the acquisition Of
ne,c territories acsere,eith to destroy The balance
Of the Unio,l."
| And the next and last resolution declared
that therefore, the meeting nominated him for
! President:
In reply to these resolutions Gen. Taylor
thus writes:
| 81 have the honor TO acknowledge, with
sentiments Of high qualification, the receipt of
copy of the resolutions recently adopted al a
meeting of the Democratic Wings of the coun.
| ty o. Mercer, N. j.
"My thanks are specially due to my friends
Of The State Of .New Jersey for their taattering
expression Of approval and esteem, and wiich 1
can assure them is us truly reeiprocated
81 embrace this occasion to remark that II
the people of the country desire to place me in
the high Office Of the Chief Magistry, do not
E,oI k,,f fha
trary IN that position, as well as one more
endeavor to serve the country with all the
ability possess"
| Upon previous occasion General Taylor
gave favorable response TO resolutions of the
mos, sterling Wing character passed at NEE.
ting held IN the same city,
The acceptance (says the Richmond Times)
of a nomination, avowedly based upon assn
RANGES derived from Gen. Tayor's past polill-
cal course, which consisted only in belonging
to the Wing party, and (mote especially stilD
upon confidence Sin his fidelity to the protec
tectire system, and his opposition to the acqui-
siton OF the new territories" seems to be a
step too unequivocal 10 have been inconside-
rately or unintelligibly taken, Until some res
pectable contradiction of the inference is made,
the puolic must believe from comparison of
this letter with the New Jersey resolution, that
Gen. Taylor is willing to be Wing candidate,
committed to the protective policy, and against
the appropriation of Mexican territory.
ka,,r al . t.h hos. ant AtNta