Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-04-22
From the Emancipator
Gen. TAYLOR,

This gentleman, who has suddenly fought himself
into noorey by winning four battles in our atrocious
pro slavery war, with loss in killed and wounded of
about two thousand Americans and six thousand Mex
leans, is now the Landed hero of the whig party and
the favorte presidential candidate Of large number of
its leading journals. Had he been democrat, we
should not have been surprised to that party rent
with internal euds seize upon his blood begotten pop
uarity, to quoll the dscord and furnish itself with
candidate for the presidency. But for the whigs-the
"anti Texas" "anti war" "anti slavery whigs,"the
"True Liberty party" to rush headlong into the arms
Of man, whose only apparent or known qualification
for civil Office, is his being good fighter in
torousy waged for the extension of slavery, must a.
maze the simple minded men who have hoped that
some confidence might be reposed in the anti slavery
pro essons of portion of that party That Gen. Tay
or stands better chance Of being the whg can
didate il 1913 than any other man, is obvious to all
who watch the signs of the times. What, then, ure
the claims which this "military cheftan" may urge
upon the whig party for nomination, and upon the
people for an election, to the highest civil office in
their gift
First, lie seems, Judging from his correspondence
with the department. to be able to write very clear
and succen accounts OF his military operations (which
Gen. Jackson not,) and to possess good deal Of
calm dignity while recording the results Of his battles
and Just appreciation of the best means of haassng
and Gripping our weak and distracted antagonists.
Second, He is well skilled in planning battle-la5
abundance of logged courage and when hard press
ed fights like demon,
Third, lie has done more than any one man, or any
one thousand men in the country, to prevent this
unholy from sinking the general administration in
hopeless infany. Thrice when the humanity aud
virtue of the nation were aroused to trampe this war
and It's abcttors in the dust, Tayors successes have
stirred up the courage of the abashed and crouchng
champions of slavery and carnage and whetted the
public appetite anew for blood. The wings were in full
cry upon the heels of Polk for ordering our army to
Corpus Christi last year. when the news of the battles
on the Rio Grande efectually muzzled their presses
and the war dogs shouted GLORIOUS victory" During
the summer and far into the autumn the army dragged
its slow length into Mexico, at weekly expense of a
million of dollars, till the indignation Of the people de-
manded that hostlities should cease When, 10, the
storming OF Monterey silenced every murmur, and
"gory" was again in the ascendant Congress met in
December. The President attempted lame apology
for the war The wings pounced upon his message
without mercy. Parties broken up Thrice did
the House stand firm the WInot provso The
war had become monsrous nuisance Congress
broke upln confusion. Polk was casting about for a
plank to float the fragments Of his administration The
friends of peace and freedom ful of hope. Then
, comes the bloody victory of Buena Vista. The war
devil lifts aloH his cotted weapon and it in m
umph. The democrats gather courage-the wings
run mad with JOY, hoasting, "we did it," Taylor
saves the administration from destruction and the
from infamy.
f Fourth, lie has the qualities to please the masses,
He will take hugely with the aground tier" At the
recent battle, whom a Kentucky regiment wavered
under the fire OF the Mexlcans, he said to his aid,
Crittenden, "By Cd sir that will not do" And
when the troops closed up and rushed upon the ranks
of their foes, he shouted, rising in his srups "gori
rous old Kentuck give em HE'LL" while tears Of joy
ran down his veteran cheeks. Surely such man will
draw largely upon the subteranean democracy; and
~. h,N tlod
ed bv placing or the same ticket with old Rough and
Ready, the president of the American Bible society,
Gen. TAYLOR is Shareholder. He is reputed to be
the owner of two hundred of his fellow men, In this
regard he is three times as available candidate as
4 Henry Clay This settles the question
Such. then are the peculiar qualifications of Gen.
Zachary Taylor for the presidency To secure his
election, he must be nominated and supported by one
of the great parties And which party can so appro-
priately bring him forward that one which has com
passed sea and land to make the Northern States be-
l. eve that it was opposed to the acquisition of Texas,
t to the war to the dismembermeEt Of Mexico, and to
, slavery and which has half convinced some rather
mellow and verdant persons that 1t was telling the
truth. Should Gen. Taylor be nominated las he pro.
badly will be- if the war continues another year and
he wins battle or two,l shall expect to the
great Of the whlg party shouting in the train Of
!" Old Rough and Ready 1t will be sorry sight to
see such editors Capt Sleeper, Horace Greedy
0 Thurlow Weed, John Milton Earle, Charles FRANCIS
Adams Ell I'd omne genus extolling the merls oil tneir
candidate. and persuadmg the abolitonisIs to give
T. him their votes. But they will doit, Mr.. Sleeper
will swallow him, because in order to keep the volun
tears from getting drunk he turned rumselers out of
= Matamoras. The Quaker of the Spy, who was dis
q tressed at the low price at which Gov, Morton sold
be State guns will 90 for Taylor on genuine George
Fox principles. By Withdrawing him from the carnal
pursuit of war; he will hope to improve his moral cha
racter and save great many lives. Mr.. Adams will
think Brneyism" Is decidedly worse than Taylor.
ism, and go choosing The least Of two evils, he viii