The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-04-14

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is organizing the army It's full complement OF officers
II is moi enough gain victory We must fully profit
by it. No will complain OF the want OF energy in
the administration The will be prosecuted with the
utmost vgor until the object has been accomplished, by
securing an honorable peace
Patriotism and Party
We published yesterday the generous and patriotic
resolutions adopted preliminary meeting of the
chants and other citizens of New York. assembled with
out distinction of party devise suitable proceedings in
honor of American arms" We also gave, in the same
column the resolutions breathing the spirit OF pa
otc enthusiasm and gratitude which were adopted by the
democratic Republican General Committee" of that city.
We now publish below reported in the Pennsylvania
of Yesterday the proceedings in relation to the sub
ect, of great Democratic meeting held in the city of
PHILADELPHIA We concur most cordially in the spirit
which anmates these various manifestations OF national
exuation and gratitude They intended to do honor
to those to whom all honor is Justly due. They ex-
press the heartfelt of the whole nation They rise
above all sordid partisanshp. They show fitting ap-
probation of the honor OF the country and OF those, both
in civil and military life, by whose foresight and firm
ness and SKILL and gaantry il has been brilliantly
illustrated and sustained
But the same mail by which received intelligence Of
these most honorable demonstrations of the public
feeling, brought to the proceedings OF body OF
men convened at Philadelphia on Saturday evening
last in very different spirit, and with very
different purpose At a meeting of of the more
violent and INSCRIPTIONS of the leaders of the Federal
party in that city-composed, may presume, in no
small measure of the very same individuals who at the
opening of the last session of Congress- gathered together
al bnn IN hear Daniel Webster de-
nounce our war with Mexico as deed at lawless
and dsgraceiu and which should bring down upon the
cad of the President of the United States the swift and
sweeping retributon of 'impeachment-at such meet
ing so convened and composed, the following preamble
and resolutions were is stated, adopted by accama-
ton We Law them before our readers, eminenty fit
ted TO show the and the character OF Federalism
yhereos the ewes of the nation fixed Major Cen
er Zachary Taylor, and the heart of the country beats
high at the Contemplation of the deeds of chvaous vaor
nertnnned by him and his comrades in Pao Alto
Resaca de la Palma Monterey, and Bucna Vista:
And he has been denounced Ola the floor of Con
by prominent members the national admins
raton at the very honoraby vigorously and
successfully sustaining country abroad because oil his at
duty of all good citizens especially the duty of all
good and patriotic wings of the Union manifest in
proper form their approval OF n principles ana Oh MS s'o
Therefore resolved That the thanks and gratitude of the
country are eminently due Maj Gen Zachary Taylor,
hs officers and soldiers, for the gallant manner in which
they have sustained the honor of country and carried
the and stripes trumphanly through SO many we'll
fought fields 10 brilliant victories;
Resolved That do commend him TO the favorable con-
and cordial support of wcounfrymen,
and in the of the democratic wing citizens of the
city and county of Philadelphia, do name and nominate
him as the candidate the great democratic wing party OF
the United States for the Presidency OF these United States
and our discrimination to submit and support his
name and his claims for the approval OF our democratic
wing brethren of the Union in national convention hereai
ter to be assembled.
What wretched disqualification is here How long
Al. fharur pont
organs denouncing this very with all its deeds of
chivarous valor' "rdp,ne' and the work OF "taw-
less men, Have they forgotten that this
war is, in the Judgment of many OF them, wholly
unconstitutional Have they forgotten that the
gested, advised, and approved by General Taylor,
was an invasion of the soil of peaceful neigh
Dor done without color of law and embodying in itself
all the elements Of most nearious outrage Have they
forgotten how upon their showing, the whole conflict
on our part from its inception unjust and arocious-
war waged to extend savery-a war waged against
humanity and,in violation of all the laws both of God
and of man. Have they forgotten all this, that they
now single out the leading instrument and agent the
chosen and devoted champion in this panorama OF ln-
guilty. and point to his GLORIOUS career as to spec
acle which makes the heart of the country "beat
high with exultation' Have they forgotten how
they denounced the placing of cannon in battery
against Maamoros as ntoerable outrage and insult
upon feeble sister republic that they choose the
embodiment of their principles, their political stand
ard bearer and presidential candidate, the very
whose military sagacity selected that very site, upon
which to make his cannon brste defiance against the
enemy, and then wrote back TO the War Department,
that ''mos saluary effect must result from his
demonstrations For twelve-month, many of these
Philadelphia patriots and their abettors and as
sociat-s throughout the land, have exhausted the
vocabulary of abuse and vilifcaton in stigmaiZ-
ing their countrys war, and have pressed into
their service every mode of unpatriotic sophisry,
to plead the of the enemy till the government
organ of Mexico, has lately claimed their entire party
for its friends And now because the days of Palo Alto
and of Buena Vista days of glory, they claim the
conduerng leader of the war, who has put all the
ges of his nature and all the enthusiasm OF his convictions
into his warfare, forsooth the champion and repre-
sentative OF their principles The language Of their
resolutions is an insult General Taylor The resolu-
tons are drawn, say their authers TO express their
"appropal of his principles Dare they thus insult him
by asserting that he has been fighting against his prnc
pies Yet, if General Tayors principles their prn
ciples then his principles must involve utter
demnation of the war; which he has fought glori-
ous "