The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-29
Political Madness.

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a first to represent the army OF General Taylor as being
in critical or perous situation, have brought Out Sc
RES of demonstrations from the more violent Federal
nrints which must surely exhibit their partisan fury IN
its true light to the country and must excite everywhere
and intensely the Indignation and the contempt OF the
people The following passage from the American States
man Federal journal recently established at Albany
and we might couple with several similar atrocities
from other rabd Federal prints at the South, such,
for instance as the Commercial Bulletin, at New
Odeaps--shows that these representatives OF Fed
eralism have so far lost all sense OF decency
and common prudence as to charge that the
administration directed the operations of General Taylor
ach the distinct and specific purpose Of sacrificing that
gallant officer and has army to the savage fury Of the
Mericans! The incredible baseness OF such accuse
ton against the government OF our country, in time OF
war so far transcends all the ordinary exravagances of
PARTISAN passion and fasehood, that feel constrained
TO lay it before our readers, in the dsgacefu language
EMPLOYED by the Statesman" itself
." has minated in quarter unlriendy to the
Administrations that General Taylor ordered to Sailo
with inefficient force for the purpose OF sacri
fcng him 1t certainly looks very much as if this were
the intention of the administrations; although 1t is difficult
to believe any American administration capable OF such
baseness But TO what depth OF malgnly VIII not the en-
Wv evil designs OF locoocosm descendl That the gal
liant Taylor is hated by the administration, will de-
And hating they do there anything lmprob
able in the suspicion that they wish to destroy him %
We say nothing of the stark and staring political
madness whoh the above passage attributes 10 the adj
mnistraton. We say nothing OF the fragrant absurliy
and standardization of the whole accusation. The
man of any party who believe, who profess
that he finds any pretex for believing charge revolt
Ing against any administration which the people of this
country have placed power, surely not to be found
III WI hlish he andth The
party which could lend it any countenance whatever
must surely stand confessed before the country deaf
and blind every sentiment and every obligation of pa
tiotic duty.
The Statesman" pretend, that this charge has been
minated in quarter not unfriendly the admnstra
ton" We deny the monstrous calumny There is no
pretended friend of the administration even that would
venture to harbor much less to utter such thought Let
the Statesman at produce its pretended authority
stand convicted before the people OF the double asehood
first of uttering Islander which is an outrage upon all
right feeling and common sense and then OF attempting
p,m off its authorship upon the friends of the admins
ton.
We shall not enter upon any defence of the admnstra
ton against such accuser but to show the atrociy Of
his deed, will quote from another journal of the
party the following confession of the rectude of the
pursued by the administration towards Gen. Taylor
as shown by the official documents which we have lately
spread before the country. The New York Commercial
Advertiser of Friday evening last has the following preg
passage, which, testimony from the mouth of
most unwilling witness, commend to the attention OF
our readers:
ssWe may as well remark here once for ALL that in our
Judgment the correspondence far to eronerate the depart
men from The charge Of neglect or unnecessary delay Com
edable efforts seem to hare been made to comply c the
IdWOr efforts continually ba-
fled or retarded by another which diligence
could entirely orercome."
This is conclusive enough Yet it confesses nothing
more than absolutely put beyond the reach of decent
denial by the ndsputable testimony of the official
spondence Let add that the course of conduct the
part of the administration, which this confession admits,
is the only course which any administration governed
by any of the motives which influence in their
actions could possibly pursue The administration
rihcng General Taylor to the Mexicans And, in the
name Of all that is preposerous, to what conceivable
end' What could the administration gain, or hope to
gain, by soliciting such disaster and perpetratng such
crime in the conduct of war; to which, against
the malignant recreancy of Federalism, they
cheering on the patriotism and the vaor of the
country? The whole fabrication is alike senseess and
abomnable, and shows only the blind and desperate mad
ness of those who originate and utter and endorse it.
Wo, indeed to the country when capable of such
thought, against their political opponents shall find
themselves charged with the maintenance OF the rights
or the honor of the American people
To those who may desire any further information to
the pursued by the administration in relation to
Generals Scott and Taylor and to their movements and
who may not have found time to peruse the whole Off
cal correspondence between these officers and the War
Department, recently published we commend the fol-
lowing article, which we copy from the Richmond En-
themselves, vndcaes absolutely to every reasonable
mnl the administration from all charge and all suspicion
of mpudence in the which pursued in relation to
the distribution of troops to their respective lines of
operation. We most happy to add that if the latest
reports from General Taylor may be at all trusted the
arrangements agreed upon between himself and General
Scott will be found to have resulted in no serious
disaserto our arms if they have not rather as we trust
eyentuated in their signal triumph
from the Richmond Enquirer]
whether successful defeated, General TAYLOR will
gain reputation and from the country
considers he has been placed by the government in his present
painful and trying position oni ,rito his eonsent m
against his actual remonsances-and whilst a total de-
feat would only excite the sympathes his favor
from the entire nation that would sink Mr. Polk and
ms cabinet into the prooundest depths of political perd
uon."-N o. Bulletin.
The above is buta moderate sample of the
upon the administration by wing journals Whatever hap
pens, the President be blamed because 10 break
down his administration is destroy the principles of the
democratic party, and secure the federal ascendency. nj
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