Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1848-09-04
Crittenden on Taylor.

Crittenden on Taylor.
In an editorial notice of speech de.
Iivered at public gathering at Russell
vile, Kentucky, on the ODD ult., by thai
eminent and true-hearted Wing, John J,
Crittenden, we have met with a notice Of
the Wing Candidate for the Presidency,
the accuracy Of which will be admitted
by every man who knows General Taylor:
As to General Taylor, Mr.. Crittenden
said he thought he would give US the right
kind of an administration. The old SOL
der had passed through every difficulty
safely. He had never said that he would
do anything but what, when the time came
for him to act, he was ready to act up to
the emergency. He had to fight against
the disadvantage of two or three to one,
and he had done it successfully. No one
had ever charged him, in his long career,
with dishonesty. Honor and fame could
not intoxicate him; power could not So
duce him. He was as plain, as unpre~
tending, and rough after all his brilliant
achievements, as any plain citizen pre-.
sent He was not bedIzered with lace
He was the peoples man, and the man of
the people. All could recognize him in
his old brown coat as old Rough and
Ready-as a read republican. If he
wanted to paint Kentucky he would set
up old Zach, and have him painted as the
embodime ut.
"Here was a man who could heal the
wounds of the country. He looked to
him with these hopes, and with all conf
dencee He knew that the other party was
to draw the people from him, but
it was in vain, for their hearts were with
When the day of election came,
many a Ksntuckian would find every 9th
er feeling overcome but the one detenml-
nation to do his duty by Old Zach and
his country. He believed Gen. Taylor
would be elected. He considered that
we'll summed up by the young
Kentuckian who went to Philadelphia;
who said, on his return, that the people
much split up in regard to candi-
dates; that old Rough and Ready had a
great many friends, but he believed Gen.
would beat him; but he thought
one they called odd Zach would beat
both! Mr.. C. had talked with Gen.
before he left Washington, and
the General told him, in his decided way,
with an oath, that no man could look five
minutes in Gen. Taylor's face and make
a proposition to him to do a mean action.
No act of oppression was ever charged
upon him! No man ever paid the penal
" of death by martial law from the time
he fought at Phlo Alto to the time he left
Buena Vista. He had controlled and
the army without bloodshed, MAIN
Eained.its honor and discipline, and retir-
without having done aught to sully the
glorious character he had ever maintained
as all able as well as humane man. When
some deserters were brought to him after
The battle of Buena Vista, before the blood
had shed yet sunk into the earth, he
looked scornfuIly at them and said MY
soldiers do not desert-these are net my
Take them back to the camp,
drum them out, and let them GO When
The government chided him for not storm
ing Monterey with its twelve thousand
men, with his five thousand, what was his
Yes he said, 'he could have ia
ken it i n that way, but he did NOT wan to
sacrifice the women and Children
When he was feted in New Orleans, a
abiding to the splendid pageant
which wound through the streets of the
city, said to him that 't must have been
very gratifying to him. no. said he. st
Was not. l was afraid some of the wo-
men and children might be hurt!' Who
but he, when thus receiving a triumph
ike those ofCasar, would have thought
Of that? But to his mind that was the
most beautiful trait in Gen. Taylor's char
acter. 1t was more characteristic Of him