The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-08-24
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
a,uURsDAY MORNING, AUGUST "a, ,s4s.
- present State Of the Campsign-The Two NOM
inations-And the Third Party.

II
Scarcely had General Taylor won his laurels during
bs war before many of the wing party turned towards
t,m as an available candidate. Their calculation Was
would not only obtain all the votes of the wings,
m would catch besides several birds of the democratic
Gather by the lustre of his achievements. Thus they
booed to obtain the majority Of votes. They attempted
% throw his political principles and his civil qualhea
ons into the shade Thus they expected TO humbug the
roooe and especially the democrats They cried him
m as no party candidate. They said that, like Wash
,y,on he would be the peoples candidate, and that
bey would neither call upon him to express his princi
ne. nor give pledges to carry them out The General
,loped the system of -cemmiltalism, and he too
III that he would not be the candidate OF party, but
. he President of the whole people.
Some OF the decided wings however, were not
/ satsfed They might be willing to humbug the demo
ea but they afraid OF being deceived themselves
Such was the feeling of those who had not been behind
the curtain, and received the Masons sign from the mas
Ter Of the lodge Mr.. Clay, too, was not content to
abandon the field He had not yet "abjured ambition
but he visited the great political world for the purpose of
feeling the pulse of his party and tanning the hopes of
his friends After residence of several weeks in
Washington he retired TO Ashland, when he determined
he was the only wing who could carry the vote of Ohio
and who could be elected
The appeal of Mr. Clay and the doubts of the discon-
tented whgs induced the leaders of the party to insist
upon the necessity of abiding the decision of the wing
convention. They could not altogether take General
Taos principles upon trust, and they desired some
pledge that he would obey the decision of the convention
His Allison letter pretended to give his creed There
was however, but principle in il, Of deserves the
name and that was that he would control the action
of Congress- but would follow in their wake in all great
questions of domestic policy, and would not counterac
their upon the money SYSTEM protective tariff inter-
nal Improvements, any other queson-even the VIII
mot Povso ITSELF understood at the time and as is
since understood by all his great northern advocates
Ewing, Corwn, King, Hudson, Ashmun, &C., &C. And
thus strange to tell second Washington is to aban-
don a constitutional power which was recognised
with all possible respect, and exercised on two &C.
casons (and of them mere question of expedi
enc by the ilustrioue Washington under the advice OF
Jefferson himsef-anoher of the idols whom General
Taylor once proessed to worship.
These discordant avowals of his sentiments were fol-
lowed by the submission of his claims to the whg con-
yea;on and his acquiescence in their decision was de-
after
wards confirmed by the General himself in his card to
the meeting OF New Orleans.
I. seat change however has come over his prospects,
as well over himself His whole correspondence has
proved glorious budget of contradictions Instead of
being no-pary man, he becomes the candidate of the
wing party at Philadelphia But another change has
again the spirit of his dreams He is now at
tempting to resume the independent position which he
originally occupied In his letter TO Mr. Lippard, he
declares positively that he will be the candidate of no
party and the President OF the people only And in his
last still more remarkable letter to Charleston, he
declares that he would have accepted the nomination of
the Baltimore Democratic Convention soon as of the
Wing Philadelphia Convenlion-thus attempting to
shuttle of the cordial acceptance which he had made of
their nomination., and the responsibility which it had
imposed upon him to carry out their wishes.
No WONDER them that the wing nominee has lost
ground since the commencement OF the campaign The
friends of Mr. Clay soured, if not alienated by his nom
lnation most OF the democrats who first Joined his
standard, when he an Independent candidate and
when they had hopes of his democracy, alienaed
by his nomination at Philadelphia; the great body of
liberal politicians dissatisfied with him. in consequence
OF his general reserve in the PRONUNCIATION of his prnc-
pies, and with the tendency of the little he has suffered
to escape him; without pretenson to civil qualfca
tons, and with confession his part that he is no
politician has no experience, knowledge of public af
fairs; and with his military fame equalled if not
eCpsed, by the other unparalleled military achievements
OF the sit is no wonder, repeat that his star is
sinking, that the democrats have deserted him. and that
many OF the wings have proved Indifferent or hostile to
him.
AS the Generals prospects have dimmed those of the
democratic nominee have frightened. His civil quaifca
tons attesed by long experience the public SER
wee Gallant in the field, but still more accomplished in
councilhling important station in the executive
dlschargng the most important duties Of foreign minis
ter at one of the first courts of Europe-and one of the
great leaders of the republican party in the Senate, and
one OF the fastest and most faithful friends of the ad
mnlstraton, Gen. Cass requires no censor to ask his
principles, to ascertain his qualifications Besides he
49, like his party clear and manly in the exposition of his
principles. They set forth at Baltimore, and Gen.
CasS has confirmed them by his acceptance of the NOM
nation No wonder, then, that his star is eliminating
to the zenith, and that his present prospects brilliant
and cheering.
But another luminary is attempting TO rise and struggle
on 10 he ascendency. And never did a more desperate
man attempt to lead on anomalous and monstrous
lacuon Hurried on by disappointed ambition and by
ranking revenge because he could not be made sec
ond time the President of the United States he is at
mpung TO press his desperate fortunes again upon the
American people. Has Martin Van Buren, lost all the
act and sagacy for which his friends once allowed