The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-08-03
THE UNION.

/ "Suppose painter a human head
should Join 'old Whiiey's neck, and wildly spread
Inc various pnmage Of the ieathered kind
Ger limbs oi different beasts absurdly Joined
Or, II he gave TO view a beauteous maid,
Aooye tue waist with every charm arrayed,
Should foul fish her lower parts unfold
would you not laugh such pictures 10 beholdl
such is The book, which, like a sick mans dreams
varies All Shapes, and merges all extremes"
And yet such are General Tayors politics!
AS 10 MS independence that is gone, gone, gone Now
hear what his late Independent friends who have been
betrayed by HIM, say upon that subject
The Buena Vista" newspaper, their late organ, thus
announces the formal disarmament of the independent
Taylor party in Maryland:
"Ths is the last number of the sBuena Vista, which
WIN be Issued Our has suffered that of mis-
orunesthe future of its leader We must take back to
eau be true TO ourselves, when hers The
cause OF our country still remains, full OF vitality and
,ttuton sill, invokes our fealty and reverence In te
APPROACHING political contest, The philosophy Of indifference
ours we rely upon the fortunes of republic, and in
The mean time remain neutral between the rival compei-
os Tor place Nevertheless is for each one to determine
Of General Taylor for the presidency our bond of unity
gone"
"We have private grels--no notifications, save
the profound OF having Jailed in honest effort
serve the best interests of the country The position OF
upon the high ground Of manly and patriotic ndepend-
enee we regarded as irausht and to be raugh, with in
calculable national blessings His abandonment of that
postion we look upon as national calamity proper
IonaIy heavy"
"tinding him thus unreliable in one thing we have no
reason Tor supposng we rely upon him in any thing
We must take back l.osoms the confidence we
bad freely avished Or PAIN and disaypo nfrnea are
bitter finding that standard of him higher than
has standard Of himself" What could not control
should, under ordinary Giro lmsances, conented
ourselves with simply lamenting But, having helped TO
m ead others while we deceived ourselves, we
felt II our duty undeceve them, this exposition
has gone. That done, shall individuals pursue our
own course-ohers will pursue theirs"
HIS independent friends in Louisiana have adopted the
same course; and he is left alone with his wing prnc-
Piles (such as they ae) in the keeping of his Bale Pay
ton wing committee in New Orleans, and refuses to take
his letters out OF the post Office, because he is charged
with the postage, and is unwilling to answer them
The election in November will show, that however will.
ing the people may be to award all just merit to the
General for his military services, (and, even as to that
there have been others in the late war with Mexico as
good he they are, nevertheless not willing to elevate
to the presidential chair without any civil quali
cations or experience whatever and who in the short
space of a twevemonth, has written himself into SO
many absurdities and Inconsistencies Alas for the
wing party, when such availability is made to take
precedence of such Henry Clay Miserable in
deed must be their cause, when driven to such extremity
and when their available candidate after all his supposed
availability. finds it necessary to to such wretched
subterfuges!
But Shakespeare says-and perhaps General Mum and
his friends expect to profit by his observance of the max
i'm for the future
al do know OF those,
Who therefore only repued wise
For saying nothing"