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From the letter to Mfr. Birkey.

his declarations side by side with each other in parallel
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From the letter to Dr. Delony From the letter to Mr. Bkev
Mexico, June g. ARMY OF OCCUPATION,
DE Ar. SIR your letter OF Camp near Monterey
La, has inst reached me, in SIR, had The honor to
which you are pleased to receive your letter. sub
say the signs oil the times ting, the part OF the
in relation to the next pesi mating committee of the
dency, and the prominent Native American Conven.
posltloa Oh your name IN on the request to be in
Gent for this letter" pots of maona
That t is happy feature policy entertained by the
IN our government that o body Of native Americans OF
from the lowest to the high Limited leisure from my
est station. are not beyond public duties consrains me
vision Of the hmbiest c brie terms ha, 70 the poimts
zen and that it is right cited in yoar letter do not
Inherent in eysry freemanto jlmy.e liberty to express
possess himself Of the political my rank opinion.
principles ..s ana. and . op,ssio ~. q
% MEM, .:ss :. q .as s' Ss;,
eide with you in opinion
Fro" 1 ss a isss letter. Fro" Msy IS s ig:s letter
~ hold no opinion .uhieh "My own psrsonal view.
Mould readily proclaim to better Withheld iii the
my assembled coumtrymen" end of the war"
So much for General Tayor's consistency as to the
duty Of declaring his opinions
In Relation to the Character OF his Opinions.
General Taylor has been sparing of his expostions
Of his political opinions, that it may difficult to con-
vct him of contradictory declarations in regard to them
Yet it will be remembered that in his letter to Mr. Inger-
SOIL under date OF August g. lS47, he distinctly declares
hmsefa disciple of Mr. Jefferson sin whose political
Creed" says he, 81 reared and whose opinions in
matters of sate have lost sight Of as well as
endeavored to conform to them as circumstances
would permit" Yet in this very same letter, Gen Taylor
expressly approves and sanctions Mr. Ingersos broad
declaration that he was "a whg""a wing in principle %
In another letter. written only days afterwards
the 10th Of the same month"; to Dr. Bronson General
Taylor declares 81 have exercised the privilege OF
voting but had been called upon the last presiden-
ta election to do So should certainly have cast
my vote for Mr. Clay" Now, we leave to General
Tayors admirers to determine whether this be the re.
suit of political ignorance whether it be conscious
and Intentional standardization. The two points in
the political creed of Henry Clay which best known
to the country, his advocacy OF National Bank and
his advocacy Of high Protective Tariff Mr. Jefferson
the other hand, is equally well known for his uncom-
promising hostility to both of these measures Both OF
them political questions still before the country and
of great interest and therefore, when Gen. Taylor pro-
esses to be at the time of the creed of Jefferson and
of the creed Of Clay in politics, he either Intentionally
contradics himself, else he talks of matter of which
he is profoundly ignorant
His Position and Course NJ q Candidate,
The total decentralization of Gen. Taylor in this re-
spect, manifest hardly to require any quotations
from his letters to substanate it. AT this very moment
question Of veracy is pending, which has been raised
against the declarations of the Louisiana delegation in
the wing convention, by the members of State commit.
tee, acting in behalf of the "ndependent Taylor party
in Maryland The Louisiana delegation declare ..that
Gen Taylor recognises in his friends in this convention
those who have the right to withdraw his name and will
cheerully acquiesce in such withdrawal; and BY the
of uniting with this convention, his friends withdraw
his from the canvass unless he be the nominee OF
the convention" With this declaration of Gen. Taylors
position, his independent Maryland friends have taken
issue, and have asked for suspension of the public
judgment until they hear from him in relation to the
matter. Yet such suspension hardly necessary
for, in his Richmond Republican letter of April 2Oh Gen
Taylor says, with the utmost explicness sit has moi
been my Intention at any moment to change my posi-.
| tion or to withdraw my name from the canvass who.
ever may be the nominee OF the national convention
either of the whig or Of the democratic partyr'
But his self contradiction this point by no meani
ends here In his letter Dr. Bronson of August 10th
ls47 he says: deem it proper in reply to your letter
distinctly repeat that not before the people of IN,
United States candidate for the Presidency! Tire,
weeks before this, he had sad under date Of July 2oth
in his reply to the Gainesville" letter. should ma
ory Of the good people Of country think proper Il
elevate me to the first Office in their giftor may say
the first in the world will feel bound to serve them
In his letter to Mr.. Brkey written seven days before
under date Of July 18th, he expresses a similar viii
ngness to serve the people in the Office Of the chic