The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-02-26


BAroN RoUGE. Louisiana, Jan 80, 1873
SIR Your communication of the 18th instant has been
received and the suggestions therein offered duly consd-
In reply your inquiries have again repeat that
nave neither the power nor the desire to dictate to the
proceed nominate for the presidency of United
States II they desire such result, they adopt tho
suited in their opinion TO the consumnaon
Of the purpose and il they think fit 10 bring me before
them Tor this Office, through their legislatures,
these bodies whg democratic or native But in being
thus nominated, must insist the conditon-and my po
forward by them the candidate of their party, consid
cred as The exponent OF their party doctrines.
In conclusion, have TO repeat that if were nominated
for the presidency by any body Of my felocitizens de
sgnated by any name they might choose adopt should
provided II had been made entirely independent of party
considerations.
am, sir very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
e. TAYLOR.
PETER SKEN SMITH, esq, Philadephia
1t appears from this letter. that the General is willing
accept any nomination, whether from "fsh, flesh, or
fow"-from "whg, democratic, or native"-provded he
be left at liberty to consider "entirely independent of
party considerations" Whether the wings will permit
HIM to run as no-party man. and leave him
committed on party grounds at their great whig Gonven
ton, may be considered somewhat doubtful Whether
he can obtain the nomination independent of all party
Considerations, Is, OF course, their busnessnot
HIS principal wing supporters seem TO be content with the
developments he has already made Messrs. Barrow
and Gentry ask nothing more than his letter to Mr.
Joseph H. ngerso to prove that he is "good enough"
decided wing. OF all the letters which have been pub
lished under his name, the to Mr. ngersoll is the
least creditabe TO its distinguished author In compost
llon 1t is utterly objectonableas much some of
ITS positions. The modesty of General Taylor is well
worthy of example. lie greatly "doubs hs) want of the
necessary qualifications "a curious eqvoque, by by)
to discharge the duties properly of the Office OF President
He acknowledges, with great rankness he has been so
much immersed in his military duties that he has had no
time to study politics; and that in fact he is no politician
And hence we are not surprised TO hear the old General
say, in this letter. that "independen of his Mr Claws
great talents and long experience in government affairs
consider his views those of the whigs for the
most part, more nearly assimated, as regards political
matters to those OF MIR Jefferson, than their opponents
in whose political creed was reared, and whose opin-
ions in matters of State have never lost sight Of as
well endeavored to conform to them as near as nv
circumstances would permit"
We presume the General that il is Mr. Jeferson,s
opinions he has lost sight Of and not those If
the opponents of the whigs-viz the democrats But
we more struck with the other strange assertion
which he makes 1t is certainly one which, as much as
anything else, would confirm his modest confession that
he is no politician" 1t is the extraordinary position
that the wing creed is "neary assimlated" to Mr.
Jetferson's than that of the democrats This manests
an ignorance OF his whole life and opinions almost
from the foundation of the constitution Mr. Jeffsr
son was always opposed to the federalsts, Thew
went for latitudnous construction of the constitu
tion--so do the wings. They went for a bank-for
large system of national improvements-for an annie
protective tarif-and SO do the wings. Very different
however, the creed of the democras-the strict con-
sructonists- antibank, anti protection politicians, &C.
sc. Let Gen Taylor look Mr. Jeffersons messages
President. and his private correspondence and he will
find what injustice he has done the sage of Monticello
ga JeGersonian federalist "a Jefersonian wbg ,
Why, is contradiction in erms-a confusion of IDEAS
into which that great never fell Were he to rise
from his grave, what astonishment would he feel at
seeing this declaration of Gen. Taylor staring him in the
face We shall hereafter avail ourselves of his position,
and show how completely the old General is mistaken
in the views he takes in this letter. For this purpose
shall produce in parallel columns the opinions of
Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Clay; and we shall PROVE from
Gen Tayor's own showing, that he ought to Join the
democrats, and abandon the wings for Jefersonian
democrat is common and appropriate expression
whereas Jefersonian rchig is monster whom the
world never