The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-06-11
The whig Nomination

General Zachary Taylor, the man who "never surren-
lr." 10 the enemies OF his country, has surrendered,
Bborse foot and dragoonspotcal principles and all,
n ever he had any Ito the wing party Noiwithsand
H. all his brave words, all his asseveraons of political
HIensnlence all his pretensons that he would be the
candidate of the people, and not Of party the offer Of
H. gilded bauble-power-bas overcome his scruples.
A. now, instead of standing high in the affections of a
3Lols peOple he stands in the position of candidate
jbo willing to be the instrument and nominee of
aatv which dares its principles, and hopes for
Access by hurahing military cheftain-this military
abeain too, who has soemnly acknowledged his igno-
Rance of all satesmanlke qualicatons-into the highest
office in the gift of the free people of these United States
] Zachary Taylor, the hero of Buena Vista, who was
beloved and honored by the people, could not resist the
temptation, and has sacrificed himself on that unhoy fu
neral pyre where have been inundated so many victims to
whigery.
The truly great man of the wing party has been thrust
sde--rudey thrust aside Harry of the West" whose
WHISTLE like that OF Roderic Dhu would have
i - 'garrson'd the glen
At once with full five hundred men,
Watching their leaders beck and wil'-
Has been "ad on the SHELF" and at last after all his
ntng devotion to his party, is in very much the posi-
| Ton of Cardinal Wolsey, when he exclaimed
40. Father Abbot
An old man, broken with the storms of State,
II Is come to lay his weary bones among We.
Give him little earth for charity"
/ In our minds eye we see him, like Fitz James, after
Me had chased the stag in vain-after he had seen his
rood steed stretch his stiff limbs to rise no more
Ealing in his hounds from their vain pursuit; when
ned wiz slo nd Glad
The sulky leaders of the chase
Close to their masters side they pressed
With dropping tail, and humbled crest"
| The orator, the statesman the brave old civilian,
stands at this moment victim of federal alteration and
FEDERAL ingratitude
\ And Scott-the brave and gallant Scott-who fought
from Vera Cruz to Mexico--who entered in triumph the
r Of the Montezumas, and through whose direct agen-
fy the olive branch is entwined with the late hos
bile banners of the United States and Mexico-he too
Ihas been pushed from his stool, to make for
younger not better soldier"
And Webster, too, the celebrated by his friends
oT giant intellect, and capable of doing honor to any
Station could find hardly coporaPs guard to say God
ave him" But that corporars guard will scarcely
Desert him and when old Massachusetts speaks next
November she will scarcely have forgotten how to pro-
nunce-and that too, with emphasis-the name of
Daniel Webster!
Gen Zachary Taylor is the nominee, as candidate of
the federal party, for President of the United States We
are content Could the nomination be to be made again
tomorrow, we would ask no change Zachary Taylor, a
brave general, but, according to his confession,
very ignorant statesman, for President! Willard Fill
more, an out-and-out partisana man of considerable
aent-a hgh-tarf, abolition, Wilmot Provso United