The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1848-06-28
GEN. CAss's VOTE ON THE REsoLU
TON CENSURlNG GEN. TAYLOR.

/ Our readersvery well recollect, that u
January Of last year, joint resolution
was originated IN the House Of Represen
taiives, rendering the thanks Of Congress
TO Gen. Taylor. Ii having been ascer
tanned that the General was Wing, ant
a great poin, in Presidential policy JUS
about that time, being to keep him a.
much as possible out Of the way Of receiv'
ing the expression Of gratitude due to his
services. Mr.. Jacob Thompson of Missis.
sippi, offered the following amendment,
I Provided, That nothing herein con.
tanned, shall be construed into an spproba-
ton Of the terms Of capilulation of Monte.
rev."
This was designed as censure upon the
con6uc, OF Gen. Taylor, of whose motives,
or Of the circumstances in which he was
placed at the time of the capilulation,
neither The mover nor Congress knew any
thing whatever, and it was felt as such, not
onl, by Gen. Taylor himself bu, by the
whole country. In spite Of opposition,
this resolution, with the pro,iso, passed
the lower House. When II was brought
up in the Senate, Mr.. Speight moved to
strike il Out, aud the vote being taken,
stood as follows:
Ysos-M essrs. Archer. Badger, Ben.
ton, Berrien, Butler, Calhoun. Chalmers,
Ciley, John NJ. Clayton, Thomas Clay
ton, Cor~in. Crilienden, DAVIS, Dayton,
Evans, Fairfield, Greene, Houston, Hunt.
inadon, Jarnagin. johnson Of Maryland,
Johnson Of La, Mangum, Miller, More.
head, Pearce, Rusk, Simmons, Soule,
Speight. Upham, Webster and Woodbridge
33.
Nays-Messrs. Allen, Ashley, Alchi-
son, Anterior, Bagby. Brcese, Bright,
Csss, DIX, Hauneean, Niles. Sewer, Sur.
geou, Turney and Yulee-l5.
Thus it appears tina, while all the other
military men in the Sena,e-,hose who
knew what wal was, and what difficulties
a General always had TO encounter Ben.
ton, Houston aud Rusk willing TO
accord TO the old Hero what was so evi.
IDENTIFY his due, General Cass was willing
to censure him for not doing more than it
was in the power Of man to have accom-.
plished Let The country remember this !;
and when he is bepraised beyond measure
for his exploits at Detroit and the Thames,
let it be asked, did he ever do any thing
half so brilliant, or SO important, as was
tho fea, which he voted to censure. IL
the s,ormIng Of the strongest town in the
Western World, and forcing lis garrison
to capi,ula,e to half their numbers was
not worthy Of vote Of thanks, what was
the famous sword breaking scene, even al.
lowing Gen. Cass to have been the hero
of il (Which he was mott worth
HOW GEN. TAYLOR WILL RUN.
Before Gen. Taylor was nominated, q
report reached New York that he had re.
crived the nomination. Whereupon the
Evening Pos, (Locofoco) DISGUISED as
follows:
We now look upon the Presidential
question as virtually s-ssieds Gen. Taylor
will be in the Presidential chair on the 4th
Of March il he is alive. He will sweep
the South from Cape May to Key West,
and from the Ohio TO the Rio Grande.
Virginia will give her voice for Taylor as
surely as South Carolina. Not one Of the
States, to purchase whose support the let
ter Of Mr.. Cass on slavery was written,
will, in all probability, give the author OF
that letter a vote for the Presidency. In
the North his prospects are scarcely less
satisfactory.
The precipila,e annexation o. Texas
under the first of the resolutions adopted
by Congress-settng aside altogether the
mild, safe and wise alternative proposed
by Mr.. Benton, and left to Mr.. Folks dis
cre,ion-brough on the war with Next
co; the war with Mexico brough, Gen
Taylor before the public notice, gave hin
his popularity, and armed him with strength
10 overturn the administration"
The Pos, subsequently, ascerlalned 'ha
the announcement Of the nomination
Gen. Taylor was premature, and 1t adde'
10 its remarks these:
The foregoing paragraphs were writ
ten on receiving from the telegraph otiic
here. despatch TO the effect that Ger
Taylor was elected. 1t now appears tina
the repor, was not true. We do not, how
ever, correct what has been written. Tay
Tor will be nominated by the Conventlo
before lis members separate, and our r.
marks will have their proper application
A The New York Globe (anolher Locof
q CO journal says that Cass will not get mo
than three States. Here is what IL say
I'VE believe, however, that If &c
Taylor is nominated at Philadelphia,
A will be elected President, no matter VIII
: NAV be the action Of the Barnburners
!. this State.
"As Gen. Taylor now stands before I.
N people of both parties, his election won
h be preferable to that of Cass. His ee
N ton would annlhla,e Hunkerlsm in Il
m State, and throughout the Union. '
ID have long been hoping for the arrival
,e the time when a revolution IN part
Ne would take place.
H. INl., N