The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-07-23

bs "has no coneeaents and that he hods no opinion
,oh he ago,dd not proclaim TO ms assembled country
m,n :" This is the man. forsooth, OF all Others VINO
now comes forward to suppress letter which is all Puo
he in its very nature-which touches question OF vera
rtv and good falkland which is now deemed enormous
enough in its character by the Generals earliest friends
% compel them to abandon him who has broken
m pedess and so forfeited all dam 10 their confidence
aud support!
Can any man imagine more lamentable, more
doomed predicamen for any candidate seeking popular
favor and trust But to the article from the Buena
Vista:
From the Buens Vista, Saturday June 49, isis.
General Tsylor's Position and Ours.
II all our reviews of the position of General Taylor from
the meeting Of the wing convention down to the publication
d our last number took occasion TO express our una
ba,ad confidence in his consistency and independence
Notwithstanding the card OF Mr. Peyton and the recent
demonstrations New Oheans we conlinped to believe
bst General Taylor would in due time, do justice his
own and exricate himself from the e1uivocal
osition in which his partisan advocates had placed him.
We expressed such confidence and belief, because had
always regarded and then continued to regard him,
man not made the mould in which politicians
rally cast ground deliberately assumed by him. be-
,ieved he would desert. pledge, given,
would have staked lives he would violate
now becomes painful duty, men of truth and can
dor that confidence and belief were without
foundaon-that oW the beginning to the end, we have
Rugged a cloud, and given ourselves to a delusion.
letter has been received from General Taylor, by the
committee correspondence and the electors OF the indie
pendent pary, in reply 10 one which they addressed him
an the 18th OF June AT the special request of General
TAYLOR that letter will not be published 1t WILL how
aver be submitted tbs State convention the meeting
ON the eth Having been favored with opportunity of
perusng il, permitted to say that General Taylor
fully adopts and sanctions the statement OF Judge Saunders
md that's
as having been made by his authority 1t is needless for
us to say that the ground which have hsreo'o
stood SUPPORT of General Taylor is thus taken from
under u.s. deliberately and unequivocaly, by the ndi
gidua in whose behalf We assumed it; and there be
neither donbt difficulty in regard tG the alternative
which such state of things presents 10 us.
This paper. readers aware, established
for purpose of advocating the election of Gen. Taylor
the candidate of the people, irrespective of party, and
without regard party nominations. When
meaced its publication, we believed, as indeed all the
world seemed 70 believe, that it was impossible msun.
dersand his po,tiOnso repeatedly and explicitly had he
defined and proclaimed IL.
To Mr. Taylor of Cincinnati he had denqred, "Ican and
haA yield to call that does from the spontaneous
and FIR pH Of the nation at large, and void of the
slightest agency Of my opn. In NO CASE CAN
PERMIT MYSELF THp oAApIDATE PARTY,
mrsxLF PARTY SCHEMES"
To Mr. Deloney, he had written" Should ever occupy
the White House, must be by the spontaneous move of the
people, and By art Of mine, that could go the
ton, and not of party"
To P. s. Smith he had said, 81 do desire the pres-
dency and only yield thus far my be considered
candidate in the proportion in schch it is desired
by the people,, irrespective of party"
He had declared TO Dr. BHkey, 81 WILLING
THE CANDIDATE ANY PARTY, elected to the
presidential office, must be WITHOUT any agency of
He had written to DIR. Bronson--"i l were called the
presidential chair by the general voice Of the people, with
out reg their political differences, should deem it
NV dutv to the Office y 81
any permit myself TO be brought before the people ercl
srs by any of the political parties that unfortunately
dipids country their candidate for this Office"
These declaration before the people when the Blu
ena Vista came into the field Attracted by them,
were the support of Gen. Taylor upon the manly and
Independent principles with which he had thus given dig
nifty aud force his position were encouraged to in
creased and enthusiasm in his behalf by every letter OF
his which afterwards appeared down the very day
which the Wing National Convention assembled
To the citizens OF Montgomery, Alabama, assembled
without respect party he 81 shall cfer no active
opposition the OF my name in connexion with this re-
.ponbe Office long they continue to use IT thus tnde
pendent of party distinctions"
To Col Mitchell he sads "If the whg party desire, at
the presidential election, to cast their votes for me,
they must do it on their responsibility, and oitho
pledges from me-"
To the Richmond Republican he wrote:
s'If nominated by the Wing National Convention, shall
not refae acceptance pror,ded am f zee 81 an psage
tich the people aud my of duty hare placed me
shall refuse the nomination OF any convention
parfv y II BEEN MY INTENTION AT ANY
MOMENT CHANGE MY POSITION, OR WITHDREW MY NAME
CANVASS, WHOEVER MAY Re THE NOMINEE OF THE
MTIosaL CONVENTION EITHER OF THE WHO On
PARTY
To Can't Allison he declared Hdping, at the solicitation
Of many of connfrymen taken my poston as cdndt
date lido feel at liberty TO surrender that position until
mn friends manifest wish that should retire from it,
shall engage schemes cOnbind ton 40 lnfrgnes
To gentleman in Iowa, he wrote no,o consider my
self in the hands of the peopea portion of chom at least
have placed my before the country for the Office Il"
Question: AND WHO AUTHORIZED TO WITHDRAW IT
CANVASS.
To Mr. Mayer in his reply TO the address and resolutions
of the Baltimore meeting, in which the broadest
ground Of independence of party was assumed throughout
he further said:
Ths political sntineats embraced in the preamble and
resolutions adopted at that meeting, Ir0olce TO say meef 'ciM
part of the country having the object offer testimonials
honor and respect towards Myself or to advocate my
election tho presidency, have caused In me more livery
pleasure, or demand more my gratitude
As they have with much confidence placed my name
in nomination before the country on eir ocn tfposio
IT, free from party and the eracttor Of pledges from
myself shall them strictly as constitutional and not
party President"
II there any meaning in language. and II man dec
aatons can in any case be regarded foundation Tor
confidence loss conceive in what particular
possible for General Taylor to pledge himself more
emphacay than these various letters to all the grounds
upon which independent party and press advocated
his If these declarations amounted to anything
all thisi That General Taylor was before the
people, already nominated candidate Tor the pres-
dency Irrespective of party thassa the people had noni
mated him, the people only could Withdraw him; that ne
would not Withdraw from the canvass no matter VINO gh
be the party nominees that he would not be the cand-