The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-06-28

If there be plain and palpabe farce anywhere at the
present day, surely it is that which Horace Greeley the
editor of the New York Tribune is at this moment ex-
hibng to the of the public and the scandal
of his party That man, who has poessed be attach
ed to the wing party ipe-proclaiming that it
favored OF national policy essential to the pros
pery of the country which measures he has strenuous
y, and. we might say unscrupuously defended that
is hesitating pretending to hesitate, whether
he will support the nomination of who is 'immu-
aby pledged not to be has party candidate; and NOM
naton, too, which, everybody knows, and bet
ter than Mr.. Greeley tantamount to remuneration of
every whig principle and motive one'to steer. if
possible, into the haven of power" He, who has opposed
Gen. Taylor the score of personal untness for the
oicehas said that he has recommendation save his
fighting certain bates-tha he an apo,ved Uhg-
that Gen Tayors concealmen Of his opinions argued
that somebody to be cheated and he did not care to be
ranked either among the saunders the dupe"-this man
is hesating whether he will support Gen Taylor or
not and all this with amos mpudent atfecation of indie
pendence. He is very much in doubt-wonderfuly per-
pexed-wheher he will 60 for somebody on principle or
political nobody availability; contest for principles
and man who embodies them, or struggle for power
with the prospect of failure These the two alter
natives which present themselves the mind of Horace
Greeley who is "hesitatng with all the characteristic
hestancy of easy Virtue. He is in quandary; behold
him "pausing and rejecting thus
| "Tylerized or not that is the question.
| Whether tits nobet in the coons to suffer
| The jesrs and gibes of the loco focos,
| Or take up arms Tor our candidate,
And by struggling, to elect him To win-to conquer
The heartaohe, and The thousand ural shocks
That are heirs to tits contamination
| Devoutly to be wished. 10 Wint-tO conquer
To conquer! perchance, the ,p0i Ay, there's the rub
| When we have shufiied off this loco rule,
| Must give us pause
| But that the dread
OF something after the election, puzzles the will,
! And makes us rather bear those ills have,
! Than fly to others that we know not Of"
Wonderful man He does not know his own mind
whether he will or will not eventually support man,
who by his showing is particeps crimnis and chief
tor too in game in which somebody to be cheated I"
He is "pausing and rejecting whether he will become
one of the s,cinders or the dupes He does not
know his own mind about the matter, uirgin,
sophisticated is the heart which is thus called upon 80
UNEXPECTEDLY for the first time to embrace either vice
virtue Now, we think know his mind better than
he does himself and we hazard the prediction that unless
Clay convention be called, and Clay banner erected
one month will elapse before he will be found ardenty
battling for one who entirely uncommted to any wing
measure of policy and who for aught that he or any
body knows, may dsappoin the hopes of the wings
bitterly than did John Tyler Tyler accepted the wing
nomination without making any profession of independ-
ence-Gen Taylor runs with the reiterated declaration
that he has formed opinions at all upon political mat
ers and that he will not pledge himself be the excu-
sve candidate OF the whg party Now put the ques-
ton to every honest wing in the land Cannot Gen. Tay-
or mystfy the whgs if elected and yet leave them no
ground of complaints Can he not say, 81 told you be-
foehand gentlemen that if elected must look to the
constitutions and not to the principles of party for my
rule of action Twas more your candidate than was
the candidate Of the native American party whose nomi
nation for the presidency had accepted before accepted
yours. Surely, gentlemen you should not consider me
as pledged to carry out your views. when proclaimed
that would accept the nomination of the democratic
party if it should be rendered to me-! Such reply as
this would be unanswerable and would leave the unfor-
tunate wings in all the agony of disappointment. in
which the soiaee Of q,et conscience mould be oanng-
to "pause and reflect" whether, after ALL honesty is moi
the best policy.