The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-08-22
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST a2, Is4s.



General TAYLOR continues to kick the poor deluded
,ybjg party about, as if it his foot ball The
southern mail brings us the last cuff which he has
administered them. II comes in the shape OF letter
10 friend in Charleston the following extract of which
we copy from the Charleston News Of the 10th inst
Extract of letter General Taylor TO friend in thus
al never had any aspirations for the presidency nor
have now farther than the wishes of my friends con-
earned in the matter nor would have it any other
farms than stated when the subjeoS first agitaed
which is that my acceptance must be without pledges or
being tranmeled in any that could be the Pres
dent of the whole nation and not OF a party.
81 have accepted tho nomination Of the Philadelphia
Convention we'll the nomination OF many primary
embes gotten up in various sections OF the un'on IN
some instances irrespective of party and roomd have ae
,Ded the nomination of the Baltimore Contention had
bsen rendered the terms am now fully not far
In before the country candidate for the chief mags
,yacv and if it should be my good bad fortune to be
elected trust my will be such, for the part
regaids the management of our national affairs, will
NEE, the appreciation of my iellowciIzens. Should they
fail to do so, they WILL hauer myself have the charity
attribute my TO the head, and not to the heart
"Very respectfully, your friend,
81. TAYLOR"
Surely this is ''crue and unusual punishment upon
the wing politicians! Not only does General Taylor
place the Philadelphia nomination upon precisely the
same footing with the bakers dozen" of any-pary and
noparty nominations hich he had before accepted;
but he goes farther and tells the wings that he would
have taken the democratic nomination just readily and
upon just the same party terms that he has taken
theirs Truly here is candidate for the wings to
scheme for and toll for and spend their money for and
give up their principles for, and sacrifice their wetried
adfahfu leaders for! Gen. Taylor says he would have
taken the democratic nomination the terms. The
hnu and
too have learned by this time, that the democratic nom
nation not to be had by any on these same terms
The democratic nomination, fortunately, is understood
to mean something, and to pledge somethng as to the po-
tica principles and course of the man who obtains it.
But it not only blow at the whig party that this
letter remarkable. In what attitude does it present
General Taylor and his "trisnds" in the Philadelphia
convention In that body, Judge Saunders, in the name
OF the Louisiana delegation, ella inning to speak by au.
hoy of Gen. Taylor, (and since confirmed in his state
men by General Taylors Bailie Peyton card,) said:
"On behalf of the delegation of Louisiana, will further
that Gen Taylor desires to be understood that in
his opinion his friends oao come into this convention
bound abide by its decision, and sustain the nominee
heart and sour-that General Taylor recognises in his
friends in this convention those Oho haze the right NTH
drap his name, and ,cH cheery acquiesce such tch
drapa.
SIN case the choice OF this convention shall fall on another
than Gen. Taylor and his friends in this convention with
draw him, will be their act and his but in which he
will cheerfuy acquiesce; and by the of uniting ih
this eonpntion his friends rortdralo his from the
uass, unless he be the nominee Of the convention"
And now having obtained the whig nomination by this
explicit avowal made in his behalf that his name tDoAd
be withdraUn from the if he not made the
mig nominee ne turns round and tells the wings that
their nomination is just good any other that he has
received and beHerthat it pledges him to nothing,
and that he would have taken the Baltimore nomination
the same terms Who can for moment suppose
that General Taylor could have obtained or hoped to OBJ
tain, the Philadelphia nomination. if Judge Saunders, in
stead OF saying what he did say there had just got and
read this Charleston letter and then had taken his seat
Had this been done, the wings at Philadelphia would in
have secuted the idea of giving General Taylor the
nomination And what be said for the good faith of
candidate, who, after he is nominated, thus turns his
back upon the pledges which, being made in his behalf
and obtained him the nomination, were afterwards sane
toned by him What motive has the wing party to strive
for his election? What ground has the country for belev
ing that he can, politician, be safely trusted All
Aow of consistency has, beyond doubt, been aban-
doned in the series OF General Taylors letters. Has the
substance of good faith with his party been preserved
Gen. Taylor and tho Volunteers.
We have already laid be fore readers documentary
proof of the manner in which the Ohio volunteers look
upon the political aspirations of Gen. Taylor Here is
apiece of evidence from ,chg source, to the feeling
of the North Carolina volunteers upon the subject. We
conv from l;llsborough IF