Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-02-01

seem 10 us that simple seif-respect requires W ,'e
Wing party line nomination Vi no candidate lor
President whose opinions on these vital quesuohs
arc shrouded in myscrv. TO vote 10! uian
whose opinion on some important point disastees
with our own, may sometimes be duty oul 10
vote for one whose opinions on all points are SUI
diously concealed or oTacuaIly misline"' uoe'
moi compo,t with our ideas OF political honof.-
The concealment argues that somebody Is 10 NC
chealed and we do not choose 10 be ciaSsea ei'ne'
with The swindlers or the dupes.
"It is rumored to day that the Wing caucus cam.
general understanding that General Taylor snouu Nv"
be nominated by the Wing National Convenso' II ia
he should avow himself as wing IN pin r, ~ The can
said that he has been written TO, Oh tne par VI wy, @
cas- and thai his refusal 10 pledge hinise" W, . r
port Of the Wing doctrines Is TO 90 naue US. ~ nut
him off the course. There Is mach trouble 'ne,sy ,a
in store for the Wing party, for do not ind ih uo
Clay Wings intend to yield, and the Taylor wings S
not intend TO surrender. No official account ., ne
proceedings of the Wing caucus to be 'h ,s
til the second meeting shall he held, az With Wv -
port of the committee Is TO be received
The above extract from The Washington cor
respondence of The Baltimore Sun, sKe'cheS' ~
doubt, the true state OF The gfeat wing p"''
at the Federal Metropolis. The eV''eH'' y,
Whis papers, which We have already pieSen'ea
10 our readers and which still confines 10 reach
us from various quarters of The Union, con''m.e'
US tina, whatever course the "no party" guerriilas
may take Mr. Clay is TO be again honofea Will
the Wing nomination.
Yesterdays Wing refers 10 the unanimous ie-
commentator of National Convention py Inc
Wing members of Congress, and exclaims In
triumph, "ALL WILL BE WELL" Ii adds:
"The Wing party OF the Union will move IN
| solid column 10 the great work before mem anu
| houa no cfrp
its magnitude Wings are coming nearer 'oSe'her
| every day, sacrificing personal preferences ds
| nothing in comparison, and Pled2inS themselves
to 60 for THE WIG CANDIDATE whoever
may be selected by The voice OF the parry ior ina
high and honorable position"
Yesterdays Republican, on The contrary re-
CARDS with horror this same National Convention
and declares that The "plolters against both ray
Tor and Clay, are the most Jealous and unt'rlns
advocates, any where 10 be found, of National
Convsntion. This is their grea, hobby, and they
ride it day and night denouncing as traitors and
renegades all who oppose their favoile mode oil
providing the people with President The Bal
timore Convention has not yet passed from Inc
minds of men, and the anli-Republican spectacle
of minority forcing Presidential candidate
upon a party may be re-enacIed by politicians of
a different school, There is but one ray OF ensu.
ring the fulfment of the popular will, and that Is
for The people TO name their own man, and firmly
refuse 10 subject his election 10 the chaces Of con-
pentsonal lottery. With our fortunes in our hands,
shall we deliberately sill down viii rcteran gam
6lers 10 trial OF luck in which ice hare nothing
10 gain and erery thing 10 lose p"
Here one Taylor ore, AN cries "alls we'll" over
National Conver .ton-apd another, on the
same day, sounds the tocsin agains, this "Con-
venional lottery of veteran GAMBLERS " They
show most t.electable stale OF harmony among
the Taylori'es themselves
But The Wing says that its party will rally
upon "the Wig candidate" nominated by the
Wing National Convention. That General lay.
lor can never be such a candidate is demonslra-
ted by the strongest testimony. He himself has
solemny declared that he will no. be "the candi-
date of any pary"-and we have TOO much con.
6dep ce in the honor aud hrpIness of The old man
to believe that he WILL at the bidding OF Grading
politicians" give the clie 10 his own soemnly and
oft recorded words. The Editor OF the New York
Mirror (Taylor) writes that SIT is an insult TO
him General IT, 10 ask him 10 consent to be The
candidate ofany parry, when he has 80 repeatedly
avowed his determination to be the candidate OF
the people only"
Its true the National Intelligencer declares that
.Gen Taylor is every inch Wing, and nothing
else than Whis"-at the same time mat IL f'u'-
nrlos nj dAnnnncan The Undertaking OF Inc un-
compromising Taylor men 10 drive Inc resi- OF
the Union before them, as they would drove oi
oxen TO market" 1t is hardly probable that Inc
In,ellisencer should be better informed than Gen,
P.'s personal friends in Louisiana; and what DO
then saw A very large meeting OF the friends OF
TAYLOR was held in New Orleans, on Saturday
week. and, in their resolutions they take The sron-
sest and mos, Incorporating ground:
awe wish 10 present him 10 the country the
Candidate. as he will be the President, OF The feo'
pie, and not of q Partp.
"3 Resolved, That we take pleasure IN an
nouncing 10 the friends OF Gen. Taylor all over
the Republic, that we have The best reasons lo'
assuring them that, come rhat may come, uene'
raj TAYLOR will not retire from me posi'ioh III
relation to the Presidency in which the people
have placed him.
III Resolved, That il is the sense of this meeting,
that the refusal Of Cen Taylor 10 Jcc0ns the can
ddate Of any particular purity, so Tar from conSU
tulino lust ground of complaint should be con-
sidered as evidence of his superior qualifications
for the discharge of the duties of President"
But further Manuel White, who presided at
said meeting, and who offered The resolution
adopted by the Louisiana Senate, sustaining The
| Presidents course on The war throughout, came
forward in the Senate with a written explanation
| OF his vote in the Senate which was entered on
| the Journal, and from which we extract The iol-
lowing emphatic passages;
| al deemed it still more out of place to vote Tor
| an amendment which designated Gen. Taylor as
future President, OF the United States, without, IN
| he most remote degree compromising The hlsh
estimate in which | hold Gen. Taylor and his
claims to tina, high cfii,e. He IS not a Hhig nc
is mol a Democrat. lie belongs 10 tine people"
Who can doubt, after this, that Gen. Taylor
will no, be '',he Wing candidate" but an indie
pendent one, if one al all2 The signs lhicEen,
that Henry Clay is 10 be "thc Wing candidate"
and 10 This complexion, it will come at last, as
we have never for once doubted. The "vseran
gamblers" as the Republican has it, will con-
troll The Convention, will throw Old FAC over
board, and run The flag OF Clay 10 the masthead.
The Tayori,es will be forced TO "surrender" TO
the great Ken,uckian, or form guerilla band
fighting between the two great parties. The re-
suit no Democrat can doubt.
IN A FOG.
Yesterday week the Louisiana Legislature was
TO elect U. S. Senator, in place OF MIR. john
! 10 M al