Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1848-10-28

is great and patriotic man is to say moth
ing. Martin Van Buren, might say that Of
him, aud he has said as much again as that
of him, in resolution which have in my
pocket. believe, upon all the evidence to
which have had access, that he possesses
in an extraordinary degree the basis of adj
mnistrative talent of exactly the kind you
seek in the Presidential chair. believe,
from all the evidence to which have had
access, tina; he is thorough and quick in his
discerument of men--reading character nc
curately, candidy, aud simultaneously. |
believe that he possesses, in an cxtraordin-
airy degree, sense, judgment, solid and strong
qualities of mind, of the old Roger Sherman
and George Washington model.
/" II understand him to be a thorough man
of business, in the best and largest accept
ance of that erm-admnistering a large
estate and great fortune with as much ab-
ity as a Florida or Mexican campaign.-
Again, from his youth up-from the time he
took up arms in the service of his country
he has had an unequiyocal proof of SUI
peror character, in the confidence he in
spires, and the profound Difference he re-
ceives, without exacting it, from every hui
man being who comes within his reach
Add to that the kindness of his heart--kind
as Nelson's, kind as woman's-and that
tolerant humanity and honesty incorruptible
which he who knows him would think no
more of assailing than of putting himself
within the range of all the battlements of
Monterey, or the whirlwinds of the Gulf
all the world may look upon him and say,
HERE is Man
81 hear it asked whether he has the re-
qusite degree of political information and
experience in public affairs. Sir, cannot
help believing that Gen. Zachary Taylor is
destined, in the hands of Providence, to IL
lustrate the truth of that remark of that
great observer, Edmund Burke: have
many times taken notice that men not pro-
fessionally trained in the details of public
Office, yet, when called into great stations,
have, by the mere force of simple discre
ton, conducted the affairs of nations with
distinguished felicity and glory. | expect
the illustration of that remark in the eight
years or the four years of the administration
of Gen. Zachary Taylor. All his life long
he has served his country in department
of the General Government, enlarging and
elevating him above the influences of mere
politics. All his life long now, from his
youth to somewhat past middle age, the
ripper time of mans life, he has been an OBJ
server of the fortunes, the policy, and the
interests of the General Government. All
his life long he has been an equal associate
with those great scenes; in all his intervals
of leisure, in his winter evenings, his fur
lloughs, his retirements from the sharper
services of the camp, he has been an OBJ
server, student, and thinker upon the
great national interests of the land he has
learned them, sir, as julius Cesar learned
astronomy, in the camp.
" For all these reasons, observe in him
exactly the ability you expect from the Chief
Magistrate Of the land. He is not 10 con-
duct our diplomatic correspondence with all
the world he is not to settle matters of in
ternational jurisprudence he is to execute
firmly, humanely, and steadily the Jaws OF
the land, which Congress prescribes. lie
is TO appoint honest and incorruptble men
to public office; he is to hold a steady hand
between this nation and foreign nations, OBJ
serving honorable peace and avoiding en-
tanglng alliances with all. In all this | may
be permitted to say--l hope without extrav-
aeance-that have the honor to regard him
this day, in comparison with any public
American, pre-eminently qualified for the
station to which we call him. at least
would rather give the flag of my country
into the hands Of man that carried ii
among the living and the dead, up the sleeps
Of Monterey, and against the tremendous
odds al Buena Vista, than entrusi il to that
man of Kinderhook, who carried out that
radiant standard and laid il at the foot Of the
English throne. Immense applause.")
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