The North-Carolina standard., 1848-07-19
aMoDERArE,, rAYLoR MEN.

MoDERATE'" TAYLOR MEN.
The "best joke of the season y is to be found in
the following extract from the reply of Gen. Taylor
to the Wings of Raleigh on the subject of the Presf
dency. The old General says:
al beg that you will convey to NV fellow citizens
of Raleigh, my grateful acknowledgements for this
distinguished mark of their confidence-and assure
them that shall feel proud of the support of men
eoho are governed by such spirit Of noderation in
their political opinions as that manifested in the reso
lutlons before me.' 4'' s'' .<
If Gen. Taylor supposes for one moment that the
leading Wings of Raleigh, or of this State, are at
all moderate in their political opinions then all
we have to say to him is, that he has been egregE
ously imposed upon. Who are these men, and what
has been their conduct for years past! t-- u
" Moderate" " Mr.. Gales, who threatened revolu-
ton in case Polk and Dallas elected, and who
slandered the people of of the Counties in this
State by charging that they capable of s'cast-
Ing thousand votes beyond their real strength - and
who has also, at various times demanded and justi-
hed prescription to the fullest extent in the admins
tration of our State Government. 20 '' ... o..
Moderate - Mr. Charles Manly, who is as culpa-
BILE In all these respects Mr.. Gales
g Moderate" Mr.. Richard Hines, who signed an
address in 1874, in which an attempt made, for
party effect, to prove that the grandfather of Presi
dent Polk was Tory in the Revolution.
"Moderate - Mr.. Henry W.. Miller, who united
with Messrs. Hines, Gales, and Manly, in threaten
ing revolution, and in slandering the people of Edge
comb County.
"Moderate' Mr. Kenneth Rayner, who voted in
the last Legislature to prescribe democrats and put
Wings in office; who reported and advocated the
bill to rearrange Congressional Districts so as
to get more Wings in Congress; who supported an
infamous Preamble - which declared the Mexican
War to have been brought by the action of Presi
dent Polk !; who that occasion put Mexico in the
right and his own country in the wrong; and who
but few weeks since, in his speech in the Court
House in this City, in which he gave in his adhesion
to Gen. Taylor, declared the Mexican War "6loody
and uniustifabLe."
'Moderate" Mr.. Gales again, who eulogized Tom
Corwin; who called Gen. Cass San ASS" and a
I" bag of wind - who now says that General Cass
black cockade Federalst at seventeen, and a
" demagogue and shufler in his old age''; who
pronounces Gen. Cass an Abolitonist and Wilmot
Provisost, in the face of facts the contrary; who
for party effect, called Judge Douglas an Abolition
ist, which lie he has not taken back, and never will
who characterized the Mexican War as unjust un-
constitutional and unrghteous, and who at the same
time supports for the office of President, man who
the greater portion of his aurels in fighting that
Moderate - Mr.. Gales! Consistent Mr.. Gales!
Is it possible that such ever gave party vote
in their lives!
The truth is, this paper, and the Democrats of
North Carolina generally, have proved themselves to
be better and friends of Gen. Taylor than this
very club of moderate " men, who now seek to use
him to effect their own selfish ends. Was the war
denounced! We defended it. We showed that it
was just, and that therefore Gen. Taylor, who, we
presumed, thought it just also, fighting in it
with clear conscience. Did Mr.. Webster say that
" no laures" could be won in war waged from
vicious motives = The Democrats told Mr.. w eb-
ster in reply, that he doing injustice General
Taylor and slandering his country. Did Tom Cor
win exhort the Mexicans to meet troops with
bloody hands and hospitable graves"7 We held
up Tom Corwin a traitor, and told Taylor and his
gallant soldiers to press forward-that the war
a righteous one, and ought to be prosecuted until we
obtained indemnity for the past and security for the
future. Did these &C moderate - men seek to draw
Gen. Taylor from his /" mmutable" position as a
neutral, and to appropriate his fame and his brilliant
deeds in the field, to vile party purposes We pro-
tested against such course, and declared
vction that Gen. Taylor could be forced to
abandon his stand Sc independent candidate,
and accept the Wing nomination. In all this
defended Gen. Taylor one Of our country's naeri
Oriotrs Generals; but if he has thrown himself into
the of the Wing leaders, and consented to let
them use him as instrument whereby they hope to
obtain Offices and spoils, then say to him that the
Democrats will vote against him, and that, to man,
they will unite to prevent his election. His real
sl1nderers and riHiters in the Whig ranks and
tell him in advance, that should he be elected and
redeem his pledge to administer the Government with
out reference to party interests party schemes,"
and the time refuse to turn Democrats out of
Office and put Wings in, these very "moderate "
men, of whose &c support" he " fees'' so "proud,'
will make the walls of the White House and the
streets of Washington ring with their bitter curses,
and they will write him down "haitor and hypo-
critic ''-just they did John Tyler.
REVOLUTION IN MEXICO.
The Charleston Courier of the 18th instant, says
ssThe ship Constantine had arrived New Orleans,
with dates from the Capital of Mexico to the 9th
nit.