The State guard., 1848-08-01


 adjourned.
 W. w. MORRIS, Ch'mn.
 JoHN A. GRAHAM, Sec'y.
 b7"I HAVE NO TIME TO FORM POLITICAL OPINONS.n
 "IN NO CASE CAN I PERMIT MYSELF TO BE THE CANDI- DATE OF ANY PARTY OR YIELD MYSELF TO PARTY SCHEMES."
 HAM A MODERATE WHIG."
 q AT 4 WIIIG AND 4 GUAR TER OVER" pYn
 Upon the above entirely consistent dec- larations of Gen. Taylor, who is now the candidate of the aclig party,, the Peters, burg Republican writes very spirited and conclusive review of the awkward position in which Old Zack and his friends have involved him. The Republican tru- ly says
 "We might safely defy the most cun. ming and ingenious of our opponents to reconcile the widely conflicting state- ments of the old hero in reference to the important subjects to which they refer.
 "He did say, ard he did often repeat it, each time with increased emphasis, that Sin NO case" could he permit himself ''to be the candidate of ANY party" and yet, although he made that declaration to the people, and for the satisfaction of that same people, what is he now but the hurra can- didate of the WHIG partyl Who com posed the Philadelphia Convention but Wings? And who sent the delegates to the Convention but Wings? And what portion of our fellow-citizens constitute the whig party, unless the Whigs do?- And yet General Taylor, the nominee of that Convention, positiucly declared that Sin mo case" would he permit himself "to be the candidate of any partyi"
 Is this vascillatng, gum elastic disposi- tiop commendible characteristic in one who is candidate for the highest office in the gift of free people?
 And, further, if in direct opposition to his own unsolicited declaration, he does "permit" himself to be the candidate of the phig "party," what gllarantie have the people, whose votes he solicits, that he will not, also, in violation of his other positive, unsolicited assurance, "yield him self to party SCHEMES 2"
 But again in one of his letters he says that he has, for the last forty years, been so much occupied in his professional (military) pursuits, that he has not had time 10 form dny political opiaions-par- ticularly in reference to Bank of the United States and Protective Tariff and yet in another letter he adopts the cognomen of one of the parties in this country, which has for years been charac- terized by it's advocacy of Bank and Protective Tariff, and places himself qui- etly upon their political platform by say .ng "I am moderate WHIG."
 In addition tosthis, we have the assd- rance from the Richmand Times, that at the ratification Whig meeting in Indepen- dence square, Philadelphia, after the nom- ination had been made, Col. Haskell of "amongst other things that were received with vociferous applause" said, 'ff any body questions tho Whiggery of Zachary Taylor, tell him that you heard Haskell of Tennessee declare, on his hon. or as gentleman, here. in the city of Philadelphia, in Independence Square, that Taylor told him, when he visited his tent as a private soldier, that he was A WHIG AND A QUARTER OV. ERr" a'ateifa , aia,tersi
 Further; at whig ratification meet ing in Boston, Major John P. Gaines, or Kentucky, declared that he ''knew Gen. Taylor intlmately" and concluded his speech with the following bold and une- quivocal assertion: e
 "One word," says he, tin conclusion, as to Gen. Taylor being Whig. He walks like whig, he looks like whig, and he talks more like e Whig Man e pig can squeal like C pig. I am considered, at home, HIGH PRIEST of Whig principles, and Gen. Taylor IS AS ! AMT"
 Notwithstanding all this testimony, that comes in such shape that it cannot be or, we presume, contradict ed. Gen Taylor has declared to the world that he has had no time to form political opinions.
 And, in the face of this too, in another letter. he discusses the Veto question, up- on which, also, the two political parties of this country have long been divided.
 But we will make no further comments this morning, and will simply ask every candid man to consider these things, and then make up his own decision.