The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-06-18
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ciples would not stand the test of truth they careul
avoided all manly discussion They addressed the sense
by the most disgraceful humbugs-by log cabins eoo,
SKINS and hard cider In 1874 they resorted to the sam.
system, but in part, changed their machinery. Han
cider and skins partially discarded and they
resorted TO doggere rhymes and the music Of the waller
kiver"
They varying their machinery for a third time and
they practising daring deception upon the coun
try II they honest in their purposes, they would
boldly select the champion who openly represents Their
views They have called Mr. Clay the very embodiment
of their principles He would have obtained all the whip
vote Yet this enough to electhm Hence they say
he available; and hence theygo for General TAYLOR
under the idle hope that his military feiat may catch
few birds of democratic feather. This is their humbug
game and il they parade General Taylor through
the country along with Old Whitley, Gas are well ad
vsed they intend TO do) they expect TO produce grea
sensation and to carry the day What is il to then
that Gen Taylor is no poltclan-unl by his own con.
fession TO carry on the government If they can elect
him, they are satisfied As Mr.. Collier insulhngly told
the people the other day in the Philadelphia convention
Oho could elect General Taylor for President and Old
Whitley for Vice" But his avowed want OF qualifca
ndescribably disgusting see the circumstances under
which they willing TO Gen Taylor. They have
sacrificed their own idol embodiment for one who de-
clares himself ono politician" They have abandoned
their own party notions for who calls himself
''no-party' man. They have deserted their most dis
tngushed civilian for military leader, whom they
have been in the habit of denouncing as worse
than war, pestence, and famine" But the contrast
does not stop here They have abused this war in
all the detesable spirit of 'mora treason" and ye,
they adopt the very who his military tcla to
this war They denounce the commencement of the war
because it emanated they contend, from the march 10
the Rio Gande, when General Taylor himself had urged
the movement They have deprecated the consequences
of this war; they have resisted all territorial indemnify
when their own favorte candidate has reassered the JUS
tce and the necessity of territorial indemnity. In
word they attempting to deceive the people, by tax
ing up military chieftan, hero OF the very which
they have abused, in its commencement and results
when he recommended the very step which brought on
the war; when he had urged its vigorous prosecution until
obtain honorable peace; and when he had declared
that no peace ought TO be made until obtain, by
toria acquisition, ample indemnify for the past and
security for the future"
Such are the garing contradictions, the disgusting in.
consisencies, the miserable tricks the contemplate hum
bugs, of which many Of the wing party guilty
They deceptive they were in 1910 in 1871
and their whole struggle, therefore, is TO elect
under false pretences, whom they hope to for the
promotion of their views and the of thel
own principles.
But the beauty of the matter is that this redoubab
champion has shifted his position the wings |
have sought to bring him into the field. We shall lay .
all his letters before the people. What will they thnS
of the figure which he cuts in this memorable CORES
pondence If General Taylor had felt proper regard M
his country, for himself he would have declined at
once the offer which the wings have made him He
would have scorned the tempting bait. He would never
have consented to become the instrument in the hands Of
designing to promote their sinister purposes at the
expense of his country He certainly never would have
shifted the Independent position which he originally took
But the glazing inconsistencies into which he himself ha
been betrayed are strikingy set forth in the following
article in the 'JonesbUough (Tennessee) Refomer
that we do not hesitate at once to adopt it:
The wings greatly preferred man for President ncom
mted to their ncipes, to who protested them.
they desire availability all they wanted entlua
These they believed Gen. Taylor could command
His name, fby a shout up the head Of hun
dreds of wing prints the peoples candidate for Press
dent !" No party schemes conventions, pa
inrgues be connected with the in his
favor. His and his fame big for party his
character pure go into the polluted atmosphere
conventions; he too honest to have any conneNm
with, permit any ngues to be set foot to forward
his prospects che the peoples canddaeH' he mus
be elected by the spontaneous will of the naton-by tn
Joint action of all parties!
But the democrats hold their State convention in uut
time. They appoint delegates they fix the day
the holding national convention They go for no man
tcithout principles, Gen. Taylor cannot be nominated by
them This is known TO be "f xed fact" What then
The friends of the peoples candidate, who would nave
nothing to do with "party party schemes iorih~I
back from their oparty"
position-and proceed to in Philadelphia on the III
orJune Thus have the Taylor abandoned heiFin
dependent position, and rapidly preparing to max
him, possible, the ,olg party ddate-he ich'g nom
for the presidency What consistency! Oh what 20
ltcal honesty.
What next! The old General cannot expect a WI
nomination. without pledge 10 wing principles lie n
been Intercepted while the peoples candidate lhe
he was &c no politician" As to bank and protechV
tariff she had investigated them and not prepar
end of the war; In would he permit himself II
be the candidate of any party, yield himself TO pa
schemes" If elected to the presidency lit must DC
the spontaneous will of the people at large, and WIN
any agency pledge his part" This was his w
during the short period he the peoples candidate
But the dem part OF the people, and very
part. And il became known all the world through NV
newspaper press and through the congressional and
latve discussions-through the action of primary asset
blics of the peope the democracy of the Union Gov
not 20 it blind and support Gen. Taylor. This left HIN
longer the candidate of the people, but If one at all
candidate of the wings. u
And now what' AS before remarked, he could not