Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-07-25

rejoice 10 say, meet with my cordial approval
and assent No movements in any part OF Inc
country, having The object 10 offer testimonials Of
honor and respect towards myself, or 10 advocate
my election 10 the Presidency, have caused IN me
more lively pleasure, or demand more my srali-
ude AS they have with So much
confidence placed my name 10 domination be-
fore the country, on their own responsibility, Tree
lr I'm parry action and The exaction oil pledges
lro m m, sell, shall serve them strictly as con-
slIutional and moi as party president"
II there is any meaning in language: and II a
mans declarations can, in any cas-, be regarded
as foundation Tor confluence, we ale al loss 10
conceive in what particular II Was possible iol
General TAYLOR TO pledge himself more emphali'
call than in these various letters to all the gr0itndS
upon ,chieh The independent party and press adoo.
cat.d his election. Ii these declarations amounted
10 anything al all, il was 10 this: That Gen. lay
lor was before The people, already nominated as
candidate Tor The Presidency, Irrespective OF par
L.: that as The I'ecpie had nominated him. The
People only could withdraw him. ttat he uould
not loihdra1c from the canpass no matter ,oto nigdt
be The nominees: thai he would mo- be the candi.
dale of a party: would make M pledges 10 be Sc
lectrd as party candidate, and would accept no
nomination, coupled with the eIaction Of pledges
Down 10 The meeting OF The Wing Convention,
such vas his position such were his repeated,
solemn, voluntary assurances 10 his country men.
In the face OF all this, il now appears that Gen.
TAYLOR, pledged as he was 10 engage in mo
schemes. no combinations, no intrigues"-bound
by the most stringent obligations 10 eschew party
AMI all is works-protesing that he would not
have 'rhe slightest agency" in seeking or procur-
ing non,iuations-did nevertheless give 10 The de.
legation from Louisiana-a pa,tixan delegation
full poacer to represent him in The Wing Con-
vpnrion, and that the statement made 10 that Con.
yeniion, BY Judge Saunders, was in tact General
T,ayor's onn statement, made by his authority,
and sanctioned by his 'endre, tull and unequivo
| cal appreciation" By that statement II appears
that when he said 1.-THE people alone were author
ICED 10 withdraw his name from The canvass" he
meant chs friends in that Convention" When
he said that he would not be party candidate,
he meant that he authorized chs friends IN ha
| Convention 10 1cihdraw his name IRON The
canvass "uness he should be selected as The Iphis
| candidate. When he sail that he would MOI
| withdraw, no matter who might De The parry no
| minees, he meant that h. would authorize "his
friends in that Convention" 10 Withdraw him, IN.
less he should be the Wing nominee. When he
declared that he would refuse the acceptance oil
any nomination, unless he should be "leit free
of all pledges, and permitted TO maintain the
position of independence in which the people
and his own sense Of duty had placed him." be
reserved 10 himself the right Of authorizing the
Louisiana Wing delegation 10 oreryide his sense
of dutu and tie uil of the people. and to destroy
his position NJ independence altogether. When
he declared that he would yield TO no call that
lid not come from "lhe spontaneous action and
free will of the nation at large, and void of the
| slightest agency OF his own" he did not mean
| TO preclude himself from the 'agency Of bis
Uhig friends or TO refrain from assisting the
"spontaneous action and free will Of the Wig
| Convention, by representations through The Lou
| isiana delegation. When he declared that if the
| Wing party desired TO vote for him, they must dc
so "on their own responsibility and without any
pledges from him. he intended nothing more
| than TO say that he would make pledges through
his fri,nds 10 withdraw if not nominated, aud
that they might vote for him on the responsible
| " of those pledges! AND ALL THIS IS SAID, DONE
| RATIFIED ASD ADOPTED, rithout ercuse OF paitid
| ioa, other than the assurance on the part oil
the Louisiana delegation tina" it is their act, moi
his and that they'"wi it to be distinctly un
derstood that it involves no Inconsistency on the
part Of General Taylor!n
We have been educated in The plain school
| which teaches tina, what man cannot do direct
| IN he cannot do indirectly; that what man does
through othe,s, he does himseH. 10 our support o
| Gen. Taylu', we have dealt plainly, and expected
| plain dealing. We have used no suberiuees and
made no mental reservations Metaphysics anc
casui.lfy were not part OF our contacts we
m.ant what we said, and We SAID II We SUPP SEE
/ THAT GGN. TAYLOR DID THE SAME. On his prlucI
Il. of construction we now stand The act Of thf
| Louisiana delegation VIC treat as Gen Taylor:
| act Ills his, in lis length and breadth. II Con
.s,enl or nconsislenti in good faith or bad falih-
fair or iase III is all his Il WE REGARD 1T As Al
ABANDONMENT q EVERY PLEDGE ON WHICH He Has
| YET BEEN CALLED To ACT. We deem IL n des9tion
| hi; nost,0n paipabic and 1neQnip0c0i we arr
1 satisfied that having der,usd the bcneft 81 indc
PSs9aca oafo aH4 Ysahs s a. ,S sea
II the eleventh hour, for wha. he then believed Il
be more ualua6Le alliance. Finding him tins
s-gunreliabe in one Thing, we know no reason tol
| supposng we can rely on him in any thing. His
| pledge 10 substitute The Constitution for patty
| creed, in his administration, is fortified and can
| he fortified BY no stronger faith than tha which
aas gone nth The pledges ne iGus sto10i 10 be broken
The ground, then, oil our adherence having fallen
| from under Us, OUR ADVOCACY FALLS WITH 1T
| As frankly as we supported him, We NOW lBAs
DON MS SUPPORT He haze wlthdra1cll his nane
| from Me head Of mr. columns. Oilers may il they
please support his election as choice of evils
We can no longer honestly advocate him. and
We should rerpetraie fraud were we 10 pretend
the contrary.
We have said these things, our readers will
believe, far more in sorrow than in anger We
have no private griefs-no modification, save
the profound one Of having failed in an homes,
effort 10 serve the best interest of the country
The position Of General Taylor, If honorably
maintained, and his election upon the high
ground Of manly and patriotic independence, we
| regarded as fraught and TO be fraughl with in
calculable national blessings His abandonment
Of that position we look upon as national
calamity, proportionally heavy. For General
Taylor, individually, we entertained the pro
foundest respect and generation. Our pain and
disappointment are bitter, in finding that our
standard Of him was higher than his standard Of
himself. What we could not control, we should
under ordinary circumstances, have contented
ourselves with simply lamenting. But having
hrlp-d to msiead Others lchile zoe ,cere deceived
oucclpcs, we have felt il our duty TO unde.
criye them, so far as this exposition has gone.
That done, we shall, as individuals. pursue our
| own course others will pursue theirs.
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Our Electors in most vi The districts are doing
their whole duiy. We observe that Messrs. Let.
cner and McD. Moore will address The people al
Lexington, Warm Springs and Coyinglon on The
regular court days in August. Mr. LIS specche,
are highly commended. Mr.. A. G. Pendleon
Of Giles is struggling manuIy and successfully
with Mr.. Caperlon. Mr. j. S. Barbour has ad
dressed The people OF Alexandra and Fairfax
with great eloqusnce ard effect. His speech al
Alexandria is described as replee with varied
AM extensive political Information. Messrs
Tin Ryes OF Dinwiidie and ]. Jones OF Norfolk
ha. bort at Portsmouth on Friday night. M
RS SOUND reasoning and forcbe illustration told
upon the audience.
Thus far Leake has il all 10 himself in The AL
bcmarle district. The Jeferscnian understand d,
tina. Mr. Alex. Rives declines serving as Whg
Elector.
Capt. John Tyler, cf the nrm of "Tippecanoe and
TYLER ia uDportinp Gen Taylor PFeetdent