The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-06-11
THE UNION.

vast personal popularity, is set upsouthern fore,
him upon the whg convention and southern votes will
make him President
The foregoing paragraphs were written on receivin.
from the telegraph office here des patch 10 the effect thai
zen Taylor was elected II appears that the repor
was not uae we do not however copect what has been
written Taylor will be nominated by the convention be-
lore It's members separate and remarks will then
'heir proper application
A few words only upon the tone of this article For
It's editor personally, would cherish no other sentiment
than respect But we would respectfully inquire does
the editor of the Evening Post desire the election OF
General Taylor! Is the swish father to the thought
Why so readily admit that General Taylor will GER
tanly be elected Presdent' Can he wish it, that he
should thus surrender the battle and admit our defeat
Certainly This is not the way in which gallant chieain
would rally his forces Cowardce in such cases beirays
ike If the republican party follow the example
of the Post shall certainly be beaten But if it does
its duty TO itself, with the manly spirit which becomes
It, and II like true men we bring forces into the field,
dread not the result We speak with the most
perfect conviction of the truth, that General Taylor will
not sweep the south from Cape May Key West None
but mailman would say that he is of Virginia or OF
South Carolina We defy the Post to produce single
man, be he democrat or be he wing, who enertans a
doubt about Virginia The most extavasant wing cal
culators include it within their estimates of the
wing force, Such suggestion is calculated to shake
all confidence in the judgment of him who so san
guinely transfers her to the wing column Our
life upon ii, General Taylor stands not the slightest
chance of carrying the Old Dominion and we learn
this day that it is absolutely certain South Carolina will
not go for General Taylor. The Posts appeal to the
Office holders is as insulting to them il is unworthy
of itself We speak frankly, because are indignant at
the hesi,ang spirit or the factious design which th.
whole article betrays
The whole OF the speculation about Texas is wo rhy
OF the which tie Evening Post pursued in 1915
The path which the President pursued in the annexa-
ton OF Texas was not only his own course but it was
that of Andrew Jackson and of the great body of the
democratic party. If it brought on the war with Mexico
what patriot now aments that event i-one of the most
brilliant wars in the annals of the world-which has
raised the character OF our country to the highest pitch
in Europe-which has tested our immense resources
and terminates in an honorable peace and in the acqus
ton OF noble territory from the Rio Grande to the Pa
cic, embracing OF the finest harbors in the world
would suppose that this precisely the moment when
an American would not regret the annexation of Texas
or the war, and peace with Mexico
True it has raised up Gen. Taylor as candidate for
the Presidency; but he is not yet elected and will
be unless ranks be filled with such soldiers as the
attaches of the Evening Post The south will do her
duty in defeating him. and not the less because the spirit
of the Post is against her There is not southern
State south of the Potomac except perhaps North Caro-
lima, (and there friends will war the knfe which
will give her vote to place Gen. Taylor in the chair
Unless the Post to abandon its old republican
principles, and turn TO Gen Taylor, and turn whig, it
desirable that it should change its tone change
its conductor till November next