The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-11-21
POLITICAL TRICKS AND FORGE
RIES.

The manner in which the canvass has been
conducted against Gen. TAYLOR has been
mean, contemplate, and wicked. Not con-
tent with ISLANDERS and Misrepresentation both
Of Gen. TAYLOR and Mr. FILLMORE, the let
tiers of the former have been mutilated and
changed, so as to give them meaning entire
~ different from the intention of the writer,
and in some cases entire letters have been
forged and circulated in his name
1t will be recollected that letter was pub
lished some time since in this city, purporting
to be from Gen. TAYLOR to some person.
thanking him for the present Of horse, which
letter has been extensively circulated and
commented upon by tho Democratic press
throughout the Union, with the view of bring
ing him into ridicule, and to create the i'm
preston, from its faulty composition, that he
was not the writer of the public dispatches
and other communications which had APP
peared from him. This letter, We believe,firs
appeared in the Delta and its errors or def
cicncies duly displayed in italics, but that pa
per has recently stated it was, as it had reason
TO believe, a fabrication but we have not vet
seen any Democratic paper, which had pub
lished and commented on it, make the expla-
nation, nor UiH Il be done in a single instance.
To contradict falsehood or forgery, when it is
discovered, is not a part of the plan for con-
Quoting the contest against Gen. TAYLOR.
The last case Of the kind is a letter that ap-
peared in the Union, which, though not exact
" a forgery amounts to pretty much the same
thing, and is one of the very meonea attempts
that has vet come TO our knowledge
1t appears that young lawyer of Baltimore
had addressed letter to Gen. TAYLOR, put
ting some impairment inquiries to him, and
in style which induced the old old hero to
give him little rebuke for in reply to him,
he SAYS:
81 beg to inform you that have uniformly
declined yielding TO similar requests, in the
belief that my opinions. even if ] we're the
President of the United States would be
neither important nor necessary 10 gov; and
/ regret TO add, that see no reason for de-
parting, IN the present instance, from that
course"
The letter was sent to the Union with the
following suspicious instruction:
If you think it will help the cause along.
you can publish it, rih the exception of my
name, TO whom il is addressed"
And it was published With the omission of
the two words IN italics so yo,t'
On the strength of this letter, thus mmHat-
ed so as entirely to alter the tenor of it. which
was to convey rebuke to an intrusive and
Impairment correspondent, the Union writes
column upon column to prove how totally I'M
1T Gen. TAYLOR was to fill the high office, as
he himself ayowed that his opinions as Presi-
lent would have no weight, and that he would,
recording to the Union, be mere tool, or
lose Of wax in the hands of others, if elected.
The kindred presses throughout The Union
nave, of course, taken the cue from the Union I
md sing the same tune on the subject, and (
ONE OF them (among others the Boston PosO /
AVE actually taken the mutilated paragraph /
md keep 1t as stonding motto at the head of
heir columns
Though the Northern Taylor papers have
exposed the fraud, not a single Democratic
aPer has as yet noticed tho explanation, or
eases to parade the mutilated letter with a
lew to injure Gen. TAYLOR.
Such are the miserable shifts and tricks to
Inch his political enemies resort in order to
ljure the gallant old hero.--Ne,c Orleans
'ulletin.