Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1848-04-27

fTien0S represent ,N"' 'He WHHaso M!
Of my name would be fatal TO their suc-
cess" f,hey SO speak 10 you, they
speak Iifertn; language elsewhere.
l have been told lhaA all the members
Of Congress from our own State, but
une, told you that you could not be
elected, and ,hatdiveIs Others y hon ]
could name, teItl you the san thing.
But, il these reports be untrue, allow
me to tell you, tina, ] have heard al
most universal, that yo,i name would
again bring US defeat. in that opln-
ION concur, and will give you my
reasons. Because am not gui,ltss
myself, ani because of,he bad taste of
The thing, will not urge objections 10
your private character. Neither will
press your prestige of all-luck, IN say
ing tina, all the measures which you
have urged upon the people, except
the Missouri compromise, have been
erased from the statute book. For we
lament in common the fall OF the tariff,
the bank, and internal improvements,
under your lead! shall confne my
self then TO the question of availability.
Three times have we run you, and
three times you: name has brought US
defeat. So soon as Gen. ". II. Har-
rison had brought us up from misera-
bic minority, where you had left US, to
n large majority, vow hurried on to
Washington, when Mr.. Tyler under
Mr.. WebS,er's lead was doing good
service to the county and party, and
BY attempting 10 force on him and US
the "ob>olr.e Bank" which we had
purposely sluued in the canvass, you
brought us 10 a speedy MINORITY! Il
A ''long time ago." being 100 old
to perform The comparatively llgh: du-
ties of Senator, you gave the public a
fare,ceU address and retired from pub
lie life. The Democratic party BY :he
excess Of it's numbers, was Il: once split
into widely separated fragments. Mes
srs. Cas>. Calhoun, Van Buren,, Tyler,
Polk. and others, were all pressing
their claims with bitterness before
unknown to the party. 'Nhom the
gods wish to destroy, they first make
mad" They determined To bring
Texas into the Union avoacedly TO
break down The power of the FREE"
North, and 10 make this nation slave
empire. The friends Of liberty rallied
once more, and in spite Of your Mis-
souri, compromise, and yoLr consistent
pronunciation Of all real anti Slavery ac-
tion, your Raleigh letter made you by
some fatality our candidate once more
The Democratic feuds were at once
cured up by the greater hatred Of Hen
ry Clay. Mr. Van Buren,, who taken
similar ground with yourself, but who
coule; not unite The party, was over
thrown, and Mr.. James X. Polk sub
mi,,ed. Notwithstanding the claims
Of other Wings, will no, restrict my
self to saying your equals, we've post
poned, who no one now doubts could
have been elected. we. the Wing Party. all
united OH you. We fought with the ardor Of
brotherhood, and with The moral poircr Of a
noble cause. Our success seemed certain.-
Now once more, BY that fatality which attends
you, you come out in your Gazette letter. and
disclaim any sympathy nih emmncip.ton.-
1t is true there was little incunsis ency IN
this, inasnuch as you had always vo"ed the
opposite doctrine; bu, as you wrote to me Ego
on. good Cassius." thought at last all things
would come out right. This, however, was
small affair between you and me and our sbo-
lition friends Blu, all a, once yon came ont
in your Alabama letter; when you would met
reject a permanent acquisition Of territory on
account ofa temporary instiiutio,a." This
was very diffrren, affair. Ii lay at the foun-
da,ion Of the whole contest. You "changed
front" The Wings Of The North were DISCUS
ted. They had nothing left To contend for
The ha,,le was lost We felt our country S
wounds in your person. We paid your debts.
we condoled with you in your retirement once
more. and raised monuments TO your memory!
Orce more The excuses Of the Democratic
Party began to exhibit themselves. The I'M
constitutional annexation Of Texas, and the
Presidential war, began to stir the souls OF IN
dignant freemen. Seeing that we were in
and without the sympalhies Of the
reopIe-having experience that peace party
can never have the confidence Of Republic
during raging wnr.-our ,cise Wing leaders
voted supplies, and The Wings turned out to
the war, and once more we steadily brought
ourselves up from minority where you had
again left u.s. into majority Tr
The Administration had all the sponsibiliy
of the loss of honor, men and money, by the
war: our Whig generals reaped the glory
The success Of our party was certain. The
public. with unanimity never before seen in
this country. looked to one man; man who.
growing too great for the powers at Washing
ton. was LET. TO perish with a handful Of men
before twenty thousand troops in the enemy's
country. But Zacharlah Taylor was not the
man to die. to accommodate President Polk or
his ally Santa Anna! The battle of Buena
Vista fixed General Taylor in the hearts of
this people! Neither you. nor the wirework-
ers of party, nor thu President. can cause him
81 his friends TO '.smrtnder" The homes,
old soldier was generous enough to give par