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( Inc ioitoging graphic sketch IS from a speech dc
liTetsd By he Hon. calLTox ALlax, a, yiaches,er
heu.neky, Mr. A. represented iar several years III,
Lexington district in Congress
But has General Taylorithe capac,tv n
govern We know that large bodies nj
troops We're sent to him from ali parts of The
Union--men fresh from the pursuits OF civil
lite and unaccustomed TO restraint, and In !
short time they were moulded into the eff
cheney Of regular troops. There. are two
methods Of governing-force and persuasion
Gen. Taylor treated his men as rational be;ngs.
I By kindness and example, he awakened an
them all the better feelings q theiy na.nres
and BY clothing the naked, fsadiug the hun
I CRY, sustaining the sick, and consolings the
responding, he made such an impression ON
their minds and hearts, that they obeyed him
from respect and love. Force, punishment.
and whips, seem to have cut no figure in his
government. We every day meet, With
Democrats and Wings, Natives and Foreion-
ers, returning from the army, who all sneak
of him as children might Of a kind and afFsc-
ationats father. Contrast this mode Of gov
ernlng with that of the Mexican Generals
and you will have the secret Of his uniform
success. The Mexican, chiefs lived in the
spiendor Of ancient Spanish pomp, and, sur
{ rounded by the barriers of forms and cere-
MONIES, they could never hear the groans of
the poor soldier. The consequence was, that
they fought without spirit, and sought the
frst occasion TO fly. But General Eaylor
lived among his soldiers as they lived, esef
ready to hear and redress their grievances
treating them as men and equals; and the re-
sniff Ns-D fEatfb rte l.. l.
man, to die BY him, because they knew that
he would die by them. His profound know
ledge Of human character, and his sympathy
with human suffering, were as potent in the
hour OF battle as was Captain Bragg's battery.
In regard to his knowledge or capacity. |
never heard him accused Of great ignorance,
but in one Respectively say that he does not
know when he is whipped! and that, accor-
ding to military Science, he was whipped
three times at Buena Vista, and never found 1
It out Santa Anna, HIMSELF was under that
impression, and, after having scientifically |
hsi:i:; be. twice; very politely sent in
flag to inform him Of the fact.
- The 18th of next November will be a day.
great in the history Of this world. There
Will be the toiling. millions. Before them
will stand ZACHARY Taylor, in the modest SIM
Pllcity Of an American farmer, as unass,ining
IN character as one Of them. Brought up
VIII thom5tolled with them, suffered with |
them, and with them demanding govern
ment Of laws. Before them, also, shall stand
Lewis Cass, the advocate of the government
OF a man. Mounted, Janus-faced, upon. his
platform, he shall be seen holding in one hand
the Wilmot proviso; stretched to the North n
IN the other slavery, extended to the South |
holding up to the rivers and lakes q -paper /
and on the other side the word reto. The T
scene of grandeur will touch the deepest f. |
bre in the human heart. "A sound shall be
heard to rise up from the face Of the whole
land, and it will come, and continue to come.
From the North, and from the South, and
from the East, and from the West, it will roll |
on, and on, a mighty tide of human voices,
and the loud acclaim shall be for Taylor and
the Constitution! And, in the press to the I
polls, million Of voices shall be heard ring
ing the battle-cry, Give them more grape, !
Capt Bragg The handwriting is upon the
wall. Lewis Cas- might as well think to I'M
fix the mountains from their eternal founda-
tons, TO hold back the ocean inits course, or
stay the tempest in its might, as to avert the
" 10 HAOAtOelilSSiu pOli mn
toiling millions on the 18th Of November, in
the year of our Lord, 1913.
'sThc day Of righteous retribution has
come. The sins and the glories Of this war
are fast parting and settling into their proper
places. On the one side, violated censti-
tuition, usurped power, breach by the Chief
Magistrate Of his solemnly plighted faith to
his own party the desolations of war the /
presence of alien territory to destroy domestic
peace, and to put at hazard our Union and
all at the cost of ages of labor to the toiling
millions, are some of the loathsome elements
out of which is formed the crown of crime
that is fast settling down forever on the heads
of the authors Of this war. On the other
hand, the unfaltering resolution, the patient
endurance, displays of high intellect, daring
courage, and the most wonderful achieve
ments, have already combined to throw halo
of never-fading glory around the American
army. The visible display Of this retributive
Justice, standing out full in the eyes Of the
nation, will cause transfer of the Govern:
ment from the hands that have thus outraged
it, to those who have proven they will use it
righteously,v -.... \.