Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-05-24
Gen. Taylor's Last Letter.

Gen. TaylOr's Last Letter.
Since the publication Of Clay's letter
|ssTo the Public" announcing himself as a
candidate and urgently soliciting the wing
nomination for the Presidency, Gen. Tay-
lor has been losing ground alarmingly.-
This has called forth another letter from
the old hero, published on our first page,
and which, if really written by himself,
proves to demonstration the truth of that
which he has all along said, to-wit: that
ne is totally unacquainted with the po-
litical questions Of the day. Our wing
friends, or rather the Taylor portion of
them, claim however, that this letter is a
clear, candid and open declaration of prin-
ciple-whig Of course. Now this letter,
as will be seen BY carefully perusing it.,
does not contain one solitary declaration
of Gen. Taylor's own opinions upon sub
jects which divide the two great political
parties, save, indeed, the naked declara-
ton that he IS whig-a declaration, by
the by, which can receive no additional
confirmation from the balance of his letter,
unless the fact be admitted by our oppo-
nents that whiggery is nondescript nom
entity. Our neighbors of the Hawkeye
and Standard, overjoyed at finding any
respectable individual willing to acknowl-
edge himself wing, are in extacies over
the letter. The Standard says that the
General "has met the crisis like hero
and patriot, and boldly declars his views
on the reto po,rer, the tariff, the currency,
the improvement Of our great highuays,''
&c., and adds that his views ssare O.
H." 1--WE suppose he means o. X. ac-
cording to the 1910 hard cider campaign
test, } that che is every inch whig,"
and that "we [they] have not now sin
gle additional interrogatory to PROFOUND
as to him." And what has this supposed
available candidate condescended to saw.
at which these wing editors affect to be so
nightly pleased. Why substantially, not
one word but what might be construed
either as whig or as democratic doctrine!
The letter is the very compound, fourth
proof essence of non-committalism.-
From one portion of the letter in relation
to the veto power, we are led to Judge that
he would not veto any bill that Congress
might pass. Yet in another portion he
says he would exercise the veto power
con constitutional grounds, or in cases Of
hasty legislation. What democrat would
would use the veto power under any 9TH
er circumstances. Soupon the subject of
the tariff, the currency, and internal inn
provements, the letter declares no opinion
at all, but most positively throws the sub
ject back upon the people, and says that
their will should govern. In fact, this
letter is very good democracy, or very
good whiggery, just as you have mind to
take it. A party which declares itself
with such an endorsement of its
principles, must be sadly in want of an
available" candidate to carry them into
practice!
But to show what the Clay portion of
the harmonious" wing party think of this
Bliss-ful letter of the old General, and for
the especial benefit of the Standard and
Hawkeye, we publish the following arti-
Gle from the Toledo Blade, one of the
strongest wing papers in Ohio. We
might give few choice extracts from
others, but we think this will suffice for
the present: