The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1848-09-09
From the Washington Union.
The Wings and their Candidate.

poor deluded wing party about, as if il
were his football. The southern mail
brings US the last cuff which he has
administered to Them. 1t comes in the
shape OLA letter TO. q friend in Charles
ton, the following extract of which we
copy from the Charleston News Of The
l6 inst: .ia.It.Ifl s9e .Ie4ao.
Extract ofa letter from General Taylor
to a friend in this city. 50 ias
~ never had any aspirations for the
Presidency, NOR have | now, farther
than the wishes Of my friends are con-
cerned in the matter; nor would have
it on any other terms than / stated
when the subject was first agitated, !,
which is, that my acceptance must be
without pledges or being trammeled in
any way, so that | could be the Presi-
dent Of the whole nation and not of a
party.H aYay .yaf7ia' s#-' ffs
"I have accepted the nomination of
the Philadelphia Convention, as we'll as
the nomination Of many primary as
sembies gotten up in various sections
of the Union, in some instances ire.
spec,ive Of party; and ,ooula Aaue ac-
cepted the nomination of the Baltimore
Con ueniion, had ii been tenaered on the
same terms. am now fully, if mol
fairly, before the country as a candi-
date for the chief magistracy; and if it
should be my good or bad fortune to
be elected, | trust my course will be
such, for the most part, as regards the
management Of our national affairs, as
will meet the appreciation of my fellow
citizens. Should they fail to do so,
they will, | fatter myself have the
charity to attribute my errors 10 the
head, and not to the heart. la, IA
,"Very respectfully, your, friend, as4
| uo g8I}5 ~. II. TAYLOR"
Surely this is scruel and unusual pun.
ishment' upon the whig politicians!
Not only does General Taylor place
the Philadelphia nomination upon pre-.
cisely the same footing with the sba-
ker's dozen' ofany-party andgno-party
nominations which he had before ac.
cepted; but he goes farther, and tells
the wings that he would have taken the
democratic nomination just as readily
and upon just the same no.party terms
that he has taken theirs! Truly here
is "a candidate for the wings TO scheme
for, and toll for, and spend their money
for, and give up their principles for, and
sacrifice their well,tried and faithful
leaders for? General Taylor says he
would have taken the democratic nomi-
nation on the sameterms. The count.
ry has learned, and candidates for. the
presidency too have learned, by this
time, that the democratic nomination
is mt TO be had by any man on these
same terms. The democratic nomina-
ton, fortunately, is understood to mean
something, and to pledge something, as to
the political principles and course of
the men who obtains it. i,iat rf.3.
But it is not only as blow at the
whig party that this letter is remarka.
BILE. In what an attitude does it pre-
sent General Taylor and his '.jfiends"
in the Philadelphia Convenlioni In
that body, Judge Saunders, in the name
of the Louisiana delegation, ,,claiming to
speak by authority ofGen. Taylor, land
since confirmed in his statement bv
General 1Taylor's Bailie Peyton card,)
said:arg a,i; io sss5. "a sal ~ .saaeTl
son behalf Of the delegation of Lou
siana, will further state that General
Taylor desires iIto be under stoo cd, that
in his opinion, his friends ,cho come in.+
to this convention are bound to abide by
its decision, and to sustain the nominee
heart and soup-that General TAYLOR
recognises in his friends in this conven.
ton those pho haze the right to pith.
drap his name, and 0iH cheer5uly ac.
quiesce in such withdrawal. asada sibi,
s'ln case the choice of this conven--
ton shall fall on another than General
Taylor, and this convention withdraw
him, it will be their act, and not his, but
in. wbichahe will cheerfully acquiesce,
AND,BY THE ACT OF UNITING; WITH THIS
CONVENTION, HIS FRIENDS WITHDREW HIS
NAME FROM THE CANVASS, UNLESS HE BE
THE NOMINEE OF THE EIcoNvENTIoN."s "s9al
And now,rhavinga obtained the whig
nomination by this explicit avo wal made
in his behalf, that his name WOULD BE
wITHpRAwN FROM THE CANVASS if he
were not made the WING NOMINEE, he
turns round 4 and tells the wings tha,
INSTRUMENTATION is just as good as any
other that hehas received, AND NO BET.
TERr-that it pledged him to nothing,
and that he, would have tnken the Bal
,imore domination on the same terms!
Who cani foria moment suppose thar
General iTayIorconld have obtained, or
hnned IN obtnin tho phil a. IL rh;o =, 49,,