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the country expects we have no doubt AT the
time we beg leave remind friends, n hs
any President gone into the Executive chair under
peculiarly embarrassing circumstances than will aens
Gen. Taylors induction INFO the presidency We shall
now enter into analysis Of them the prominet
will readily suggest themselves the minds OF all Bo
we in common with the country, have fnl fsIh in il
ability Of General Taylor all the momenous l.
sues which he Is likely in his ADMINISTERS
ton"
Thus speaks, under date OF the 18th instant the Lex
ington Observers journal which, published IN the i'm
mediate neighborhood of Mr. Cays residence has long
enjoyed the repute OF being his peculiar organ As it,
EDITORS prudence modesy prevents him from
lying the peculiarly embarrassing circumstances
under which General Tayor must enter upon his office
zoe will endeavor 10 explain and amplify" what we
| take 10 be his meaning
First and foremost then, among Gen. Tayor's "pecu-
liary embarrassing circumstances, stand his solemn
repeated, written public pledges pledges like this in hi
letter OF May 18Th, s47 "ln permit myself
10 be the eandidate Of any party, yield myself TO party
schemes y like this in his letter OF the 9th of July, 1917
"If ever ill that high Office it must be untrammelied
pi party obligations interests Of any kind aud undo,
aone but those phieh The constitution and The high inte
rests Of The nation at large seriously aud soiemnt
demand !" like this in his letter OF February 18th, 1878
"Should be elected TO that Office should deem il to be
my duty, and should most certainly claim the right, to
look the constitution and the high of our com
country, and not to TIE principles of party for my
rules OF action" and lastly like this in his Allison
letter of April 22l, lsls g" reiterate what have often
said-I am whig, but ultra whig II elected
would not be the President of party would
endeavor 10 act Independent Of party domination. /
should feel bound TO administer the gorernment untran-
meitedby party schemes.
| These declarations of General Taylor pledgng his
public honor TO independent, untrammeed n-Iar-
tisan position and course will be found do not doubt
peculiarly embarrassing" both to General Taylor him
self and TO the wing leaders, who already sraning
every to make him "lend himself 10 their party
schemes :" How, with these declarations engraved on
the memories OF the whole people, is General Taylor 10
confront and satisfy, begin 10 satisfy, that clam
and hungry multitude OF ultra whg Offices seekers
who will haunt his upsinss and his -stngs from
the moment that he reaches Washington not even be-
fore he starts from Baton Rouge, with that same fierce
and merciess impo unity which tomented General Har
rison into his grave in month"; Let him act towards
these for day the spirit of his solemn pledges
above cited and before the SETS they and their friends
and their leaders will course him to his face ~ 1t ,cM
be peculiarly embarrassing %
Next among General Taylors peculiar embanass-
mens" we place the vote which will have made him
President 1t is made up of the most heterogene-
GUS combnations-whgs and half wings and no wings
independents, and natives, and free soers and abo
litonists and adopted citizens with strong infusion
Observation-Disclosures OF the North, who went for him
because ''the wing party emboies the measured and
moderate an-savery feeling of the country" ami be-
cause they had heard letters read pleigng him not to
veto the Wilmot Provso and sectonaiss of the South
who went for him as a southern man, bound By all his
interests and anitics and pledged by his decara-
TONS to stand by the rights OF the Soulhnen in favor
OF reversing the policy OF the country and favor
of letting il standmen who want tariff for protection
and men who want tariff for revenue-men who want
! bank and men who hate a bank-men who want the
general government to turn harbor-c clearer, railroad
| builder, and canal -digger-inchief for the nation,
and men who hold any general scheme of internal i'm.
provements to be violation of The
men, who INDUCED silly fear that General Cas- if elect
ed, would forthwith clutch Cuba from Spain with one
hand, and lash England straight into with the 9th
er; and other men, by means Quakerish, who went
for Old lack" because he soldier, every inch OF
him-had made the camp his home from his boyhood-
chad not slept under roof for two years more
and would if he had had his way, as he told General
Gaines have taken, instead of New Mexico and Caor-
MIA, sic of the Mexican provinces at least Such is
but an inadequate sketch of the strange tumble OF anago
mist political elements and interests which, against all
natural afntes, have aggregated themselves together,
rather than coalesced, place General Taylor power
How is he to control their antagonism' What one
palpable rule of action he adopt 1t is not
marked out for him in his past political career for he has
none tits not deducble from his political experience,
for he has none. He be very largely or init
matey acquainted with many OF the political men of the
country and of the details of the politics of dieren,
sections of the country he knows almost nothing at all
He tells us that his mind is not made up TO great
measures even of public policy. How difficult he
find it in such of things, and amid such conflicting
interests all claiming be represented in him,
form his cabinet He will have into the SEN
ate the names of his principal secretaries before large
of his supporters, in and sulen disappont
ment, will be leaving him in gangs. 1t will be "pecu.
liary embarrassing" from the start But suppose
the first step en-, and the cabinet formed Then will
come a business still more embarrassing" His in
augura must foreshadow, and his first message must
describe, his policy. His policy! Has he got any,
Has he been elected upon any, Has he given
any body to understand that he has any clear and
definite views about the foreign policy the do
mestic policy of the country' Has he not intmated,
the contrary, that he has not any such views and thai
he to leave the whole thing to Congress He has