The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-11-26
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
SUNDAY MORNING, NOV. 20, is4s.
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'This do maintain, however-hat the votes given 70
General Taylor mainly for wing principles and
measures, and not for any and that we could have
elected any fair wing this year. in view OF the general de
preston of manufactures and the distraction OF our
adversaries The victory has been by the wing pany
the strength of its principles and character and we can
amey them deprived of the credit OF II merely to
augment the honos of already renowned aud so for
Gen. Taylor- less TO subseVe the sinister de
signs of hatteers Let the truth be understood, and the
popular dscenment vndicated."
Thus writes in the columns OF the New York Tribune
of Friday morning, perhaps the most formidable editorial
pen now enlisted in the service OF the ultra wing party
As pendant to the above, sublon the following ex-
pcit declaration of the Delaware Journal, repued to be
the special organ of Mr. Senator Cayton's opinions
''The people be further enlightened in regard TO
the great leading measures IN contemplation OF the party
promote the general welfare OF these the ESTABLISH
and the extension to the various
of agriculture commerce, manufactures and the
mechanical arts, of adequate protection, are entitled TO
primary attention. and Arguments Illustrations should
be omitted demonstrate the advantages TO be derived
from duly fostering them"
fit be indeed true, as the Tribune AYERS, that "the
votes given to General Taylor mainly votes for
wing principles and measures" then call upon tina,
Journal to point out wing measure which General
Taylor is known to favor. The disuse of the may
First among the list of wing measures stands high
tariff for protection Does the Tribune pretend say that
General Taylor has ever either in public or in private
declared himself in favor of such tariff? Will the
Tribune even say that General Taylor has ever avowed
himself to be opposed either the principle the de-
tails OF the tariff of 1876 Next among the list
Of wing stands national bank, to be the de-
pository of the government money! Or failing of that
III r. Al Al
Tribune particle of proof to offer that Gen Taylor is
in favor OF either of these that he pre-
fers either of them to the constitutional treasury Has
he during the said any such thing, or has
anybody been authorized to say it for him. And if
Gen Taylor had been willing have any such avowa
made in his behalf put to the candor of the Tribune
to whether in its opinion Judge Saunders would
have made such avowal in General Taylor's
before the Philadelphia Convention, in reply to the urgent
objection there pressed against him that he not
known to be in favor of any single wing measure Just
the is the with the two remaining prominent
measures of wing policy-a large system Of internal
improvements by Congress, and the distribution of the
proceeds of the public lands Is Gen. Taylor known to
anybody upon any evidence whatever regard either of
these wing measures wise expedient' If there
fore General Taylor elected by votes cast mainly for
wing principles and measures, the Tribune deny that
those votes for him utterly in the dark What
plausible ground is there for saying that great party
having dozen experienced and leading statesmen in its
ranks, marked all over with wing principles and
ues and all ready be voted for yet order to vote
for those measures threw all these aside, and took
up another candidate who not only not identified
with committed to any of them, but who had
pctyand repeatedly declared that he would represent
the principles the measures of the wing party of
any other party and that the wing party any other
party voted for him., they must do so son their own
sponsbility?" We ask the Tribune, whether for the
wings to elect candidate in such position by votes
which were cast mainly for wing principles and meas
ues, not the stupendous self qualification to
be found in party records
The plain fact is otherwise. General Taylor probably
than any other in our hstory-certainly more
than any other man Andrew Jackson--creaed the
party wheh elected ham, In hardly single State of
the Union has General Taylor got the of the whg
party proper-not in New York. by the Tribune's own
confession in this same article from which we have
quoed-not in Massachusetts nor in Ohio, where null
tudes of wings voted for Van Buren-not in
Pennsylvania, where General Taylor is elected by the
natives--not in Kentucky nor Tennessee Georgia,
where his vote is much larger than the whig vote-and
surely in Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, where,
with only the wing vote in his favor, he would have
been defeated not he is by few hundreds but by
more than many thousands! And now can the Tri-
bune pretend that the votes cast for General Taylor
in these last named States votes cast mainly for
wing principles and measures Wing principles and
measures can scarcely carry Tennessee or Louisiana
They cannot carry Georgia. They cannot come within
ten thousand of carrying Alabama, within six thou.
sand of carrying Virginia. nor within five thousand of
carrying Mississippi 1t is the Taylor party and not the
wing party, which has the late victory in some oil
these States and greatly reduced the democratic MAORI
ties in the rest And this Taylor party does not stand
wing principles and measures does not acknowledge
them its creed has chosen leader who re-
fused to represent them, and is pledged not to
represent them; and finally the returns show this
Taylor party in OF these States counts many, very
many, avowed supporters Of democratic and
principles in its ranks. If, therefore, General Tayors
administration becomes thorough whig administration;
it goes for high protective tariff; bank. or bank
system, and the other ultra whg hobbies, it will cheat
the voters who have placed it in power Left himself
General Taylor will not do this thing, though SOL
emily apprehend that the influences which surround
him wiPmpel him to that very course. The real ques-
ton is, whether the ultra wing leaders can coax, or
cajole, deceive him into such course On this point
have said before, fear the worst But we have
this consoation-that if the administration falls into