Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-08-05

III MS neaulong Zeal 70 plunge US into war Will
the foremost Power earth, on baseless claim for
worthless 540 40, and again in the bloody means
by which we have wrested from feeble neighbor
California and New Mexico: at achat cost, in the
sacri6ce of probably one hundred and fifty millions
Of dollars and fifty thousand human lives: for
.chat end, in sectional quarrel the plundered
domain, ever to be renewed at each fresh act Of
territorial rapine, until IL shall split this Union.
Can Gen. CAss blink that consequence Is the
I" Wilmot proviso" to build up his magnificent
empire 2, He would have us all the while encoun-
tering it; and get he has been one Of the first 10
shrink from, it himself! Infinitely brave as to the
dangers into which he would have his country
plunge, he is infinitely timid in all that affects
himself alone. His ardor for career Of " magni-
icence,' which would all the while involve the
freedom and the very existence of this Union, is
tremendous; but let the least share of the perils
which he raises fall upon his own personal popu-
larty, and the hero sinks into the temporzer, the
patriot into the shuffier.
Happily, before the country stands man of
very different sor-in character and in career, in
opinions and in action the very contrast Of this
enemy Of Peace and Justice, who would have us,
in the pursuit Of I" "one of the magnificent en-
pres that the world has yet seen,' become the ter
ror, the scourge, the pest Of this continent. That
other is soldier, not merely in highsounding title
of rank never earned in the field, but in whatever
brightens the soldiers name and can make it dear
to the heart-a valor nobly mated with humanity,
a success in arms with love Of peace, renown
doubly merited by modesty. The hardy child of
his own deeds aone him no sudden Court-favor
ever found among the ranks of its opponents, for
promotion, nor fed for forty years upon allowances
and pluraties. His long and faithful service has
been of his country, not of party or himself.
Quiet duty, not polite shifts and compliances, has
brought him to eminence No strong man has
drawn him up by the hand he has held on to no
rising mems coat-tals he has been no tde-waiter
upon the ebbs and flows Of popularity, no watcher
of winds that might wait him, shter of his sails
to any political breeze foater upon the current.
soldier when there Uere soldiers, he has not
grown eminent through the decline of all rival emf
nence, nor great at the latter end of things. He
has neither pushed himself nor been pushed by
others; public favor has sought him, not he it.
With cabal he has never had to do: he has got up
not been lifted up. No desperate faction has, at
its wits end, taken him up, but public cause that
had but to march in order to triumph. His success
will be the signal Of comfort to all good men, not
tocsiR of dismay public redemption, not day of
wrath and war.
And this, above all things, distinguishes General
TAYLOR from his opponent, and should, now that
he has been nominated, rally to him, as their great
and only public hope, their sole choice against
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whatever party that, by the force of instincts all
good, though bred only to arms, he has never
abused, never sought to stretch any military power.
The laws have never had to complain of him. nor
he ever found an occasion to 90 beyond the energy
which they supplied. Citizen or soldier all have been
safe in his hands the very enemy has ever, off the
battlefield, tasted only his mdness, protecting care
like that for his own countrymen. Amidst Sc
res of trumphs, each brilliant as that single one
which made Gen. JACKSON master of every thing
in this country but himself he has retained all the
native moderation of his mind all the original con-
servatism Of his temper. The widest, the sudden
est popularity and reputation-usualy intoxicating
in proportion new-have not inflated, have not
spoiled. From such man, nothing rash, heady,
violent overbearng. arbitrary, unfair, partial is to
be expected but safe things, sober counsels, mea-
sures guided by the laws, policy that will aim to
make this land smile and no other weep. 1t is de-
lghu to turn from the sanguinary fancies in which
harmless warrior bat bloody statesman like Gen.
CAss INDUCES, to the sentiments Of humanity and
peace which real parrior, such as Gen. TAYLOR
is, has constantly breathed. We beg our readers
to contrast them.
In his Allison Letter." Gen. TAYLOR said, in
answer to one of the interrogatories addressed TO
him: " The Mexican War. sincerely rejoice at
the prospect of peace" my life has been deuot-
ed TO arms; get look upon Dar, at all fines and
under all circumstances as national calamity,
to be avoided II compatible ,oih national honor.
The principles Of oar Government, as weR as its
true policy, are opposed 10 the su6iugation Of
other nations and the dismemJerment Of other
countries by conquest
AT dinner in New Orleans, given in December
last in honor Of Gen. TAYLOR. he responded 10
complimentary sentiment by declaring
THAI the jog and ermfation Of the greatest
victories were Arrays, after the heat and ercite-
menf Of the battle, succeeded by feelings of poig-
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