Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1848-04-27
The Journau and the General.

1t is not at oil necessary to adducs any evidence 10
prove the inconsistency of the State Journal in regard
TO General Taylor. Its course is too fresh in the
minds of its readers to be forgotten All will admit
the fact But accidentally looked couple
of numbers Of the Tri-weeky Journal the other day,
which contain paragraphs amusing that thought
them worth reprinting. Many stronger ones might
probably be found in the files Of the Journal, but
have not time to hunt them up, if we deemed it
necessary, which we do not.
The first of the paragraphs to which refer. is in
the Journal (trweekly) of August 18th, and was in
reply to us, viz
1t 1.-THE Journal no doubt preferred many whig
that might be named, well as Tom Corwin, before
Taylor; but it desired at present to Taylor as
make weight in favor of the desperate of whIg
gerry IN this congressional district and for that reason
1t made great show Of zeal in his BEHALF and took
every occasion which offered itself TO msrepresent
and make appear has enemy because we chose to
publish facts concerning him, which the public had
right know, and of which 1t confesses to
be true."-SfdLe Sentinel
However jealous we have shown ourselves to be
for the elevation of Gen. TAYLOR the Presidency,
the " Sentinel is informed that az ciH be greatly in
creased mill that object is ccompished-Journal.
The public has already how the zeal of the
Journal has greatly increased" We were nearer
right the EDITORS disposition than he appeared
to suppose or he was not how easily he could
change his mind
The number of the Journal contains more
than three columns of matter the purpose Of which
TO glorfy Gen. Taylor at the expense of the ad-
minstration.
In the Journal of July 2Sth, is an article from
which we copy the first and last paragraph, which
will indicate the quality of the whole, viz
"a GRAND MISTAKE Gen. Taylor in his Z" Signal
Letter." says that he can yield himself TO
"party schemes" The locof0co press look upon this
as a bomb she'll thrown into the whig camp. They
more mistaken! In carrying out this res
oution, Gen. Taylor will not only eynce the purity of
his character but will amply compensate the great
whig party for early bringing him forward for the
Presidency. He will compeI safe them for the toll of
years of devotion to this great principle; principle
which the wings have always thought should govern
an honest administration. Jackson promised it, but
went to the other extreme. Van Buren, 4" walked in
the footsteps of his ustrious predecessor, and his
administration in which "party schemes"
and the spoils of party the governing prin-
ciples.
The whg party desire man in the Presidential
Chair, who will not lend himself to party schemes,
but one who will be what Jackson promised, what
Van Buren, never thought of becoming, what Harri-
would have been, what Tyler not, and what
]. X. Polk has come the furtherest from being-THE
PRESIDENT OF THE WHOLE CoUNTRT!'
The filling up of the article is series of decama-
tory assertions. in the Barnett STYLE TO the with
ering CURSE of "party schemes" which, 1t said,
had infused deadly poison into the very vals of the
body polite, corrupting every fountain and sending
forth bitterness and premature decay" Such 1t was
declared, had had been the effect under the admins
ratons of Jackson, Van Buren,. Tyler and Polk, and
GoD was invoked to " defend our country from any
further exhibition of such party schemes" How it
was hoped this might be accomplished, and by what
instrument, may be seen by what we have quoted
above. 1t was simply and only by electing General
TAYLOR, who was to be, what none other named had
been, "the President Of the phOle country!"
If the Journal honest in the declarations above
referred to, possibly give it credit for the
virtue now when it repudates en- Taylor on the sole
ground that he will not commit himself to the "party
schemes of the wbigsi