Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-07-04

styleQ himself, III Inc CoHCiusioni Iui' " ~
lor's obedien, servant, he undertook 10 become
a 1aiter al that genf'eman's table, and perform
every other mental office"
If this is no, Wing logic with "loose"-ness'
then you may "lake our hat"
The Times certainly could not have been aware
OF The embarrassed condition in which Col Has
kell was placed on the floor OF the House oil Repre-
sentativcs, when MIR Clarke, OF KY, propounded
the queslion 10 him, "What were Gen. Taylor's
views upon the Wino Proviso2" when il charg-
ed Us with placing such forced construction up
on The plain and unmistakeable meaning Of the
language OF the Signal editorial, and Gen. Tay-
lors reply thereto.
One would have supposed that a gentleman
who had waded through hogs and swum creeks
10 gel 10 Malamoras 10 see "Old lack" and 10
learn vhae he lived, and when he heard from
home, ant what were his politics, could not have
been al aIoss 10 have defined the Old HERDS pc.
sitlon urn any and all questions, as ne rather
eoaLfdcnttlly told him he was WING, AND
QUARTER YER. And YET We find, when Inc ques-
ton is cscgorically put 10 him, '" nal are ue.
neral Taior's views upon The Wilmo' FiovistT
he, after laundering "some," replied, u don't
knoW!'
The "bblail coons" will 50 "Old lack" with
out "wh or wherefore" but We are much mis-
taken il be "long iai coons'-lhe Old wing
euard-w vii mol require from Gen. Taylor frank
avowal 0 his opinions upon his vital question,
when the;see the "bob'ail coons, IN their mol
zeal TO scare with The "Od Heros" free sell
views, d.larine that hey are themselves in IA
vor OF lht'free soil doctrine" before they will
"surreGae' his all important principle They,
as part have no, SO far SURRENDERED" 10 fac.
ton as 10 bandon this vita principle TO square
wi h he oppressed views Of General Taylor.
We tfakly admit ina, the p',ma facic evil
dencc OF Gn. Taylor being a STAKEHOLDER is emit |
tied 10 lis III consideration; but when we hnd in
our midst lsveholders expressing themselves IN
avor of"lne ,o," We have 10 doubt Gen. lay
or's own tesared opinion, to deny that ne is net
in favor OF ii Wilmot ProrisO.
The Washington correspondent, OF the N.
Tribune, reg;ds as 'moonshine" The "slory In re-
gard 10 Gen. 'aylor's reputation OF he Proviso
in a letter 10 ,Barnburner" and adds:
"Senalor DIX 100 much OF gentleman to per-
vert or wi!ih,id the ruth, gives, understand,
this verso1o oil The fumor. Sometime since
ae Barnbuhing member OF Congress wrote the
old hero der asking him # in The Signal lei
Ter he shout be understood 10 intend opPosil"n
10 the exrenpn Of slavery. Gen. Taylor replied,
that he hitdspoks for i,scH. lie should say no.
thing ianhe |, was Ineligible 10 all who WISH
ed 10 underand it,"
Now, weisk if such response is what we
should expo, from Southern candidate Tor The
Presidency. II the Letter speaks for itself, (and
we have sen nothing TO explain I'D we can pul
no other obstruction upon ii than we have gwen
above. Go. Taylor nigh, easily remove any
false impressions which this let:er may have ee-
nera,ed, bt as long as he allows this letter TO
"speak FOL itself" and refuses himself TO speak
Out, il becomes The dury Of the press 10 give their
own inerrtalion.
We shaInol, however, assert tina, our nterpre.
tation is ti5e. The Wings have floundered
so lerribiyt giving various constructions Of Ge.
neral Tay IS many letters, that we shall not dare
10 set up Ji their exposition. We are free TO ad
nit that lnny OF them are like Sybslline leaves
which ma be made 10 mean anything or nothing.
But, howver contradictory they may be, we find
the Taylr Wing press ready 10 conslrue them,
always If their op1l bsneft-like The Scoichman
who pridd himself on interpreting disputed pas
sages nhe Bible, thus amusnsly described in
lie Harord Times:
"Oneiay he :old his son to read the Bible in
his heaing. The lad proceeded, and finally
came uhe account Of finishing he Tabernacle,
and linig il with badger skins He read il beg.
gar SKIS. Nov, stop a wee biz, Sawney, said
ne old ian, while expound that very impof-
tanl passage You II not fail 10 remark, Saw
ney, h9 wonderfully we fare iavorec{in this
enllghloed age. WI a our poec'ical and
a. our releesious rights weel secured We
can sii,urs, IS doom under cur ain vine, ana un.
der ounin fis-lree; and name 100 modest or max
Us ait az; whic' il appears that, in yon times.
| no soon-tid poor fellow become a desgar Than
snin oifuen, his skin, TO Inc Their Ia6eTnaeies
nth"
! nHepy Dodge, the Indian fighter, the old