The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-07-30

Taylor comes before the country as the wing candidate
We have shown the violation of his pledges towards his
independent friends and have noticed his absolute
refusal to take, at least to maintain, any tangible
ground whatever upon questions Of most vital concern
ment We have contrasted all this with the manly anl
slaesmanlke frankness with which General Cass ha.
set forth his opinions and avowed the principles which
will guide his future policy The strong argument il
favor OF the democratic candidate to be drawn from this
state of things, be obvious to every intelligent vote
in the land and is, believe doing the good cause
good service.
Yet il should be borne in mind that this very conceal
ment OF General Tayos opinions the country tc
one peril In the coming election from which every cleo
ton ought TO be free 1t exposes every voter who votes
the wing ticket to the chance of being cheated into
erroneous vote under false pretencss To operate such
cheat in their favor was, beyond all question, the very
purpose of the wing convention in nominating Taylor
Their own organs have confessed this The New York
Tribune, while denouncng the perfdy and corruption OF
the nomination, avowed that if the convention was be
regarded as an assemblage of political gamblers, they
had probably "deai themselves good hand In this,
facts haye since abundany proved, and proving
the Tribune. true TO its party instincts moderated the in
ellgence Of the people Cards picked out by cheating
do not make ga good hand" when the opposing parties
in the game are awake Still. the sacrifice by the whg
convention of all their tried party leaders, both in civil
and military life, man who had professed no one party
doctrine-ther refusal to lay down any platform of opinion
the pertnacious Of their canddateand his most
strange and unheardof refusal to take from the post
office the letter Of the president of the convention an
nouncng his nomination. obviously to avoid the
y OF committing himself by any answer to (will his
friends admit it was mere parsimony Dali these things
things show that the wings, feeling that in fair play they
had chance, resolved to hang all their hopes
the hazard of a successful cheat!
1t becomes necessary, therefore, for any man who is
appealed to to vote for Gen Taylor under these crcum
stances, to consider well what he voting for, what his
vote goes to surrender and what goes to establish and
maintain. Stripped of its noparty preenees, now fully
proved to be most audacious deception, Gen. Taylors
nomination has manifesy for its object place the whig
party in power without epen the slight restraint of
having made any auowal Of their auhig policy, Wing
policy the country has constantly condemned Wing
men have gone down with it The question now is,
whether the people will be cheated into giving the public
authority to whou an avoyal of their opinions. to
whom, party, power has constantly been refused
mhen their opinions auowed! Are they the more
shroud themselves in mystery Not to be trusted with
Clay Scott who hold their party opinions, are the
wings to be trusted with Taylor, who will not tell
whether he holds their opinions not but who shows
himself ready, by accepting their nomination. to become
their Instrument This is just the question which the
country has now to decide.
If Gen. Taylor be chosen, the next Congress will I'M
doubtedly be wing. Absolute whig rule will then be
upon us-whig rule unpedged toa any policy and clothed
with authority by mystery, concealment, and cheat
What such rule will establish, cannot now be fully FORE
told 1t is reasonable to conclude, however that what
it does will be in harmony with those wing doctrines
and tendencies which the country has so often condemned
But be this as it may there be doubt what this
whig rule will abandon 1t will abandon the whole
democratic policy of the present administration 1t will
abandon the policy which has changed the long out
standing and before unredressd spoaons and robberes
of Mexico into noble territorial indemnify, which,
while vastly augmenng the territorial expanse of
country, has placed within grasp the immense
commerce of the Pacific and the East. 1t will
abandon the commercial policy embodied in the reve
nue. tariff of 1916, under which the country is now
prosperous, and which, taken in connexon with the
warehousing system and the commercial treaties nego
tated by the present administration both with European
and South American powers, is fast opening to the
of the world, and freeing own productive
industry from the shackes of unjust and unconstitutional
taxation, while it brings in enough to discharge
whole war-deb in few years 1t will abandon the
constitutional treasury, which, while maintaining the
changes throughout the country in the heahiest cond
ton, has not lost dollar of the public money by defa
cation, and has established the currency upon broad
metallic basis, by coming at the mint since the 4th of
March, 1s45, more specie than coined during the
first thirty seven years of the existence of govern
ment under the national bank system
All these measures and the vast prosperity resulting
from them we have gained against and over the stead
fast opposition of the wing party and all these measures
will, by the election of General Taylor and the conse
quent transfer Of the public authority wing hands, be
surely abandoned
But this is not all The democratic policy is la
boring to adjust the great slavery question: and to calm
the mighty and portentous slavery agitation upon prn-
cples of just and honorable compromise and conciIiaton
which recognise the rights and the preferences of all
tons of our confederacy This adjustment of question
which, if not adjusted, threatens upheave the very
pillars of glorious Union-the wings as party OPP
pose. The wings of the north oppose it, to a man.
Some OF the wings of the south, too to their party
than to their country said also to oppose it. To give
the wings power, therefore, by Taylors election is to
abandon all reasonable hope of such adjustment and
to bring upon the country the untold evils and pers of
fierce sectional agitation during the administration of