Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-07-08
I NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
INVENTIONS OF THE ENEMY.

but our Wing friends all over the country, TO be
upon their guard against the stratagems Of the OPP
posite rarty, from whose fair and open hostility
they have nothing to apprehend in the present cam
paign. Ofthese stratagems we discover one in the
"Union" of yesterday Sunday morning, in the
shape Of a letter from New Orleans, the object of
which is sufficiently explained in the following ex-
tracts from ii:
"NEw ORLEANS, June 20, ls4s.
.'To tie Editor Of The Union:
"GEsrLEmEs The Wings Of this city thrown into
state Of the greatest confusion, if consiematon the
intelligence received here yesterday that Gen. TArLoR had
indignantly rejected The nomination he reeeued from The
Philadelphia Conuenton, from consideration Of the cicum-
stances under which it effected He stated that he
intended submit his pretensons the Presidency to the
deliberations of any convention whatever whether Wing
Democratic that lie would have considered himself
bound by the decision Of the Wing Convention,
authorized bring his before that body and that he
repudated its action in bis behalf &c.
From this would appear that Gen. TAYLOR repudaes
Wing nomination. and that consequently that party has
candidate in the field Among the other auguries OF
which furnished by the strength of principles and
men, the confusion which this event must produce in the
ranks of opponents not among the least gratifying and
Important What will be the effects among the Wings Of this
convention, perhaps scrub among all their api
rants for the Presidency.
In few days you will fail to have all the particulars
in form less questionable and fee from doubt than any
which be framed AZ this moment. You may rely, how
ever upon the herein made being substantially
not literally Il is said that when Gen. Taylor
ceives the official notification Of his nomination his response
will publicly express the and sentiments which here
IN ascrbed to him."
Upon this palpable ruse the Union" gravely
comments taking care, however, to protect itself
by an II, as thus:
4" In case this statement furns out TO be true, the
Wings will best decide for themselves whether
they will stand by nomination which has been
palmed upon them by fraud"
With due sense Of the interest which our ven-
cradle neghbor takes in the welfare of the Wings
it is very clear, from the following notice of SINH
lar story got up in New Orleans, that if there is
any :. fraud" in regard to this matter, it is perpe
trated by the opponents at New Orleans of the
election of Gen. Taylor:
NEW oRLEAss BULLETIN OF JUNE "a.
GENERAL TAYLoR-A ridiculous and silly re-
port has been actively circulated in this city that
Gen. TAYLOR had written letter and sent it here
for publication, repudiating the nomination of the
:. plantations given by the Louisiana Delegation in
that body respecting his views. The story is too
absurd for moments belief but il has been I
widely circulated, and has ofcourse found its way
into the Democratic and nesarai Democratic press,
we notice il merely to say that Gen. TAYLOR has
written no such letter, nor authorized any publ.
cation of the kind, and the report that he has done
= so is sheer fabrication.
"We request our Democratic and neutral Demo-
Ell
General TAyLoR's letter. in reply TO the official
announcement Of his nomination. is published. Ii
will not be much longer before it appears, and their
minds will, we can assure them, be then relieved
: from all further anxiety on the subject.
" That letter will be the test whether he accepts
or repudiates the nomination at Philadelphia, and |
Eve hope will put al rest, once and forever, all
'rumors Of this kind. got up propagated, and exag-
gerated by his enemies, who, like drowning men,
catching at straws in the vain hope that they
sicsn injure him or alternate his friends.
Nothing more plainly indicates the actual ire
NOR that prevails among his opponents than the
avidity with which they snatch at the slightest
rumor which they think be distorted TO his
prejudice"
To the same effect, under the head Of " Weak
inventions Of the enemy the New Orleans Bee
says, in allusion TO the same flimsy story:
zen. course neftIOiOre has proved
that he is man whose word is to be trusted with
-implict faith. He makes no assertions to which
: he does not stand. He. assumes no position to
which he does not infexibly adhere. He has
time and again--n the Ingersoll letter, in the Al
hson letter, in his private conversations, and in
public declarations-proclaimed himself WHO.
: The announcement not lightly made, and will .
not be Withdrawn. Twas the knowledge that he
agreed with the Wing party in the cardinal prn-
cipes which it processes, and which were ably set
forth in the Allison letter, that occasoned the /
nomination of ZACHARY TAYLOR by the Wing
National Convention. To the platform Of Wing |
principles indicated by that document Gen. TaY-
LoR will most cordially subscribe, and we venture
the prediction that his letter OF acceptance will
satisfy every Wing in the Union that in the Hero
Of Buena Vista the Wing party will have a faith
full and true-hearted champion"
GEN. TAYLOR AND GEN HARRISON.
In casual conversation the other day with
gentleman who served with Old Rough and Ready
,ha Elnrida mar he ralafod he fnllowing which