The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-08-02

Delta Office and forces The independent Convention of
Maryland to read loi Osed DOORS his letter dsavowing
| IL to them
And now, to Governor Morehead's announcement OF
this enthusiastic call" thus obtained what says the
Generals Here is his answer:
Looking the composition of the convention and lis
and patriotic constituency, feel deeply grateful
for the honor bestowed upon and for The gaishsd
confidence implied IA nomination By IL 10 the highest
office in the gift of the American people"
| How is this distinguished confidence" thus won
responded 10! He cordially accepts" the nomination
But so he had cordially accepted every other nomina
uon but always the expressed condition that his ac
ceptance should nothing and should pledge him 10
nothng-uness indeed, effort TO get into the presi-
dency by hook by crook, and through any door, with
out telling anybody what he would do when he got
there; but the contrary, declaring TO any party and
every party that if they helped place him there they
did so entirely 'upon their responsibiluye And
besides this naked and meaningless acceptance" does
General Taylor recognise this distinguished conf
dence" OF the wings, by oonfdng 10 them in return,
any word OF any OF his opinions or any information
whatever as TO his course Not such word does he
say Complicated has become his position before them
and before the counywith all the mystery and contra
dlchon OF all his statements and counter sta tements
avowas and dsavowals, publications and suppressons
Ire sh upon himnay with all the distrus of him loudly
avowed by SO many whigs-with all the anxious mpa-
uence, In all sections Of the country, to know something
OF what he thinks about the Wilmot Provso question
IN view OF all these vital matters touching his personal
good faith his political position, his past pledges and the
great interests OF his country he isdumb as the dead
And this is his notion OF the way the distinguish
ed confidence OF great party which statement made in
his NAME but without his authority has cheated into an
act OF unparalleled self sacrifice upon the aar-or the
footstool-of his political fortunes
Gov Morehead begins his letter as follows:
DEAR At convention Of the ,cgs of the United
States, held in this city the 7th instant and continued
from day to day until the 9th, you nominated as
candidate for the presidency of the United States at the
ensuing presidential election"
To this Gen. Taylor replies
81 cordially accept that nomination but with sincere
dsrns of my fitness fulfil the duties of office which
demands for its exercise the exalted abilities and pa
triotis, and which has been rendered iIusous by the
greatest names in our history"
Now, does the General understand the wings of the
United States TO be political party, or TO hare been so
when they met party convention al Philadelphia? If
SO, then does he understand that by cordially &C
cepting" their nomination, he has become their can
ddate? If he do understand the matter then
III deSePtiHS he mas OfOkeH ms 1c0Td
il is written down in his Signal letter under date
of May IS, 1s47 where he says in perfectly explicit
terms, and in short. decisive, unqualified sentence
''lN NO CASE can permit myself to be THE CAN
DIDATE OF ANY PARTY, or lend myself to party
schemesr'
These are his very words and, unless he has fasifed
them, he is not the candidate of the wing party
Again, in his LAnsngburg letter of the Goth OF the same
month. we read the unqualified statement "BUr / WILL
NOT BE THE CANDIDATE OF ANY PARTY CLIQUE" Now
here is positive promise. Has it been broken by thi.
cordial acceptance of the whg nomination" OF has it
been kept? II it has been broken, then what reliance
the people place Gen. Tayor's good faith If il
has been kept, then what the whig party do for
candidate!
1t pretty well settled before this letter appeared
that General Taylor cannot be elected But even if he
could be, this would not change the fact which perfectly
settled that he turned politician in an evil hour he
has fallen faster and farther in the public estimation
than he in the time by his exploits in the
field Nor is this the worst of it. The wing party has
been dragged down with him. Before-as in 1884, for
examplewhen rayng under the banner of their grea,
and statesman, they stood in position OF high
proud, imposing unpopuarity. They could claim,
perhaps, in their own judgment, with show of
plausbty, that their conservatism elevated
and wiser than the elevation and wisdom Of the
of the people They could boast at all events, of tn cir
of the value of wellested ability and long tried
merit in statesman. They could point to their past
defeats under their old banner, sadly but proudly as
the veteran points to his wounds! But all this is over
They have deliberately thrown off all pretence OF
principle. They have surrendered the good repute OF
fidelity and gratitude They have sacrificed their pot
cal consistency, and pered their public honor and hav
ing thus lost everything in the mad chase after will-o
hewsp availability, find when they have, now only
half caught it, that il is than utterly unavailable
that il leaves them reliance but their old party organ
cation and discpine and that these must fail them
under of blunder and miscarriage and pressure
of conscious shame and selfreproach alike unaccus-
toned and intolerablel
The Territorial Bill
fbo blact int bo, IL