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olence and his Judgment. Don't shoot them,"
said he; ''Iho worst punishment ! will inhict is /
10 return them TO the Mexican Army"
Noaci ofoppresson has ever been charged
upon Gen. TAYLOR. No man paid the penalty /
Of death BY martial law from the time he fought /
al pulo Alto TO the time he left Buena VISTA
lie controlled and guided the army without
Jocdshed. maintained It's honor and discipline,
md retired without having done any act TO SUI \
Iy the character he had ever sustained as hu- I
maHe as wsil as able man. When the Govern I
mruI chidcd him lornol slorming Monterey and .
its twelve thousand men, with his five thousand, /
what wns his reply! YES" he said, 81 could .
have taken il n tha, way, but did not want TO
sacrifice the women and children" When he /
was letad in New Orleans. "a friend, aluding TO /
The splendid pageant which wound through the I
streets Of the cly, said to him." "No," said
he, il was not. ! was afraid some Of the women
and children might be hurt!
Though bred to war. Injured TO its tolls and
hardships, and owing his present CONSPICUOUS po-
siIlon TO his ability and success in that vocation,
he is devoted friend Of Peace. At dinner
given to hlm on his return from Mexico, he de-
clarrd. in response TO a complimentary toast,
that "The Joy and eXullation of the greatest vic
tories were always, after the heat and excitement
Of baule, succeeded by feelings Of poignant sor-
row and pain, and, that war, after all, was a
great calamity, and his the greatest glory who
could terminate it,"
again: In u letter to the Hon. TRUMAN
Sunni. Of the house Of Representatives, dated
Baton Rogue, March 4Ih, 1913, he said:
need hardly reply 10 your concluding in
Quiry, that am peace man, and thai | deem a
state Of peace to be absolutely necessary to the
propcr and beautiful action of our republican in
slilutions. On this important question free
" confess myselflo be the unqualified advocate
.of the principles 50 often laid down by the Faith
er OF his country, and so urgently recommended
by him III his Farewell Address to the Ameri-
can people. Indeed, think may safe
Ily say that no man can put moro implicit
faith than do in the wisdom his advice, when
he urged upon US the proprety Of always stan
ding upon our ''Own soil"
And again, in his letter 10 Captain ALLISON,
he said
"hly life has been devoted to arms, yet look
upon war, at all times and under all circumslan-
ces, as a national calamity, to be avoided if com.
patible with national honor The principles
/ Of our Government as well as its true policy,
are opposed to the subjugation of other nations,
and the dismembermeng Of other countries by
conquest"
! What pledges, then, Of man sure, in a stu
alton however difficult, 10 be faithful, firm, and
singl hearted in his utmost duues, has ZAcHA-
RY TAYLOR not given, from Fort Harrison to
Buena Vista, from the tent to the farm, through
his long life of efficiency in action, Of modera-
ZION in command, Of modesty in tho midst OF
victorlosi What augures are there, in his en-
tire career, which must not make his arrival al
the Presidency an event full Of hope to all good
men, Of confusion and dismay TO all that organi-
zcd corruption and ncapacily which have ruled
US 50 long, not governing but despolling US, not
uphodng but affecting the general veal, not
executing but only partitonng out public trusts!
Who thar regards the country at all or his own
well being as a part Of that of the land at large
can hesitate how to choose between men so op
posite? In the one, there is clearly every thing
"to give the world assurance Of a man." hear
perfectly brave, sincere, untouched by any o
: the corruptions of civil life, unhardened by tn
habits of military, full Of kindness and human
1 ty 10 all men; true model, almost TO homeIi
ness, Of republican simplicity; man loved anC
trusted by all that have ever approached him
but especially commanding, in proportion a
there was danger or difficulty, an unboundot
J confidence In the other, what is there to be
get, even at this later end of individual emi
nence among the I4ocofoco party, any favor bu
that Of faction, any admiration but Of follower
who in his success see the hope OF their own!-
7 In General TAYLOR there must DO snguarl,
strong naive qualities for wisely aud right,
commanding men, else how should he hav
been leader so daring yet prudent, so we'll
obeyed and yet so dozed, so careless OF all re
K serve and outward state, yet SO thoroughly re
j spectcd! Docs any body suppose that all thes
Il indisputabe ciIccts-tho unsought affection
s which he attracts from all, the boundess rell
0 0nCo with which all look TO him in the extreme
Of peril-can DO brought about, except by tn
= possession ola true superorityl Stranger as h.
. is TO AL the arts which awe men, to all the trick
S which set off greatness, the thing is impossible
o Good as he is brave, mild as he is resolute, ad
i. mirably compounded of prudence TO decide an
If of valor to act, ofardor in the fight with tn
9, most unmoyGd solrposSessiOn; gentle wlthou
/. ever lessening tho respect which he inspires
If nAcXlble without austery, the man evident
4, commands, through the native ascendency {
is his character alone, and guides Others by a
instructive wisdom equal TO every emergency
n natural sagaciry which exhibiting itself not
n. words but action, all about him feel rather thu
n, they can define.
ro If as yet without direct civil experience, we
4 least know that he has looked wisely enoug
~ upon tho general course public affairs to ha,
-. chosen, between parties, the most Conserv
il. tive; between theories, that which the matur
n. mind only confirms; between men, him abo
all whom true service and not personal succe
or has crowned Tne general knowledge of pu
9TH lie questions he therefore clearly possesses
n, to particular measures, we should fell safe
y, tho rare integrity of his heart, the ntuitive f
I'd, uty of going exactly right which dsdngui
on him so much; aud especially wo should rely