The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-09
The "AvaiinbilIty" Candidate !

Ii the wing enthusiasm not dead before, Mr..
Webster seems determined TO kill it utterly Never have
we Witnessed at the crisis of an exciting election, so
cold and frigd an address. Why, il Mr.. Webster had
carried the spirit to Richmond under the October
SUM- OF $780, he would have been considered by those
dent southeners the most unmpassloned and insipd
of orators 1t Mr. Webster's duty, at this time, to
rouse up the friends of Gen Taylor, and, by his eo
quence and decision, create soul under the very ribs
Of death" But, there anything destitute of
fervor and feeling this long and consultative speech
with his friends of Marshied' Well may the New
York Journal of Commerce say OF it, that the speech
OF Ir Webster has been read with regret by many OF
his best friends True he assents to the nomination Of
Gen Taylor but it is given with such apparent reluc-
tance and with many Attachments, that silence would
have been kindness in the comparison. Probably MIR.
Webster is that his asprancy the sta
ton had anything to do with the faint praise which he
bestowed upon the General; yet people will be very apt
to st spect that it had"
Wehave never seen any ''damned with fainter
praise" Did any one hear the like from great
orator at an exciting crisis the following remarks up
on the military candidate
10y the wing convention in Philadelphia is satisfactory
the wings of Massachusetts,: that is certain and it
much respectable and distinguished in the line of
his profession, however much estimable
military merely. He has had training in civil af-
fairs He has performed no functions Of civil character
and only Known by his brilliant achievements the head
of the army. Now the wings of Massachusetts, and
among them OF opinion that it wise discreet
90 army for selection Of candidate for the pres
dency of the United States 1t is the first instance in
proposed that high office Washn ton had great
military but by far greater civil character He had been
dawn OF the revolution; he had been in the Continental
Congress- he had established great character for wisdom
know he elected a member of that convention which
framed the constitution of the United States and it
of the honorable tributes paid him. that
by that assembly of great and wise men, he was selected
preside their deliberations, and had his
first attached to the constitution under which live
President Harrison was a brave old soldier, and diff
eent periods of his e rendered important military
vices but he, nevertheless, for the much greater part of
his life, employed in civil than in military affairs
For twenty years he was either of Territory,
member of Congress, minister abroad and he dis
charged all the duties appertaning those offices the
satisfaction the country This chse nom
dent and without justification from anything in our pre-
Their req soning was this Gen. Taylor is wing, not
eminent in civil lille, known in civil life but still
Of sound whg principles. Circumstances have given MIN
candidate, he will be chosen and with him cand
date, will be able to elect members to the two houses
Congress, get augmentation of Whig strength, the
wing majority the House OF Representatives will be in
creased and the locooco majority IN the Senate will be
hcweve wise unwse which governed great portion of
that assembly in Philadelphia Now, gentlemen, in my
opinion, this unwise policy 1t suitable to the
whig characterize reconcabe with true wis
DON'T short-sighted, and tempofising on great
question OF principle.
Gen. Taylor has been nominated fairly. far
know, and cannot therefore, and shall oppose his
election AT the me there is cho is
hrm,y q opinion that such "om'nato" cas not Ut to DC
made"
In word, Mr.. Webster contends that Gen Taylor
has been selected upon other ground than for his sup
posed availability (Which he himself ridcues too) and
he seems TO be nothing 10th weaken his argument
and kill of the little availability which was supposed to
belong TO the General II MIR. Webster thus backs his
friends on all OCCASIONS give us, say, his downright
opposition to his faint, equvocal praise.
The Cleveland 'Plan Dealer" gives amusing ac-
count of the motley convention which recently assembled
~ that county. (Cuyahoga) The Taylor men were all
beaten IN the domination by the barnburnng boilers:
The Taylor brought forward their strongest man,
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