The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-17
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| The idea is as monsrous as il is uniounded o
! LIS, ~tv -s %r2Sy- SS6 Wa.ss ana demoeu,.
around him-whigs and democrats. too" ultra" enough
| by no to shrink from declaring their princ
pies in a political formulary" And does Gen
Taylor candidate for the highest office the peoul.
can give DARE to tell his country that these men
because of their political differences, the Sun
,onpro mising enemies" OF each other, as shoulder fl
shoulder they charged up to the muzzles of III.
Mexican at Monterey, or bivouacked together
before the camp-fres the blood damped field Of Bu
sna VISTA waiting for the daylight TO show them whether
On the morrow Santa Anna and his host would fight Or
flee But is it for General Taylor Of all other men, 10
,ay that wing officers in the army treated by democratic
statesmen in power 'uncompromisng enemiesm Let
him look at has position at the of this
administration Was it "uncompromis hostility" which
placed him. uhig he he tcas the head Of the
army of occupation and invasion' Was it uncompro.
missing hostility" which selected hm-then no more than
plain Col Taylor-known indeed as good and faithful
officer. but way particularly conspicuous before the
country-to occupy position and exercised command
destined to connect his forever with that of the gal
ant army whose exploits have become the admiration Of
the world When he wrote the above passages and gave
this strange for refusing TO disclose to his coup
try, candidate the political principles which would
guide him if made President, General Taylor was him:
self the Hving refutation of what he wrote He knew
that between the soldiers and officers of our army and
between them and their government, political differ.
erences imply no such "uncompromisng hostility" He
knew that if so, the fact would be highly discredi
able alike to the army, the government and the coun
try; and yet, by way of excusing his own want
of frankness, his vacillation his tmidy, his incon
sistency and his concealments, he does not hesitate
to put forward from his present conspicuous posi-
ton this most groundess assertion, which little less
than gross public libel the parties and the politics
and the political men of his country Better-ar bet
ter-for him to leave his political double-dealing unex
cused than attempt so to excuse II Besides, in this
very assertion he eonradies himself He says his army
knew he a wing" Does he to say, them
that his democratic soldiers would have thought him any
of uncompromsing enemy" to them, if he had
shown himself frank, dboUe board wing, not afraid of
declaration of whg princpes' In this his latest most
deliberate attempt to his since he became
candidate, General Taylor has not contented himself
with putting forth insult to the politics of his coun.
ry he has also added more to his long list Of ha
grant self contradictions!
We proceed to another passage of this letter. which
deem yet dscredabe to Gen. Taylor than those
on which we have above commented He is speak.
ing of his nomination by the wing convention; and be
says:
The conuention adopted it found me-a whie-ds.
cded but not ultra in my opinions; and would be with
,ut excuse if were to shift the relationships which sub.
sisted at the time. They took with the declaration of
principles had published the world and would be
without defence if were to say do anything impair
the force Of that declaration.
This statement is incorrect The whg convention did
by 'adopt" General Taylor "as it found him."
II found him pledged and again no sase to
permit himself to be the candidate of any party" 1t
found him fully pledged in his Richmond Republican
letter written only three days before his Alison letter.
to independent candidate, and not to withdraw
his name "whoever might be the nominee either of the
wing ~ the democratic convention In this position the
Philadelphia convention found him. In this position
they did by no means adopt him. Before he could be
adopted. MIR. Saunders and the Louisiana delegation
were called in to stand his political godfathers at quite
new political christening of him And the result was.
that the sturdy ndependen candidate of his previous
letters, that vould whether no, was turned into
very plant and submissive parsonage, whose
would be considered Whdrawn from the canvass "by
the very act OF going into the convention unless he
made its nominee This was how the wings "adopted"
him; and just how they did not "fnd him !"
The american has charged us with caumny Is this
allegation of ours also calumny in the judgment of that
journal Or does its editor bethink him of a certain
Maryland Independent electoral ticket made up for Gen.
Taylor the wings "found him." and then ab andond
with wrath and denunciatons because of his "adop.
lion" by the wings in gross and fragrant violation
of his own then recent and recorded pledges to
his independent friends? Since the question of ca
Illuminating General Taylor has come up between us
and the American, put it to that journal whether
any harsher language against him has been found in our
columns than that which copied upon the occasion
ferred to, chat is, in July last,) from the Buena
VISTA the then organ of the Maryland Taylor men, Of
whom the editor OF the American one, and by no
means the least conspicuous Did the "Buena VISTA"
in its formal farewell manifesto on the subject then dis
tncty charge with abundant reiteation and emphasis
aye, and with full proof too-hat Cen Taylor had proved
fatess to his pledges7 Did the card of the "Inde
pendent Electors charge, in substance the same thing
the event that the General should not disavow Judge
Saunders's statements Did not the independent conven
ton which met to dissolve the Independent Taylor party
of Maryland and did dissolve it over the Generals secret
letter which not to the lght-dd not these men by
their action substantially confirm all that their organ had
said of General Taylor's ,roat of good faith
If these things be so-and we incline to think that
the American will remember the facts quite too well
to deny them--sher, we ask what does that journal
think of General Tayors present explicit declaration