Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1848-10-21
GEN. TAYLOR.

We quote from a recent speech by that
eloquent ton of Massachusetts,, Rufus
ChOate
Sir, to say hat Gen. Zachary Taylor is
a great and patriotic man, is to say nothing.
Martin Van Buren, might say that ofhim,
and he has said as much again as that OF
him, in a resolution which / have in my
pocket. believe, upon all the evidence TO
which have bad access, that ne possesses
in an extraordinary degree The basis Of an
administrative talent of exactly the kind
you seek in the Presidential chair. be.
lieve, from all the evidence to which | have
had access, that be is thorough and quick
in his discernment of men, reading char
acter accurately, caDdidly, and i~nstantane.
ously. | believe that he possesses in an
extraordinary degree, sense, Judgment,
solid and strong qualities Of mind ofthe
old Roger Sherman and George Washing
ton model.
1 understand him TO be q thorough man
Of business, in the best and largest accep-
lance of that term; administering a IaIge
estate and a great fortune with as much
ability as a Florida or Mexican campaign.
Again, from his youth up fom the time
he took up arms in the service ofhis coun-
try he has had an uncquivocal proof OF a
superior character, in the confidence he
inspired, and the profound Difference he re.
cefves, without exactiDg it, from every hui
man being who comes within his reach.
Add TO that the kindness ofhis heart-kind
az Nalso,,s kind as woman's-and that
tolerant bums nifty, and honesty il corrupt.
HE. which l.. who knows would think no
more of assailing than of putting himself
within the roroa of all the battlemenls OF
Monter .. or the whirlwinds of the Gulf /;
all the viii nav look upon him and say
"bere is a man"
I hear Il asked whether lie has the re-
au;s;te deoree nc POLITICAL information and
exper;ence in public affairs. SIR, | can
not help believing that Gen. ZachafyI lay.
lor is destined, in the hanos OF providence,
to illustrate the truth Of that remark OF
that great observer, E1munu burke II
have many times taten notice that men
not professionally trained m the details Of
public office, yet when called into great
stations have, by the mere force of simple
discretion, conducted The affairs Of nations
with distinguished felicity and glory" !
expect the illustration ofthat remark in the
eight years, or the four years administra
ton of Gen. Taylor. All his life long he
has served his country in a department Of
the General Government, enla rging and
eIevating him above the influence ol mere
politics. All his life long now. from his
youth to somewhat middle age, the ripper
time Of mans life he has been an observer
Of the fortunes, The policy, and the inter.
ests ofthe General Government. All his
life long he has been an equal a~ssociaie
with those great scenes /; in all his inter.
walls of leisure, in his winter evenings, bis
furloughs, his retirements from the sharper
services of the camp, he has been an OBJ
server, a student and a thinker upon the
great national interests of The land. He
has learned them, sir, as Julius Cesar
learned astronomy, in the camp.
For all these reasons, / observe in him
exactly the ability you expect from the
Chief Magistrate Of land. He Is not 10
conduct our diplomatic campaign, that Mr..
Van Buren, and his immediate supporters
in New York have always been conspscn-
Gus in their intense hostility to the social
and political elevation Of The free colored
population ofthat State, IN which they {the
Barnburners1 50 long had rule. l. this
fact a proofof his and heir desire to pro.
mote the cause of libeity4 Isthe man who
puts a social and political stigma on the