Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-06-15
TAYLOR AND CASA CoNTR Asst.


The Louisville Journal draws the following
contrast between the Candidates for the Presi
dency. Il is true to the life
What a contrast there is between the two
candidates for the Presidency, General Taylor
and General Cass Probably two prominent
men are not TO be found in the whole nation
more utterly different from each other in their
characters and their lives. Look at them
first a the one and then at the other. Both
are military men, but the one, although out for
time in the last war with Great Britain, new
cr encountered his country's enemies in battle,
while the other, by his achievements in three
wars, especially in the war with Mexico, has
won an immortal fame, beside which the
brightest names of the heroes of antiquity APP
pear dim and pale. Nor are the two men less
strikingly contrasted in other things than in
their military regulations. Trace them through
their lives; the one a savish and trucking pa
rasite of power, always in profitable public Of
flee but always seeking and receiving it as the
boon of the Government and never at the
hands of the people. the fiatterer and supporter
by turns, of the elder Adams, of Jefferson. of
Madison, of Monroe, of John @. Adams, of
| Andrew Jackson, Of Van Buren,, of Harrison,
and of Polk, and holder of office from all of
them except the first and last, the cringIng sy-
cophant and elaborate eulogist of Louis Phil
| ippe in prosperity and the ready denouncer of
Louis Philippe in adversely, the proprietor OF
all possible opinions to suit all conceivable
times and occasions, black-cockade Federal
ist aud ranting radical, warm friend of the
! Wilmot proviso, deadly enemy OF the Will
mot proviso, and non -committalist in regard
to the Wilmot proviso, an advocate of the i'm
provements of lakes and rivers and support
er of the President in his vetoes af those i'm
provements, a loud brawler for economy and a
still louder brawler for war, no matter at wha
fexpense of money and BLOOD with every ma
: ton that happens 10 have dispute with us
f a man whose feelings and sympathies rest no
with the masses, but pine for the sickly ant
corrupt atmosphere of courts and palaces, O
Kings and Presldents--the other emphaticall,
man of the people; sturdy and vigorous off
shot of the plain old Kentucky yeomanry.
strong scion nurtured amid the perils, the pri
vations, and the hardships of the plain, virtu
Gus, hospital Bile, and un pretending pioneers o
the West, min whose sinews have been har
2 dened By toll, who esteems his fellow men &C
cording to their merit and not according t.
their position, who never asked favor from
F, government functionary IL his life, VIII
/ knows nothing of courts and arstocracies an
g sycophants and office-seekers except to scorl
4 them, man who thinks for himself, AM
islands erect in the image of God" instead c
: Glowing the pregnant hinges of the knee wher
J thrift may follow fawning," who would no
e form an opinion or disavow an opinion DELHI
erately formed to gain crown and sceptre
who manifests ia his whole bearing such ster
and lofty purity that corruption would neve
u dare to approach him, who unites, In NOR
/. extraordinary degree than almost any othe
a man of the age, the qualities of charming sim
plicity, manly sense, keen sagacity, unerrin
IL l..
e decision of character, who for the last thirt
: years has "spent his dearest action in the ten
# ted field, scarcely sleeping undera roof durin
all that time, and who, within the last tw
u years, has, by series of victories that hay
r no parallel in ancient or modern victory wo
.r an Immortality of glory for himself and for h
country
Between these two candidates for The Pres
s dency, so coutrasted in their habits, the
modes of thought and feeling. their characte
J. and their histories, there cannot be doubt
contest. The ofice-holders and the pensione
editors may lie and rave and deceive some
"a their followers and even themselves, but Il
II people, the independent and virtuous PEG pl
Sc the bone and muscle of the republic, the tot
ing millions whose only objectina Preside
tial election is to secure well-administer
II Government-these will scorn the changelin
the incessant seeker after Executive favor
n. the betrayer of all parties in succession. Il
=. steady worshipper of power by whomsoev
:! possessed, the groyelling sycophant of Lou
us Philippe and his court, and will delight in ele
he ting 10 the highest office in their gift the plat
Ill true-hearted, and independent citizen, who,
all that he has said, in all that he has done,
= had no other end in view THAI ''his Countr,
" his Gods, and Truths"
ly And now, fellow Wings. let us grid up o
on strength for network before US. Gen. Tayl or
:, Mr.. Fillmore can certainly be elected, but IL
y without an effort. We shall have the help
We some of the best and most virtuous OF the
igs who have hitherto been our opponents, but,
ed we would succeed, we must also bel p oarselv
c,s The whole vast and corrupt patronage of I
General Government. with lis tens OF thol
'as sands of officers and its millions of mont
ISL will be welded against US, and the Locofc
thh Leaders will struggle against US as they ne