The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-12-02

To this we need only add, that federalism since il fell
into disepue. has always been afraid OF avowng either
its principles It's name, and has changed both often
and then we have the full OF this new lumnary
in the political frmament-"The Taylor Republican
Party" The chapter of wing nomenclature is Gu
rious indeed. First, we have them as iederalists
then as national republicans; then as wings; then
as republican wings; then as democratic wings and
now as Taylor republicans. If federalism has at
last TO the necessity of christening itself by the
of some man and if, moreover in order to cloak and
disguise its true character, il must pretend TO seek the
name OF noparty man, then why does it not seek such
shelter under the great and revered name of Wash
ngton' 1t Processes to say that General Taylor is to
make Washington the great exemplar of his admin
straton. And yet its platform is principally the sup
preston of The veto, which Washington recognised and
pracsed part of his constitutional duty But why if
wants to stamp It's popular and permanent party with
the name OF any man, does go out of political life
into the camp, TO seek the of Taylor' Why
does it bapize itself by the of whose
whole political life is in the future who has connect
ed himself heretofore with no measure of public
policy, and who has distinctly refused to make himself
the representative or exponent of any code of political
principles doctrines? The phrase, "Washington re-
pubcans," would mean something, to mean
something, to whatever base uses" it might be misap
piled. The name, "Tayor republicans" here taken,
means nothing but wings seemingly throwing up their old
organization, to hunt Office through the devious and dirty
paths OF cringng and crawling sycophancy and man
worship
Who fail to see that the pretence of this oganza-
ton to anything like political principle is absurd !?
What is their principle Why, they banded together,
if you take their word for it, upon the idea that the
jory OF any Congress, wing democratic, shall have
power to enact, and shall enact, just such meas
ures of internal policy as it may choose; that the
measures so enacted SHALL in plain violation of
the constitution, be the law of the land without
any previous exercise of the Presidents constitutional
discretion to determine whether he approve them
not and that these measures be they what they may
whether wing or democratic-these Taylor republicans
10 give their support! Really these sad
bungers II they wanted to make a platform from
which they might push better men out OF office, to be
hereupon occupied by themselves, then surely, surely
they might have given us a somewhat more plausible
platform than this The shade of Hamilton must frown
Indignantly upon this last miserable dodgehs open and
naked suberfuge of self-humiation into which the
great federal party which he formed has fallen 1t was
part of the old Pythagoean doctrine that the soul in
successive transmgratons entered otentimes de-
based forms of nature than those which it left So the
soul of federalism running through its round OF change,
and reappearng under names has at last
toaakc the style of Taylor rcpnbcanisn, and "assoc
aes' itself with all the odds and ends of the political
creation at Philadelphia But through all its DISCUSSES,
the cloven hoo Of ancient federalism prorudes. We
hope that General Taylor will have sef-respec enough
10 irown upon any such abuse of his name by the
association.