Democratic banner., 1848-05-15

ISCHI Nv 1901 SO'HI AbS Ns
ERASED from the statute-boak. For We Ia,
bank, and internal improvements, under,
J our lead! l shall c%onine myself, then, to,
the question Of availability. Three times
have we ran you, and three times your
has brought defeat So soon as Ger,
". H. Harrison had brought us Up from a
minority, where You had left, us,
to a large majority, You hurried on to Wash.
lington, wieE Mr.. Ty!sr, under Mr.. Web
%stcr's Lead, wasdoing good service to tie
country and party, end by attempting to
force en- him and Is tie ''obsoiete hank.
which We had purPcsely slurred in the can
rasS, yon brought Us to a speedy minority.
''long time ago." being too old. to per-
form the comparatively light duties OF Sen
,ator, you gave tie public a farewell ad-
dress, and retired from public life.' The
Democratic party, ~ he excess Ct its num-
bers, vas at oncc split into widely scpara..
tied fragments. alessrs. Cass, Calhoun,
Van Buren,, Tyler, Polk, and oilers, we're
all pressing their claims With i bitterness
before unknown to the party. ''Whom the
igods wish 20 destroy they first make mad"
they determined to bring Texas into tile
Union, !vowEpLY TO break down the pow
er of the free North, and to make this ma
ton a slave empire. The friends of liber-
ty rallied once more, and in spite of your
Missouri compromise, and your consistent
id%enunciation Of all real anti-slavery action,
your Raleigh letter made you by some ia
itality OUR candidate once more. The Demo-
cratic feuds were at once cured up by the
greatcr hatred of Henry Clay. Mr.. Van
Buren,, who had taken similar ground with
yourself, but who could net unite the party,
was overthrown, and MIR. James K. Polk
substituted. notwithstanding The claims
of other Whigs-I will now restrict myself
in saying your EQUALS were postponed,
who, no one Low doubts, could haye$eep
elected-we, the Wing party, all ufnitfg %
Iyou. We fought with the ardor Of broth
Ierhood, and with the moral power Of { no.
ble cause. Our success seemed certain
Now. once more, By that fatality which at
tends you, you come out in your Gazette
letter, and disclaim any sympathy with
emancipation 1t is true there was a little
Inconsistency in this, inasrnuch as you had
always avowed just the opposite doctrine;
but as you wrote to me "go on, good Cas-
%sius,"I thought at last all things would
come out right. This, however, was a
small affair between you and me and our
abolition friends. But all at once you came
out in your Alabama letter, when you would
''not reject a permanet acquisition of ter
ritory on account of a temporary institu-
tionG' This was a very different affair."
1t lay at the foundation of the whole con-
test. You "changed front" The Wings
# the North were Disguised. They had
nothing left TO cont'd for. The battle was lost
We felt our %country's wounds in your per-
son. We paid your debts, We condoled
with you in your retirement once more, and
raised monuments to your memory Once
more the excuses of the Democratic party
began to exhibit themselves. The uncon-
stitutional annexation of Texas, and the :
Presidential war, began to stir the souls Of
indignant freemen. Seeing that We were
in a minority, and without the sympathies
of the ~people-having experience that a
peace party can never nave the confidence
icf "a Republic during d raging war-our
~''wise" Wing leaders voted supplies, and
the Wings turned out to the war, and once
more we brought ourselves up from a mi
nority, where you had again left US, in a
maJorlty.
The Administration had all the response
Ibility of the loss of honor, men and money,
by the war :, our Wing Generals reaped al
the glory. The success Of the party was
certain. The public, with a uEaniuity new
er before Seen in this country, looked to
one man: a man who, growing too great for
the powers at Washington, was left to per-
ish, with a handful of men, before twenty
thousand troops in the enemy's county,
But ZACHARY TAYLOR was not the, man q
die tn acrnm.~-l-t- rTrSIuent FOLK or his
ally Santa Anna! The battle of Buena
Vista liked Gen. Taylor in the hearts of the
people! Neither you. nor the wire-work-
ers of party, nor the Ire siGent, can cause
lhim or his friends 20 s'surrenderii" The
honest old soldier was generous enough to
give a parting compliment to your name, by
saying lie would have preferred you to him
lscif to lead us on once more to the battle.
You have taken him at his word! Imme-
diately your friends Of the ''secret circu-
lar" under the pretence Of being the
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