The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-06-20
The Coolest Specimen Yet.

The Coolest Specimen Yet.
The wings have passed no resolutons-put forth no
political creed-neither at the Philadelphia convention,
nor at the ratification meetings of Washington Boston,
nor al New Haven-nor anywhere else. They shrk the
question, and talk of Palo Alto, and OF Buena Vista
and of Old Whitey-anything, in short but what the
country wants to know-he political principles OF the
wings and the civil qualifications OF their military cand
date The New Haven Register OF Saturday confirms
this statement when it describes the native American
Taylor meeting held at the Exchange of that town;
sThey did not alluie a single principle public ques-
ton The tariff treasury and land questions, which the
public often told OF vital interest to the
country have all been cast aside and the wing party OF
Connecticut stands before people without garment
its nakedness Ia party without prime pies even
the Msrican goes untouched The resolutions alluded
a string of -shells-hoow and unmeanng-put-
ting words the mouth of Taylor that he never used
and in contradiction the spirit of all his letters The
Palladium admits this in the paper In which these
resolutions are published 1t says, General Taylor is
'untrammeed by pedges'and will not be the President
of this or that partyP and yet he held up r0hg who
will carry out tOhig measures =
But little as the wings talk of their principles, they
have spoken still less of the qualifications OF their
nominee Brave they represent him to be-a good,
honest, unassuming officer; and sometimes they talk
of his good nature and his common sense. But they
have been very prudently silent about his qualities as
civilian, until Major Gaines, M. c. from Kentucky ad
dressed the ratification meeting in Boston Friday night
He said he had the meeting by accident, and was
not prepared although it the night before he had
addressed the wings of Concord in New Hampshire. The
Concord PATRIOT says of the orator. that his gentleman
was volunteer in the Mexican war; which he now de-
nounces in every form He the leader of the troops
which surrendered the Mexicans at Encarnacon, &C.
that having thus distinguished himself, he elected to
Congress by his federal friends in kentucky and he is
now on an electioneering tour in New England He
spoke to the federaiss here, Thursday evening" in
support of Taylor and in denunciaton of the which
he volunteered to fight in and in abuse and msrepresent
alton of the government. OF his speech we can
say but litte it was very lame and very tame
affair He said great many foolish things, one Of
which was that Gen. Taylor said did foolish
hing He said that Gen. Taylor freely denounced the
war and the of the government throughout yet
Gen T himself in his letter to Dr. Delony declared that
it was not proper for him to cypress any opinion upon
that subject If Major Gaines tells the truth, then Taylor
did what he himself declares to be improper"
But the Major went further than military qualifications
in his Boston speech He said, according to the sketch
of his speech in the Boston Courier, that Seen Taylor
was Yankee in everything but in birth; and he knew
that better man never lived and better man would
never die He had known Zachary Taylor from his boy
hood and he knew his father before him and he
assured that both were true wings His old father had
said that Virginia the best place in the world TO be
born in provided you leave it early; but lack was
promising boy and left it when he only nine months
DID, and was taken Old Kentucky, which he consider
ed the best place Gods earth to be raised in Major
Gaines went to aude to the private character, and
then to the military cha racte of Gen. Taylor He knew
that the victories won by Gen. Taylor could not have
been won, under the circumstances by any other
man. He never fought battle that he did not win and
with the present fight for the presidency he is 10
win.
"Maior Gaines dsclaimed advocating the election Of
Gen. Taylor on military grounds and spoke Of has knoacn
qualifications as ciuaidn as whose judgment
was ripe-whose decisions had never been doubted;
man who had always talked like whig, always acted
like wing, and always looked like whg."
If the Major is right about General Taylor's "known
qualifications civilian" he certainly knows him bet
ter than the General knows himself for he honestly de-
clares that he is ono politician" The Major had better
take out patent for his discovery for suspect he
has found out what is known to nobody but himself
We shall have the Old Hero ga marvellous proper civil
IAN however, before November next