Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-06-21
LEGIsLATlvE TICKET
The Taylor COnsumation.

The long internal agony OF the wing
party which preceded the assembling Of
their national convention is over at last,
and its place has been succeeded by one
of not less bitterness on the part of the
great majority, or radical portion of that
party, who were obliged to desert their
favorite and long cherished champion in
hi. last hour of need, by considerations Of
expediency,' and by the outrageous per-
tinacity Of the successful candidate. This
feeling Of bitter disappointment and cha
grin will be smothered by that portion Of
them whose attachment to principle is in
easy subserviency to their fancied pros
poets Of obtaining the loaves and fishes Of
Office. Yea, the nomination of a man
avowedly destitute Of, OF at least ashamed
to father the principles Of a party Of which
they are but the fag ends, may, with this
portion of our opponents, be received even
with enthusiasm, inasmuch as they think
they can see in it, if crowned with sue
cess, an earnest of their own political ag-
grandizement. But with the radical, prin-
ple-loving, and honest portion Of the whig
party--those who have long and boldly
fought its battles, and who are the legisla-
tive fathers and executive officers Of its
system Of tactics and discipline-the un-
ceremonious rejection Of Mr.. Clay and
other radical wing candidates, is received
with ranking bitterness and soreness Of
chagrin and disappointment which, though
8 in measure smothered, will tell fearfully
against them when the books come to be
posted in November next.
Those who, like ourselves, occupy the
position of lockers on in Venice, may
well be pardoned by our whig brethren
for an expression of unfeigned surprise at
the conduct Of an august body Of men, ire
presenting the wing party of the Union,
all Of whose members professed devoted
attachment to Mr.. Clay, in suffering them
selves to be whipped into the selection Of
man who boldly declared in advance his
determination not to abide their decision,
and who, as they were well aware, had,
in view of his waning popularity, adopted
this course to force their favorite candi-
date off the track. Such conduct is nei-
Their becoming them as honest partizans
nor as men representing the spirit and
pride Of any, even the meanest political
Organization Of the country. Its only ex-
cuse, then, must be sought for on the
ground Of stern necessity and fancied
availability" The first we have noticed
sufficiently for our present purpose; lie,
us glance at the supposed availability of
Gen. Taylor.
And first as to the grounds Of Gen. Tay-.
1or's supposed availability, we would re-
mark, that they are mainly predicated up
on the fact, that while the party nominal
ting him were engaged in the most yigo-
rous and envenomed hostility to the war
and all engaged in it, he fought the battles
OF his country upon hostile soil, the ad-
vance upon which he was among the YER,
first to recommend. In this light his no.
mination may be looked upon as an ac-1
knowledgedment on the part Of the wing,
Of the popularity Of the war, as their cleo
ton Of a no-party man certainly is virtu-
ally as to the weakness Of their cause.
Another Of the main grounds Of suppo-
sed availability IS pr3dicated upon Gen.
Taylor's popularity in the western and
slave States. The wings appear to have
taken it for granted that the people, and
particularly those Of the WeH--who,s