The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-11-02
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 9, Is4s.
AnusinsI Another Imaginary Speech put Into Gs"
Taylor. mouth by the Wing Jo"rmaIs

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AmusinsI Another Imaginary Speech put Into ae"
| Taylor. mouth by the wh,g Journals
All the world knows that Gen. Taylor is not an orator
man of letters. When left TO himself, he writes
very bad, sovenly and ungIammalical style; and what
purpors TO come IRON his PEN and not so written II
either corrected for him, written for him by somebody
else In his conversation he hestates very much and
'siammers; and he cannot speak in public anywhere
nearly well the average of plain farmers and
mechanics who make pretensions TO be public speak
ers All this is notorious Yet, among other cheats OF
this campaign the wing managers will insist upon trying
to make out the old General TO be orator II is
a very cruel piece of business their part and 1t
shows that they willing to place the old soldier in
position OF most ridiculous pretension Why cannot
they keep still. we doubt not he has the to
desire them to do, about his literary cultivation and his
rhetorical powers' If he is 10 be next President,
decorous regard 10 the credit of country demands
that little possible should be said about all this If
he is not to be President why should anything be
done to place him in position unnecessarily false and
ridiculous, by making him TO pretend to accom-
pshment which he possesses, just about much as he
possesses lie Veres capacity to cipher out the place OF
the new planet in the heavens
| We speak plainly upon this matter, and very suif-
cient provocation. little while ago had the
Generals Pascagoula speech, and here is before
another piece of rhetoric going the rounds of the wing
journals having been delivered by General Taylor at
a barbecue at Port Hudson, in Louisiana 1t is
a speech remarkable for nothing in particulars yet
a speech which General Taylor can more speak,
nor w,1te without assistance, than he extern.
porize another paradise Lost" Let say
that make this statement in any unknd or dispar-
aging spirit towards Gen. Taylor. Far from it. We
would not tarnish leaf of the Generals aurels Let
him long them all, he has won them nobly We
have been charged with abusing him The charge is
most false. We have always done generous justice to
his military In where great and sacred
principles at stake, have commented with mild
ness and reserve which scarcely Justify to
Selves party men, upon his total want of civil qualf
cations for the presidency, and upon the very many sad
things which the wing managers have persuaded him TO
d. or have done for him, since he became candidate.
In this same spirit write now, when say that
those men are his worst abusers who have made General
Taylor try in vain, suffer them to try in vain for him,
to palm off this Port Hudson speech upon the country
his speech, conceived by him, worded by him, and by
him spoken. Were General Taylor candidate, as he
is the wing candidate we would do such thing even
to elect him. Respect for him, Tor his fame for his
vices in the field, would hold our hands from any such
attempt to force him before the world petender and
plagiast AS to the Generals military dispatches the
case quite different was perfectly proper and right
for him to receive assistance from Major Bliss, any
other officer of his staff in preparing them. They
the official voice of the gallant army which he led
Though signed by him commanding general. they
by no means to be regarded, and regarded,
necessarily the productions of his pen Their appearance
implied no false literary pretenson the part of the
General though in the universal commentator which
their style challenged, his OF prominent
iy connected with them 1t is not with these various
oratorical efforts These false pretence and i
would be Just respectable for the whg leaders to have
literary work written for General Taylor and published
in his naIne as is for them father upon him series
of such addresses.
The worst of the whole matter is that General Taylor
should submit to such doings This is seriously agains
him. Bred in the camp, and having never left it, it il
not wonderful, nor is it in sense derogatory tc
him, that he is not a of scholar like educa
ton But it is pitiful to him permit himself tc
be thrust forward as a pretendar to such accomplish
ments when he write letter declining the pres
ent of horse, without showing up the absolute futH
tn of the pretension We readily acquit--nay, we ca
sery hasten to acquitthe brave old soldier of any de
sire to come before the country such oratorca att
, tude. Would that he could "see himself Others
see him." as to make him turn deaf to those who
for their own selfish ends. and with just regard TO
his good repute, overpersuade him to do so.
But the moral of all this must be spoken and we re
peat that speak it in unkndness dsrespect Il
Gen. Taylor. The aoho, IN comparatively small
matter, permit himself 10 be placed, By part
leaders, in utterly false and dicrous position is
man fit for the American people to place IN the highes
position in their gift! 1t shows that he has not an,
have at the determination and the rmness
resist President the arts and the devices in which de-
signing and INSCRIPTIONS will be sure to enmesf
him.
Prospects ahead
VIRGINIA is perfectly safe. We shall carry her by
handsome majority for Cass and Butler
PENNSYLVANIA is also perfectly safe We have seer
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