The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-10-09
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We publish below the pathetic, the piteous the drown
ing cry Of General Taylors administration. 1t is address
ed through the columns OF the Rel uJc to the people of
Louisiana and Mississippi; and it is an affecting and
plantive jeremiad for help, in the dark hour which
wickedness and folly have brought upon the whg forces
II is singular appeanot addressed to the patriotic
gratitude of the people of Louisiana and Mississippi but
it reminds them Of the gallant and unrequited aid which
they gave to General Taylor the battlefield and the
generous but betrayed confidence which they extended
to him in the contest for the presidency No civil r
umph of General Taylor is alluded to; for the events
of his administration barren OF benefits to the coun.
try His public policy is not exposed to the public
vew to avert the storm of popular indignation which
now assails him his policy plead for him
in the hour Of difficulty and danger which has now come
upon him. These measures have been prescribed by an
responsible cabal, who have kipdled the wrath of
the people by their unblushng eaehey and their violent
and unrestrained vndictiveness The people OF Louis
lana are eneaed to recoec that they elected General
Taylor to the presidency; and the effort is made to
their resentment by falsely stating that the demo-
cratic party charges Louisiana with committing fraud
upon the rest Of the Union by the election OF an mbece
to the chief magistracy With cold efrontery they are
even reminded Of the opening scenes Of the Mexican
that they were the first TO marshal their legions for the
rescue when the gallant army Of the Rio Grande was
menaced by overwhelming force. They are told
how regiment after regiment, amidst the waving
Of banners and the plauds of admiring multitudes,
embarked for the scene of strife, to rescue their
countrymen, or TO avenge their fall. The people
Of Mississippi too, reminded OF their gallant deeds al
Monterey, and they told how they were the forlorn
hope at Buena Vista, and how they redeemed that field
when within the grasp OF the enemy Congress is now
says the administration in its agony, he Buena Vista Of
the days and they are now, them THE roRLoRS HOPE
OF THE GENERAL" But amidst these "reminiscences Of
the Mexican war; the organ OF the President forgets to re-
mind the gallant men who rushed with patriotic ardor to
the rescue OF General Taylor on the Rio Grande-who
breasted the iron storm at Monterey, and beat back the
Mexican force in the defle OF Buena viststhai there
was party in this country which reviled the cause in
which they were engaged unhoy and sbhoned Of God
which gave aid and encouragement TO the enemy and held
them up TO the adherence Of Chsendom as robbers and
pirates stained with blood and abased by pine Who can
forget except the parasites who surround their IDOL that
there was such party in country, which left effort
untried 10 force gallant army TO abandon the field Of
honor in dsgrace-to impair the national resourcesto
withhold supplies and deny assistance to our troops-to
sssa the credit Of the govemenito cripple the power
Of the nation and. whilst they were in the enemys coun
try. TO encourage Mexico to prolong the conflict The
og,n Of the President also forgot to inform the people
Of Louisiana and Mississippi that Gen. Taylor as soon
he returned from Mexico. threw himself into the arms
Of the "mora traitors who had reviled him and his gal
liant army. and denounced the glorious cause in which
they engaged It"remembers to forget that when
he was elected to the Presidency he did not call around
him the advocates and the champions Of the war, to
which he owes all his military glory and all his civil ell
ovation; but he called around him cabinet to aid him
administering the government selected from some Of
the very men who had reved the cause in which he won
his greenest laurels-who withheld renforcements and
supplies from his army, and who DETAINED the gallant SOL
ers that stood BY him the battlefield He armed the
members Of his cabinet, most Of whom had sympathzed
whthe Mexcans and encouraged them to prolong
lestwiih thepower and authority Of his high oce andhe
at quietly by. and. without word Of rebuke them
hive from employment some OF the very heroic spirits
who had sustained him in the conflict with Mexico
even those who had stood by him on the battle -fed-as
unworthy Of public confidence The brave men Of Loui.