The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-11
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THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER II, ls4s.


remorseiess Spanish bloodhound; to assert false
hood, confess ii, and make amends by servility,"-
JOHN TAYLOR, of Caroline, Thomas Richie.
'Ritchie is the greatest scoundrel in America. -
-Andretc Jackson.
Our venerable contemporary will not be
angry with us for ''digging up from the
grave, wherein they have been quietly in
urned,' the judgments passed upon him
by two great men who have gone to their
account, as we do not reproduce them to-
day for the purpose Of insisting upon their
correctness, but rather as texts from which
moral may be drawn. We are assured,
moreover, by the Union itself, that the Sc
Nor editor can laugh at these reminiscent
ces, "because, long after the paper war
had passed away, with the feelings of irri-
tation and the expressions of contempt
which it produced, we the senior were
enabled to do justice to Colonel Taylor,
and to receive it at his hands," If, there
fore, such "reminiscences produce only
laughter in our venerable contemporary,
he will not think the worse of US if we
should now and then feed his mirth with
such pleasantries as are above quoted.
1t is not, however, with the fun or the
ferocity Of these relics that we have to do
now. They are suggestive of serious re-
Elections which, it would be presumptuous
in us to insinuate, might well engage our
contemporaries venerable thought. We
certainly have the right to adduce the tes-
timony of those great and good men dead,
acknowledged to be so by the senior editor,
to invalidate the testimony of the Union
against great and good man living
When the Union says General TAYLOR has
been guilty of conduct which, in private life,
"would disgrace gentleman" we might
appeal to General Jackson and John Tay-
lor, of Caroline, to know if the Union is a
credible witness. 1t will be seen, from the
extracts at the head Of this article, how
such an appeal would be answered and
though the senior editor might laugh at the
Renaissance, the remainder of the
world might laugh at the Union's accu-
sations. But Of this at another time.
We do not know the extent of the in
jury and injustice received from the senior
editor of the Union, which provoked from
| John Taylor, of Caroline, so terrible a re-
ply as the one from which we take an ex-
tract for comment. We have met with
| occasional scraps Of the senior editor
| diatribes against General Jackson, which
are in the vein of his lampoons upon Gen
eral TAYLOR. But whatever was said of
John Taylor, of Caroline, or of General
Jackson, was uttered upon better know
ledge OF those once4despised and traduced
worthless than he has now of General TAY-
| LoR. He denounced them on ground
more relevant" than he now occupies in
libelling the present Chief Magistrate of
| the United States. Yet the senior editor
of the Union lived to regard the one who
| likened him to a car as a great and good
man, and the other, who said yet worse of
him, another great and good man. He
lived to be "enabled to do them justice, -
and now that they are dead can laugh al
the recollection of the wrongs he did them
and the return he got.
II is a sweet disPosition-one of those
forgiving tempers which pardons any
| amount of wrong Others receive at our
hands-that "reminiscences of this nature
make jocular; but might they not inspire
other and more salutary influences
Should they not admonish one, whose ex-
perience has given him so much cause tc
distrust his discretion, to forbear INDUCING
suspicious and vindctive Imagination
TO restrain a rotous and libellous fancy
to curb a fretful and weak Judgment The
senior editor of the Union, when he as
sailed in such way as to call down upon
him a burning retort, knew John Taylor,
of Caroline, better than he now knows
Zachary Taylor, President of the United
States Yet he lived to feel how deeply
he had injured the one, and should not
this admonish him how grossly he may be
lniuring the otherl Heaven forefend that
the "Senior Editor" should ever be at.
flicted with the demon Of remorse; but
should he lose that bouyant hardlhooc
which enables him to laugh at reminiscent
ces of "reputations hunted down with the
Inconsistencies of Spanish bloodhounds, y
we fear his despair would derive small re-
; lief from all the consolation of all the
Richmond elite
In this connexion it may be profitable
to reflect how near General TAYLOR was tc
being considered by the Union the creates
and best man living. We have the au
thority of that journal for saying, that j
.. General TAYLOR had not announced him
self Wing, he would have received tn,
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