The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-04-24

Z we continue tnt dDle afuCles Of our cor
respondent, unmasking the Washington
Union. The exposure Of our contempora-
ry's motives, we think, is complete. No
more could well be said in this regard.
no TIE EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL WIG
"Giye me some eivet, good apolhecary,p "
see, my dear sir, that the venerable ed
itor ofthe "Unonn still continues his sense
less clamor concerning the removals Of cor
rupt and faithless officers and mere party
tools, made by President Taylor and his
Cabinet Since my last, his crocodile tears
have continued to bedew the columns Of his
paper His piteous waiings are heard, far
and wide, bemoaning the C mighty that have
fallen in Israel" Can you not sootbe him it
his deep distress : Can you not wipe the
rheum from his eyes' win you not drive off
the spectres which, in his imagination, seem to
threaten his political household with destruc-
tion' Poor good, kind, charitable soul do
convince him that no " frightful hyaras and
gorgons dire" beset him. beseech you,
do not permit him to puthis late delightful and
joyous sheet in mourning for the. "riciims,
Have respect for the grey hairs upon his
head, fear me much that he will perpetrate
some rash and horrible act akin to suicide
unless you interpose your friendly Offices
Persuade him, | pray you, that President
Taylor will not depart SO far from his golden
rule as to make an indiscriminate slaughter
Of the Polkites. Have mercy, and "giUe him
some ciUei, good dpothecdry."
But, testing aside, who does not perceive
the Van Buren-fox-like cunning Of the time
worn veteran of the "Union "'-that spe-
cies Of cunning which age-enfeebled men
always possess after the higher faculties Of
the mind have been nipped by the frost q
years, and in him so thoroughly perfected
whilst he practiced on the political arena
with the little magician''-''the ,,peet lit
tie fellotU'' with whom, he swore, he would
g sink or strim 2" Who does not see that,
although he means like the publicans pray'd,
and utters pharisaical groans over the remains
of his dear associates in arms, he is secretly
rejoicing in the hope that, all, without dis
tinction-the deserving and the undeseving
the faithful and the faithless-the compe-
tent and the incompetent-the interrupted and
the corrupt may fall together, SO that, in 1862,
he may assemble his train band and again
as Of old, present a rich harvest Of govern
mental patronage before them, and with the
Jacksonan shibboleth Of so the pictors be-
long the spoils," let slip the dogs Of war
Who does not discover beneath his outward
cloak Of hypocrisy, the scared and hardened
heart Of the mere trickster and poltician-----a
heart hammered, burnt and polished into the
consistency oil steel, by thousand Conflicts
on the political stage--by the strokes Of ar
ti6ee-the blows Of revenge and the dexte-
rous hits Of cunning, dealt out by him IN the
campaigns Of forty odd years Who does
not know that he cares not how many Of his
compatriots are now made to bite the dust
and how much "hedri-rending" calamity Isl
generated in their families, (being secure
himself in the gains won by his subseIvien-
CIV to party, so that in the end he carries
his point and brings into power, four years
hence, genuine Simon-pure Van Buren,,
Polkite I,ocoloco If his feelings are as
tender as he would now have US believe,
why did he not, three years ago, 60 and at
tend the dying couch Of poor James, whose
blood cries aloud for vengeance' Has he
remembered to forget this melancholy case
Of prescription? Has he forgotten that this
man being thrown penniless upon the world,
died under the depression Of spirits thus gen
erated2 Again-a he is as kind and char
liable as he non represents himself to be,
why did he suffer the nephew Of General!
Harrison, with his aged father--his wife and
ten children, to be cast headlong out Of office
without a silver wherewith to obtain NOR
sci s'of breadan Or, if he could not have
prevented the catastrophe, why did he not
shed over them few Of the tears which he
nop sheds and administer to those little
of the comfort and consolation which he
no,D administers through the columns Of the
/" Uaion:' And yet again--if he is oppos-
ed to "proscription for opinions sake !" as he
nou says he is, why did he not hur against
President Polk some Of the anathemas
which he aoic vents against President lay
lor, for the removal Of Mr.. Vincent, simply
because he pas Hhig2 And still again
Ii he is so sincere an advocate Of law
and right as he nor attempts to show
that he is, why did he permit Mr.. Bancroft
while'Secretary ofthe Navy, togo unwhipped
Of Justice, when he perpetrated, with regard
to the engineers Of the Navy, an act Of
enormity which no Cabinet officer, or Presi-
dent before, had ever dared 10 perpetrate I
These officers had been regularly examined
according 10 lao by competent boards Of
engineers, appointed by former Secretaries
Of the Eavy--passed--nominated to the
Senate according 10 iaw---confrmed by the
Senate, and then commissioned by the Pre-
sident in being-aH according 10 law.--
| They stood, therefore, upon the same foot