Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1849-06-04

This, you will remember, was after you had
accepted the Wing nomination, in letter hich
said nothing at all about Wing principles.
The publication of your letter of July "a ere
ated great excitement among the people and
the politicians.
Wing papers in New York denounced it as
''locofoco' forgery. The North American, i'll
Philadelphia, (once the organ Of Henry Clay,
and now the Northern organ of the Secretary of
State,) seized upon the word "Praeote," and in
weary columns assaied the person TO whom the
letter was addressed, as the betrayer of your con-
fiaence. Other Journals, however, hich circu-
lated among the masses hailed this letter with
unqualified approval and placed it at the head OF
their columns as s'the great creed and watch.
word of the Taylor party"
| must frankly tell you, that had you not made
the declaration embraced in this letter, l. for one
could not have advocated your election, nor CIV
en- You my vote Certain it is, that without this
declaration, (soon followed by your Charleston
letter. you could not have gained the vote of
Pennsylvania, famous for her old Democratic
majority of twenty-five thousand"
What was the result of this letter. and of the
excitement Immediately consequent upon its
publication The Wing party in Philadelphia
forthwith dropped the very name of Wing
They stored it away-perchance under the Sc
pulchre oil Girard's squandered bequest, maybe
under the ruins of some broken bank-but you
well know, and every reader of the papers
knows, that in the late campaign the battle was
| fought, not under the name of Whg but under
the united names of f'Taylor and Fillmore"
| The Democrats We're asked to vote for YOU as
the Independent candidate-the candidate ofthe
people-as the man who had no friends to re-
ward; no enemies to punish-ih fact, as Zachary
Taylor, who, in case of his election, would not
be President of a party, but the President of the
whole people.
And with your letter in my hand, addressed
| thousands of my Democratic fellow citizens and,
on the security of your unbroken faith, stated
that you could not, in any event. become the
President, much less the creature, of party
Upon your solemn declaration, honestly advo-
Gated YOU as ''the President of the whole REQ
ple.'
did not for moment indulge the thought
that you could ever become thecentre of a mere
party administration. Had been told, by you,
that YOU would ever become the head of an adj
ministration made up Of Wing politicians, |
could not, in any case, have advocated your
claims, nor would you have received the votes
of hundred Democrats in Pennsylvania.
Now, General, the smoke of the contest has
cleared away. You are the President. Elected
upon the faith Of your solemn pledges, you are
at the head of the government.
| Have you fulfilled these pledgcs9 Ask your
own hear1-call back that iron purpose, that
clear -souled integrity, which bore you through
the carnage Of Bucna Fista--suryey the faces Of
your ca bnet, and the faces of those partizans Of
your cabinet who now storm the White House
for the spoils of office. Answer me! | have
right to ask an answer. You pledged your faith
to me- an humble citizen, and believed you,
and told my fellow-citizens that you had never
broken your word, & could not forget tomorrow
what you pledged to-day.
Was that letter of July "a, which bore thro'
Pennsylvania, only crmningly devised fable?
| Was it your intention to send me forth to the
masses of the people with lie in my mouth! TO
vouch for your independence of party" in Octo-
Der, in order to find you in May at the head of
mere cabal of party! Did you make dupe of
me, SO that might become your agent dipping
| and swndling my fellow citizens into the tram
mels of the whig party
You know that the whig party of itself, or by
it's own issues could never have accomplished
your election. You know that the whig leaders,
fresh from the slaughter of Henry Clay-of that
man who has for twentv-f -four years sacrificed to
whigism the best instinct which God implanted
in his nature-could never have elevated you to
the Presidential chair.
! You were elected by Democratic votes. These
votes were secured to you by the force of your
independent position. They were not bought
with silver, gold or the hope of office, but won
to you by your pledges.
And now, sir, you will allow me to ask you
one OF two questions:
In what part of your administration are these
Democratic votes represented!
Among the army of offce-hunters that now
besege the doors of the White House, how many
of your Democratic supporters can you discover?
Sir, the truth must be told and as supported
you earnestly and sincerely, | will speak the truth
with most uncourtfy frankness.
Your election has been fruitful only in discon-
tent and dissatisfaction. Elected in the name
of the people, you are surrounded by advisers
chosen not even from the manhood of the Wing
party, but from the veriest hacks and trimmers.
These advisers seek to entail upon the public,
on colossal scale, system OF error and misrule
such as disgraced the age in the shameless ex-
penditure Of the Girard bequest by the Wing cor
poration of Philadelphia.
Had you been elected as Wing, and upon
the strengthen any known Wfigcreed, would
otcomplain, 1sit not painful thought that
you, the man of the people, should sit there in
of party-as the embodiment not of Wing
ism like that of Henry Clay, which states its
principles and fights itsbattles in the sum- but of
a whigism which works in darkness, gathers
strength by unholycoalitions, and builds its pow
er upon-broken pledges
And now, sir, as wash my hands of the last
traces Of political Taylorism, as state my regret
that ever acted thepar that your pledges made
me act, you at least must admit that never serv-
ed you with the hope of oflice-that | have al
ways been among the humble band who work.
ing well and long for you, under the impression
that they also worked for the good of their coun-
try, could neither ask nor accept office at your
hands-for those hands which were free at Buena
vista-free in the late campaign-are now tied
by the trammes which have been fashioned from
the very ruins of the Wing party.
s... GEORGE LIPPARD.
To President ;ZAcAnRY TAYLOR.
SECOND WASHINGTON.n-Th Wings
have been claiming that Gen. Taylor would be
a second Washington, and the General, the better
to deserve the title, has removed the only rela,