The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-06-07
THEPosITIoN OF THE TAYLOR DEM.
OCRATS.

We invite our brethren, who were dslnded into III,
support Of General TAYLOR In the hope thai h'
would honestly carry ont his pledges again back 4
the democratic ranks. We offer them no brides, mol
would we impose upon them degrading conditions
We win not treat them likecattle TO be bought ii
the shambles. But we will receive them as men who
have been grossly deceived and treacherously be,
rayed, and we will give them place In the ranks o.
honest men, whose watchwords are truth and prin'
ciple and whose determined purpose Is TO put down
party that gained its power by false pretences and
has used II thus far only TO show with what nnbiusn
ing insolence II dares TO violate It's most solemn
pledges, and break lis faith with the American peo-
pie Union Of yesterday
What change has come over the dreams
Of our contemporary! All through the year
ls4s, up to the day Of the Presidential cleo
ton, he was daily engaged in reading out Of
his party every Democrat who dared to
doubt his infallibility and the infallibility Of
Col Polk. During all that time, he was
drumming all such recusants out Of the De-
mocratic camp, with shouts ofbegone, begone,
We renegades, we can do without you To
the New York Democracy, who wanted to
interpolate Free Soil article in the Demo
cratic creed, our neighbor was peculiaIlyin-
sulting. He treated them with absolute con
tamsly, heaping upon their heads all manner
ofabuse for presuming to think for themselves
Every prominent Democrat, everywhere,
who dared to think well Of TAYLOR, to ex-
press any confidence in the old Hero, to de-
sire him for President, was forthwith set up
on by our neighbor as rabid dog, and de-
spatched without mercy Calculations were
made to carry the Presidential election, with
out the electoral vote Of the State of New
York and without the individual vote Of the
TAYLOR Democracy Of Pennsylvania and
other States. Wei, -defeat followed,
crushing, killing defeat, and now the Union,
putting on the mantle Of charity, has the har-
dihood to 60 out into the streets and lanes
and alleys and fields and highways and by
ways, and beg the insulted, hooted at and
yiliGed Taylor Democracy to come back in
to the fold whence they were SO ANONYMOUSLY
expelled. But this disguise will not answer,
neighbor tits too transparent to veil yourde-
signs. Taylor Democrats are not TO be gulled
by such exhibitions Of pretended charity for
their sins They know they have sinned
beyond the chance Of forgiveness They
know too well the weight Of the iron heel of
Democratic despotsm, to encounter it again
by traternlzhg with your party They can
;
never forget the opprobrlum which you east
upon them, when they expressed a prefer
ence for TAYLOR They know how hol-
low hearted are all your professions. You
may tell them till doomsday, that TAYLOR
is devil, and they will not believe you.
well have you SAID, that you offer them
NO bribes'-you know them to be bribeless,
to be incomuptlble but they know you.to
be the very contrary in principle and in
practice They will not trust you You
say, you will 9 not treat them like cattle :"
They do not believe you When they
were in full communion with your party,
YOU treated them worse than cattle You
treated them like dogs You hunted out
and pursued them with all manner Of wea-
pons. You threatened them with extermina-
ton. You offered to buy them, like cattle,
Sat the SHAMELESS but they would not be
bought. You exterminated them out Of the
party Taylor Democrats remember all
these things TOO well, Messrs. Editors Of
the Union, to be deceived by YOU again, OIL
your party,
Claim for yourselves as you may the title
Of " honest men, whose watchwords are
truth and principle Shout honesty until
your throats are hoarse, and you will get no
Taylor Democrat TO believe you, Taylor
Democrats know, that you endeavored to
elect Gen. CAss by " false pretences," by
showing him with one face to the North and
another to the South, by printing Southern
and Northern lives Of that gentleman, INV
They know, that Gen TAYLOR has kept his
word, has broken no pledges They see
their brethren daily appointed to Offices Of
trust, and they know that their confidence in
the old Hero has been and is reciprocated.
They see and acknowledge, that Gen. TAY-
LoR is fast rendering himself the President
Of the nation, by admitting into the public
service that long prescribed party, the
Wings. They spnrn your invitation to 90
back to become the hewers Of wood and
drawers Of water to the Democratic party
They feel that il is adding insult to injustice
You refused them before the election the
right Of free thought and free speech, and
they contsmn your hypocritical charity now.
They ask no favors Of you or their old asso-
ciates, ind they shrink from no responsible
ty The twenty years. corruptlons Of the
Jackson, Polk dynasty, go up like black
smoke to heaven from huge pit, and they
who have escaped from the catastrophe o
the defeat Of November, ls4s, are not to BE-
wooed into the e,ubrace Of the lost party, a