The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-11
THE REPU B Lie.
WASHIN GTON:
TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. IL. ls4s.


General TayIor-Hon. MIR. McLane.
We are rejoiced to mark the universal
solicitude manifested by the friends of Mr..
McLANE to defend him from the charge
of being in anywise responsible for the in
famous vote of censure upon General TAY-
LoR passed by the Locofoco majority IN
the House of Representatives on the mo
ton of JACOB THOMPSON. This sohcitude
indicates how disgraceful they would con-
slider the charge if it were true. 1t midi
Gates the belief of the Locotoco press that
no man could stand successfully before
the voters of Maryland who was imph-
Gated in the dishonor of that unmanly and
unworthy vote. But this solicitude cuts
two ways. While Mr.. MCLANE is so
anxious to defend himself from this impu
tation, how severely does this anxiety re-
fleet upon the 109 Locofocos who followed
like sheep the lead of JACOB THOMPSON, Of
Mississippi-a man marked by nature for
such work-in support of his infamous
provisol How severely does it reflect on
Mr.. GILES, the immediate predecessor of
Mr.. McLANE, whose name appears in the
list we have already published of the men
who disgraced themselves on this occa-
sion.
We are gratifed to be able to repeat
as we have already once stated in Mr..
McLANE's defence-that he was not
member of the House at the time of
the adoption of the proviso, and conse-
ouentlv could not have voted for it. We
desire, In language as broad and posi-
tive as language can be, to relieve hlm
from the shame of being so represented.
We agree with him and his friends that If
he had, by an inadvertent or equivocal
use of words, conveyed the idea that MIR.
McLANE voted for this proviso, and then
have refused or neglected to retract or
correct the inadvertence, we should have
done him gross and wanton injustice.
And we are now the more anxious to do
complete, and entire, and Overlooking
Justice to Mr.. McEANE, because it is graft
fying to US to be convinced that his friends
now look upon this abominable proviso
in its true light, and believe that no man
who voted for il could ever receive the
countenance of the citizens of Baltimore.
We would repeat, therefore, that Mr..
McLANE not only did not vote for the re-
solutions of censure, to which we have re-
ferred, but that his friends repudiate the
charge with an Indignation that does them
honor as men, but not much credit as par
tisans. If Mr.. McLANE repudiates the
action of his party on this point, perhaps
he disapproves the insult offered by the
War Department to General TAYLOR, in
MARcY's now notorious despatch, in which
the Generals letter to his co-patriot
GAINES was indirectly declared to be
nmischievous and disgraceful, and ''cal-
culated to incline the enemy to peace.
Perhaps Mr.. McLANE may repudiate the
Locofoco conspiracy by which Mr.. BEN
TON was to be raised as acknowledgement
above the heads of ZACHARY TAYLOR and
WINFIELD ScoTT. Perhaps Mr.. McLANE
NAV condemn the withdrawal of General
TAYLoR's troops just previously to the
battle of Buena Vista. Perhaps he may
turn with disgust and loathing from the
miserable caricatures, libels, and lies which
his friends of the Opposition press shower
daily on the head Of the illustrious and
venerable man whom grateful and ad-
miring people have elevated to the high
est Office in the world.
A man is known by the company he
keeps. If he belongs TO party, he is re-
sponsible for the acts and opinions of that
party until he comes out from among them.
As long as Mr.. McLAYE is Locoioco, as
long as he lends the Locofocos the coun-
tenance of his name, and pretends to be-
lieve in their principles, we will give him
personally the benefit Of every reputation
that he may make of Locofoco doctrines
and acts; but politically, and as a party
man. as candidate, he is liable to be hello
to stringent responsibility, not only for hl'
own acts, but the acts of his party.
If Mr.. McLANE should show that he
disapproved all the acts, and all the Prln
ciples of his party, and repudiate them all
with the same Indignation with which be
repels the charge of having voted for this
infamous proyiso-he would still be re-
sponsible for their acts and principles, as
long as he should wear their livery and
figure as their candidate.
missouri and the sole Organ.