The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-06

LOR 3 ueledl III mtAiCo, dIlu WOulu nave
reioiced if he and his whole army had
been conquered and massacred at Buena
Vista
8. That they had done every thing in
their power to disparage and disgrace their
country in the late contest with Mexico.
A. That they had called our soldiers and
General TAYLOR himself BUTCHERS.
5. That they were reeking with pesti-
lent treason against their country.
In the same letter, in the indulgence of
his interrogative vein, the same gentleman
goes on to ask:
|. Can such brazen Inconsistency and
barefaced hypocrisy fail to disgust honest
and truthful mem
.. Are there no honest men in the Wing
ranks to be Disguised by such arrant
knavery in politics.
In the same letter the same gentleman
suggests doubt whether there are any
men Of principle and integrity in the Wing
ranks; and intimates that, If there are any
such, ''they will scout this foul and dis
gushing dissertation Of principle" sc.
This letter bore date Washington, June
II, lS4S. 1t was published in the Union.
II was also published in the Campaign,
where it may be found on page 10, and
is credited to the Nashua Gazette of June
%. On recurring to it, with the view of
verifying our dates, we find another SEN
tence too rich to be lost. The writer is
speaking of the WHO'S in the event of
General TAYLoR'S election.
'sThe patriotic men who have sustained the honor
and glory of their country the Senate and the field
are TO be put down; and the men who have sympa-
thized with the public enemy, who have traitorous
ly given him laid and comfort, who have voted for
the disgrace of their country in Congress, by al
legng that the war was unconstutonally COM
menced, who have encouraged the Mexicans to
Iasso and butcher our brave young men who volun-
teered to fight the battles of their country-men
ichose conduct should render them more infamous in
the estimation of their cotntrnen than Mercan que
riliasare to be installed in power, with their bale
full batch of measures, to depress and embarrass the
country 10 nure its credit and to destroy the high
reputation which it now enjoys in the estimation of
foreign nations"
The canvass went on. The Wing par
ty thrived nightly, Notwithstanding Mr..
Burke's bad opinion of them. General
TAYLOR was elected President, he was in
augurated, and found the same Commits
sioner in the Patent Office who had writ
ten the letter which we cite above. Think
ing perhaps that it would be fair to give
him an opportunity to resign, the Admin
istration did nothing with his case for
some three months. During that time he
continued to serve under men whom he
had denounced as "more infamous than
.Merican guerillaS." At length he was
dismissed from office-the wonder of all
the world being that he had been retained
so long. Forthwith he finds himself a
martyr, constitutes himself an undivided
half of the sole organ of the undivided
Democracy; and, on the capital of few
hundred removals from office, undertakes
"moral" revolution, and threatens to
drive General TAYLOR from the capital in
storm of public indignation. In the
course of few days we find his journal
calling the President of the United States
an ''imbecile, ignorant tyrant"-a "butch-
ern-a "Nero'-a ewhitened sepulchre"
"a man who sis disgracing himself"-a
"MoIoch"-a "Cyclops," and a variety
of other hard names, for which the ex-
Commissioner must have ransacked the
vocabulary of Mrs. Malaprop.
Now for the Improvement Of the
foregoing discourse. The tears surely
olive in an onion" that will water all the
sorrow that the 'people" will feel in the
case of the ex-Commissioner of atents
We wish some gentleman who is handy at
his slate and pencil would figure out the
probable number of those who voted for
General TAYLOR who would vote against
his Administration because they had not
retained in office a man who either be-
lieved them TO be traitors to their country
or was guilty Of malignant falsehood in
so denouncing them.
What Senator of the United States could
be made to say that the man who enter
tanned such sentiments of an administra-
ton ought TO be retained by that admins
tration in place of confidence and honor
And yet the ex-Commissioner has threat
ened, in the columns Of the Union, that
his case shall be inquired into by the Sc
nate!
Say what else people may in regard to