The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-02-07
DAILY NATIONAL WING.
WASHINGTON, ID. G.
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY !, ls4s
In-any event. we must not despair. Though the
course of General Taylor may be very uncertain, and
dependent mole upon contingency Than design
more upon his ministers than hmsef--yet we can
not doubt, &c. Washington Union.
The Democratic party may find what
fault they please, with the Union, for its in
prudence, they cannot upbrail it for a dis
position to GRE up the ship. Despair IS not
in its nature EVENT. every plank Of the ship
were torn from under it, we think it would
manage 10 keep itself aloat over the place
where she went down. Such determination
is worthy Of imitation by his opponents
But while we admire its uncongueroble
energy, we cannot sayso much for the means
it employs to accomplish its ends They
are strictly accordant with the doctrine, that
al is fair in politics. The above quoted
paragraph is illustrative Of this practice.
No one knows better than the Union,
that the forty years career Of Gen. Taylor,
in the public service, is not marked BY un-
certainty, is not wanting in design, exhibits
no signs of having been the work Of any
body but himself, and yet in the face Of the
facts to the contrary, it sets dcwn the old
hero as .. vacillating individual, as one who
depends more on accident than design in all
he does, as one who can be made the tool
Of designing men We think, the Union
has gone farther, in this thing, than it intended
to 60, wide as is the latitude which it allows
itself in discussing the character Of public
men and public measures The statement,
the allegation, amounts to an absolute mis-
representation Of Gen, Taylor's character.
The country knows the very reverse Of what
ia herein stated, to be the truth and we
think, that if the Union had occasion to re-
wise this paragraph, it would hold differ
entlanguage, What Zachary Taylor in
capable Of executing the Office Of President
Of these United States This is the Eng
lish Of the Union's statement, for we hold,
tn: t no man, whose course is uncertain, is
more dependent upon contingency than
design-upon his ministers than himself, is
fitted to grasp the helm of affairs, to admin
lister the federal executive as it ought to be
administered, and this opinion, we take it,
will be conceded in by nineteen out Of every
twenty Of thinking persons. See then, what
a serious charge the Union brings in advance
against Gen. Taylor-nay in the face Of
every fact to the contrary, Of his forty years.
brilliant career in the public service. He
has shown himself, on every occasion, to be
master Of himself, asa, therefore, the dicta-
tor of his course in life, so far as man can
control his own actions. He has proved him
self to be self-relant, self-dependent, amid
difficulties and dangers of the most trying
nature. No act Of his life can be shown to
be the result Of accident, Of contingency, -
but all his deeds are deeds of design, Of wise
design, whose success shows their wisdom
and propriety. No public man, with whose
history we are familiar, has shown himself
to be less dependent upon his fellows, than
Gen. Taylor All his tnumphs on the bat
tie fields, were won in opposition to the
views Of those with whom he was associated
in military service, He never has been
known to depend more upon others than upon
himself The man, whose life has been one
continued scene OF self-rclance, Of mastery
design, il is in violation Of all probability to
imagine for moment, will come to Wash
incton to be the tool OF other men, 10 be the
puppet whose limbs designing politicians may
pull and set in motion, at their will. Such
a suppositiop is absurd And il there be
any man weak enough, whether among pro-
tessed friends or open opponents, to dream,
that such thing may happen, we advise
him, at once, TO repair to the nearest insane
hospital and hide himself from the gaze Of
the world. The severest treatment will be
necessary to restore him to sanity.
We hazard nothing in predicting, that
Gen. Taylor will show himself the same
master spirit in the Chair Of State, as he did
in the field. Nay, we insist, he has already
demonstrated this fact, in the course he has
pursued since his elevation to the Presidency.
He has not gone about the country, asking
this ones advice OF that ones opinion, as to
whom he shall appoint 10 be his ministers
He has not shown himself to be the depend
ent man upon others, whom the Union would
fain pursuade Us he IS. On the contrary, he
has kept his own counsels, and brought to
bear upon the cabinet question, that judg-
ment Of his, which has never yet failed to be
equal to every emergency And what is there
in the execution Of the Office Of President,
to be compared, in difficulty and doubt, to
the execution Of the Office Of commander-in-
chief on the battlefield Of Buena Vista I
Nothing, nothing The exercise Of the sound
sense that has led him SO far through diff
culties and straits, unparalleled for their dan
ger, will never fail to deliver him in what
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