The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-06-07

caDlnet, VINO now storm the w h1te HOuS
for the spoils of office. Answer me!
have right to ask an answer. Yo1
pledged your faith to me, an humble citi
zen, and believed you, and told nv fel
low-citizens that you had never broker
your word, and could not forget tomorrow
what you pledged to-day.
Was that letter of July "a, which
bore through Pennsylvania, only cum
ningly devised fable? Was it your inten
ton to send me forth to the masses of the
people with a lie in my mouth? Te
vouch for your independence of party
in October, to find you in May at the heat
of mere cabal of party? Did yol
make a dupe of me, so that l might be
come your agent in duping and swindling
my fellow-citizens into the trammels o.
the whig party!
You know that the Whig party of itself
or by its own issues, could never have ac
complished your election You know
that the Wing leaders, fresh from the
slaughter of Henry Clay-of that man
who has for twenty-four years sacrifc e6
to Whigism the best instincts which God
implanted in his nature-could never have
elevated you to the presidential chair.
OIL 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 Or two questions:
In what part of your administration are
these Democratic votes represented!
Among the army of office-hunters who
now besiege 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, l
will speak the truth with most uncourtly
frankness.
Your election has been fruitful only in
discomfort and dissatisfaction. Elected in
the name of the people, you are surroun-
ded by advisers chosen not even from the
manhood of the Whig party, but from the
veriest hacks and trimmels. These ad-
visers seek to entail upon the country, on
colossal scale, a system of error and
misrule, such as disgraced the age in the
shameless expenditure of the Girard be-
quest by the Wing corporation of Phila-
delphia.
Had you been elected as a Wing, and
upon the strength of any known Whig
creed, would not complain. Is it not a
painful thought, that you, the man of the
people, should sit there in Washington as
the leader of the mere fragment of party
AS the embodiment not of Whigism
like that of Henry Clay, which states its
principles and fights its battles in the sun.
but of Whigism which works in dark
ness, gathers strength by unholy coalitions
and builds its power upon-broke,s
pledges?
| And now, sir, as | wash my hands OF
the last traces of political Taylorism, as
state my regret that ever acted the part
which your pledges made me act, you al
least must admit that never served you
with the hope of office-that | have al
ways been among that humble band who
working well and long for you, under the
impression that they also worked for the
good of their country, 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 trammels which have been fash
ioned from the very ruins of the Whig
party.
GEORGE LIPPARD.
| To President Zachary Taylor