The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-05-18

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pledge, to purify the federal Official corps, o.
all incompetency, faithessness, and dlshon'
esty, of which il was and still is full. The
President is now accused by this editorial
assassin of the Union, whose vilhcations are
the subject of these remarks, Of being def
Gent il lorbearance and mercy tolhese very
Democratic Office holders, who took such an
active part against his election, and support
cd and sustained by their money the political
press, that heaped upon his head, during the
canvass, whole mountains Of abuse and false
hood and this accusation is made, too, inthe
face OF the fact 10 the contrary--a fact,
known to every man, woman, and child IN
the couptry-that the public Judgment, inits
demand for the execution Of justice upon the
ceirnptions Of twenty years standing, has
outlun the wise and deliberate action Of the
Executive, in the premises Want OF ior-
bearant, ana mercy indeed His whole
course has been and is, one Of the most pa
tent ioibearance with and mercy towards
official shortcomings that has ever been ex-
hibted in any government But to the gull
| ty, Justice, come when it may, comes too
soon, and hence this apologist's tears and
groans and vituperation.
But the climax Of this impudent and nso-
lent writer's denuncations oil the President,
is yet to come. He'proclaims, that thousands
IL Democrats have been driven from office
TO pecuniary ruin and beggary, that these
removed Democratic olfice-holders fought
and bled by the side Of Gen. TAYLOR, that
the President is a reyengeiul despot, that he
is an lnbecile and has no capacity Tor the
discharge of the duties Of President, that he
is surrounded by low-minded, unprmciplcd,
and shameless politicians, that his personal
friends have no regard for his reputation,
that his course of policy in regard toappoiat-
ments provokes the disgust and aversion Of
the people, that his personal popularity is
daily diminishing, that his lauIels are fading,
that he has disgraced and dishonored the
Office Of President By wanton disregard
and violation Of pledges made by him to at
tain the Presidency, that he has no political
veracity, that he has delegated the high
functions Of his office 10 ferocious
EwiNc and toltuous CoILAMFR, that
the people have been deceived and de-
luled in the President, that he has betrayed
them to their enemies, that his Aaministra-
ton is doomed to terminate disgraceinl
career ~! A thousand notcsof wonder and
admiration would not serve, we are sure, to
indicate the astonshment and shock TO every
good feeling Of human nature, which these
malignant declarations will have upon the
mind of the reader. Is there man, 80 de-
void of all selt-respect, Of all love Of truth,
as to read these things without Indignation
at the conduct Of the editor Of the Union,
in suffering his paper TO become their vehi-
Gle The feeling Of every just and candid
mind towards the writer, may easily be i'm
agined. The scorn and contempt which he
must excite in every readers breast, cannot
possibly be expressed in words They
sieken the heart for pity, that any man
could be found on the surface OF this earth,
50 degraded, SO mean, SO utterly destitute Of
moral principle, as to be guilty Of ndit-
ing such thoughts as those we have enumcra-
ted above, about the Chief Magistrate Of this
Republic and his Cabinet Low as is our
estimate Of fallen humanity, this exhibition Of
demoniac spleen and spite, has lowered il
thousand degrees There is no redeening
trait in any Of the above declarations. They
are mol mere differences of political opinion
They are downright, absolute, wicked, will
full ialsehoods, emanating from a heart as
black as the falsehoods uttered No Demo
crat has been reduced to beggary, by the act
of his removal from Office, aud even il he
were, the public interest must be consulted
before private interests are To say that
Democratic Office holders fought and bled by
TAYLOR IS side, is such an absardity and SO
much at variance with the truth, that il only
needs to say, that they fought, bled and died,
to complete the climax Of folly Neither
revenge, nor despotism, nor mbeelliiy, nor
incapacity, forms any part Of ZACHARY
TAYLoR's nature OF mind. Such ignoble
things belong only to The nature aud mind
Of his envious detractors To call the cabi-
ret Of the old Hero, low-minded, unprinci-
pied and shameless, IS just as true, as i
would be to call the cabinet Of Mr.. Polk
hieh-minded, principled and modest The
Presidents cabinet need no vindication from
such an attack, It is like the baying OF
dog at the moon. But the Presidents friends,
in the eyes Of this vili6er, have no care
Tor his reputation God help him, il they
had not ,ior his enemies have neither care for
hta g,.na ,nr ,,,ar.,, for HE orrors If nnV