The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-06-07
TILE LATE ORGAN.

THE LATE ORGAN.
! The late organ Of the administration Q
Mr.. PoLx, in its number Of yesterday, takes
violent exception to our course, IN defence
Of the administration Of General TAYLOR
Finding, that It can make no Roadway
against the arguments, BY which we have
overthrow its fallacious opposition to the
present administration, il has changed its
tactics and has begun personal attack upon
US. The argumentum ad hominam appears
to be better suited to its capacities, than the
argameatnm ad rem II seeks to throw ri
dicule upon our course, idly thinking there
Il by to drive our friends from our support
While we are amused with its tactics, in this
particular, we unhesitatingly pronounce them
to be unworthy Of the pursuit Of honorable
men
The National Wig has never yet pur-
sued the crooked path of sefshness, nor
bent the knee to power, as the Union once
did, that,
Trn might follow fawning,
and il never will be found in the slayish
category, once occupied by our contemPora-
ry. Our relations to the administration OF
Gen. TAYLOR, are those Of an honest and an
honorable friend, who is free to approve or
condemn the acts OF the administration. We
have never fawned around the footstool of
power, as the senior editor Of the Union
once did We have never played the syco-
phant as he did-never will, because we
have too much sef-respert, and because
the administration which we support has too
much seli-respect to require sycophancy Of
ito supporters, Gen. TAYLOR administers the
government with the sole view Of promoting
the public good, and he leaves his friends to
support him in that high duty, according to
the dictates Of their own judgment He
has nothing to conceal, no tottuous policy to
pursue, no unqualified friends to appoint to
office, no sinister designs to answer, no sell
fish objects to attain, no usurpations to de-
fend might and nlain,as JAMES X. Polk had,
and hence no sacrifice Of personal feeling or
Of self-respect is required at the hands Of
the defenders Of his administration.
We lay no claim to the tact OF the un-
scrupulous politician, to the efficiency Of the
vituperative brawler, to that judgment which
is ready to suppress the truth and make a
lie, to that chivalry which unblushingly pro-
claims the hero TAYLOR liar and coward,
to that courage which would prompt US to
blscken the character Of our opponents by
lying, 10 that facility Of disposition, which
would induce us to throw open onr editorial
columns in defence Of questionable acts Of
any administration to none Of these things
do we lay claim. We leave all the honor
Of such a claim to the senior editor Of the
Union He eminently merits it, as four
years brilliant career in the prosecution Of
such labors has clearly demonstrated
The Union was type Of Col PoIK's
Administrations rather, the reflection Of its
mage The country j. sufficiently familiar
withthatimage to need its reproducton by de-
scription, at the present writing II enough,
to say that it was an administration iusurpa-
tons, and the Union was a journal ola ssump-1
tons equally violent II appears to have
changcdits character, since the advent Of MI.
BURKE to its tripod, insome degree II is more
modest, or rather less presumptuous Now,
we are perfectly willing, that the country
should decide between the Union and the
National Wing, in their respective charac-
tiers as defenders of administrations Of fede-
raj affairs. We are willing to be tried by
the standard Of the Union during the last
four years, and to stand or fall BY the
test, only let us be tried fairly and hon
orably And il the public voice shall pro-
nounce that we riualled which God for
bid the Union as defender Of an admin
istration, we will agree to hide our head in
very shame and seek relief from the gaze Of
the world IN the distant caves Of the Sierra
Nevada J !
Mr. JEDIDiAH H. LATHRop, Of this city,
the new navy agent, is gentleman emf
nently qualified for the position to which
he has been appointed by the President. -
His business tact and his habits Of mercan-
tile indastry-for he was bred merchant