The Arkansas banner., 1849-10-02
The rarlnr Democrats.

ia tskins place In the public mind. Many demo- rat voted for Gen Taylor upon the suppostlon thai he had written his own desPalches and his own campaign letters; that he was qualified by strong common sense for the complicated duties Of hts elevated office; that he would conduct his adminis- trausn on the wisest and most liberal principles; that he would really initiate the First Washington; that he would be no-party President; and that he would prescribe prescription So said MT. Clayton; SO said Mir. Crittenden; and such was the plain construction of his own declarations Bat Gene ra Tsylor has now been tried and he is found want ing He proves himsef utterly disqualified, by his want of information and experience, for condact- ing the affairs of the government. lie IS scarcely anything but nose Of wax in the hands of his cabinet Thousands of officers have been removed for no other offence than that they were demo- crats and that their offices wanted by his gree dy parasites Is it wonderful, then, that he Is rap- idly sinking in public opinion; that ridicule has succeeded to admiration; and that many man who voted for him in November last is now ashamed Of the foiiy into which he was betrayedf f~ Yet witI- cut the votes of the democrats he could never have been elected "We shall run Gen. Taylor, (sad a spacious whIg member of Congress in December, l647,) because he is the only available candidate we can start. Mir Clay can command none bat the whig votes; whereas Gen .@Faylor will catch some of the democrats along with the whigs, aud thus we will carry his election" This policy was
 
 which 1t involved the whigs; and now that they have elected him. they find that they have involved themselves in the disgrace of electing Chief Ma gistrate who is utterly unfit for the office Some of the whigs are frank enough to confess the facts but 1t is the Taylor denocrats-they have been be- trayed by professions which he can never keep and by pledges which his whig cabinet continually com pei him 10 violate--who have become chaprined mortified, dsgusted, and will finally desert him. A fnnifi md of n ha. aIr occurred us we learn by the public papers, by our private correspondence, by the information which are receiving from all parts of the country and by the results of the recent elections. Who can blame them for abandoning the idol whom they in i-hour contributed to raise up2 The following article from the ''Western Press, at Mercer Penn syIvania, has brought together in one coup d'9a bill of complaints, to which evyy honest Taylor democrat is compelled to subscribe :-UnIon.
 Declaration of Independence bg he Democratic Taylor Men.-Wben in the course of human events 1t becomes necessary for the freemen of this coun- try to dissolve the political bands which have here- tofore connected them with any of the leading par ties of the country, decent respect for the opinions of their fellow-ctiZens seems to require at their hands declaration of the causes which have led to their seperation.
 We, therefore, who voted last fall for General Zachary Taylor, hereby declare our determination 10 sever all political connexion with him and the party by whom he is controlled, for the following among many other reasous:
 He has proved recreant to all his pledges:
 He promised not to be party President, and 10 avoid all party schemes, yet he has chosen cabinet composed entirely of the rankest and most obnox. ious whigs;
 He promised to allay the violence of party pro. scription; yet prescription has ragged with fierce ness unpreeedented in our political history;
 He promised to make "honesty, capacity, and f. delity, the three great requisites for political pre- terments; yet he has removed a large number of honest, upright and competent men, and given their stations to those who disgrace them;
 He has discharged from office some of the most gallant and heroic soldiers of the Mexican war; his own comPairiots in arms and the bravest spirits of the war of 1872;
 He has discharged from office poor widows, that the scanty pttance from which they eked out a neagre subsistence might go to reward the political services of brawiing coons;
 he has appointed to high official stations men who have always been traitors 10 our country; blue light federasts in 1872, and advocates of Mexico in recent contest;
 He has surrendered 10 a whig cabinet the whole control of the affairs of the government deferrug to their Will in all things, and virtually cknowledg- ing himself to be mere cipher;
 He has shown himself to be utterly and totally incapable of performing the duties of his high of flee;
 His entire political history forms a series of con tfaoicuons' oi shameful violation of pledges and or base prostitution 10 party schemes, unparalleled in history.
 Believing as We now do that his early letters were wifdl attempts to deceive the people, and consider ing that his course since his elevation has abnnd- aDliy proven him to be politically dishonest inca pable, and unfaithlu we feel constrained 10 regard him as unworthy of the position he holds and the course of political maneuvering which eectei him as desPicable and dishonest scheme 10 place in power the wire workers and schemers of whgery behind the cloak of his military achievements; and we therefore renounce ali connexion with Taylor ism, heneeforh and forever, and hold the party thai supports him as political enemies, and in the ordna y transactions of life, friends
 And Tor the support of this declaration, and to riC the country of the curse of Taylorism, with firm reliance upon the. justice of our cause, and in ; hrm conviction that truth is mighty and mus PreVail,3 we pledge onr votes. our influence, ant our most streneous exertions at the polls.
 (Sgaed by thousands of eoiers athe reeeat elections
 and to be s,gaed by lens of Ousunds a,ore as sooa
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