The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-10

400 i; ,hosa causes of defeat the indications of fu-
ture disaster? What honest wing PerceiVes, IN
all these errors of ignorance and OF Judgment IN
| The distribution of Office, the abandonment OF
| solitary Wing principle by General Taylor or his
| cabinet which will prompt him, after ume has
elapsed for reflection, TO abandon his party! what
really patriotic Wing is willing TO have II said that
| he was Whigonly on the principle OF action pub
| licly recognised by our opponents, who unblush
ingly proclaim that their principles are ever 10 be
sacrificed to their interests and that the spoils OF
office" may be legitmately sought at the sacrifice
of every consideration of honesty and PATRIOTISM
which they have proclaimed? What man OF
any party-be he Wing or Democrat-who voted
for General Taylor in ls4S, can point 70 solitary
act of his administration which should cause his
abandonment? We all knew that he was not a
politician and that he knew not the politicians OF
the country. This his greatest merit IN the
eyes of some in lS4s; and now that his party blum
ders growing out of a necessity for conhdlng 10
others what mere party President would have done
himself, and which no cabinet could wisely do Tor
him, have only demonstrated that he is an honest
old soldier, and not wise in the knowledge OF party
hacks-shal it be said that that which constituted
claim TO our regard in AS, is good cause Tor his
abandonment in 1919.
we do not thus read the Wing party. They are,
doubtless, willing and anxious, and enttieu 70 re
ceive the benefits of the late victory IN the dsulpu
ton of Office because those offices are used by our
opponents, and have ever been used by theih, 70
crush Wing principles but they fought not Tor OF,
flee. That the patronage OF the government snouiu
..t
tory not the ground upon which we waged patte
and the end for which we fought. The Wings raj,
lied around General Taylor, believing ne would
carry out and maintain Wing principles; and even
those who doubted his political orthodoxy are now
convinced, beyond all doubt, that he is as good a
Wing as there is in our ranks. They rallied win
enthusiasm, around the hero OF Paio Alto hesaca'
Monterey, and the bloody held OF buena vista
and what has he done to dampen that enthusiasm
| Is he not at this moment pure and unsuiieo IN
character spoess in reputation as deserving OF
confidence and gratitude, as he was when ne tri-
umphed over the enemies OF our country and has he
not proved himself as good and true Wing as any
of his friends ever pretended that he was what
act-what measure, what principle OF his admins
tration is at with the claims upon which he re-
ceived our support! Was removal from ONCE
good or a bad, popular or unpopular, an expe-
pedient or inexpedient appointment to place, the
basis of support of Zachary Taylor Far from
it. We elected him as Wing, upon wing prih,,
ciples and when the time comes, he VIII prove all
that claimed him TO be--all that his friends an
ticipated and his enemies feared
Away, them with all apprehensions OF the future
his election; but he has already proved that his
foreign policy, the only measure OF his Admnistra
ton which time has permitted him TO develope VIII
be worthy of his great fame and OF the American
character His only the petty party ones
which the country had the wisdom to anticipate,
and of which we may not complain, although we
may regret them. But even these belong 10 the
past, and cannot occur again. Experience Is the
and relyup it. the unavoidable errors OF the past
errors which grew out of General lay lors lgno,
rance of politicians and party machinery, and
which no Cabinet could have avoided by substitute,
ing their knowledge for his-have all been guarded
| against in future, by knowledge of men and
| things, which experience only could impart. The
summer cloud which has passed over our poticalho-
rizon will be swept away the mist of the morning
| is dspeed by the rays of the rising sun; and the
MONDAY of the old hero's Administration will be as
bright and its tide radiant, with the refiec-
ton of his patriotic measures, his most ardent ad-
mirers and most Jealous advocates ever ventured to
predict The tongue of the sanderer, or the pen OF
the habitual beer ofa that is good or fair IN pub
lie or private life can induce grateful and
intelligent people to believe, except upon testimony
which admits of no cavil, that the simple minded,
straight forward old soldier, who so CALAMITY
fought the battles of his country, and whose sim
plicity moderation, and wisdom echpsed even his
military fame is other than the honest man and de-
| voted patriot which his whole life proclaims him
! And when the attempt is based upon reckless as,
| sertion and without a shadow of testimony; and
| that too, upon the mere allegations of pensioned
party lbellers whose united oaths would not send
habi of the Five Points TO the penitentiary the at
tempt itself cannot fail 10 recoil upon and destroy
those who have ventured upon the fool hardy ex-
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