The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-10-23
EDITORS CORRESPONDENTS.
Correspondence OF ths Ualon.


PHLADELrHIA, Oct 20, 1919.
The wings Of good city are really becoming
their fate, and admit freely they have made very
great bunder in the selection Of General Taylor for Pres
dsnt They far resigned that they expect nothing
but defeat and disaster for the three years. and the
election Of democratic President The year following The
New York elections looked forward with great conf
dence by the democrats the wings having given up ali
hopes in that quarters while Mississippi Is expected fol-
low in the wake OF Virginia, Pennsylvania, Connecticu,
Tennessee, Georgia, &C., &c. General Taylor then, will
be President without partya minority opponents
unless he chooses to render himself ops by the selection
Of cabinet which shall command majortes in both
houses.
General Taylors position is indeed an suemt in the his
tory popular governments. He was eected-politicaly
and socially obscure manon account OF his real
imagined military achievements, and the principles of
dor, fairness, and noparyism put forward In his real
manufactured correspondence But the people who elected
him almost with the breath strip him of the power
do good evil They either did not trust him from the be-
ginning, and, in consequence of this gave him Office with
power have epented of their and entered
protest against the consequences of their deed.
Whichever construction General Taylor may put upon il,
in he consider himself fattered suppose for
one that the of his administration have salts
fed the country Il is hard to say OF the President of the
United States that to suppose himself popular he
either lack common and with il the usual percep
ton Of ordinary possess power Of dissmulation
which would do credit to the great French Cardinal Ma
zarin not Richelieu0 whose maxim was, dsin,aer cea
rsgWer."
Neither has General Taylor succeeded in satisfying his
party in spite Of the principle adopted by his cabne
to crafty the wing majority who OPPOSED his nomination.
rather than his friends who SUPPORTED him against the will
of that majority Such principle based the gratifca-
ton of revenge only succeed with base men, and
necessarily destroy him In the opinion Of honest citizens
Few have the faculty of reconcing public policy with
private and few the statesmen that have
ceeded by the sacrifice Of personal friends Camp life may
be very bad school for the science of State but would
naturally suppose, excellent means OF nPening friend
ship and personal devotion General Taylor abors, per-
haps, under the deuson that he was the spontaneous
choice of the American people, and that not in
debted any body of men for his elevation; but this,
whether believed by him any other person,
Is great mistake. There never was President much
indebted his friends for his reputation and
General TAYLOR The trough ready" General Taylor
who was elected by the people, in fact the ideal hero
invested with the poetca attributes Of political
ruancys and the real feshand-bood General Taylor
who bears relation his romantic counterfeit than
the sober truth history bears the hero of tale of fc
ton In Short 'the bona VISTA" General of the penny
pamphleeers Of last year Is not the bona General
TAYLOR or tho vote OF Allegheny county, in this State,
(where the last exhbed would not have fallen
of more than three thousand in the short space of
One thing in with late State elections de-
serves be mentioned. 1t is the fact that both the federal
and the State administrations were combined against the
people, and that Stale and federal officers saked their fate
ON the result Mr. Meredith openly told his friends that
unless elected Mr. Fuller he Secretary
the Treasury could not with any show Of grace
recommend modification of the tariff. The question OF
protection therefore, made the leading Issue, and the
result was overwhelming, Waterloo defeat from which
the ultras aneduvians will not soon if ever,
Protection," which is merely misnomer (being, in ac
tax on the many favor the few, is bound descend
with United States Bank the tomb Of the Capulets
The wings themselves will Gas they always do post
act,m study the question and would willingly stake my
reputation that before the lapse Of years. Massachu
sets herself will be in favor OF free trade. 1t is the law
nature and of commerce, which, when understood
forces the of the mind tots truth in spite of penny
pamphleteers and ironnastes No party Will over be got
p successfully against Euclid though it might be the in
eres of the landowners represent the of triangle
equal TO that of recange Of the basis and altitude
It is fortunate thing for the democratic party that spite
Of all the combinations of monopoists, has truth and jus
ce i'm its favor these that make the national party
In contradisncon that which looks upon the people
aud the country distinct from itselfthe OF
increasing private fortunes and promoting exclusive inter-
ests. FAlR PLAY. 2