The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-07-13

himself opposed to prescription for political opinion. His
leading friends and supporters pledged him to the same
course; and although the mass OF the democrats were
driven from his support by the fact that he had permitted
himself to be the party candidate OF the wings yet enough
OF themconfdng in his promises and pledges that he
would not be party Pesident-yoed for him, to
his election But even then, at the moment Of attain
ing the object Of his highest ambition, he had il
in his power TO preserve the friendship and confidence OF
all classes and parties OF his countrymen. II to
pursue the paines of all Be HONEST MAN
All parties expected this OF him. The democrats
fded in his promises that he would not be party Pres
dent; and even the wings themselves paid him the
pliment-unmered as events have since shown-of be.
eying that he would redeem his pledges by abandoning
party considerations and connexions, both in the admin
straon OF the government and the dspensaton of its
offices. But what course did he takel He threw him
self entirely into the hands Of party Although pro-
Tossing not to be ultra wing, he surrounded himself
by the most ultra violent, and proscrpve party wings
known to the country He threw himself entirely into
their hands, and has permitted them, his name, to
violate every pledge which he made to the American
people, to write falsehood upon all his promises, and to
make his administration the most proscriptive and vim
dicve in the treatment Of its opponents Of any, nay Of
all, preceding administrations in American history He
has thus shown to the world that from choice or weak
ness-we in charity say the latter-he has not proved
himself to be- in his official capacity, honest
And in this Of conduct since he succeeded the
presidential chair, may be found one Of the prominent
causes which have shocked and Disguised more than
half Of his countrymen, and produced total and
radi HAND in THAR faa IN, rds
But another cause, equally strong and potent exists
which has helped produce among his countrymen this
revusion Of feeling towards him. II is taking to his
bosom and confidence the party who atorousy opposed
their country, giving "aid and comfort" to the enemy, in
the war in which he fought and all his glory mil
tary If it had not been for the popularity which
Gen. Taylor had gained in war which they opposed
and the countenance of his name which he gave them
the wing party would have been tramped down and
routed in almost every State in the Union Their
duct was odous to the people, and their political annhi
aton certain if they had sheltered themselves
Temporarily, will prove) under the and popularity
of Zachary Taylor He patronized them, saved them
from destruction, and raised them TO power; and now he
permits them to him to carry most wanton and
ruthless system Of prescription against the very who
sustained the country in the in which he all his
aures and secured his accession to the presidency and
who were once his friends and admirers This ueach-
cry to the cause to which he owed his success, and
10 the patriots by whom he supported and enabled
to succeed is not the least among the which have
contributed to change the sentiments of more than
half Of the American people in respect to him. What
would have been said of the Father of his Country
whom General Taylor Processes, almost profaney to m
tae- after the termination of the OF independence
he had taken to his bosom the tories of The revolution
The world would have looked upon the strange and
natural connection with disgust, if not with horror.
II was necessary for General Taylor take this
order to the confidence and regard of all
his countrymen Even after he became President il was
not necessary that he should become partisan in the
most odous of the word that he should throw
himself into the hands OF party and that he should
become the vindctive and unrelenting enemy of the
other, prescribing them wherever he found them in Office
these things not necessary vindcaton OF his
fame and reputation. II the way by which he
would sacrifice them. 1t is the way by which he has
sacrificed them 1t is the way by which he has proved to
the world that he does not possess those high intellectual
and moral endowments and faculties which only can save
a man who has been, by adventurous circumstances,
raised to elevated and responsible position in civil
life He has, then, proved himself unequal to his for
tunes, and such will be the judgment OF the world and
of posterity. General Taylor before he gets be.
yond the reach Of the crowd Of aiteers and ntrguers
by whom he is surrounded afterwards
awake to consciousness Of this bitter whitening ap-
palling truth And he will lament that be did not content
himself with the brilliant honors which he won in a
glorious cause Or after the summit OF his ambition had
been attained BY his election to the presidency THAT HE
DID NOT, PROMISED WOULD, THE President
OF THE PEOPLE AND OF PARTY, AND THAT PARTY
THE ONE WHICH HE SHOULD HAVE REPLIED FROM HIS
CONFIDENCE AS so MANY TRAITORS TO THEIR COUNTRY
Triumph Of the Independent Treasury.
We find the following paragraph in the New York
Express showing the successful operation OF that great
democratic measure OF finance the independent treasury
II that from October TO- 1885, to the day Governor