The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-08-30
A por,rait from the Hand. Of a ssisnd.


Portrait from the Hands OF Fnsna.
A correspondent of the New York Herald who visited
the White House about the middle OF July, Processes
give his impressions OF the Second Washington Hell suf
fcieniy complimentary to Old lack and gives him credit
for much good than experienced observers
have ventured to allow bin; but in the proportion
he spares the President he scouges his cabinet Il isim
possible TO reconcile what this says oil General Tay
Tor with the opinion which his Secretaries, who see him
every day and know him BETTER are said to entertain Of
him;
81 speak of him (says this generous champion man.
not salesman Upon that point the least said the soon
best friends, ay, the members eabinetthey
perhaps, than any ohers-view him thoy would
piece Of putty ia the hands Of me Ingenious gu.iernow
round, now square, now lcSs,hened out now aattened
down, rolled over soened with litse oil, until
With this truth, no man is better acquainted than Score.
tary Ewing the ST. Just OF the administration, or Mr.
Msedh u s as w9 T6s ssG III says so n Ss In
spirits, Ewing and Meredith. Reverdy Johnson
nsn 10 sH ha s Gsne WAS ss's be
moulded by him only so far, since which time the At
aad Z confined 10 the duties Of his oss The Whole
atioa feels that General 1dyor has bees made the tool Of his
desire to advance their own selfish purposes oiiho regard
he interest Of the President or the country at large This
would be absurd 70 % @ o. % e. Pa mas
or unwingness TO ACT but simply from drus. Of his
Il, hss sssa. bee. Ass1 @ as
isafoa of the government, and the complaint OF the people
is that they elected the President aud not his cabinet!
minsaon OF those whom no has drawn around him, and
by whom he has allowed himself 70 be uammeled and con-
troed Awakng the condition things the Pres
dent, the sequel will show has determined assert his
preogative although in SO doing he has already gwen Of
ience Attorney General and other members Of the
cabinet and which, as coming events cast their shadows
BEFORE may warning in quarter, and
III nntl ir fnrn thara ia
change In the course pur.ued by the cabinet there will be-
quote the language the old General "a busting time"
And this is "the OF common sense and sterling
integrity which must command the respect and adma-
ton OF every whose interests and preudces not
warped by party feeling" a man who is mere King
Log-'a piece of putty" in the hands of the glazierthe
stool Of his intriguing cabnet'-"a mere cipher in
the administration OF the government Howis this char
aeer OF Gen. Taylor to be econced TO his as3 Can this
man possess sense to select such cabinet TO su
fer them to take him by the like piece of wax and
yet not to see his degradation, and quietly to submit to
in No wonder General Taylor is distrusu OF his
powers Confined all his life to camp, without the
slightest experience in civil NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. he
must be that he fiji for the Office to which he has been
elevated ana that he ought have had the good
to have firmly declined ;--such man, having
AS another evidence OF Old lacks blindness his nfatua
tion and his folly, it has even been put into his head
that he is to run second term. Not satisfied with dis
grazing his country once, he has been solicited TO offer
for second time See with what simplicity he con-
fesses to this stranger who writes in the Herald:
The old General in speaking of the efforts that were
made by many the country learn his views
upon different Subjects before his nomination for the pes
dency expressed himself 70 the purpose In saying that he
tl.a n
they pretended TO be very friendly but they only wanted to
bluff him off, which they couldn't do He had, he said,
been lately urged consent To have understood among
his friends he would be unwilling TO run second
ierm--ls omebody has been soapng his Encelleneyl
proper to keep me here will remain, and serve my
me, viii thask them for the avors already shown, make
my bow, and go home again"
him. and his righteousness In making IL known TO me,
proved how free from fnsss was his character
Simplicity is the more correct word Or rather. mbe-
cty Can Gen. Taylor seriously believe in what his fiat
terers would persuade him, that the people wish him
again TO fill the chair that graced by Washing
ton and Jefferson tits really too ridiculous to be grave
~ treated but the moral OF the whole New York letter
is, that the good old has "gven himself up TO the
management Of set Of men," who have passed them
selves of upon this Second Washington as parcel Of
aSoons % and whatever his confidence may be in them,
vet the people have confidence in Zachary Taylor, but
none in his cabinet" Who them is 10 bell the cat
Who is to touch the cataract and open his eyes. and
cause him to dismiss these intriguers in his cabinet
And who, them is to furnish him with another cabinet
and prevent his running the round OF imposition from
them that he is suffering from the present one' The
fact is the evil lies deeper II is these humbug wings who
have pracised egregous fraud upon the county, in
taking up military aspiant whom they had previously de.
nounced and who was distinguished in war which they
had declared TO be everything vile and outrageous,
and eecting him to the most responsible Office in the
most enlightened country and age Of the world They
have thus humbugged the people and they have dgraced
the country by placing an incompetent Chief Magistrate
at the head Of affairs and, to add TO the climax OF their
ransgressons these wing leaders have induced him 10
violate the most solemn pledges which they prevailed
upon him to make, TO obtain the power which he is
now grossly abusing. Nogeater humbug was ever per-
petrafed in this country, and party was ever held
to fearful responsibility. No wonder the people
deserving his ranksno wonder the results OF the
late elections are telling so fearfully against them Had
the most of the elections taken place this year instead of
the last, Gen. Taylor would have been thrown into
ticle from the New York Evening Post shows, the
wings have succeeded in eecting him by downright
hypocrisy and ireachery," and by 80 gross series of
frauds and humbugs that "the people have no conf
dencs in the wing party"
For the Evening rost1
The wh,g Party aud iss avirtues.v