The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-05-04
THE UNION.
The correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger gives
the following anecdote about General TAYLOR:

The correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger gives
the following anecdote about General TAYLOR:
To give you instance of the kind hes ri and smpll-
city of mind Of General Taylor will mention
dote, which appears to very striking democratic
Office holder having. perhaps npprehend his be
ing removed, went to Old lack, and made a clean
breast OF his leading SIM exactly begging forgiven
but 10 be spared under circumstance strongly appealing
10 the charitable propensities of his ruler General
Taylor, with his chaacter and generosity
once assured the poor wight that he would be touched
Glad, In truth he when he told latierng tale
his loved but days after the re fell and another
man filed his place. Indignant the act, the behead
ed office holder calls the General who listens with much
sympathy to the recital of the cruel and the accompa
nying gnsh OF plantve rhetoric. Indeed" says the old
gentleman, vsbly moved, al under impression my
cabinet had spared you satisfied Gen Tia or has
heard oil the removal of Mr. Drum from pay ofce-the
same man whose gallant Mr. Dallas euogised in a
pubc speech, or he would have consented it, He
does NOT consent to these removals and issue
perempory order for the cessation of hostes 1t is but
ait lhat the Oid Hero who is prevented from rewardng
his friends should least be spared the
generous mind, of Furnishing his enemies.
We had heard anecdote like this before, though
with some variation. 1t was of wing who had been
promised an office in this city by the President But
when 1t was given to another, he made his complaint
and was told, with great simplicity that he thought he
had it, because it was understood in the cabinet We
incline to think, with the Ledger correspondent, that Gen.
Taylor cannot hear many things which are passing
around him. Could he have consented to the removal of
Mr. Drum, whose gallant fell in the cause of his
country on the fields of Mexico
Could he have heard of even a more remarkable case
which, as it has been stated by citizen of New
York, calculated to excite the deepest sensation Hail
was soldier in the of 1912 At the battle of Lundys
Lane he lett the field mixed with the dead and
dying He had received a British ball in the breast
which had penetrated the chest and gone the other
SIDE His fate quvered on point for it happened, in
the night that groans reached the of of the
soldiers, who finally traced them to PROSTATE body
with the blood gushing from the wound and from the
mouth. Hail was recognised by the old
uaintance, who although desparng of his life, had
him moved to tent and laid plank, such posture
to permit the blood to flow freely from his mouth With
good nursing and medical skill Mr. Hail was saved :;
but his frame sensbly injured, and, the expires
sion of informant his lungs appeared withered up
For his services and his suferngs, he appointed by
Mr. Van Buren's administration collector Champlan
in New York, from which office an attempt was made
in vain under Mr. Tyler to remove him. He continued
in Office until the other day. when the Executive fiat went
forth. and Hail superseded by Ezra Smith. Could
the President have known these circumstances? It is
impossible. Could the Secretary of the Treasury of
whose liberal disposition we have heard high charac-
ter have been informed of them But it is not too late
to repair the evil which is represented In the name OF
Justice and humanity invoke the President to nvest
gate the facts and if he find the statement to be correct
to enstae old soldier who has been recently superse
ded
We dare to go further. We say with all respect the
wing papers will not speak the truth so rare vet so pre-
cious Fenelon says, in the of prncesndeed to
all men in great power. The voice of Virginia, who
but the other day presented him sword for his mill
tary services has since rung in his warning
which ought TO be despised The democratic press
of the whole country is joining in full chorus upon The
prescriptions which have marked the administration.
They remind him of the professions he made, and the
pledges he gave, his election His own Taylor
democratic friends have passed resolutions which we
this morning lay before readers to similar effect
Is not then, time for him the march of pro-
scrpion True, it has gone too far already to satisfy
liberal men, or not far enough to poptate the impatient
wings; for when the tiger satiated by the
first taste OF blood 1t only whes his appetite and in
flames his passions But does not the President it 10
his own character, TO his pledges 10 his honor,
10 arrest the axe : Does he not it to those
bers of his cabinet who have urged him to vctmze his
political opponents, to advise them against their repe
ton II they have in any degree deceived MIN, it is
sure sign they are no longer worthy Of seat in his
cabinet