The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-04-24

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ordered, that any other person than the man Of our
preference shall be selected our candidate shall
yield him our cordial support"
On the day that the first number Of the
National Wing appeared, we threw from
the window Of the publishing Office large
white flag, bearing the following inscription,
which wrote with my own hand with a
common marking brush:
| FOR PRESIDENT
/ In l54S
/ Major General ar
| ZACHARY TAYLOR,
| The Hero
| or THE BATTLE FIELDS OF MEXICO.
/ General Taylor never surrenders.p
Ten thousand guns
for
OLD ROUGH AND REApY.*
While Mr.. FENToN was folding the pa
peIs for the new sboys-the National Wing
was first published as an evening paper--l
was standing by, and there came gentle
man Of stout stature into the room, and in
great excitement ordered the daily paper to
be sent to him at New York for six months,
and paid down the subscription price for the
same--two dollars The subscriber was
General CUNNINGHAM, Of Poughkeepsie,
New York He was the first subscriber to
the National Wing, and his two dollars
was the first money paid into the treasury
of this journal have referred to General
CuNNINGHAM's prompt response to the
nomination Of General TAYLOR by the Ma
tinai H,hig, as an incident which | can
never forget, for the purpose Of bearing tes-
timony to the prophetic spirit which ami
mated him on that occasion He was one
of the few, who had true appreciation Of
the condition Of the country and Of the ne
cessity Of our nominating General TAYLOR,
| if we desired success, if we really desired
to bring the Government back to its original
purity. We did not know each other then.
The labors Of the spring, summer and
fall Of lS47 were severe to degree Of IN
tensity, that none but editors can realize
was unassisted, No pen came to my
help. There was none in this city, that
thought with me- had the conversational
sympathy Of some half dozen gentlmen, who
occasionally met me and gave a word Of
encouragement, but found no man who
had my burning faith in the final success of
TAYLOR, but the publisher Of the National
Wing, and one other gentleman who had been
prescribed by Mr. WALKER, because he
was a Whig-Mr GEORGE L. GILL
cHREsr. He was the purchaser and ven
der Of the paper, and after it was increased
from penny sheet to its present size, the
man OF business OF the concern They
never ialtered They labored indefatigably.
| | never found them to hesitate. Their faith
was ike my own. Their works evidenced
it. do not believe similar cases Of snch
strong political faith, as that evinced by
Mr.. FrNToN and MIR. GLLcHREsT, ever
occurred, for it must be remembered, that
they had nothing whatever to sustain them
but the uncertain plttance which they might
derive from the sale of journal, which was
fighting IN cause that nearly everybody
opposed; my own sacrifices sink into insig-
nificance beside theirs
The character Of the National Hhig was
exceedingly violent against the Locofocos,
as party, and against their administration.
Itfearlessly exposed the misconduct of Mr..
Polk, and his usurpations Strange to say,
il received "a far better support, SO far as
subscription and the daily sales went, than
it got from the Wings Indeed, the Wings
objected to the severity with which treat
ed my opponents. But needed not this
objection. knew, that the secret Of the
hostility to the paper was, that it advocated
the election Of Gen. TAYLOR to be Presi-
dent Not only was the Wing public face
set against the paper, 50 far as to refuse to
subscribe to it or to advertise in it, but all
the avenues of money were carefully closed
against the publisher The difficulties en-
countered and overcome were almost her
culean, in this particular. And here, must
do that Justice to many Of the eompositors
employed by the publisher, to which they
are richly entitled, namely, in their forbear.
ing to exact their whole weekly dues, many
Of them They took what they could get,
aud agreed to wait for their balances al
such time as the publisher could discharge
them. Such Of these balances as are un.
paid, Mr. FENToS can and will pay, in due
course Of business Bat insurmountable as
+ the obstacles would have been to any ordi-
nary man, Mr. FENToN got over and round
them and kept his daily paper afoat unit
the 9Th Of January, 1913.
! In the fall Of lS47, he made arrangement,
to purchase an entirely new office, through
the aid OF some friends, and removed into
the building which he now occupies--tht
property Of Mr. EDWARD SIAMs In Mr.
SMMs Mr. FENToS found TAYLOR man
in deed, not in word Mr. SIMMs has gwen
Literally Of his substance to the support o.
the good TAYLOR Wing cause. He has moi
given to receive back, as many others Of hi,
fellow citizens have more wisely done j
allude to this thing, with view to corree,
an erroneous impression that has gone abroad
that Mr. SIMMs has made money by his
friendship for Gen. TAYLOR. He did mol
wait until the tide began to flow, but tugged
at the oar against an ebbing current He
never calculated with thai nicely which be-
4 longs 10 selfshness, the gains and losses