Democratic banner., 1849-09-03
MISSOURI.

toned in connection with the Presidency,
thousands of Democrats as well as Wings
supported him because they believed him
untranmeled by party shackles, and that
his election would be hailed as the f~orerun-
ner Of spolitical millennium, when the party
Ratchet would be buried, and the lion and
the lamb would lie down contented in the
same lair. It was for this reason that some
Of the wings became jealous of the number
Of democrats that supported him on account
of his ~"no-party" doctrines, and used eve-
~ means to get him committed to the mea.
sures Of the whig party. In all these eff
forts they utterly failed. They. ultimately
coaxed, fattered and bullisd with the same
success. To their numerous inquiries his
invariable reply was to this end, that if he
was elected President at all, he would be
the President of the "whole people" and
not of a party. He said he "would not be
the exponent of any party creed, or lend
himself to party schemes"-that he had emo
friends to reward Or enemies to punish.":-
These were the public avowals that gained
his election.
The "ultra wings" The said he was not
one of them were forced into his support
in connection with tens of thousands of
''no-party' wings and democrats. He was
elected, and the sequel is known. He first.
appointed his cabinet exclusively from the
wing party, a portion of whom are not only
s"ultra ~whigs," but the ~variest party hacks
known in the country.
10. Into the hands of these men he has surrender
ed the power gained by his own professions and
refusal to endorse The principles they advocate.
He has constituted them an unconstitutional re-
gency unknown before in our land, and contrary
to the genious of our institutions. He has divi-
dad the power but not the responsibility of the
executive among his cabinet officers, and sees
daily his pledges, made upon a soldiers honor
before the election, violated in the most fragrant
manner, and has not the moral honesty or indie
pendence to stay it. Too INSCRIPTIONS to re-
deem his pledges, or too obtuse in intellect to see
the enormity of their deliberate violation, Gen.
Taylor stands before Lis countrymen "with faded
laurels on his brow, and false pledges and broken
vows on his lips" No enemies to punish! and
pledged, the blood d ii pr Ss6fay f. ae ths fai!h he he
most respectable, now flows by system, and pro-
scription' are daily enacted and registered BY his
authority and in his name.
Honesty and capacity the test Of qualification!
while the heads of the most faithful, intelligent
and honest roll from the guillOtines of the differ
ent departments, and the only reason assigned is
the empty sound of ~"cause." Not stopping with
the blood of the innocent civilian to pamper the
i~nsolence of men who would have the Mexicars
welcome our soldiers with bloody hands and in
hospitable graves, and moved to call them home
in disgrace, even the care-worn soldiers of the
wars Of their country are sacrificed at the altar
of the conscience of a fellow soldier in arms
We need particularize no one, for we bow in
shame at the number that rise to our memory
One, however, will not fail to call forth the exc
Grafton OF all who prefer honesty to dishonesty,
ffanknsssto deception, capacity to incapacity, and
patriotism to an implacable hatred to the best in
terest Of our country. We mean the removal of
Gen. Lane, the Marion of the war that made
General Taylor President of the Republic. No
spology is pretended to be given for this outrage
upon the feelings of the people but one that only
adds insult to injury, and tends to sink Gen. Tay-
Tor even lower in the estimation of honorable men.
It is offered as an apology for him that General
LAne,awhile in Mexico, spoke disparagingIy of
Gen. .Tayior's qualifications for the Presidency;
and this is the cause Of his removal by the Presi-
dent who has no enemies to punish. A Presi-
dent of this mighty Republic descending to per-
sonal petty malice, where bis exaulted position
should exhibit a feeling of honorable forbearancs
and federation, presents the most humiliating as
pset to . generous and enlightened people.
ohodr renarks,to use the cant phrase Of the adj
ministration, are not drawn fr.m the mere loco
foco slang Of the day, but is being Numbered into
the ears efthe second Washington by his strongest
and earliest supporters, as well as by the voice