The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1849-10-19
From the Washington Union.
The Verdict Olbtllr people,

NUMBER oil members which were eteceG
to the next Congress beto,y, and the num-
\ Der elected since, General Taylor came in
to power. 1t will be seen that one ham
~ared and Mi,fy-seoen members were cleo
ted before the 9TH of March, Of whom
eighty-t,oo were wings, and only ffy.fve
were democrats The same influences
which conspired to elect General Taylor
defeated the democratic candidates for
Congress-. Districts, and even States.
which had been firm in many trying con-
test, gave way before divisions in the deni-.
ocratic ranks, and were sednced by the
glare of military renown and led by fraud
ulcnt promises and false professions to
sustain the whig candidates for Congress,
while they sustained the whig ticket for
the presidency. So great was the whig
preptmdcfance, that when General Taylor
was irlaugurated the democrats had Civ
on up I'LL hopes Of the next House Of Rep
rcsentatives. -
On the 4th of March General Taylor
took the oath of office, and called around
him his cabinet advisers. M,naeaiatelyMe
illusion suaisAedi 1t became apparent to
all that the Hero Of the Rio Grandc was
not equal to the duties Of his Office. Con-
trary to the expectations of his friends, he
pursued the course of communication
in his inaugural address, and, with want
of that frankness which should character
ize a soldier, he failed to the people the
principles on which he would conduct the
peoples government. Itsoon became APP
parent, also, that his incapacity and expe-
rience forced him to surrender his high du-
ties into the hands of an irresponsible ca
BAL composed of men most of whom
were without distinction as statesmen, mar
row and contracted in their views, and
bitter and indicative in their feelings
These gentlemen had no regard for the
pledges and promises which General Tay-
lor had made. They trampled them un-
der foot, like the insensiblc dust under
theiI heels; and, disregarding their official
duties; they built up a system of parry
prescription more searching and sangun-
AIRY than any that ever afflicted onr coun-
try. Not only were honest and faithful
and capable officers dismissed from en-
ployment but, without regard to the pub
lie interests, inexperienced and incompe-
tent. men were called to the public service
id order to receive their reward for their
party allegiance. The victors, quarrelling
over the spoils, united in denouncing every
species of opposition; and the powers of
the government were employed to blacken
the regulations Of those who opposed
them. Wherever the hand of the Execu-
tive was seen, ineficiency, injustice and
bad faith were apparent in its ministra
tions, 1t was not long before the dis
pleasure of the people became manifest
Most of the Taylor democrats who had
been duped into the support of General
Taylor, come back again to the democrat
ic banner.
The victory in Connecticut, and the
growing weaksess OF TIE administration,
gave some hopes of preventing and ciec-
tive whig majority in the House. The
cruel and unprincipled vindicativeness of
the eabel continued. The wings sustained
an exterminating defeat in Virginia, and
then the Administrations found that it might
lose the House of Representatives. Ev-
cry effort WAS made which power and
patronage could make, to prevent such a
result Then they called upon their in
sidious and busy agents to assist them
They had no Hercules to help them in
their distresses; but they called upon Tru-
man Smith, with all his experience and all
his arts in the campaign of l848, to issue
his circulars, to employ his frank, to dis
tribute the whig fund, and to send his min
isters of darkness over the land. But
disaster continued to follow disaster, until
now there are strong hopes that the DEM
ocrats will control both branches OF the
next Congress. Since the 4th OF March
e;ghtyJ6ee members have been elected
.fftyJfpe of whom are democrats, and oaiy
iny are wings. Elections are yet to be
held in Louisiana and Mississippi. Those
two States are entited to eight members.
= iThe Aepocratswill certainly carry six of
the eiglfGS and ne have assurances which
fead US to hope that We will carry all four
Ain Mississippi, and perhaps all fourin Lou
isiana. But eonceding two members in
rthe two States to the wings, and the next
HouseEill then stand: