Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-05-11
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The following remarks from the New York
Herald, in regard 10 The cause of the annihila-
lion of the Taylor party al the recent election
in Virginia, comes very near the truth. The
cause herein assigned-ihe want Of confidence
by the Southern people in Gen Taylot's Cab
met, in regard 10 the great question of the day
lies at the root of the matter. We do sincere
" hope that Gen. Taylor will take the warn
ing in the sense in which it is given. The
defeat of the administration has certainly, as
the Herald says, " been produced by the agi
tating and unprincipled operations of such
politicians as Senator Seward, Martin Van
Buren,. and all the other anti. slavery agitators
belonging 10 every faction in the North" The
union all along of General Tty,or's partizans
with these men. ha- naturally and Justly
alarmed the people of the Southern States. and
they have refused 10 place any more power in
the hands of the Executive. A Cabinet divi-
ded, without party to sustain it. and without
the confidence or support of the people or o.
Congress, need not, indeed, bother themselves
about connecting any system OF measures
since they will never have chance TO carry
any of them ont -
The Virginia Election IN the South.-We
have private accounts from Virginia and othe
Southern States, which represent the condi
ton of the wing or administration party il
that region of the country, TO be in much
worse plight than even might be expected
from the disastrous defeat which il recently
sustained in the Old Dominion. Our cotem
porary of the Courier and Enquirer is o
opinion that the extinction of the wings il
Virginia has been occasioned by the mistaken
policy of Gen. Taylors cabinet. in not reno
wing two or three locofoco offce-holders.-
This is like accounting for the immense rusl
of Niagara Falls, by supposing that two @
three old women in Buffalo had emptied thei
pals of water in the channel of the river, ant
hence the tremendous fall of rushing waters
at Niagara The defeat of the wings, or ad
ministration party, in Virginia, (and IFS pro
bable defeat and total rout which may be ex
pected in other Southern States,) has beer
produced by the agitaiing and unprinciple'
operations of such politicians as Senator Sc
ward, Martin Van Buren,, and all the othe
anti-slavery agitators belonging 10 every fac
ton in the North. By means of those agila
tors and utras, the administration of Genera
Taylor will not only be Tylerized, but it will
be left without hardly a rag OF strength in tn
next House of Representatives. 1t is fortu
nate thing for the country, that we have sue
an honest, upright, fearless man in the Whit
House, as he who now occupies it. His cabl
net is nothing his party is nothing: he be
longs 10 no party. but to the country; and
will require all his nerve and sagaclty in tn
; great crisis which is about springing up i
this country, with the commencement an
progress of the next session of Congress
crisis which was feared and apprehended b
Washington, who accordingly, in his farewe
address, counselled his countrymen to bewar
of organising parties on sectional prejudice:
The cabinet of Gen. Taylor need not troubl
themselves about organising any new systeI
of measures, any modification of the tariff, an
change in the financial system o. the govern
ment, for they never will have chance
carry any thing into operation. other than tn
general system which is now in action. Bot
houses OF Congress, uader the lashings c
Northern agiiators, insulting and abusing III
South in every step they take-both house
, of Congress will be divided geographically
and will take Hostile and violent positions 0
that ground and the consequences who ca
tell We dread the future.