The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-02-28

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For Union
Gen. TnyIor's Pledges against PartiAAn Admlnis
tion.
General Taylor either meant what he wrote this sub
jest OF the presidency or he did not mean IT, We do not
suspect him OF playing falsely with and outgenealling
Henry Clay and his particular friends by writing TO one
man that he auouid, and to another that he would NOT
withdraw in his favor; but upon this hypothesis,
that why should charge him with design
ing to play falsely with the American people. We VIII
not be SO hasy in our condem nation as that, but VIII
wait for future Developments We will wage no war
against his administration in anticipation. but will live in
the hope that he will spare us that PAIN by carrying out
his antpartsan pledges. What are they' The follow
ing, to the editor OF the Cincinnati Signal, dated May
10Th, lS47, shows
'IN NO CASE can permit myself to be the candidate
of any party. or lend myself to party scArmes"
In accepting the Whig nomination. so long as he did
declare himself to Be the hg candidate erusiuey
or enter into promise to recommend their particular
to the consideration of Congress- and to pro-
y be said that he violated This pledge. If he would not
be considered party candidate, we should like to know
party triumph. To redeem his pledgefor pledge il is.
aad pledge most positively as well as so!emny made
how he to act when he enters upon his duties as Che
Magistrate! TO select an exclusive whg cabinet and
to recommend WING measures No honest man or relia
BILE friend Of his dare say so; Tor that would be LENDING
himself to party schemes" he walks in the path thus
better, wiser ADLER counseors than those compo
sing the present cabinet or one composed OF an equal
svhig cabinet he cannot walk in his avoe anti partisan
path for they will not permit him. They will compel MN
to "end himself to party schemes" or they will make his
political bed "a bed OF thorns."
To DR.. Deony, on the 10th of June following Gen.
Taylor reiterated the above sentiments in these ords;
''Snould occupy the White House, it must be by
30 that could 20 into the Office u.trammes and be the
Chief Magistrate OF the "atio" and not OF party"
In his letter to the editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin,
of the 9th of July of the same year, he writes:
elf fill high office, must be untrammelled
with party Obligations or interest Of any KIND under
large sly and soemnly demand
And on the 10th of the next month, (August,) he
writes to DR.. Bronson OF South Carolina, as follows:
"I need hardly add that cannot, IN ANY CASE per-
any Of hs political PARTIES hat now 50 divide
our country, as their candidate for this office"
The voters OF the United States believed in Gen. Tay
Tors sincerity when he penncd these lines, or he never
could have received enough to elect hm and they
will expect him to give ample proof OF his sincerity, or
the reaction against him will be far more indignant and
overwhelming than that which suddenly converted the
great Harrison majority OF 1910 into miserable and hope
less minority Well, he be the "Chief Magistrate OF
nation and not OF party, by selecting for his advisers
the members of Que party " erclusiuely"' Common
sense-men will say not, no matter how earnestly pdr
iisan wings may plead to the contrary. These 'par-
tsans" may indulge the belief thai the people be
deuded and hoodwinked at eiE pleasure. and endeavor
lead General Taylor into similar error but they
will soon find out their mstak e 1t was not the popular
confidence in the ultra PARTISAN advocates OF General
Taylor which secured his electon but 1t was their con-
hdence m has honesty and their firm and lneradicabe
conviction tina, he meant what he wrote in his anPar
tsan letters, that secured him victory Had his cleo
ton been opposed cooy supported BY greater num-
Der of such wings Bolts, Greeley Clay, Webster, 4
larger support from the people. he would not be the
candidate Exclusively" of any of the parties and de-
rived has support from the moderate OF both. how can
he make himself the President OF party by calling
abound him tine members OF :he wing party exclusi vely
for his counseors That he cannot do, in the opinion OF
all honest and conscientious men, without acknowledge
ing the insncerty OF his political letters and this we
will not believe him capable OF, until the nation shall
stand appalled, with the proof.
deem ali his pledges He can do it by following the ad
vice given by the patriotic Jackson President Monroe
and calling to his aid "mxed cabinet" or teaching
them to understand that they to recognise parties
in the discharge of their duties Then he will not only
show himself TO be the President Of ga nation, but he
will ohlcrate the present party distinctions, and put
end, for season al east to those "unfounae politi-
cal divisions Of which he has written and which he
seemed so much to dpiore. To this he is pledged not
in those implied COMBINATIONS of the of our lat
ter Presidents which to be found in his preferences
course s could he have alluded Certainly to nothing but
the practice which has recently prevailed to greater OF
less cxen Of furnishing political opponents and reward
ing political friends II be is pledged TO nothing else, nc
less than nine. tenhs of people regard him
tally pledged to put an efeeiuaI check to htis.
But il Gen; Taylor desires to act as he has so often
wings, though he derived his principal support from
them. II has been said OF whigery-and ultra, partl
san" whigery was meant, of course-that ait posons
everything Il ouches;o and the administration which
preceded Mr.. Folks afforded melancholy proof OF the
fact They are vain enough and weak enough to De
leve that the democratic veoes OF President Tyler
brought about their terrible overthrow but it was then
oWn violation of their elcctoneering pledges and the
odlons measures they enacted In four short weeks they
harassed the kind hearted Harrison death, and in
twelve months their Overwhelming majority of 1910 was
converted INTO the leanest kind of minority
Would General Taylor avoid the same rock? II so,
we tell hlm again to beware OF wing counseors unless
he has proof that the vpes angs have been extracted
from them sy the lessons of political adversely If we
did not support his election have been his friends
and defenders when he stood in quite az much need of
them; and say that there is not democrat in the
land who wishes him evil He can be popular-he can
rally the entire moral force of the nation to his support
aud he can overthrow the monster party for season
at least il he aRis it. We have shown him how he can
do it, and there is no other way under heaven by which
+, can be accomplished II to up to the pledges of
his political letters the people understand them 1t is
to act independently, and to listen to dctation from
mercenary politicians, who focking BY thousands to
Washington induce him to break his pghted faith to
The nation and thereby to cover himself with dishonor
II is show the people who conhded in him. that he is
deceiver and impostor, were the vctors OF 1870 II
TO manifest no haste in changing the great measures
in operation but to give them full and far trial
under every circumstance to show that hetoeraes
lie free expression of his political sentiments by every
American citizen, and that he would scorn the suppress
OF II by means Of "pariy prescription. 1T MOI 70
permit his councillors make the FIRST acts OF ms AL