The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-06-07
TnyIdf'S PLEDGES Exposed.

.ooI,se its main statement Is true. General
rC.ylor could never have been elected
without the vote of the Taylor democrats
and he could never have obtained their
votes without the pledges which he gave.
We call the readers attention particularly
to the correspondence which passed be-
tween Nj. Lippard and General Taylor
during the cam,aign. The Generals let
Ter 10 Mr.. l.. lhs been frequently publish
ed. but Mr.. I's letter to the General is
now for the fist time given to the world.
This letter shds light upon the Generals.
1t shows why the General wrote his let
ter, and ho,ct is to be interpreted.
PHILADELPHIA, May %, ls49.
Will youbardon me if | make bold to
say few lords with you III exclamation OF
the reasons,yhich induced me to support
Won for thioffice of President of the Uni
red Statesf These reasons may also give
some idepf the motives which swayed
hundredsif thousands of your fellow-citi-
zens.
am ! politician. l never yet asked
for an oee, and certainly shall not ask
one at ylr hands. In speaking to you,
| do notay claim to any political infu-
ence. am backed by no clique: con-
troll no ody of voters: l only speak to you
as a ciEen of the United States, having
no infence beyond my vote, and the
truth shich l utter.
In ne year 1S47, while a member of
the II IEmocratic Association of the county
of Philadelphia, began the first of a Sc
riesf four works upon the history of
Me1co. That first book of the series
was intended to comprise a history OF
yoy campaigns in Mexico. While wri-
nm that work, became vividly impressed
viii the frankness, the iron common sense
th'unwavering sincerity of your charac-
te. Sick of the warfare of parties, |
loked to you as the man who had been
ciled by Providence to put an end to the
nercenary bitterness of this warfare, by
ssuming the position of WASHINGTON
lot with parties, but in the hearts of the
people.
And this idea of your character, embo-
lied in the work to which reference is
made, was diffused by lis pages among a
:lass of voters entirely distinct and separ-
lte from the whig party: class Of voters
who, imbued with the progressive spirit of
Christianity, are opposed to the principles
Of the whig party, as embodied in the
history of the whig corporation of Phila-
ielphia, and who are in favor of judicial
and national reform-who advocate the
freedom of the public domain and the right
Of labor to the harvest of its toll. This
dea induced me to desert my party asso-
;iations, break party lines, and advocate
Zachary Taylor as the candidate of the
people.
In the month of April, ls4s, your chan
ces for the presidency were vague and un-
certain. The whig politicians in Phila-
least the most prominent OF
them all-fairly laughed at the mention OF
your name in connection with that high
office. When the Baltimore Convention
assembled, it was the earnest hope of
thousands of the Democratic masses that
YOU would receive the nomination at the
hands OF the representatives of the Demo
cratic party. This hope proved fruitless.
But at the Wing Convention, assembled
IN Philadelphia in June, 1913, party lines
were finally broken: the very spirit and
front of the Wing party were crushed.
Henry Clay, balloted for in the name OF
the Wing party, failed to receive its votes,
and Zachary Taylor, nominated sin the
name of the people," was presented to the
people without any other platform than
his independence from the spirit and tram
mels of party.
Doubtless, you have often had desert
DeG to you the scenes which marked the
history of this June Convention-the dis
may OF the Whig politicians of the verita-
Die Wing school-the curses, both loud
and deep, with which they breathed youl
three-fold sacrifice of Wing
principles, Whig platforms, and Henry
Clay, at the feet of Zachary Taylor.
Nominated at this convention amid the
ruins of Whigism, and nominated in the
name of the people, the Whig party did
not dare to claim you as veritable Wing,
Of the true Whig stamp, until the 5th oil
July, lS4S, when news came to Philadel-
ohia that Hon. Bailie Peyton had, in New
Orleans, solemnly endorsed you as a
SVhig, and placed your feet somewhere
amid the ruins of the demolished Whig
platform.
This statement gave inexpressible pain
o thousands of your friends in Pennsylva-
lia. Well aware that you had not been
as the candidate of any party,
certain that you could not by any chance
'e electe IN the name or on the platform
't the Wing party, your friends-I speak
'f the masses, who loved you for YOUR
self and for your independent position
eceIved the statement of Mr.. Peyton with
n emotion that was not to be mistaken or
vaded. They felt that either Mr.. Pey-
T. NV,