The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-11

others for the execution Of the duties of the
presidency He il accused of the crime of having
had " the Cabinet policy forced upon him" He
is accused of the crime of remorseless and ndis
eliminating prescription to the soldiers, not only of
the late war, bur To the very men who fought and
bled by his side And, finally, TO crown This
pedestal made up of misdemeanors he is accused
Of not having passed over helpless and innocent
women" with dependent families of children"
And he is believed by this same opposition to be
90 one of the most unpriDclpled and deprayed of
men," But, bark "No;" these are moi the acts
of General TArLoR-it is the INSCRIPTIONS and
reckless Cabinet. The President is only pGriiceps
crimimis. He does not the acts. He only delegates
the power, and approves the doings Of his agents.
Like Rome, he doesn't persecute-he only turns
over the victims to the secular arm. Such is the
manner in which locofocracy raves, lamenis, and
nladdens DER the land But more. The people,
the motley crew." said To be :" sometimes
green" Although sometimes lule green' is
the apologizng phrase of Vrginian, one of the
elite, no doubt, who is /" known" in Richmond -
"ihe people, although sometimes little green--
that is, when they displace the Locofoco party
!" are not so much 50 not to know that he is
the creator of the Cabinet and consequently should
be responsible for his acts" But then, the " sole
organ" says, No - these are not the acts of Gen.
eral Taylor; it is the g unscrupuous and reckless"
Cabinet. The President only turns the victims
Wings Of Rome Ii is indeed true, that the people
are not SO green as not to know that ZACHARY
TAYLOR, Notwithstanding the political Jesuitism of
the sole organ, is responsible for his acts. He is
responsible, no matter how often it may be pro-
claimed that he is voted down in his Cabinet Ii
is in the same breath acknowledged by this very
same print in the Identical article, that the organ
of the Administration has " come out with formal
contradiction of the fact that the President is con-
troled by the Cabinet" They boldly assert that
all the statements which have appeared in the public
papers, TO the effecl thar General Taylor has repu.
dated, virtually, the functions and duties of Pres-
dent, and delegated them to his Cabinet, are the
mere falsehoods OF an inscriptions opposition.
Thus it s--the opposition has two tones in its
voice. Though at times opposite and nharmo-
NOUS both generally in the lugubrious key of
F minor. Bur, no matter. The Wings are willing
to bide their time, and to acquiesce in the constitu
tional will of the majority. The people are with
them, ana this is enough for them 10 know. When
in the minority, they have not wept, and sighed,
and lamented at the loss of that which has been
said by prominent member of their party Gts
southern branch) to be the food that has nourshed
and cherished and bound together the very joints
and marrow Of Locofocoism and the loss of which
has been one of those various conflicting causes
which have split it to pieces and separating
and scattering it like chaf before the whirlwind
As prominent member of the party (the north
ern branch) publicly intimated, Locofocracy, the
so-called Democratic party, is politically defunct
as national party 1t certainly composed Of
the very worst and most powerful elements Of evil
Gas it was characterized by downward tend.
ency') that are to be scraped together in this ex
tended land. We trust that these elements are
never to be again combined with sufficiently con-
cenrating power to constitute it again an organism
of hurtful energy-imparting TO our "natiomil af-
fairs" that downward tendency which it has
become the duty of ZACHARY TAYLOR and his wise
Cabinet "to arrest" The 81 motley crew that
elected ZACHARY TAYLOR" will see that he is sus-
tanned in carrying out his pledges effect "change
Of men and measures" and that this Z" crew" are
indeed not so green the ellie who are known" in
certain places are disposed at times to think. This
change they wish to be healhful and invigorating-
such is contemplated by a potential caute,y.
WING.
PORTSMOUTH, Va, August 4, l649