The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-09-13
me Taylor Democrats.

We cannot be mistaken in the vast reaction which i
taking place in the public mind Many democrat vote.
for Gen. Taylor upon the supposon that he had written
his own dispatches and his own campaign letters that h.
was qualified BY strong sense for the complicated
duties of his elevated Offices that he would conduct hi.
administration the wisest and most liberal principles
mat ne would really initiate the First Washington
that he would be nopary Presidents and that he would
prescribe prescription. So said Mr. Csyton so said Mr.
Crtenden; and such the plain construction OF his
own declarations But General Taylor has now been
tried and he is found wanting. He proves himself ut
tey disqualified, by his want Of information and expe
rence for conducting the affairs Of the government He
is scarcely anything but OF in the hands oil
his cabinet Thousands of officers have been removed
for other offence than that they were democrats and
that their offices wanted by his greedy parasites Ia
wonderful, then, that he is rapidly sinking in public
opinion; that dicue has succeeded to admiration and
that many who voted for him in November last is
ashamed OF the folly into which he was betrayed
Yet without the votes OF the democrats he could never
have been elected "We shall run Gen. Taylor, (said a
sagacious wing member Of Congress in December, 1919
because he is the only available candidate we can start
Mr. Clay command but the wing votes whereas
Gen. Taylor will catch some of the democrats along with
the wings, and thus we will carry his election" This
policy was pursued spite OF the shameful conadic-
tons in which 1t involved the wings; and now that
they have elected him, they find that they have in
voyed themselves in the disgrace OF eecting Chief
Magistrate who is utterly unfit for the office. Some
Of the wings frank enough to confess the fact
but il is the Taylor democrats-they who have been be-
rayed by professions which he never keep and by
yh uhu alt,,c al
to volate-who have become chagrined. mortified, dis
gused, and will finally desert him. multitude of cases
Of this description has already occurred as we learn BY the
public papers, by our private correspondence, by the
formation which receiving from all parts Of the
country and by the results OF the elections Who
can blame them for abandoning the idol whom they in an
-starred hour contributed TO raise upl The following
article from the "Western Press at Mercer Pennsylva.
MIA, has brought together in coup dea bill of CON-
plants to which every honest Taylor democrat is com
PEELED TO subscribe:
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE DEMOCRATIC TAYLOR
MES-When IN the course OF human events il becomes
necessary for the lreemen Of this country dissolve the
political bands which have heretofore connected them
respect Tor the opinions OF fellow. citizens seems 10
require AT their bands declaration of the which
We, therefore, who voted last fall for General Zachary
Taylor hereby declare our determination all pot
roled, for the following among many other reasons.
lie has proved recreant TO all his pledges;
He promised not to be party President and avoid all
party schemes yet he cabinet composed en-.
tirely OF the rankest and most obnoxious wings;
lie promised TO alay the violence party prescription
yet prescription has ragged with erceness Unprecedented
IN our political history;
He promised TO make .honesty capac,y and fidelity"
he three great requisites for political peierment yet
has removed large number OF honest upright and
peen men, and given their stations TO those who disgrace
them
He has discharged from office some of the most gallant
and heroic soldiers of the Mexican war; his compa
He has discharged from Office poor widows, that the
scanty pilance from which they eked meagre sub
sseuce might To reward the political services Of braw
ing coons;
He has appointed high official stations men who have
always been traitors countryblue-iigh federass
in 1912, aud advocates Of Mexico in
OF the affairs of government, deerring their will ia all
things, and virtually acknowledging himself to be mere
cipher
He shown himself to be utterly nd totally incapable
OF performing the duties Of his oiHce;
HIS entire political history forms a series of contradict
TONS OF shameful violation OF pledges and oil base prost
tuition 10 party schemes unparalleled In history.
Believing, do, that his early letters will
ul attempts dceivs he people, and considering that hts
since his elevation has abunsnty proven him be
politically dIshoRe, Incapable, and tafahf
and the course u political mancsuvring which elected him
despcable aud dishonest place in power
OF his military achievements; and therefore all
connexion with Tayorism, benceioth and forever, and
hold the party that supports him political enemies and
In the ordinary transactions oil life, friends.
Aud Tor the support oil this declaration, and TO rid the
country OF the Of Tayorism with firm reliance upon
the justice OF aud IN firm conviction that "uth
Is mighty and must prevail, pledge votes In.
huence, and most Strenuous exerTons the polls.
0sands Of voters at the rscat elections, aad 10
be agaed BY teas Of thousands more the polls
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