The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-06-05
A NEST OF ABsURDITIEs.

are IN the wrong, as You WIN say 'HEs a"aysu,e'
! The Repubic will not represent the whole admins
ration bur il will represent the Taylor interest in
| the cabinet. Crawford and Preston wish Taylor 10
| run again, and Taylor has determined 10 do so,
Clayton and the infeHtgsncer nave determined ne
sl,all not Clayton neans to run himself The Intel
/ ligencer means TO bring out Clay, and the other
members Of thescabinet are fast arriving al the con-
/ clnsion thai If Moses had not been stronger man
than Gen. Taylor, Il would have taken stonter men
| than Aaron and iiur to hold his arms up. Mr..
Clay does not conceal his contempt for the Presi-
dent and the President hates Mr.. Clay. There will
! be trouble between them as soon as The Senate con-
| yenes. The InIeigeneer will not fight Henry Clay
for any BODY neither win Ii labor for any candidate
| 10 his prejudice
II, therefore, Gen. Taylor, or his friends, require
my defender Of him against the assaults Of the
| great embodl eni, they must raise one mp. The
hyperporean GOODNESS and unexampled lnseDsbility
Of The lntelligencer cannot BE- employed for such
purposes al present. until the political horizon
wears very different aspect from thai which 1t now
presents TO aspiring Wings.
II II under this conviction that the Taylor wings
have called for The establishment Of the Republic.
and oil who have been most active in projecting
that paper are exerIing themselves with might and
main to eject Clayton from the cubn.l They
know his ambition and they fear his cunning.
They think he Is making me President sit In his nest
and hatch hiseggs without letting the simple old
suspect that Il Is brood OF sepenls instead OF
chickens that he Is warming into life. The General
is uneasy, bit with Clay, Cooper and perchance,
his Secretary, nor can he get rid Of him without
quarrelline Hence, has he determined TO have
paper Of his own, and bde his time. The moment
any Of the prelendcrs' show their teeth his paper
the country LOT trial. He does mol mean TO be de.
pendent upon the Intelligence, OF any other paper
enlanged thar il would never dare make an issue
nor bring il 10 tTul till the day after,
More anon from
JOHN BROWN, Feuyman.
We are indebted, for the above nest Of
ab5urdites, to a facetious and usually a jn-
dicious correspondent Of the Neto York
Erening Past, the leading Democratic Free
Soil Journal in the Empire State They
are fair specimen Of the prophetic ePistola-
ry literature, that emanates from Washing
ton city, three hundred and sixty-five days
in the year, but that the author Of John
Brown, Ferryman," who claims to be poll
ician, should be betrayed into the utterance
Of 50 much unmitigated absurdity, Of so ma
ny groundless assertions, is TO us no little
matter Of wonder. A repetition Of such
specnlations viii insure Mr. BRowN the en-
tire loss of his reputation as sagacious and
close thinker and shrewd politician, If
there be any merit in man, who makes
politics bis chief study, it is, that when he
undertakes to prophecy, he should have a
thorough knowledge OF the persons who are
to figure in his prophecies, and never violate
the probabilities Of human life. 1t is evi-
dent from the above extract, that MIR. BRowN,
is either very ignorant Of Gen. TAYLOR,
and the other gentlemen referred To-, or that
he looks at their relative positions through a
jaundiced eye. He places them, in the first
place, in false position, and then ascribes
to them motives, which no man could enter
tain and retain his sanity. The whole Of
the extract is a fancy sketch without any
merit in it, II is crude, improbable, nay,
it is impossible for the actors in the scene to
be what he says they are, and to do what
he says they intend TO do.
Let US examine the extract in detail, and
the reader will be able to appreciate its Ut
Ter tallacy.
What the Republic intends to represent,
beyond what its prospectus says, we do not
know, but we do know, that it will not be
the organ Of the Administration Of General
TAYLOR or any part Of that Administration.
There is but one interest in the Adminstra-
ton of Gen. TAYLOR, and that is, the inter-
est of the country To ascribe 10 General
TAYLOR or any member of his able cabinet
any selfish motive, or any motive beyond
that Of administering the government fof the
highest interests Of the country, isa gross
libel upon those gentlemen 1t is the coin
age Of i heated brain, in which truth has
no seat Besides, injustice is done to the
Republic itself, in attempting to make It ap-
pear, that it will represent part Of the
Administration, though we hear that some
unauthorized efforts have been made to in
duce the belief, that il will be the exclusive
organ OF the whole Administration. The
publishers Of the Republic have put their
prospectus forth, and in that announcement
of their intentions, there is not only not the
least pretension to such relation to the
Administration, but the very contrary Is de-
clared
Mr.. BRowN's lncubations about the next
Presidency, and his representations Of the
strife existing between the President and
his cabinet upon this subject, are so ridicu-
lous, that they scarcely deserve reply but
lest incautious people may be led astray by
such grave statements, we take occasion to
declare, that there is not particle OF truth
in any Of the surmses, opinions, allegations,
differences, or arguments Of the above ex-
tract. Ast to the Wing candidacy for 1852,
for President, that is matter that Is in the
womb Of time but we tell Mr., BRowN and
| all others who wish to know the whereabouts
Of the Wing party on that subject, that
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