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

others for "the execution Of the duties of the
presidency He is accused of the crime of having
had the Cabinet policy forced upon him" He
is accused of the crime Of remorseess and indis
eliminating prescription to the soldiers only Of
the late war, but 70 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
" one of the most unprncipled and deprayed of
men, But, bark "No;'' these are moi the acts
of General TAYLoR--it is the INSCRIPTIONS and
reckless Cabinet. The President is only pariceps
criminis. He does not the acts. He only delegates
the power, and approves the dongs 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 Iocofocracy raves, lamenIs, and
maddens DER the land. But more. The people,
" the motley crew." are said To be :" sometimes
green" Although sometimes little greenn is
the apologizing phrase of Virginian, one of the
elite, no doubt, who is "known" in Richmond -
" the people, although sometimes little green'-
that is, when they dsplace the Locofoco party
"are not so much so 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 INSCRIPTIONS and reckless"
Cabinet The President only turns the victims
over to the secular arm-as Pro Mono would do the
Wings Of Rome! Ii is indeed true, that the people
are not so green as not 10 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 he 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 Adminisr ration has I" come out with formal
contradiction Of the fact that the President is con-
trolIed by the Cabinet" "They boldly assert that
all the statements which have appeared in the public
papers, TO the effect thai 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 I"
Thus 1t ls-the opposition has two tones in its
voice. Though at times opposite and inharmo-
NOUS, both are generally in the lugubrious key of
f minor. Bur- no matter. The Wings are willing
to bde their time and to acquiesce in the constitu-
tonal 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 (its
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 chaff before the whirwind.
As a prominent member of the party Qhe north
ern branch) publicly intimaied, Locofocracy the
so-called Democratic party, is politically defunct
as national party. 1t certainly was composed of
the very worst and most powerful elements Of evil
Gas it was characterized by downward "tend.
ency'') that to be scraped together in this ex-
tended land. We trust that these elements are
never to be again combined with a sufficiently con-
centrating power to constitute it again an organism
of hurtful energy-mpartng to our " national af-
fairs'' that downward tendency which it has
become the duty of ZACHARY TAYLOR and his wise
Cabinet 'to arrest" The motley crew that
elected ZACHARY TArLoRn will see that he is sus-
tanned in carrying out his pledges effect "change
Of men and measures" and that this crew. are
indeed not so green as the elite who are known" in
certain places disposed at times to think. This
change they wish to be healthful and invigoratng-
such is contemplated by potential cautery.
WHIG
PORTSMOUTH, Va, August 4, l649