The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-05-02
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never 10 have elected General IayIof iio''' -
United States 1t is the most important om'e III u'e
world We are the most progressive people, anu III 'ne
midst OF the most progressive age u VIM" We na'.
.ny account IN the annals OF man. Inc ONCE oi Sh'e'
M.vi.,r.,o If This republic necessarily requires there
fore s,ea, grasp OF mind, and large extent oil nioma-
io, 70 administer its affairs. He to succeed too,
statesman long engaged in the public service, endowed
with strong common sense possessing great confidence in
himself and capable of greater labor than any who
ever filled the Office He conversant with many of
the dstnsus statesmen who had graced our pub
lie councils, and was able select cabinet from among
the abest statesmen in the country with most oil whom he
was personally familiarwith all of whom he was other
wise Intimately acquainted He has just passed the ordeal
successfully, leaving behind him of the most bril-
liant administrations that adorned hstory-equal
in the variety Of questions which he has encountered
and in the success which he has enjoyed that of the
Father Of his Country the author Of the Declaration
Of Independence
Such ,Uas James X Polk And who succeeds him
soder-a soldier. who has spent forty years of
his life in the camp-who has never studied politics
has formed deliberate opinion upon some of the
great principles OF the constituencies voted in
his life--never filled any civil oficewas entirely gno-
rant Of the course of public measures, and had scarcely
with all his military bravery without the slightest conf
dence in himself in the discharge of the important duties
which he has been suddenly elevated There scarce
ly any metamorphosis in Ovid singular than his I'M
expected transition from the camp to the cabinet Yet
with this knowledge of his character, the wings seized
upon him as their candidate for the presidency. De.
termned to carry their object, they attempted once
more to spread their nets "to catch birds of every
feather" They played deep enough for their game by
eatrappng many democrats 10 vote with them for which
purpose they affected 10 hold up Gen. Taylor as second
Washington They represented him a no party can.
didatc, snt who would be no.party President
Witt this view also. they attempted to conceal OF
his principles, and published professions from his lips or
pledges from his pen calculated to prescribe all proscrp
ton No democrat ought have fallen into the snare
None should have voted for Gen. Taylor under any such
delusion The wings themselves if they possessed that
proper respect for institutions whcn they pfofe.sed
ought to have supported mere military chef,an
who was ignorant of all the arts of civil government
The General himself ought never to have accepted it,
III he were 50 conscious of his own want of quail.
hcatons as he has uniformly declared he ought never
to haze yielded to the poisonous incense of nat-
terry which his parasites have poured into his ears
He ought never 10 have INDUCED the delasion Which
their adulaon intended to produce, He ought to
have told the people, 81 have the experience and in
formation which this arduous Office requires | am a
soldier but statesman | have subdued your enemy
am willing to shed my blood for you, but will not &C.
cept this Office, which gain honor myself and
cannot rebound to your own glory and prosperity"
Such should have been the of the wings, if
they had not been besotted by party spirit and such we
humbly conceive should have been the of Gen
Taylor if he had consulted his glory, and the pros
perity Of his country.
How can it be otherwse' The General, whom we
have not the slightest wish to depreciate, and whose
manners such to win upon esteem cannot be
qualified for The responsible position he has assumed
He feels his own defects. He has no conf lence in
himself He came to Washington as much unac luained
with public men he was with public measures He
had of the leaders of the wing party to advise with
except Mr. Crittenden whom he left in Kentucky He
had offended Mr.. Clay, whom he had supplanted He
could not propi,iae Mr. Webster, who had publicly de-
clared that his nomination one mot fit to be made %
He came here ignorant of public men, and finally was
compelled to select cabinet not one of whom, il
is said, had been seen by him before he arrived
in Washington. His cabinet is not Invested of talent
but with the exception OF statesman, not one
OF them had served regular apprenticeship to the
science of politics, had gained distinguished fame in
the roll Of statesmen We have not the slightest unkind
feeling towards the President the cabinet but the
country is of consequence in eyes than any of
these gentlemen; and must speak freeman at the
head of free press.
Not two months have passed away, and although the
cardinal measures of the administration, if they have
any, have not been developed, and scarcely any auson
TO them published with the exception of the significant
revelation to Mr. Riddle of Ptsbug, yet has already
conrved 10 lose force and character the eyes of the
people The President has neither proved himself capa-
bic OF welding the club of Hercules the bow of Ulys
He has permitted of his Secretaries especially
the Postmaster Genera-to shuttle off of the pledges
under which he elected Prescription has become
or less the order OF the day They first su red the
and number of the victims to be proclaimed until
alarmed by the clamor OF the democratic press they no
longer conceived to be "wise or prudent to continue
the recital Yet is well known that the axe continues in
motion, under the blghting auspices OF Fz Henry War
ren and with the of the Postmaster General
himself; and ever and anon the echo of some removal
returns TO from the distant sections of the republic
whilst the columns Of the organs are now and then