Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-04-18
Che 1Dortaoe Gellti1el.
Gen. TylOr's Pledges.

lore tHe AtileTiCdll people, PEioi " 'io oi@S
tion, it was, that if elected, he would be
the President of the People and not of
party. Every letter coming from his pen
and every sentence uttered by his lips from
the time his name was first mentioned in
connection with the Presidency down to
day of his Inauguration, designed for the
public eye, expressed his determination not
to be the President Of a party: He at one
time declares that he was "a whig, but not
an uira whig;" again, that # he accepted
"lhat high Office, it must be untrammelled
by party obligations of any kind;" and
again he declared, 81 have on enemies to
punish, or friends TO reward" These ex.
pressions we're caught up by the whig par
tizans and mouthed about all over the coun
try to induce those democrats who had not
from long experience learned to place
proper estimate upon whig promises. They
constituted, together with the brilliant mil
itary fame Of their candidate, almost the
entire capital in trade Of the whig party.
But upon this small capital they did an ex-
tensive busiaess-they were successful.
And now that Gen. Taylor is President,
how is he redeeming his pledgesa Is he
rewarding his friends and Furnishing his
en,m:es. Is he untrammelled by party OBJ.
legations? Let the removal Of hundreds Of
men from office, for no other cause than
that they are democrats, that tie hungry
hounds of the whig party may have their
places, answer. This new antiproscrip-
tive administration bids fair to rival that
which came into power in ls41, during the
first few months of its reign. We only
mention these things TO show how little
regard whiggery ays to its promises made
before an election. President Harrison
in his Inaugural Address said: 1T was the
remark of Roman consul, in an early
period Of that celebrated republic, that
most striking contrast was observable in
the conduct of candidates for offices of pow
er and trust before and after receiving
Them" During the same period in no 3D.
ministration has that contrast been so per.
fectly apparent as during the few weeks
of Gen. Fay Ior's reign, which has served
to manifest the feculent hypocricy of,hose
pledges made to the people by him and his
party friends before the election.
And then, the administration OF Gen.
Taylor was to be perfect pattern of pu-
rity. In regard to removals from, and ap-
pointments to, office, his was the task to
establish the pure republican doctrine that
no person who was capable, honest, and
faithful to the Constitution, should be re-
moved from office; and these qualifications
alone should govern in regard to all ap-
pointments. Beside the proof of the hy-
po :ricy Of these pledges furnished by the
removal of hundreds Of men from office
weekly, for no other reason than that they
are democrats, the Washington Union, Of
the 10Th il ST., furnishes brief his
tory of one Fitz Henry Warren, to give
place to whom as Second Assistant Post.
master General, VIM. Brown, an hon.
est democrat, and faithful to the trust re.
posed in him, was made to walk the plank.
The history Of this man Warren is taken
from "tke public records of Springfield,
Mass, where he swindled his creditors, and
applied for the benefit of the bankrupt
law, but was refused, because he fraudu-
lsmtly concealed property. He then de-
camped for the west, and squat.ed down in
Iowa, where he took conspicuous part in
defeating two democratic Senators in Con-
gress. TO effect this purpose, he travel.
led some two hundred miles TO the residence
Of democratic member Of the Legislature
whom the wings wished to deprive Of his
seat, for the purpose, Judas-like Of beiray-
ing him. When the case came before the
legislature, Warren swore that in a con-
versation with this individual, (Kinsman by
name) he had left the impression upon his
mind that he had resigned his seat. Find
ing, however, that this was not sufficient
10 deprive the member Of his seat, Warren
subsequently swore that Kinsman told him
he had resigned, notwithstanding the Gov.
ernor, Secretary Of State, and other off.
GERS testified that they had no knowledge
of such resignation. Warren, however,
gained his point. Kinsman was turned
out, and the federal majority postponed the
election. Last fall, this same Warren
was the prime mover in the contemplated
fraud of &C uniting certain unlawful Nor.
mon votes, which, it was supposed, would
give the State to Gen Taylor
This is the kind of men which come up
to the requirements of this new administrs-
ton, and are regarded as proper persons
in whose hands TO entrust the affairs of the
country.
Washington, April l3.
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