The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-05

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apology or reparation.
So with regard to the course of the Sec
| rotary of War and the President, in relation
to the alleged Indian outbreak in Florida.
The foreign organ and its correspondents
assailed the Administration because, with
the prospect Of ga war in Florida not east
ly to be avoided" they refused to "sanc-
ton call for volunteers by the Governor
of the State, or to receive them into the
service of the United States, until the
REGULARS gel into the feld" If there was
any subject of which President TAYLOR
might have been admitted to possess some
knowledge, it was our relations with these
Indians, and the best mode of adjusting
our difficulties with them. But the foreign
organ could not trust him with even this
subject; it denounced his Indian policy
with the same indecency as it assailed his
foreign policy. Whatever he did, the for
eign organ was sure to say that something
different and better ought to have been
done. The result has proved the wisdom
and propriety of President TAYLoR's
course. A forty million war upon the trea-
sury Of the United States has been avoided
by his sagacity and frmness. If he had
failed TO take his stand upon this matter,
and had listened to other councils than
those of his own experience and good
sense, we should have been at the present
moment in the full tide of Florida war
We will touch now nothing but matters
of which we see the end. When the end
comes, we shall be able to demonstrate
that the policy Of President TAYLOR in re-
gard to California and the Mosquito ques
ton has been as wise, honest, prudent,
and honorable, as the results prove his
policy to have been in reference to the
subjects we have above discussed.
Notwithstanding the length to which
our article is running, we must present
another subject in this connexion which
has been made the ground of attack upon
the Administration. Some months ago
we announced that Mr.. Moore, Mr.. DEN
BY, and Mr. COLLINS were public default
ers. The organ of the peculators imme-
diately took up arms iii their defence. 1t
denied that Mr.. MOORE was a defaulter,
and promised that his affairs should be
+" explained" The explanation we have
never had to this day. 1t vouched for
Mr.. DENBY's honesty, as an acquaintance
of the senior editor; declared that the
amount of his alleged detalcation was eX-
aggerated, and gave certificates Of char
acter to- all the elite of the Richmond De-
mocracy who were implicated in the loss
of the celebrated S155,00 1t averred,
over and over again, in Roman letter,
small capitals, and italics, that Mr.. Col
LINS was no defaulter; that the Republic
was guilty of SANDER and libel for so as
serting; and that the Cabinet and the Pre-
sident were disgraced in the eyes of the.
people for countenancing journal that
could be guilty of such false and maevo-
! lent assertions. President TAYLOR was
personally assailed in the most abusive
and vituperative style for permitting his
Cabinet, and a journal which was said to
possess his confidence, to charge the Of
fence of defalcation on Mr.. MOORE, Mr..
DENNY, or Mr.. COLLINS.
The exposition of Mr.. BOND, his sue
cessor in Office, which we published some
weeks ago, demonstrated that every thing
we said with regard to Mr.. COLLINS was
literally true-and that we were very far
from stating the worst of his case. There
was not dash of overlooking, there
was not word of exaggeration in our pre-
sentation of that affair. The whole truth
is now before the public, with official
vouchers-and yet the organ of the pecu-
ators has not withdrawn its charges of
ialsehood and libel against the Administra-
ton in this behalf, nor in any way mod
flied or explained them. And this, not
withstanding it had the cold-blooded afro
city to charge upon the Administration that
it had killed Mr.. COLLINS by its foul and
slanderous aspersions upon his character.
Judgment has been recovered against
Mr.. DENLY for larger sum than we ever
stated as the amount of his default; and
as for MIR. Moore, his case stands pre-
cisely where it stood at the beginning, as
one OF scandalous malversation and de-
fault.
Thus we see that in every assault they
have made upon President TAYLOR, the
opposition press and its metropolitan
representative have been signally de-
feated. There is not single point they
have made during the last four months
that they can stand by for a moment.
They will not nolo have the impudence
and wckedness TO re-assert that DENLY,
moore, and COLLINS, we're not defauters.
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