Democratic banner., 1849-06-25

as the Oetrayer OF your confidence.
Other journals, however, which circulated
among the masses, hailed this letter with
unqualified approval, and placed it at the
head of their columns as ",he great creed
and watchword of the Taylor party"
must frankly tell you, that had you not
made the declaration embraced in this let
ter, /, for one, could not have advocated
your election, nos given You my vote. Ger
tain it is, that without this declaration, { soon
followed by your Charleston letter. you
could not have gained the vote of Pennsyl-
~vania, famous for her old democratic ma
jority of twenty-five thousand
What was the result of this letter, and of
excitement Immediately consequent up
its publication? The wing party in
Pennsylvania forthwith dropped the very
name of whig. They stored it away-per-
chance under the ~sepulchre OF Girard's
squandered bequest, maybe under the ruins
of some broken bank--but you we'll know,
and every reader Of the papers knows, that
in the late campaign the battle was fought,
not under the name of Wing, but under the
united names Of Taylor and Fillmore
The democrats were asked to vote for you
as the independent candidate-the candid
ate of the people-as the mar who had no
friends to reward, no enemies to punish-in
fact, as Zachary Taylor, who, in case of his
election, would not be the President Of q
party, but the President of the whole PEG.
pie.
And with your letter in my hand, I adj
dressed thousands Of my democratic fellow
citizens, and, on the security Of your I'M
broken faith, stated that you could not, in
any event, become the President, much less
the creature, of a party. Upon your own
solemn declaration, I honestly advocated
you as "the President Of the whole people,"
| did not for a moment indulge the thought
that you could ever become the centre of a
mere party administration. Had l been told,
by you, that you would ever become the
head Of an administration made up of wing
politicians, ] could net, in any case, have
advocated your claims, nor would you have
received the votes of a hundred democrats
in Pennsylvania.
Now, General, the smoke of the contest
has cleared away. You are the President.
Elected upon the faith of your solemn
pledges, you are at the head Of the govern
ment.
Have you fulfilled these pledges? Ask
your W heart-call back that iron pur-
pose, that clear-souled integrity, which bore
you through the carnage of Buena Vista
survey the faces of your cabinet, and the
faces of those partisans of your cabinet who
now storm the White House for the spells of
Office. Answer me! have a right to ask
an answer. You pledged your faith to me,
an humble citizen, and / believed you, aud
told my fellow-citizehs that you had never
broken your word, and could not forget to-
morrow what you pledged to-day.
Was that letter of July %, which l bore
through Pennsylvania, only a cunningly de-
vised fable? Was it your intention to send
me forth to the masses Of the people with a
lie in my mouth? To vouch for your Gin
dependence of party'' in October, in order
to find you in May at the head of a mere
cabal of a party? Did you make a dupe of
me, so that l might become your agent in
duping and swindling my fellow-ci:izens in
to the trammels Of the wing party?
You know that the wing party Of itself,
or by its own issues, could never have &C.
complished your election. You know that
the whig leaders, fresh from the slaughter
of Henry Clay-of that man who has for
t~wenty-four years sacrificed to whigism the
best instinct which God implanted in his ma
ture-could never have elevated you to the
presidential chair.
You were elected by democratic votes.
These votes were secured to you by the
of your independent position. They
were not bought with silver, gold, or the
hone of Office, but won to you BY your