Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-06-08

am, dear sir, with high respect and regard.
your most obedient servant, z. TAYLOR.
GEonsE LirrARD, $50, Philadelphia, Pa.
This, you well remember, was after you
bad accepted the whig nomination. in letter
which said nothing al all about whig princi-
pies.
The publication of your letter of July "a
created great excitement among the people
and the politicians.
Wing papers in New York denounced it as
a " Iocofoco" forgery The North American,
in Philadelphia. (once the organ of Henry
Clay, and now the northern organ of the Sec
rotary of Staie.) seized upon the word =" Pri-
rate" and in weary columns assailed the per-
son 10 whom the letter was addressed, as the
hetrayer of your confidence. Other journals,
however, which circulated among the masses,
hailed this letter with unqualified approval.
and placed il al the head of their columns as
"the great creed and watchword OF the Tay-
lor party"
must frankly tell you. that had you not
made the declaration embraced in this letter,
|, for che, could not have advocated your
election, nor given you my vote. Certain 1t
is. that without this declaration, (soon follow
ed by your Charleston letter. you could not
have gained the vote OF Pennsy lvania, famous
for her old democratic majority of twenty
FIVE thousand"
What was the result of this letter, and of
the excitement Immediately consequent upon
IFS publication The whig party in Pennsyl-
vania forthwith dropped the very name Of
whig. They stored it away-perchance un-
der the sepulchre of Girard's squandered be-
quest, 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
whig, but under the united names of lay
lor and Fillmore -
The democrats were asked to vote for you
as the independent candidate-the candidate
of the peope-as the man who had no friends
TO reward, no enemies to punish-in fact, as
Zachary Taylor, who, in case OF his election,
would not be President OF party, but the
President of the whole people.
And with your letter in my hand, address
ed thousands of my democratic feIlow-cltlZens,
and, on the security of your unbroken faith,
stated that you could not, in any event, be-
come the President, much less the creature,
of party. Upon your own solemn declara-
ton. honestly advocated you as " the Presi-
dent of the whole people"
did not for moment indulge the thought
that you could ever become the centre of a
mere party administration. Had been told,
by you, that you would ever become the head
of an administration made up of wing polltl-
clans, could not, in any case, have advoca.
ted your claims, nor would you have received
the votes Of hundred democrats in PennsYl-
vania.
Now, General, the smoke of the contest has
cleared away. You are the President. EIec'
ted upon the faith of your solemn pledges,
you are al the head of the government
Have you fulfilled these pledges? Ask
your own heart-caIl back that iron purpose,
that clear -souIed 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 spoils of Office. An
swer me! have right 10 ask an answer
You pledged your faith TO me, an humble cit
izen, and believed you, and told my fellow
citizens that you had never broken your word,
and could hot forget tomorrow what you
pledged to day
Was that letter of July 81, which I bore
through Pennsy only 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 indie
pendence of party'' in October, in order to find
you in May at the head of mee cabal of a
party? DID you make dupe of me. so that
might become your agent in duping and
swinding my fellow citizens into the tram
meIs of the wing party'
You know that the whig party of itself, or
by its own issues, could never have accom-
plished your election. You know that the
whig leaders, fresh from the slaughter of Hen
ry Clay-of that man who has for twenty
four years sacrificed TO whigsm the best in
stinct which God implanted in his nature
could never have elevated you 10 the presden.
tiai chair.
You were elected by democratic votes
These votes were secured to you BY the force
of your independent position. They were
not bought with silver, gold. or the hope of
office. but won to you by your pledges
And now, sir, sou will allow me to ask
you one or two questions:
In what part of your administration are
these democratic votes represented?
Among the army of Office hunters who now
besiege the doors of the White House. how
many of your democratic supporters can You
discover?
Sir, the truth must be told and as sup
ported you earnestly and sincerely, I will
speak the truth with most uncourtly frank
ness.
Your election has been fruitful only in dis
content and dissatisfaction Elected in the
name of the people, you are surrounded by
| advisers chosen not even from the manhood
of the whig party, but from lis veriest hacks
and trimmers. These advisers seek to entail
upon the country, on colossal scale, sys-
tenn of error and misrule such as disgraced the
age in the shameless expenditure of the Girard
bequest by the wing corporation of Philadel-
phia.
Had you been elected as a whig, and upon
the strength of any known whig creed,
would not complain. Is it not painful thought
that you. the man of the people, should sit
there in Washington as the leader of the mere
| fragment of party-as the embodiment not
of whigsm like that of Henry Clay, which
states its principles and fights its battles in
the sun, but of whgism which works in
darkness, gathers strength by unhoiy coali.
lions, and builds its power upon-broken
Pledges7
And now, sir, as wash my hands of the
last traces of political Taylorism, as | state
my regret that | ever acted the part which
your pledges made me act, you at least must
admit that never served you with the hope
of office-that have always been among tina,
humble band who, working we'll and long for
| you, under the impression that they also work
ed for the good of their country, could neither
| ask nor accent Office at vour hands for those