The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-06
From the Union Of august l6.
i told Won 20.

g. told you So" was the prompt reply
of the knowing old lady who was informed
that the cow had swallowed the grind
stone. This may be read in the chroni-
cles of Joe Miller.
Our venerable contemporary of the for
eign organ is as wise as the old lady in
the textbook. Nothing turns up right or
left in public affairs but there is the repeti-
ton of the same old song Z" / told you so
this comes of making President of a
man who was never a justice of the peace
nor member of the legislature. knew
how it would be; told you so--all this
comes Of not following my advice"
What does the foreign organ intend by
keeping up this perpetual din in the ears
of the American people, and this daily as
surance that it knew SO much better than
they did what manner Of man they ought
TO have taken for their Chief Magistrate {?
Surely IT was no secret TO the voters that
General TAYLOR was no justice of the
peace at the time they elected him. This
fact they understood as well as that Mr.
Justice Shallow was one of the quorum.
They did not consider il important that
the General should have a commission of
the peace in his pocket in order to be
eligible. Diurnally, however, it is thrown
in their face by their Locofoco Mentor,
that they have been fools enough 10 make
a President of man who has had no civil
experience, and that they are now reap
ing the fruits of their folly. IL they had
only listened to the advice Of men who
were fourishing in politics in the days Of
the resolutions of '9S, and were blessed
with half a century Of civil experience"
all this would never have happened.
The envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary Of the German empire is
politely informed that he must not violate
our neutrality. 81 told you So" quoth
the foreign organ " this comes of making
a President of a man of no civil expert
ence.v
A public fast is recommended by the
President. The foreign organ is again at
tuned 10 its old note. "I told you so I;
what pity it is that you had not justice
of the peace in the Presidency"
Rey is abducted. "There it is again."
quoth the foreign organ "if your Presi-
dent had not been fighting Indians for
forty years you would not have seen the
like of this" Then il groans out in the
deepest bass, 81 told you so ~
President TAYLOR contemplates and
commences tour, and talks in his plain
way with the people who collect TO see
and shake hands with him. "Now for
the speeches he'll make. ] should like TO
hear him speak as Mr.. Polk spoke at
Bunker Hill This comes of making a
President of a man of Every limited edu-
CATION told you So"
The foreign organ never can be taken
aback. II has this one universal explana-
ton always at hand. II solves and settles
every problem in politics by the sugges-
ton that it serves the people right for Gle
waiting such man as General TAYLOR to
the Chief Magistracy. The Union had
told them the country never could get
along unless it took some man who had
been miring for half century in the
dirty politics of Richmond and Albany;
and II is determined, if possible, to per
suade the people that IL was right, and
that they were wrong. II means that the
country shall not get along if il can be well
helped. Especially does it mean to play
tunes that will crafty its foreign employ