Columbus Democrat., 1849-08-18

anttu than tnoSe OF the counleS-Hali as well
for their sakes as ours, profit by tho example.
]. c. CALHOUN
FoRT IlILL, July 5, lsi9.
A SOLDIERS WORD--A SOLDIERS
HONOR,
Among those who follow tho profession oI
arms, ialschood is considered the worst and most
unbecoming OF all vices, aud ialsncation OF a
soldiers honor stamps him at once as The vest
of the yile--as ono that an honorable man can.
not associate with without contamination. This
/ ia not of recent date, but has ever been so, since
the days of chivalry; and 80 highly is the word
ofa soldier held, that when backed by his pledge
of honor, il is regarded by our laws equally bind.
ing as the oath OF the citizen, if not indeed more
SO, and though this be the fact in n government
Of equal laws, yet so highly does the warrior
hold his word. that no complaints 10 our knowl
edge have ever been made Of this distinction.
The private citizen, having an account TO set
rlo with the government, has 10 sustain il by his
own oath and by other testimony. The army Of
iccr renders his account aud instead Of going
before justice of he peace, and making oath 10
It's correctness, aud then getting the proper otli-
Ger under the seal Of the court, or the great seal
Of the State, 10 certify that the person by whom
the oath was administered vas an acting justice
of the peace, duly commissioned and qualified
be merely cerllcs its correctness upon his honor
and the law deems that sufficient proof aud thero
has scarce been an instance ON record, of false
account being thus presented.
Gen. Taylor is a soIdcr-his lie has been
passed in camp; and beyond The duties Off
soldier, he has frequently acknowledged himself
ignorant. Having never voted, when he be-
came candidate for tho first Office within tho
gift Of the people, it became necessary to inter-
rogate him in relation to the course he would
pursue II elected President, aud he promptly re.
piled that he was not party man--would never
/ lend himself TO party schemes and II elected,
he had no friends TO reward, no enemies 10 pun.
ish These pledges were freely given, aud so
often were they reiterated that they became
sort Oft by word among the people.
That these pledges gained Gen. Taylor votes,
no man can doubt that they secured for him tho
vote Of Pennsylvania, without which he would
have been defeated, is equally clear Gen.
Taylor was n soldier, and knowing how dear
soldier held his honor. he duped the democrats
who, BY voting for him, supposed they wonld
more clearly show their belief in the Justice of
the war with Mexico never for one moment sup.
posed he would forfeit soldiers word--a sol.
dier'a honor.
As soon as General Taylor was inauguratcd,
he called around him the most bitter and ultra
wings as his cabinet ministers, and system of
prescription, reckless beyond parallel, has been
carried on, and is sanctioned by this soldier Pres.
ideni, who stood pledged against il.
T., I,f a. II
spectl II yet in the army, under tho rules Of
honor, which guide officers in their intercourse
with each othcr,h' would be scoTted as unworthy
Of companionship, because he had forfeited that
which soldier holds most dear, bis pledgcd rord.
Such is the situation Of the man intusled with |
The high Office Of President of the United States.
lie obtained the suGrsges Of the people by pro.
tossing to be what he was not, and 50 strong and
Overwhelming is the proof against him, that not
one Of the journals which aud his administration,
dare Join issue on the facts we have stated, and
attempt TO prove him guiltlcss olthc high charge
daily and honorably preferred against him. What
a spectacle for an Intelligent and moral people is
this A man elevated to the highest Office in !
The word--onc who had risked his life in battle. |
and whose military fame has been sounded
throughout the whole civilized world, surrender.
ing himself to tho Ewings and Collamers and |
the other reckless men around him, and giving
up his pledged word --iorleiting soldiers honor,
al their bidding, merely for the sake Of punish
ing men who stood by him when surrounded by
the enemy. while the mass of bis present sup.
porters and the mass those he is now reward. |
ing were advocating the policy oireiusing him
and the brave men he commanded, the supplies
necessary to support them, while in the country
ofthc enemy.--(Oh Statesman,
MooRE AS A PoEr.--On bed OF pain, per
haps OF death, in hatched cottage in Devon.
shire, lies the greatesi poet OF the new tongue of
Ireland. After life Of nearly seventy years
Tor fifty years Of which he has been iamous--the |
son of Dublin grocer the friend Of Emmett,
Grattan, Byron aud Fox, lies, crushed in mind
and heart, his memory with all its untold tales
taken from him, the quiyer Of his fancy emptied
ol the last arrow, with many cares and sorrows,
like oak and lead, wrapped about his body in an
ticipation Of the grave. Poor Tom Moore, how
grey and cold sets in the night Of his long and
brilliant day
The poets body must die. Let us leave that
TO the undertaken and sexton--it belongs lawful. |
ly to them. But the poets works and words, his
genius, or that part oft developed in type. his
philosophy az revealed in his writings, his NOR.
al influence on his nation aud his ages-these be-
long to Us who are oflhat posterity TO which all
the genius of the past has appealed, and before
whom such men as Moore have laid their works,