The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-06-07
bold 10 say frank word to the general OF

the people.
This is the case. With thousands of
Democrats in this State, depend upon
your declaration ''that you would in no
case be the President of a party, but the
President of the people, On this ground
the Democrats of Pennsylvania will vote
for you by hundreds and thousands.
| But we are now told that you are ex-
clusively the Wing candidate, to be run as
a Whig, elected as a Wing, and under
Whig issues.
If this be the case, the State Of Penn
sylvania viii be lost to Taylor and the
country.
do not believe this to be the case
Those who think with me in this country
do not believe it, But to set the matter
at rest, will you answer this letter with
one line? and with that line the Demo-
cratic hundreds and thousands of Penn
sylvania will move in a body for you.
General, do not reject this appeal from
a man who loves you for your battles,
and the moral grandeur displayed in them;
but loves you, first and last, because you
have taken the position of Washington
not with parties, but in the hearts of the
people.
And as for the line, say simply: 81 am
siUely; but If candidate at all, the can
didate ofthe aohole people.
GEORGE LIPPARD.
Here, General, was the whole case,
plainly stated in line. You are here
told that if the attempt was made to elect
you as a Whig, and upon the Wing issues
the State of Pennsylvania would certainly
be lost to Taylor and the country. AT
that time, with thousands of Democrats, l
believed that your election as the candi-
date of the people would subserve the best
interests of the country. And what was
your reply to this letter, which appealed
to the best feelings of your nature! On
the 9th of August received your answer,
which annex:
Private
BATON ROUGE, (La.) July "a, 1S4S.
DEAR SIR, You letter of the 9th inst,
asking of me line or two in regard to my
position as candidate for the Presidency,
has been duly received.
In reply, have to say THAT AM NOT
PARTY CANDIDATE, and if elected, shall
not BE THE PRESIDENT OF PARTY, BUT
THE PRESIDENT OF THE WHOLE PEOPLE.
| am, dear sir, with high respect and
regard, your most obedient servant,
Il. TAYLOR.
GEORGE LIPPARD, Esq, Philadelphia Pa.
This you well remember, was after you
had accepted the Whig nomination, in a
letter which said nothing at all about whig
principles.
The publication of your letter of July
"a created great excitement among the
people and the politicians.
Whig papers in New Y ork denounced
it as a ''locofoco' forgery. The North
American, in Philadelphia. (once the or
gan of Henry Clay, and now the northern
organ of the Secretary of State,) seized
upon the word "PriUate,'' and in weary
columns assailed the person to whom the
letter was addressed, as the betrayer of
your confidence. Other journals, how
ever, which circulated among the masses,
hailed this letter with unqualified appro-
val, and placed it at the head of their col
umns as ''the great creed and watchword
of the Taylor party"
| must frankly tell you, that had you
not made the declaration embraced in this
letter, |, for one, could not have advocated
your election. nor given you my vote.
Certain it is, that without this declaration,
(soon followed by your Charleston letter.
you could not have gained the vote of
Pennsylvania, famous for her old Demo-
cratic majority of ''twenty-five thousand" :"
What was the result of this letter, and
of the excitement Immediately consequent
upon its publication! The Whig party in
Pennsylvania forthwith dropped the very
name of Whig. They stored it away
perchance under the sepulchre of Girard'
squandered bequest, maybe under the ru-
ins OF some broken bank-but you well
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 ''Taylor
and Fillmore"
| The Democrats were asked to vote for
you as the Independent candidate-the
candidate of the people-as the man who
had no friends to reward, no enemies to
punish-in fact, Zachary Taylor, who, in
case of his election, would not be Presi-
dent of a party, but the President of the
whole people.
And with your letter in my hand, l ad-
dressed thousands of my Democratic fell
Ilow-citizens, and, on the security of your
unbroken .aith, stated that you could not,
in any event, become the President, much
less the creature, of a party. Upon your
own solemn declaration, | honestly advo-
Gated you as 'sthe President of the whole
people"