The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-21

General Iaylors administration and give clue 10 the
,ounses which control it, The wholesale fraud which
was pracsed upon one section of the Union the Other
by the party power, during the last canvass. and the
violated pledges OF political obeaFance and ndepend
ence of party schemes which duped many honest men
IN all quarters of the Union, will be the only dis
graceful facts which must he recorded of the wing party
when the history of the last campaign and the annals Of
he present administration shall be faithfully written
These will excite the Indignation of the country and Of
postery but the humiliation which General Taylor is
at the hands of his cabinet and the self
abasement which he has been forced to undergo the
footsoo of party, will excite other and different emotions
He has been forced not only falsify his pledges but
to add fuel 10 the flame of party strife, and TO give add
tiona acrmony to political differences by carrying into
effect the vindcve passions of INSCRIPTIONS parsans
And it will hereafter be remembered that he had no JUS,
to and sufficient provocaiion just,
ify his conduct Indeed he had no political aniecedens
For forty years he has been in the camp During bis
whole life he exercised the right of suffrage and
up the period of his nomination for the presidency his
had never been mingled with the contests of parties
Parties knew nothing of him. and he knew nothing of
them His feelings had never been embiitered by their
struggles, nor were his passions inAamed by their enm
ties. Poserity will remember these things; but they
will not be all it will remember 1t will remember that
when Zachary Taylor was a lieutenant on our north
frontier defending his country's flag and his coun
trys honor, there party in our midst which sought
to bring disgrace and defeat upon arms, and which,
with uaitorous intent gave aid and comfort to the ma
tional enemy And posterty will remember, too thai
when Zachary Taylor the commander of an Amer
can army in war forced upon his country by an actual
nvo nc nd vyha and ~
foe surrounded him. the same party which upheld the
cause of England in 1872 sympathzed with the Mexicans
in 1916, denounced General Taylors army pirates and
robbers and called down the vengeance of Heaven
upon him and his followers. When these things are re.
and the fact stands out in bold relief that Gen
Taylor yielded himself willing instrument in the hands
of that party to carry out its party views, and to hum
down and destroy the who stood by him in the war
with England and n the with Mexico, in the first
dawn of his military lfe and amidst its last closing
scenes, oblivion will be far preferable to the fame which
will be accorded TO him.
No man--not the bterest enemy OF the present
administration its most abec and servie supporter
can view with anything but shame and modification the
Illuminating establishment which General Taylors cabi.
net taking advantage Of his ignorance, weakness and in
experience, has forced upon him before the eyes of the
world Federalism is true 10 its instincts. II still cher
ishes its hostility to the heroes of the of 1912. A
third of century has not destroyed its hereditary hatred
to the who bore our flag in honor when England in
vaded our shores The feeling which prompted the
Hartford convention has not been entirely ob,eated by
the lapse of time. 1t still lives and il still lives vigor
ousy even in the cabinet OF General Taylor II has
forced the President, frauduenty induced him, to fol-
low its counsels TO obey its Wishes and minister to its
By appeals to his pride and to his passions
he is urged 10 strike down those who stood by
him in the hour of danger in order to gut the revenge Of
those who raduced the in which he and they
engaged He elected to the highest Office in the gift
of the people because Of his military services and yet,
las if TO rebuke the people for their folly, whenever
gray haired veteran of 1919 found in Office he pleads
Ibis services in vain for he is hunted down and driven
out that his place may be filled by partisan scion of
the Hartford convention school, Even those who stood
by him the Rio Grande and served with Scott in the
valley of Mexico, may plead their services in vain. They
made him what he is. They won the victory, but the
|spos of victory for them for their leader
with bitter irony, that services on the
battlefield qualifications for civil station The
removal of Halle, who served his country so faith
fully in the late wa-of Major Holding who sustained
COLONEL Miller in his celebrated charge Lundys Lane
of General Butler, of Florida, who such dstnc
lton as aid to General Jackson at New Orleans-mus
occur all prominent in which gallant soldiers
have been discharged from public employment to make
room for those whose exploits have been confined to the
political arena, and who now claim their reward Rich
ard McRae who led the celebrated Petersburg voun
eers the Canada frontier, where they endeared them
selves their country by their gallant services. has been
dismissed from humble Office which was procured for
himnot by party services for he medded with pol
ticsbut by the aid of his friends who remembered his
services and his sacrifices in his countrys cause when
Daniel Webster whose hands now filled with patron
age, preaching treason to the Hartford convention
allies of Great Britain. Those who served in Mexico
have shared the fate with the soldiers OF 1912
They too have been hunted from Office by the heroes
of tho late civil contest" Clutter of Virginia, and Law
|of Indiana, who lost at Buena Vista, Blythe
|of Mississippi and Candenn of New Orleans, who
commanded company in the lst Mississippi rifles, the
body guard of General Taylor, which did much TO
the day at Buena Vista and shield General Taylor
from deeatr-hese and many gallant nen have been
sacrificed TO appease the federal passions which
round General Taylor and sway and bend him at pleas
ure Truly it seems that the members of the cabinet
have respect for their Chief and regard for the pop
ular impulse which elevated him to the presidency
Since the administration of Mr.. Madison, they have
hated the soldiers of their country and since the election
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