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have no doubt but that over the entire south there
would be a vastly greater unanimily than existed
in the old Thirteen slave States when they decided
to resist British aggression. If a few individ.
uals should attempt to take a different course
they would be swept way in the general cur.
rent. Long before the struggle should come Il
the worst the south would present an unbroker
'front.'"
He then concludes by saying that he had sub.
mitted his letter to his colleague, the Hon. Will
lie P. Mangum, wing senator from that State,
and 'that he concarred fully in all its general
conclusions" and will at an early day make
known his views at length. .
st Washington Union, after speaking Of
the means resorted 10 in securing the election Of
Gen. Taylor to the Presidency-the violated
promises ofhimselfa and his friends, that he would
recognise no distinctions of party among his adj
miring countrymen-that he would scorn the
baseness of political intrigue and put an end TO
the violence of party warfare: that he would
take the constitution and the will of the people
as his political chart-would remove no man from
office for opinions sake, hut would "proscribe
proscrip'iop,A and restore TO the country the
feelings Of brotherly love, by refusing
to "punish his enemies or reward his friends -
uses the following just and appropriate language:
ale came into power. He took the oath
of fidelity 10 the constitution, and the oath
Of office; and under the solemn influences of
those oaths, which had just assembled from,
his lips to be registered on the record of a
than earthly tribunal, he, in sub
in his address to the people on that
occasion, reiterated those sacred pledges
he made previous to his election, in
order to gain the confidence and support of
his countrymen.
What did this man, thus honored BY and
pledged to the people, then do? The
story is briefly told. By his acts he violated
all those pledges. He proved TO the peo-
pie that he had a party; and, to the mortif-
cation s. disgust Of every patriot, that party
was the same which sy~mPathized with the
enemies Of his country against whom hel
and conquered. He proved to the
that all his pledges was as naught;I
that he had friends to reward and enemies
to punish; that, instead of being the enemy
of prescription, he was its stern advocate;
and that lie was the friend Of those whol
most ruthless in their prescriptions of
his political opponents. In short, this man.,
who was to ;njure nobody for opinions sake,
permitted those under him to make more
for that cause alone than had been|
made under all previous administrations,
the beginning Of the governments
Of making "honesty and fdelity"|
The chief quahfi cations for Office, as he had
promised, he allowed those acting in his
to make partisan services the princi-
pal claim for preferment. Instead Of actingI
in a manner which would soften down the
asperities Of party warfare, and give peace
and quiet to the country, he has acted in al
manner the best calculated to foment party
bitterness and strife. In short, all his prom.
ises, and those of his friends and partisans.
have been broken aud disregarded, sndI
thus he stands forth before the American
people as the v~ioiator ofMeJ faith srhich bel
10 them.
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