The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-04-25
from schuylkill Pa, Journal, 22d inst
GENERAL TAYLOR AND REMOVALS

! General Taylor turns out to be what we
always said he was-a Wing, Of the right
stamp. His course, since his Inauguration,
lis precisely what his friends predicted il
would be from the start. He has proved
himself firm in the faith--steadfast TO the
principles Of the party---devoted to his friends
asking no favors from his opponents, and
shrinking from no responsibility devolying
upon him in the high station to which he has
been called by the people,
There was time---not very far back
when many Of the most influential Wings in
the country, doubted the capacity OF the
veteran Hero Of Buena Vista to the eminent
station to which he has since been chosen.
Gle was new man, they argued, Sun
acquainted with public affairs--and pledged
to no particular doctrines His life had been
passed in the camp, remote from the stage
Of political action. No clue could be found
in all his past history to tell what manner Of
man he was, or might be, in a high civil
station. His letters, so far as they referred
to the leading topics Of political concern,
were vague and indefinite" They looked
for promises and pledges, forgetting that
promises and pledges too freely offered are
Of little account and only made to be bro
ken 5
There was another class-much larger
| composed Of various factions and cliques,
who were louder and fercer in denouncing
the nomination OF the Philadelphia Conven-
ton. Lecofocos, Free Soilers, Abolitionists,
and with them the rag-tag and bob-tail
representing every variety and shade of
doctrine Differing upon all other points,
they all united as with one voice in bearing
false witness against the brave old chief.
Hunkers and Barnburners forgot their do
mestic quarrels to undermine his character
and sap the confidence reposed in him by
his friends. Rank abolitionists ranged them
selves alongside Of the most inveterate
slavery propagandists, to accomplish his de-
feat How they denounced, threatened,
intrigued, bargained and plotted, in the base
crusade which they waged against him, let
the history Of the late campaign-a CAM
paign in which abolition Ohio and multiplying
South Carolina were found side by side
| answer.
But the most potent influences, probably,
that distinguished this guerrilla warfare
against the nominee If the Philadelphia
Slaughter House," as the most respecta-
BILE political Convention ever assembled in
this country was nicknamed, were the
sneers Of the opposition, in which it regrets
us to remember many leading Wings were
found to cooperate with their sworn enc
mics 6 Is this the entertainment to which
we have been nvited,'' said one, when the
nomination of Gen. Taylor was first an
nounced 1T is nomination not fit to be
made,n said another, boiling over with pa
triotic fury. "The Wings want second
Tyler,n chimed in the Locos You are
supporting slavery propaganda, !" said the
trade up to the hub" beloved those who
had shouted for " Polk, Dallas and the
Tariff of ls42,'' four years before, and SO
on to the end Of the chapter. Every Loco,
Free Soil and Abolition newspaper-every
Loco, Free Soil and Abolition speaker who
mounted the stump-we might add every
Loco, Free Soil and Abolition voter, had a
word of disinterested adpice to give to their
dear friends, the Wings, at this juncture.
But il is the browning glory of the Wing
party that-save gerry few--they were
true to their nominee in this hour Of trial.
They stuck to the Old Man." through
evil and through good report They fought
valiantly, and they conquered glorously
Between the election and the naugura-
| ton, the friends of the President elect were
assailed with the old stories " You have
elected your man." said our opponents.
/" Yours be the glory ours the profit !"
!" General Taylor will make no removals
that would be prescription, you know !
| We hold the offices--we will keep them.o
VIII you though !--Ha! Listen to the
ponderous blows Of the keen axe as it rings
| through the Locofoco forest of dead timber,
y'clept Office holders And listen to the
wall of these same Office -holders as they
howl in dismal chorus
| "Woodman spare that tree"
That miserable old trunk, rotten to the core,
and hollow as the professions Of Locoioeoism,
But the "woodman" is not to be stayed by
this sentimental whining, He is determined
to clear the land of the "dead wood" and
stnted underbrush that has been suffered to
waste its substance for the last two or three
administrations. One sturdy blow and down
comes the improbable cumberer of the
ground, and its place is supplied by vigor-
Gus scion of nobler growth. This, gen.
tlemen, this "is the entertainment to which
you have been invited" We give you JOY
| Of it,
Gen Taylor is adopting the right codrse-
the true course-the only course which, as
Wing and patriot, is open to him. The
Offices were never meant for particular
class-and every principle Of justice, and Of
patriotism, requires that the ms should be
turned oui as speedily as possible. Let the
Locos cry ssproscription," until their threats
are hoarse, we trust the old General win
go-ahead in the good work he has so well
begun. If the people had desired no changes,
or nobody but Locoiocos to hold offices, they
would have voted for Cass. He would have