The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-02-03
Departure of the President Elect from Ba-
ton ROuge-His Letter to tho Now York
Herald,

Herald.
We received authentic intelligence from Baton
Rouge yesterday, stating that the President elect
was to leave that place on the twenty.fifth utt,mo
on his way to Washington and that it was his
intention to reach that capital the twenty third
OF February. The correspondence commune ating
this intelligence, will be found IN the proper de-
paitment, in another column. BY the same mail
we also received private letter from Gene.
raj Taylor, thanking us for the course which we
have pursued towards him for several years past /;
and expressing 'his sincere wishes for your health
and prosperity" and for the continued success
and usefulness of your journal, &c. SC &c.'
We are happy in being thus appreciated by the
venerable hero who will soon ascend to the high
est dignity on earth-hat is, to be the honest chief
magistrate of free and intelligent people. Our
support of General Taylor, from the first moment
that he took command of the American army
on the Rio Grande, has been as dislnterest-
ed as it has been independent We are no seekers
after office or emolument from any admlnistra-
ton, nor are we In any way connected with any
class or clique of men who are animated by SINH
lar motives. The same great, enlightened and
intelligent people who have elevated General
Taylor to the Presidency of these United States,
day when Its first impression was issued to the
world until the present time, when it has cir
culation and "a position In the world equal to
that of any journal in Chrlstendom. We were
the first and foremost of all the journals published
In the United States to propose General Taylor as
a candidate for the Presidency, and to hold him
forth as emnently qualified, by the dignity
and purity of his character, to fill the chair
Il
whose character that of the hero of Buena Vista
bears striking resemblance We put him for
ward as candidate fer the Presidency on the
morning after the arrival of the news giving US
the particulars of his first brilliant victory on the
Rio Grande; and from that morning till the elec-
ton, our faith In HIM never iaultered For many
years previous to that period we had persona
and perfect knowledge ofhs talents, hispurity, his
integrity, his patriotism, and his firmness. This
was as long ago as the summer of 1910, at the
Falls of Niagara, where we resided for several
weeks under the same roof which covered that
venerable man, when he was taking little repose
after his trying campaign In the everglades of
FLORIDA. We found him then, in private life.
and in conversation, exactly what he has |
since shown himself to be, and what he will |
prove himself TO be in the high Office to which |
he has been so trIumphantly elected-the Presl-
dency of the United States-a pure patriot, an ho-
meet man, with calm and energetic mind, capable
of meeting any crisis, and of overcoming every
difficulty.
In few weeks he will be President In that
high position he will no doubt have to encounter
many difficulties for who has escaped the troubles
eccasioned by selfish and scramblng politicians
But we have every confidence that he will over
come them all, and make one of the most popular |
Presidents that this country has ever had since |
the time of Washington, who was In the last GEN.
fury, what we hope General Taylor will be in the
present century-"the first In peace, the first
war, and the first the hearts OF his ntrymen."