The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-02-20
president Taylor and the Opposition

Press.
Ever since the people of the United States
decided that General Taylor should be their
President. and especially since the fourth of
March last has the opposition press. through |
the length and breadth Of the land, been
heaping abuse upon him and his Cabinet, in |
the most unmeasured terms. Not one of
them have escaped the ISLANDERS Of the Loco
foco papers from the . Union" up to the most
chaste in the long list. When we read these
ldsreputabe and scurrilous attacks. we are
really surprised that any paper, published IN
this enlightened day of morals and literature,
could give publicity to such indecoro1s cpl
thets and low slang, which they issue IN such
wholesale POI tIons almost every day. And
why is it? Will any one believe it, that for
all this abuse the President and his Cabinet
have received. they have incurred it only be-
cause they have turned out of offices about
one-third of the Locolocos they found in them
when they took charge of the Government
many of them known to be totally incompe-
tent for the place, and put in good Wings and
true men in their places. This is the unpar-
donable sin which Gen. Taylor has commit
ted. and for which he has been denounced
from one end of the country to the other.
i One would think that as faithful stewards,
these gentlemen would have no objection to a
day of reckoning. When they took posses
sion OF these places, years ago. under Lo-
) cofoco President and by his ddUice and con-
sent, they turned out good Wings, then it
was all right and proper! Why should their
, turn not come once in a life time2 1t is a
rule in law, that twenty one years Of peace
able possession of property gives right, and
; these men, who have lived and grown fat up
on the government pap for twenty-four years,
now think it cruel in the extreme, that they
Ii, Il. Ill
BILE premises ! Well, it is hard and no Won
der they conn lain, but what we object to is
the low abuse that a portion Of the American
2 press use towards our Chief Magistrate
!; We feel sorry that they take 1t so much at
; heart, as to show their hatred to good men
and popular administration in this scanda
lous style.
We once knew an old English gentleman
a schoomaster, who frequently gave this copy
to his boys: Look before you leap, and de-
iberate before you resolve" Now this senti-
ment, like pure wine, loses nothing by age, So
we repeat it for the benefit of the Union and
= its followers. Would it not be wise for them
e all to remember this admonition, when they
d sit down to pen long rlgmarole about every
. thing in general and nothing in particular
' and wind up with an indecorous and iniamou:
S Billingsgate against the President of the
/ United States. 1t does seem strange, passing
/ strange, that no one good word can be writer
. or printed by the Locofoco press in favor o
General Taylor since he has been chosen by
the American people to fill the Presidential
e Chair. They ought to remember that he il
= the same plain, unassuming, firm, patrioJi'
= individual, that he was when he was fight
ing our battles and gaining our victories il
Florida and Mexico, and that he Is just as coo
81 and calm in the Chair oil State as he was IL
% his Mexican saddle on cold Whitley" whe1
: he rode up 10 Capt. Bragg, and told him tt
= give them a little more grape"
, These papers will find. and perhaps soone
n than they are aware, that their attacks on thu
e Peoples President will be like splitting agains
the wind-they spit in their own faces. Gen
, Taylor was placed where he is for one of tht
n purposes Of turning out inefficient and par
tisan Office holders, and those who placed hin
d there expect him to do it, and they will stant
k by him just as firmly as his soldiers stood BY
him at Buena Vista-the vile abuse and Low
: slang of the opposition press to the CONTRARY
;, Notwithstanding.
Il Ii we were of those who believe in the doc
1t trine ''transmigration," we might be able Il
e account for this continued TRACE on the sup
n position that some of Pharoah's Ill-favoret
and lean kline had developed their new exis
Z tence in the present century, but as this may
not be true, we leave the subject, and its phil
2, osophy. as that which cannot be accounted
IS for either by the laws OF nature or OF ethics
~ Baltimore. Pot.