Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-08-01
The President aud the Guerrillas.

When John Tyler became Presidentby the death
of Gen. Harrison, the nondescripts in Politics and
that portion Of the Press which snbseryes the cause
of Loco-Focoism under the guise of neutrality at
once claimed him for thsr own They fdttered
caloled, wheedled. duped him with the notion of
being no party President, and as such reelected
by general uprising Of the People regardless of
party distinctions. With bllnding mist thus
cast before his eyes. Mr.. Tyler walked onward to
his DOOM waking too late to find himself betrayed
by those he had trusted and scorned by those he
had too faithfully served. They led him blindfold
into the camp of his enemies, and these rewarded
his in6delity to those by whom he had been elect
ed by like in6dety to him. When ne ceased TO
have Spos, to dole out, or power TO misuse they
ceased their moekery of regard for him. and he
left The White House more forsaken, fallen be-
/ ing than ever Aaron Burr had been.
/ The same class Of hybrid politicians have dis
covered rare merits in MIR. Fillmore since his sud-
den elevation to the Presidency they are voluble
in his laudation and prompt in his defense against
any intimation that he may have erred in judg-
ment they fond of drawing comparisons be-
between him and Gen. Taylor to the dsparage-
ment of the latter; they intimate that his acces-
sion has rescued the country from great evils into
! which it was rushing under the guidance oil his
predecessor they announce that he has changed
the policy of the Administration and. in short.
thew would like to lead him the dance they led
a
There is one obstacle to the realization Of
their hopes which these gentlemen may as well
apurehend for they will find it very serious one:
Mr. FILLMoRE is WHIG. Grind him in any mill
won please. and he will come out that. He did
not turn Whig at the eleventh hour, as Tyler did
from hostility 10 General Jacksons Force bill,
bnt he has wintered and summered IN the Wing
ranks and. whatever may be his faults, political
Iterciyersation is not among them. His attachment
to his party is eenuine--he would not swerye a
hair from his principles if he could thereby secure
A reelection from his lifelong adveTsarles-ln-
deed, he would refuse re-electioD at their hands
No man in the Nation felt more deeply or resent
ed more indignantly the treachery OF Tyler, and
merely because it was treachery, imPelled by a
sordid ambition There never was greater mis-
take made than employing upon him the arts OF
seduction that proved successful with lyler.-
Mr. Fillmore is a Whig in every aber-lnstlnct-
iyely lover Of Peace and an enemy OF Conquest
Ia Champion Of Internal Improvement. OF Pro-
lection to Home Industry, and that whole oeheh-
cent System which recognizes the diffusion oil
Plenty and the diminutiOn of Misery as among The
legitimate duties of Government. There was new
er more unpromising subject for the experiments
of the hybrds than he is.
For our own part, our day Of wholesale laud-
alton of all the public acts OF Statesmen OF
our own party is over. If the Governor Oi our
choice or the President in whose principles we
| cOntlde, commits an 6IIOT, III JuoSthOhtf 'O
shall not hesitate say that such is our Jud gneni
any more than if he belonged to the other side
To enlogise his mistakes would be as unjust to
him as to the Country But that Mr.. Fillmore
WILL on the mOmentous and critical queslons
which must soon engross his attention, act the
part of Statesman Patriot and a Whg, is a
fact beyond controversy and in so acting he will
call down on his own head tie maledlctons oil
those who were most vociferous IN haillng his ac-
cession and most clamorous in scouting the au
T dacty of all who have not declared his selection
of Cabinet Ministers in all respects perfect. we
give these new friends six months wherein to Keep
up semblance Of devotion to the President; o'
the end of that term, they will be out upon hin
with determination to atone for past forbearance
by future violence of obloquy. Nothing more
clearly foreshadows to mind the ierocity oil oP
position which the new President IS taed TO en-
counter than the plaudits from strange quarters
that greeted his accession. Let the result esiao
lsh or disprove the correctness of our forebodngs
: ~ Y. Tribune