The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1850-06-01
The President-Our President.

When travelling and abiding near Gen. lay
lor, in the last summer, during his visit to Nj
agara, in the many excellent opportunities of
seeing him at rest, away from the cares and
annoyances of office, / was most impressed
with the unaffected strength of ofcharacter which
developed ITSELF He had no pretensions-he
made no parade. When in the grasp of des-
perate sickness at Erie, or in the calm of slow
recovery, he was the same sure and earnest
man. regardful of all around him-more as d
spectator than actor-distinct in Judgment
and determined in deed / heard him pic
ture forth the pleasure he ever had taken, and
which seemed of the most tacceptable-in the
pursuits of agriculture. I listened with avid
ty to his delineation of the struggle and the VIC
tory of Buena Vista In the story of the
farm and the battlefield he was alike calm
unpretending, upobtrusive. Himself was not
in the foreground. The impression he fast
ened upon the mind was that of greatness,
which used no ornament as it needed nome
which was truthful, because it made no move
ment that was valueless.
This man stepped from the tent to the cab
inet--from the shout of battle to the voice of
council The Whig party were only the agents
of the people in selecting and electing the
President
He has justified the good sense and good
Judgment of those, who, amid the excited and
tumultuous scenes of the Philadelphia conven-
ton in 1846, resolutely adhered to his name.
They were of the old whig party. 1t was not
the voice of the neophyte. The men who
started with the answer of the plain and strong
name of Zachary Taylor, at the roll-call-who
kept at it-who amid storm of earnest voic-
es, that made the columns of the Chinese
Museum hall ring again-adhered to that
name-were of those men who had been
with the whig party when it was struggling
and strivng-never despairing minority.
The Green Mountain state struck the first
blow. 1t was an opening where victory was
sure to follow and whatever was said, or
| may yet be said, of that convention, its con-
| vocation will remain in the memories of those
| who were present thereat, as one of the great
days of the age.
The country has seen with surprise in sew
eral of the city presses, grave and well argu-
ed advice to the whig party, that it should
who ever thought of any one else? ? The
wings look at him as their leader, as surely as
his brave forces did in the days he led them
to triumph; and then, as now, whatever might
Rave been the predictions and doubts, and
waywardness of others, it was safe to follow
! Old Zack.
His policy in peace is of the same steady
and ready school as was his conduct in war
The moald of his mind is an even one-in
battle, roueh-in council steady.
The whig party in the country sees no 9th
| er peril in present circumstances than that
which ARISES from the temporary alienation
of individuals. Its strength consists in having
distinct and fixed principle, progressive, not
fanatical, conservative, not stationary.
More than year and a-half has passed
away since the election which terminated in
the success of Gen. Taylor. At this very
hour his strength is greater in this state than
it then was. Those who received his nomina-
ton cautiously and timidly, have exchanged
their doubts for confdence-and that class oi
our voters who feared that we had rejected a
certain for an uncertain friend, have confessed
that the "old man" has shown that he is one
of the best of wings. They are right, yet he
is such an one as he said he should be. 1t is
the ultra whig who has proceeded so far as to
have at least one foot out of the whig foot
steps, while he who kept on his even path is
where he was, with and of the party.
The country, in every throb of the pulsa-
tons of its prosperity, feels the wise and be-
nign influence of such President. His name
is known throughout the realm of civilization,
and honored and respected, and if need be,
| feared; while at home-while debates grow
furious-he turns from the congress to the
constituency, and finds that the people are
calm as he. They know the pilot and are con-
fident Of the voyage.
IN. Y. Courier and Enquirer.