The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-01-17

01-Receipts from either Of the above will be good.
The Presidential scaps-gcat.
The following most remarkable paragraph appears in
late letter Of the New York correspondent Of the Lon
don Daily News, the writer Of which. il is said. is per
son well informed in American politics.:
With regard our diplomacy, have recently learned
from most unquesopabe source that most q the ap
Bssn made ~ Gen. Tayo1 Himself The Poassn affair
would have akon The urn l. did bn ior MS inerie
said 10 DO Tar Ii advapoe Instructions Of Mr. Clayton
and General Taylor will have % take the responsibility
vexcd at the eInyocsl position be occupied 70
Which se lis Wishes that he
threw up his commission, and departed for his home
Bliss. The Pss.deas had been sent twice g
call him back He returned, but only certain conces
suned BY The President which win b made public here
ater 70 vindcae the policy q The Secretary Thisis
would make sensation You may be assured, no, more
Than three four peEons IN the United States 10 pos
the readers or The sNews mnsi confess feel some
compensation for having handled Mr. Clayton so roughly In
an earlier period the case and he would
have escaped load Of unpopuariy
This is a most remarkable development, and shows
either that General Taylor is himself responsible for the
gross and inexcusabe bunders OF his administration
sutng from his ncapacity and his utter want Of expe
rience or that his cabinet, and partcuarythe Secrea
ry Of State is endeavorng produce the impression in
Europe that the General has been the moving Of
all those blunders which have brought dicule and con-
tempt upon the administration both at home and abroad
We are aware that there some facts well known
in this vicinity which give color to the statements Of the
correspondent Of the London paper Mr.. Clayton, about
the time the Poussn affair occurred, did leave the city
and return to his residence in Delaware twas said that
he had left the city consequence Of serious msunder
standing with General Taylor was also rumored that
Mr. Bliss the Generals private secretary, sent
Delaware confer with him upon the subject, and to
induce him to return 1t also given out about the
same time, that the object OF Mr. Cayton's visit the
North really see. and confer with, and quiet the
feelings Of the merchants OF Philadelphia, who had be-
come alarmed at the bellgerent demonstrations Of the
cabinet in the affair with the late French minister
Now, the correspondent OF the London News is no,
correct in his explanation of the Of the stupid and
dangerous blundes committed by the cabinet in relation
to the matters to which he alludes is evident that Mr.
Clayton is now attempting TO produce the impression
on the British mind that General Taylor, not him
self is responsible for those blunders which brought
90 much disrepute and rdcule upon the administration
General Taylor to be made the scape goat OF the blum.
ders of the cabinet II is he who was guilty of the
bungng management OF the Poussin affair II is he who
gave the instructions to Mr.. Squier which have much
involved and compromised the cabinet Neither OF these
bunders would have been committed, If General Taylor,
with his ignorance, his inexperence, and his obstnacy
the usual concomtant quality Of inexperence and gno
rancehad not nteriered in those matters On the con-
trary, Mr. Clayton would have managed them discreet
y have saved the administration from all difficulty
Such a, least, is the plea Of justification which Mr.
Clayton sets up in Europe.
Under these circumstances we think il Is due to the
people. as well as to Gen. Taylor and Mr. Clayton that
the truth should he made known II the fact be So
the public understand that Gen. Taylor himself is the
hero Of all the bunder. all the ckcry and all the low
acts Of political nessc Of which the administration has
been guilty. and which have been charged Mr. Clay
ton and the cabinet II the fact be So then is Mr.
Clayton guilty OF breach Of trust and confidence and
We would add, honor attempting to shift the response
by Of his acts from his own shoulders to those Of Gen
Taylor II Gen. Taylor is not guilty Of the bungng and
the bunde charged him in the correspondence Of the
London News, he should not be made the goat
bear them away, in order that Mr. Clayton and the cab
net should be rescued from the just responsibility Of
their conduct
We do not see how the General can in justice to him.
SELF fail to have public explanation made Of this affair
He is charged in leading journal Of Europe, with
hitting which have excited the rdicule Of the whole
world His leading and confidential Secretary disavows
them person does for him. the ground. sub
stantay assumed that the General is both ignorant and
obstinate and alleges that il those matters had been left
TO his management, the bunders would not have been
committed. And thus is Gen. Taylor. the nominal Pres.
dent Of the United States d-gced before the European
public by this defence Of the Secretary and the cabinet
Such is his present predicament and he cannot excae
himself from it without full explanation Of the affair,
or the dismissal Of his Secretary.
Ths Postmaster "a Boston.