The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-07-27

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pledge Of incidental protection TO home indus
Try? He took ground in his communications tc
Congress againstit. He appointed R. ]. Wake
Secretary Of the Treasury, and prosecuted the
system to its overthrow by the enactment o.
the tariff bill Of 1916. The Democratic Sena.
tors and members of the House from lie State
of Pennsylvaniu, in the Goth Congress, with one
exception, went against this bill. Notwith-
standing this vote, and the Democratic pledges
made in Pennsylvania, its passage, no doubt.
accustomed the revulsion in both branches of
their Legislature, and their sending to the Both
Congress, Is Wings to Democrats and | Ma.
tive, and finally, their voung for General Tav-
lor as President.
Mr.. Polk clelrly drew a distinction, in his
inaugural address, between men and measures.
Thus he said; 4" Although in our country the
Chief Magistrate must almost of ne ,essity be
chosen BY a party, and stand pledged to its
principles and measures, yet in his official ac-
lion, he should not be the president of a party
only, but of the whole people of the United
Sta'es,'' From this the Wings had a right to
expect equal, or reasonable, participation in the
patronage Of the GnHernpnAnt, But INV sr
he disregarded, in practice, the principle ofhis
inaugural address, BY becoming the most pro-
s%cnptive Of all our Presidents, is but too evi>
dent, as we shall at a proper time show.
General Taylor was the Wing nominee, and
as such elected Gen. Taylor and the Wing
party pledged themselves to effect a change of
men and measures in order TO arrest the DOWN
ward tendency of our national affairs. Thus
we see Judges Saunders and Winchester, the
Louisiana delegation in the Philadelphia con-
V%ention, say ;" Gen. Taylor, we are authorized
to say, will hail with entire satisfaction any
nomination besides himself, being persuaded
that the welfare of our country requires change
Of men and measures, in order to arrest the
downward tendency of our national affairs.
On making this announcement, the delegation
from Louisiana wish it to be distinctly under
stood, that it involves no inconsistency on the
part of Gen. Ia, lor, in case the choice of this
convention should fall on another. If General
Tavlor's friends in this convention withdraw
him, it will be their act aud not his; and by
the act Of uniting with this convention, his
friends withdraw his name from the canvass.
unless he be the nominee Of this convention /;
and we deem it proper to assure the Wings Of
the Union that we desire the nomination and
election VI Gen. Taylor to the Presidency on
noo'her than national grounds" Gen. TAYLOR
in q letter dated at Baton Rouge, on the 29th
Jnne, l848, addressed to the Independents at
Baltimore, said Enthusiastically informed them
turlher(Judges Winchester and Saunders,0rhat
unless they should discover an eminent dispo-
sitlon TO treat me unfairly, which | had no rea-
son for supposing would be the case, | thought
that my friends should go into the convention
as they had been solicited by their lellow-citi-
zens for this purpose; but that having never
catered il, they were ofcourse bound, if | am
not nominated, to sustain aud support the
nominee, whoever he might be, and that 1
hoped they would do SO, heart and soul.' y II
"Under the general authority then, thus given
these gentlemen, Judge Winchester and
Saunders) shall deem whatever statement
they may have made TO be right and proper;
and conhdentin their integrity, and in the sim
cerity oftheir friendship for me, | shall sustain
them without qualification. l now, therefore,
take upon my own shoulders the responsibility
Of the acts of the Louisiana delegation, and
are prepared to stand by their consequences
in their length aud BREADTH"
And then he adds:"I cannot expect or desire
that any Of my friends, whom you represent,
should do violence to their own sense Of right
and wrong, by supporting my election, while
they believe have changed my political
views"
On the receipt Of this, the Independents of
Baltimore disbanded, and in the last number
oftheir paper, the Buena Vista, the Editor said,
"The act Of the Louisiana delegation we treat
as Cen. TaylOr's act. II is his in lis length and
breadth-consistent or nconsistent-in good
faith, in bad faith, fair or false, it is all his"
How has Gen. Taylor redeemed the above
pledge of q change OF men and measures? For
the present we have to say he has in good faith
entered on the work and produced some change
Of men and measures which we will at the
proper time show more in detail, contrasting it
with the acts of his predecessor.
We now invite dispassionate democrats to
look at the conduct Of the democratic Senate
at the close Of J Q, Adams term, and compare
it with the conduct Of the present democratic
Senate. The formers aid Adams administration
had been condemned by the people, and that
it was therefore improper for him to dispense
the patronage Of the government any further
than was absolutely and indispensably neces.
sary for the public service. The Senate con-
sequently laid on the table Mr.. Adams nomi-
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