The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-09-19
Resurrection OF the GaIphins. ResponsIbIii.
ties OF Whig Adninistration.

just four years ago presidential election was pending
and the wing party came before the country asking lis
confidence and support Then they had "no principles
Tor The public eye The action OF the recent Wing
National Convention reversed and in ls4s the
South got the candidate while the North succeeded.
without much effort. in preventing the adoption Of
platform Selling upon the reputation OF an honest but
simple soldier. who professed 10 entertain political
principles Whatsoever and 10 understand nothing that
military drill could not teach. they made him the stalk.
morse oil Their ambition, and the instrument by which
to get possession OF the spoils OF Office There
device, however. which they successfully employed 10
delude the people, and draw recruits from the ranks
oil the democracy, They represented the wing party
the enemy Of prescription, and they soemnly promised
that IN The event OF the election of General Taylor,
ofhce-holder should suffer for opinions sake Eagerly
supported by the wings, intent only upon the attainment
OF patronage and power, and by that class OF
moderate men who claimed be the adheents OF neither
party and who regarded him standing in their posi-
uon, General Taylor elected TO the presidency.
AT once he inauguIaed wing administration. His
cabinet was composed of the most proscriptve par
tisans The political guotine established, and
II did Its work with memorable cruelty. The coun-
try saw at once that the nopary professions OF the
wings, and their hypocrilical execraon Of the prac-
tice OF prescription. had been employed simply de-
vice. cheat, aud fraud; and perhaps there was never
so sudden and violent revulsion in popular sentiment
as that witnessed during the first few months Of the Tay-
lor administration. The tide upon which the soldier
candidate had been elevated TO the presidency suddenly
receded, and left him wreck upon the strandpunder-
ed By the creatures who fed upon the treasure of his
reputation, and dashed by the angry waves
Of outraged and indignant public sentiment He knew
nothing OF public affairs, or of public men. Simple and
unsuspecng he readily fell into the of intriguing
and inscriptions politicians. Honest men-men OF dig
nifty and charactersood aoof, unwilling to compete
with fawning sycophants for his confidence and favor
and, without help he became the victim and the iuslru-
ment Of the Gaphins. His ignorance of the duties OF
his position compelled him 10 abandon the administra-
ton OF the government his subordinates, and made
impossible for him TO detect their Manifestations And
thus was that the administration Of General Taylor be-
came yword and reproach. He was the helpless and
unconscious and therefore the guil,ess instrument of
whg cabinet His country will forgive him, because be
knew not what be did. But the party which, for vile
and selfish purposes Of IFS own sacrificed the reputation,
and perhaps the fe Of gallant soldier and devoted pa
Tct-he men who, under the shadow Of his great name.
enriched themselves by the plumber of the country and
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the cuprits upon whom indignant people will execute
justice and wreak revenge.
For the administration of General Taylor the wing
party are responsible. They took him from the camp
and placed him in the presidency His acts are their acts
and for wha, he rather for what his Gaphn cabinet
did, they answerabe at the bar OF public opinion
Not only for that outrageous pllage OF The treasury
which the country stood amazed and continues still 10
depore national disgrace, but for an arbitrary and
despotc attempt TO force form Of government on
ertory for threatening chasse sovereign State into
submission 10 the DEGREES OF the department OF
the federal government for obstinate and acous OPP
position TO satisfactory settlement Of that sectional strife
which shook the Union 10 its basefor these and for
other misdeeds Of the Galphn cabinet the people will
hold the wing party responsible Fillmore is President
by accident, but Taylor was President by the action
Of The whig party, and for whatsoever is repehensbe
in his administration they legiiimaely and legally
responsible.
The time has come when the wing party should be
arngned for the crimes and foes OF the Taylor admin.
salion. Heretofore they have been beyond the reach
OF the popular vengeance The occasion proptious for
the execution OF that justice which should be the more
terrible for delay. Another presidential election is de-
pending and again have the wing party come before the
country soliciting its confidence and support The same
faction OF INSCRIPTIONS demagogues and dangerous agi.
ators which elected Taylor and controlled his admins
Ealion is now aspiring 10 power. The Galpbns have
risen from the dead, stimulated to extraordinary activity
by three years exile from office Nr Fillmore rejected
and repudiaed them upon his accession TO power and
since they have been maturing their plans to pros
tra,e him. In that they have succeeded Repeating the
experiment which attended with such success in
s4s they have rallied round another military candidate
and striving to kindle another military enthusiasm.
They hope TO bewilder the popular mind by the same
false preensions and false issues by means OF which
they crept into power four years ago And their object
now is just what it was then. They seek power that
they may perver il to selfish purposes With the egs-
lave department OF the government in the hands OF the
democratic party it would be impossible for them to
change the policy OF the country. All they wish and
expect is possess and enjoy the spos. unresained
under the administration OF Taylor. by the supervs-
ion Of honest and capable President. Should Scott
be elected. the country will witness repetition of the
dsgracefu practices OF the Galphin dynasty Corruption
in high places will again outrage the moral sense Of the
country the federal executive will usurp the exercise of
illegal powers, and introduce the arbitrary and violent
habits OF the camp into the administration OF the civil a
fairs OF the government, and finally, all the elements of
sectional aglstos will be brought into full play and be