The Charlotte Journal

DEMOCRATIC TESTIMONY TO GEN'L TAYLOR'S QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE PRESIDENCY. DENOY. OFFSET TO WILDER Read the following from the Petersburg Intelligencer:

"The Norfolk Beacon has an intelligent correspondent who has been writing from N. Orleans several interesting letters to that paper over the signature of "Yorktown." From his last letter we extract the following voluntary tribute to Gen. Taylor's abilities and qualifications for the Presidency. This testimony comes from a Democrat who has formed his opinion from conversation with old Zach, and, we presume, ought to be good authority with Locofocos. Hear what he says:

"Having a few days leisure to spare from business, I determined to spend them at Pascagoula, where Gen. Taylor and family have been sojourning for the last six weeks, for the benefit of fish and bathing. I selected that point expressly to see the General, and, if possible, to so draw him out as to satisfy myself as to his capabilities for the great part of which a large and respectable portion of the American people seem desirous that he shall act in the administration of our Government in the next four years. An opportunity was not long denied me: for the very next morning after my arrival, I encountered him in his early stroll, on a remote part of the beach, which resulted in a desultory conversation of an hour. In that interview he thoroughly satisfied me that gross injustice had been done both to his social and intellectual qualifications: and that he was any thing but the deficient man and statesman whom I was prepared to meet. I found his manner pleasing to fascination, and the quality of his discourse as unexceptionably adapted to the subjects under review as would be tolerated by the most rigid criticism. When it is reflected that I cannot vote for him consistently with my early and still cherished political teachings; and that I shall not vote for him or any other Whig when opposed to a Democrat who has passed the ordeal of a legitimate national convention, I cannot surely be accused of any other feeling relating to him than that directly springing from a sense of justice. Were he a Democrat instead of a Whig, I would prefer him to Mr. Cass on every count composing the Republican decalogue; for I should expect them religiously administered, so far as vested with him, irrespective of party clamor or party dictation; but as he is a Whig and Mr. Cass an accepted Democrat, I must support the latter, and trust to time to unfold his pretensions. In short, if Gen. Taylor is not a profound statesman, he is as perfect an imitation of one, as far as I was able to judge, as the original himself; and it will be found difficult, if not impracticable, take my word for it, to distinguish between them. He is a much more learned man than he has credit for, or he has the faculty, which is the same thing, according to Dr. Johnson, of readily finding in books what he wants, and under standing and judiciously applying what he sought for."