The North Carolina Standard

From the Washington Union.

The most rabid whig papers now find it convenient to sing a lullaby to the spirit of party. The Taylor presses are canting about 'no party.' The 'Richmond Republican' is quoting from the valedictory of General Washington, who deprecates parties 'founded upon geographical considerations,' and party spirit carried to excess; and, also, from the inaugural address of Mr. Jefferson—'We are all federalists, we are all republicans;' which he himself, was compelled, at a subsequent period of his administration, to confess was too liberal a declaration to form the basis of action. Why is this lullaby now employed? To recommend Gen. Taylor as a 'no-party man' to the support of the people. It will prove all a deception. It is the spirit of humbuggery, as practised in 1840 and 1844. Some of the most violent party presses are resorting to this manoeuvre, 'to catch birds of every feather.' They hope to carry the whole whig vote for General Taylor as a whig, and then to catch some of the democratic votes as a no-party man; and thus to elect him. But no sooner would he be elected, than the crouching lamb would start up again into the rampant lion—exactly as their policy was in 1840. They foisted General Harrison upon the country as a genuine democrat. The bank was represented during the canvass as an obsolete idea. The General was sometimes held up as no advocate of the protective system; and at another time, the whole question had been settled by the compromise act of 1832. But no sooner was he fairly in the chair, than an extra session was called; and Mr. Clay, at the head of the party, vehemently urged the re-establishment of a national bank, the restoration of the tariff system, &c., &c. What was done once, may be done again. The humbug that was played upon us in 1840, would be played off again in 1848. But forewarned, forearmed.

The Westminster (Maryland) Democrat remarks upon the various phases in which the partisans of Gen. Taylor have depicted their champion—first, as a no-party man, like Gen. Washington; then as a friend of Gen. Jackson, who would have voted for Mr. Clay; then as a whig, devoted to the principles of Mr. Jefferson; then as a 'liberal' whig; and last of all, and again, a no-party man, who will give no political pledges, but who is to go into the presidential chair by the votes of the people, and not by the voice of a whig convention. The 'Democrat' says 'the majority of the American people have a high duty to perform. They can and should rebuke, in thunder-tones, the presumption of those who would sacrifice principle for military glory. They should award to General Taylor every deserved honor for his military worth; but they should give him an awful rebuke, for daring to use his military reputation for the overthrow of a party whose principles have proven themselves necessary for the good of the country. We have no objection to military services in a candidate, provided he be not fresh from the army, and avows his political principles. It is the use of it as a cloak, under which to smuggle in political heresies, to which we object. It is most dangerous to the liberties of the people. Any people, who are so easily deceived, are not safe in the exercise of sovereign powers. The election of a chief magistrate by a mere whirl-wind of excitement, is calculated to bring republicanism itself into disrepute. It is high time for the democracy to beware.'