Daily Northern Tribune

Gen. Taylor's Letter to Ingersoll.

The following is an extract from this celebrated letter, which, as the Washington Union acknowledges, leaves no doubt but that the General is a Whig.

"I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your esteemed letter of the 7th ult., which has just reached me, in which you say. 'I had the honor of being called on last evening to address a mass meeting of the Whigs of the city and county of Philadelphia. At that meeting your name was frequently mentioned in connexion with the office of chief magistracy. I stated to that meeting, as I had before stated in my place in the house of representatives at Washington, that you were a whig—not indeed an ultra partisan whig—but a whig in principle.' All of which is entirely correct; and after the discussion which occurred in both houses of congress at the last session, growing out of the capitulation of Monterey, in which discussion you thought proper to defend my conduct in regard to that transaction, when assailed somewhat, if not entirely on party grounds, in the house of which you were a member—for which you have my sincere thanks—which was done in such a way by those who disapproved that measure. I can hardly imagine how any one who was present and heard the speeches on that occasion, or read them after they were published, could well mistake the complexion of my politics.

"At the last presidential canvass, without interfering in any way with the same, it was well known to all with whom I mixed, whigs and democrats, for I had no concealments in the matter, that I was decidedly in favor of Mr. Clay's election, and would prefer seeing him in that office to any individual in the Union, certainly much more so at any time to myself. Independent of his great talents and long experience in government affairs, I consider his views and those of the whigs, for the most part are more nearly assimilated, as regards political matters, to those of Mr. Jefferson than their opponents—in whose political creed I was reared, and whose opinions, in matters of state, I have never lost sight of, as well as endeavored to conform to them as near as circumstances would permit. My commission as a lieutenant in the army was conferred by him a short time before he retired from public life."