Republican Herald

Is there No Truth in Whig Professions.

—From the time General Jackson placed his veto on the Maysville road bill to the present, the Whig party, under all the names and disguises which it has assumed during that period, has constantly denounced the veto power. The politicians of that school have not only dissented from the exercise of that constitutional duty of the President, but they have falsely denounced it as unconstitutional, and have made it an issue in the Presidential elections. There has been no end to their clamor against the "one-man power," as the veto power is called. And so vehement has been their professed opposition to the exercise of this constitutional and salutary power, that they pledged General Taylor before the country not to exercise it. Yet we find Whig Governors exercising this power and vetoing bills, and we behold the spectacle of the very men who denounced the veto approving of its use. Governor Fish, of New York, has recently vetoed a bill: and Governor Johnston, of Pennsylvania, has very lately placed his veto upon a bill redistributing that State, for the choice of members of the legislature under the requirements of its constitution. And strange to say these vetoes are approved by the whole brood of the conductors of the federal press. Even the personal organ of Gen. Taylor—the man who is pledged before high Heaven, if any man ever was so pledged, against the exercise of the veto power—applauds its use by Governor Johnston. In view of such shameless inconsistency, we again repeat the question, Is there no reliance to be placed in Whig professions and pledges?—Is there no truth in the leaders of the Whig party? Do they think they can forever falsify their words, and cheat and deceive the American people? If they had a particle of sagacity, they could not fail to discern in this general system of falsehood, trickery, hypocrisy, deception, and quibbling, of which they have been guilty, the true causes of the premature prostration and overthrow of Gen. Taylor's administration. The American people turn with sickening disgust from this base system of fraud and humbuggery, and from those who attempt to practice it upon them.—Wash. Union.