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In compliance with Mr. Lippard's request, we lay the following communi cation before our readers It is a bold animated,. and stiring appeal to the ]Pres ident. We have no doubt, with its author, that thousands of Democrats were induced to vote for Gen, Taylor in consequence of his pledges; and we doubt not that almost all of them will abandon his administration in conse quence of his having violated these pledges. The following letter carries force with it, because its main statement is true. Gen. Taylor could never have been elocted without the vote of the Taylor Democrats, and he could never have ob tained their votes without the pledges which he gave. We call the reader's attention particularly to the correspon dence which passed between Mr. Lip pard -and Gen. Taylor during the cam p aign. The General's letter to Mr. L. h9 been frequently published, but Mr. L's letter to the General is now f'r the first time given to' the wold. This let ie'r'sheds light upqn the Generul's. It shows why tlhe General wrote his letter and how it is to be interpreted. PHILADELPHIA, May 22, 1849. -Will.you pardon me if I make bold to say a few words with you in expla nation of the reasons which induced me to support you for the office of Presi dent' of the United States? These rea sons may also give some idea of the motives which swayed hundreds of thou siads ofyour fellow-citizens. 'I am no politician. I never yet ask for an office, and certainly shall not ask one at your hands. In speaking to you, I do not lay claim to any political influence. I am backed by no clique: I control no body of voters: I only speak to you as a citizen of the United States, having no influence beyond my vote, and the truths which I utter. In the year 1847, while a member of the Democratic Association of the county. of Philadelphia, I began the first of a series of four works upon the his tory of Mexico. That first book of the series wvas intended to comprise a histo ry of your campaigns in Mexico. While writing that work,' became vividly imepressed with the frankness, the iron common senses the unswerving sincerity of your charheter. Sick of the aae fare of parties, I looked to you as the man who had been called by Providence to put an end to the mercenatry bitter ness of this warfare, by assuming the position of Washington-not with par :ties, but in the hearts of the people. And this idea of your character, em bodied in the work to which reference 'is made, was diffused by its pages among -a clIass of voters entirely distincts and eeperate from the Whig party; a chase of voters who, imbued with the prog ressivoaspirit of Christianity, are oppos ed to the principles of the Whig party, .ns enibodied in the history of the Whig icorporation of Philadelphia, and who are ini favor of judicial and national re form-who advy'ate the freedom of the public domain and the right of labor to the harvest of its toil. This idea indu cod sne tiOdesert my party associations, break .paitg lines, and advocate Zacha ry Taylor as the candidate of the pee plo. In the month of April, 1848, your .chances for the Prosidency wore vague and uncertain. The Whig politicians in Philadelphia-at least the most prom inonhof them all----fairly laughed at the mention of your name in connexion with thatihigh office. When the Balti moro-Conveption assembled, it was the earnecstehope of thousands of the Aomo cratic maiss~s that you would receive wthen ination tie had tthe're resentativsof:.'the denmodratio part This hope proved fruitless. But at t Whig Conventioni; assembled in Phil del Phia in Jine, 1848, party liieswei finally broken; the very spirit and froj of the Whig pary ere-"crshed He ry Clay,balloted for -in thed nameeoftI Whig party,failed to receive its vote and 4achary Taylor, nominated "inAl name of the people,' was presented I the people without any other platfor than his independence from thq spi and trammels of party. Doubtless, you have often had de cribed to you the scenes which marke the history of this June convention the dismay of the Whig politicians I the veritable Whig school-the curst both loud and deep, with which the breathed your name-the three fol sacrifice of Whig principles, Whig pl forms, and Henry Clay, at the feet < Zachary Taylor. Nominated at the convention ami the ruins of Whigism, and nominate in the name of the people, the Whi party did not dare to claim you as veritable Whig of the true whig stami until about the 5th of July, 1848, whe news came to Philadelphia that Hoi Baillie Peyton had, in New Orlean solemnly endorsed you as a Whig, an placed your feet somewhere amid ti ruins of the demolished Whig platforn This statement gave inexpressibl pain to thousands of your friends i Pennsylvania. Well aware that yo had not been nominated as the caud date of any party, certain that yo could not by any chance be elected i the name or on the platform of the Whi party, your friends.-I speak of th masses, who loved you for yourself an for your independent position; receive the statement of Mr. Peyton with a emotion that was not to be mistaken c evaded. They felt that either Mr.Pej ton was in error, or that Zachary Taj lor had falsified his often-repeated plei ges. Under the influence of this wid spread feeling, I made bold to writ and send you the following letter. It very abruptness of style, indicates th sincerity which impelled its compositioi PIILADELPIA, July 5, 1848. GENERAL: Will you regard a wor from a friend as impertinent or obstri sive? It is after a great deal of reluc tanco that I am induced to trouble ye again: but having faith in you now, a I have had ever since I pledghd wh literary reputation I posses to you i my book-" The Legends of Mexico o Battles of Taylor." I make bold t say a frank word to the general of th people. This is the case. With thousands Democrats in this Stae, I depend upo your declaration "that you would i no case be the President of a party, bt the President of the people." On thi ground the Democrats of Pennsylvani will vote for you by hundreds and thot sands. But we are now told that you are e: elusively the Whig candidate, to be ru as a Whig, elected as a Whig, and u der Whig issues. If this. be the case, the State Pennsylvania will be lost to Taylor an the country. I do not believe this to be the cast Those who think with me in this count do not believe it. But to set the matt at rest, will you answer this letter wvit one line ? and with that line the Dem< cratic hundreds and thousands of Pen sylvania will move in a body for you. General, do not reject this appe: from a man who loves you for your ba tIes, and the moral grandeur displaye in them; bnt loves you, first and las because you have taken the position< Washington; not with parties, but in ti hearts of the people. And as for the line, say simply: ' am still the candidate, not of party e: clusively; but if a candidate at all, tI candidate of the people." GEORGE LIPPARD. Here General, was the whole ean plainly stated in a line. You wel here told that if the attempt was ma< to elect you as a Whig, and upon Wh issues, the State of Pennsylvania wou certainly be lost to Taylor and the con try. At that time, with thousands Democrats, I believe that your electi< as the candidate of the people would su serve the best interests of the countr And what was your reply to this lette which appealed to the best feelings your nature? On the 9th of Aug I received your answer which I anne [Private.] BATON ROUGE, (La.) July 24,1848. DEAR SXR: Your letter of the 5 inst. asking of rno a~ line or t wo in p- ~ar posien a candidate for y. the Presidency, has.been duly ree'eived. e Xn reply, Ihave'o say- that I am a- not a party candidato, and if elected, ,c shall not bethe-: President of a party, At but the Prisident of whole people. at angdr sir, With'high respect iind 9 regard,- your most. obedient servant. a, Z. TAYLOR te GEOUG LIPPARD, esq. Philadelphia, SPa. m This, you well remember, was after it 7ou had accepted the Whig nomination in a letter which said nothing at all s. about Whig principles. d The publication of your letter of Ju - ly 24 created a great excitement among )f the people and the politicians. Is Whig papers in New York denoun y ced it as a "Locofoco" forgery. The d North American in Philadelphia, (once t. the organ Of Henry Clay, and now the yf Northern organ of the Secretary of State,) seized upon the word "Private,' d and in weary columns assailed the per d son to whom the letter was addressed, g as the betrayer of your confidence. a Other journals, however, which cireu 2, lated among the masses, hailed this let n ter with unqualified approval, and pla 1. ced it at the head of their columns as s, "the great creed and watchword of the d Ta lor party." e I must frankly tell you, that had . you not made the declaration embraced e in this letter, I, for one, could not have n advocated your election, nor given you u my vote. Certain it is, that without i. this declaration, (soon followed by your a. Charleston letter.) you could not have n gained the vote of Pennslyvania, fa g mous for her old Democratic majority e of "twenty-five thousand." d What was the result of this letter, d and of the excitement immediately con a sequont upon its publication? The Whig r party in Pennsylvania forthwith drop . ped the very name of Whig. They stored it away-perchance under the - sepulcher of Girard's squadered be e quest, may be under the ruins of some e broken bank, but you well know, and s every reader of the papers know, thit e in the late campaign the battle was fought, not under the name of Whig, but under the united names of 'Taylor and Filmore." The Democrats were-asked to vote for yon as the independent candidate the candidate of the people-- as the man who had no friends to reward, no ene s mies to punish-in fact, as Zachary I Taykr, who, in case of his election, a would not be President of a party, but r the President of the whole people. D And with your letter in my hand, I e addressed thousands of my Democratic fellow-citizens, and, on the security of a your unbroken faith, stated that you could not, in any event, become 'the I President, much less the creature, of a a party. Upon your own solemn declar ation, I honestly advocated you as "the President of the whole people." I did not for a moment indulge the thought that you could ever become n the centre of a mere party adminsitra tion. Had I been told, by you thatyou would ever become the head of an ad ministration made up Whig paliticians, d I could not in any case, have advocated your claims, nor would you have re ceived the votes of a hundred Demo crats in Pennsylvania. Now, General, the smoke of the con test has cleared away. You are the President. Elected upon the faith of your solemn pledges, you arc at the head of the government. ilHave you fulfiled these pledges? Ask your own heart, call back that iron d purpose, that clear-souled integrity t hich bore you through the carnage of Buena Vista, survey the faces of your 0 cabinet, and the faces of those partisans of your cabinet who now storm the White House for the spoils of office. Answer me! I have a right to ask an anwer. You pledged your faith to me, an humble citizens that you had never braken your word, and could not forget to-morrow what you pledged to-day. eO Was that letter of July 24, which I e0 bore through Pennsylvania, only a cun le ningly devised fable? Was it your in I tention to send me fou h to the masses dof the people with a lie in my mouth? a- To vouch for your "independence ol of party" 'in October, in order to find you nMyat the head of a mere cabal of a b- party? Did you make a dupe of me, sc Y- that I might become your agent ir r, duping and swindling my fellow citizem of into the trammels of the Whig party? at You know that the Whig party o x: itself, or by its own issues, could neve1 Shave accomplished your election. Yet know that the Whig loaders, fresh fron th the slaughter of Henry Clay-of tha re mgan whlo has for twenty four years sac rificed to uwhligi~i'dh which God imylantediffi s'ti could bover-iivdelov ted '*o6it :t Presidential-chair. - , You were elee'cteJy .dem6r atic votes. These, ote bre* to you bT the fo3co gr position. They weri-e n b ' th s4ve) gold, or ie hitopeo 0 0 in to you byfodr yild . And now, sir, you will ;alldi;'rre o ask you one-or two questior' T.* In. what pa-t of jotir adiffinistration aze these democratic votes repiesdnted? Among the army df officeshuntere o now besiege the doors of the White ouse, how many of your . demqcratic s pporters can you discver' Sir, the truth must be toli and jas I supported you earnestly lid sinciQ ly, I will speak the truth with' most ii dourtly frankness. Your election has bein fruitful only in discontent and dissatisfactin.i Elect d in the name of tho people, you. are surrounded by advisers chosen not ev on from the manhood of the- Whig par ty, but from its veriest hacks auid trim irers. These advisers seck to entail upon the country, on a colossal scale, a system of error and inisi'ule such as disgraced the age in the shameless ex penditure of the Girard bequest by the Whig corporation of Philadelphia. , Ind you-been elected asa Whig and upon the srtength of any known :Whig creed, I would not coiplain.. Is *it not a painful thought that you, tbe man of the people. shouId sit there in -Wash ington as the leader of the mere frag ment of a party-as the embodiment not of a Whigism like that- of Henry Clay, which states its prirciples and. fights its battles in the sun, but of a Whigism which works in darkness gathers strength by unholy coalitions, and builds its power upon-hroken pledgeR' And now, sir, as I wash inty.hands of the last traces of political Taylorism, as I state my regret that I ever acted the part which your pledges made me act, you at least must admit that I never served you with the hope of office, that I hewo always been among that humble band who, working well and long for you, under the impression that they. also worked for the good of their coun try, could neither ask nor accept office at your hands; for those hands which were free at Buena Vista, free in the late campaign, are now tied by the tramiiels which have been fashioned from the very ruins of the whig party. GEORGE TIPPARD. To President Zachary Taylor. (wirni'N FOR THEI DANNER.) VIIAT WAS DONE BY TIE RAIN! nY THE LATE ]iYi'oCiidRRIAC. "ITEMS FROM OUR JOURNAL--(r0m the 23d to 28th of ma.y, 1819. Wednesday '23d Rain-dur'ng the Evening. Thursday 21th Ruin-during the morning and Evening-thunder and lightning. I'riday 25th Ruin- during the Evening thiunder and lightning. Faturday 261h Cold Rain. Sunaday 27th1 Deluges or Rain-accomnpained wth thunder and lightning--lasting until the morning ofC the 28th." "Ihere is weather-what a day nay. what a succession of days-rain, cold and hot-drizzle almost ice in May, -rain, rain reciprocated ad nauseunm. llorrible climate. WYretched beings who are heirs to it-Almost got the chills thinking over it. W~hy Chili where it ramns six' months at a stretch, . a perpetual Paradise to it*-LIapland, with its everlasting snows an eternal Summer! Why should I stay here and be mopped to death. Who can live in such a country? No one can. No wonder nil the folks look . so -thin and sallow-they don't live--don't know how to live-- its not life, nor it aint death- -it is some intermediate state which they cannot understand, and have no term to express. But I'lee the distinction too palpably and'ipk hourly under the -knowledge. "I'LL (o OUT: I can't catch more than fifty complaints, 'which .no man, as they are entirly American, attadhed to the interests of his country can wish to be withuout. Yes I'll go. out; .for I shall have that simpering .Simp~spn call ing again, who pretends to cheerfulness -the impostor. Cheorfulness..in the country! Preposterous hiel-aand comes here grinning, chuckling, and ctowving out his good-humour,. as he thinks it his melancholy, the unnhappy -ma! That Johnson, too, threatened he would call-Heaven avert snech aj inflictomi! I hate that fellow; MM.1aite ,1 fat - Scotch Tonic wadling and wvheezing' Nen1th11g a ndeclolth ~' ible!- He'll I dws, as ie: nursery-maid oer w T heaven I hate v tt 'Inati gq 6 t;$5ioily 1i toni m entb6eiths'iThiapens; 6%ei ti way2beating -Her -t o'deathe .il wiresL-and he desdrves the maity hem;-tat irtolerahlfItaiar.bas dor more*o. trgak the peace of his countr than all the riotistein, the.la, st-,quarto of a century: And..tik's that ROE belev., buzzing alouk e a bee, wit that eternal oh! usimah . If I stay a omo. I shall be boredagain %ith thi hubhrb-headed Doctor countin.w pulse and the fractibual parts of~his ft at the same time one, two, three, foui live pulsations--shillings, he means, i rower seconds; and looking .at my toi gue-What's. my tongue. to him, li1 juagck! -as :Figaro sings, "Let hiL lookto his qwn. ea, I'll, go out;:for it is.as safe ot r doors as in. ' ore wind!--Thero a gust! A Trinidad jornado is a lrun pet-solo to. i! ind,- that's rain! Who country! what a:clime! Good.thei vens, there, a gust!:Ha! ha! ha; th Ahimney-pots off on a visit-and tho fo which surmounted the chimneytat.S'i 1s at his old tricks with the. 1piaeons.,a B's.! Whew! well-flown pigcon. x.eIu roI! Down they.. go over,. the ,.parappl With a runnng accompaninic t of.p' les and bricks!-That slow gentleina ivith the unbrella!,the whole is about hi bend! dow n. ho gocs! he, is killed!' er! no, up ho gets again! away_.goes i~ ambrella! and no' his Jiat ..;a stoeph !lias ois sedeutary to.his p'esuit..tho iave turned the cornr, hat,.pmbrelk ind gentleman! twoto-one Id ha o taker's! Oh achr.ynlone . ladt* "Mrs. Fondlemnin,if any thibgshoul l:appen to. me indmyabsence-why,d you smile, Madam? my affairs are a anged--you will find my will in th writing-4esk; ania the gash in the drai Dr. will disburse your. abcont for last quarter " "La,sii! are youout of yoiur e est "$nppose 'ain, Madam j e " n: is an American the birtli l'ttob e a if I choose?: NOt a wor. 'more, b give me my cloak and u r'0lla, an let ne o, for go 1will, It is a sullei and savae satisfactivi in a day like this,'"'when na f'r ;jlaj the clitiil, and' mAnkes oie daik an lamp at the heart as herself, to 1o6 abroadd at her' in her owni" wrsteho woods and swap v fieldi, aid to' 'e that she i's as meincholv and miserabl as' aho hs iendered us. Pish! pah ! o!'ain itern, bi no matter-_-i-';u I will' go: No, I 'i not hanV th66 6ac - hearso would I miore german to the weather. I is nio us your'dissuading me, Madam; am determined. "Well, hero I am; I care not ho maniy miles from the village, that chan house of cheerfulness! What a walk have had! Walk?~wade, I should h~aa said. And what i frightful series - of faes I'ha'o ine's all along'tho roa and all, I' adii haippyi to say, to all 'a pearance as' misoraible and unhaii as mnyself'-.--all' climate struck," sprnr wretched, Southeyrn-hapipy! '. .~' I am wet, *eurfi 'ard Enu;ry-'ithel shall I 'dry Inytelf'?' Pa-htis'i use'ofidryintg or dining, either?N Tcd mne vit"--' e .e i "What have 'we .here? 'The Sait< Head.' I wonder mvhen the mien" peace may hope to mhavetheir' hea hung otifor'bigns?2 Wellytho' 'inrt war aire weleoitethe pi'efeirencoerat tay dvieT~ their od-fdrbni -Hodie of led fiaeladmlitry 46 Curse tho 'bbillropel' *ovon 'of cobwe I suppose, that it may. be added another item fo 'the bill. Wait< "What an brute! in" a smock-fro tucked up--one-hitid i his pooket ftt bhing something-.a head like a hed; hog--A moro.umanrake inop-boots al cordroy-r-e pego4ift 19th of. It elegant ,9omposid4 yo, cachdbges What is ,pp,Jfthin gyop Xs o1 Have 'ou any tlhng to ea .'P "Masan 'i: e1 . I, U i S p b r t'eweghtofUd'eierA h h hobi sdi t tia~ roze, eiliase i uftdie Ti t-Cd~ %et halk ot ofeolnisj! Sif~ab o hdupaetmp a - hitk !rthansedsslsdh r lith eyeh of~ ano Og:~r Adlis eimp atere floerhesd% eskat r.6~t ei hibsdy dit. iclusm an 3u6ub81 4 thaheo~'ivtlie rulP1o W ethikesot of oent~ 5laoe , at-iinota d tel eva d iDuty of Man, iideii 16 E ~I t 6 a.et FI~eebhi -till new! six feet twI:181 lGiiaflik i e her slippers! Rep ilue c of the lateladlord'6fth .If ho'subdued such ainEve s ihb ei t wa *heteionq'iiker 1csh U sign he enn i " scyindresieolfullg. ci (I Stad up-Z--ad inif6 e4ei% i s newiththe keys 4l heti4st lb e i t o s - - i! i' toletiime ayv 6o,986 in your most capable ma'n and *"Crtaq-l , r.'. ~ Jjk i tee wak of * "Ayesthis ewillagdo er reI acan seeitis goigo wo e thoughit iwnotorth ooking Ilndlady I hayea a ip y . e t4ll womsn, but really, there giso~ :thig suime inthisds4prie 4 cas lorr hes "pipurequQ, . :.F w [, patrorilse hcrd 9Wii Iwgas not sqlc liih o T working-da !r t parts sand parcels o iYn 1 ' di tetupted to piropose fo buiit oehl of Mrs o a.urlong, , Slidfinsblue~yh eyes~~ ~ L .handson an aom9a ci seen .~ IiOT eni icr bi~i IT oilT o1th& dro 1 a e r i t >f 'b4 si~auncr, oe ~ ~ t$ I iho Id be... . L dy! and 4efy "i 1" 1 0 p I Mrs. Furlong,tho 9nt'weks ofrniyar, ":Iec~A'I Il w no ve% ispregnabieties, ar: ,gken ti already. Now let me havejust a pint I of your particular old"wineif U ou lve e0 it H ehis lookhe6'wjl;its "' 0 af lug' too hike risickek it: 86 1! ybuffaieg a 11d~ri y' "QuitQ' heidtM.'~ g lhusbrd tof~bu4 [.fli* it sliwserf a edit'd6, 'e2' jo eo (To BnE COQW DnD r onged A .f poirtt. So f d usitoridra 1i - our notions on this makist d1 1 Jy dii ttle botter than~'ggnshis6~stiae b- lytefised avoi tve-sth -fidty to'proveth6 rttflipa ~sb, nesofaor hl ts~4 ~W a Milkno.t saye thati ja wj kc iertisemenf we*isortod a- whih werenot ;c Trhe etivtantbels i~ef b id clii beniio soit at th'at 'w ~ oh' r ts pressuhg a oM.o' nobof, rrd. : d ' A. W0