GEN. TAYLOR AS A MAN. Hon. John J. Crittenden addressed a great meeting at Pittsburgh, Pa., on Friday evening, being on his way home to Kentucky, having resigned his scat in the Senate to canvass the State for Governor. Mr. Crittenden never could make a poor speech, and on this occasion he made a very good one in commendation of Gen. Taylor. It does not prove Gen. Taylor the best man for President, but it shows that he possesses (as we always supposed) many sterling qualities. The following synopsis (we have no room for a fuller report) we take from the Pittsburgh Gazette:

GEN. TAYLOR IS A WHIG.

This, Mr. Crittenden said, he declared from his own knowledge. He is a Whig, a good Whig, a thorough Whig. I know him to be a Whig, but not an ultra Whig. All his political feelings are identified with the Whig party.

GEN. TAYLOR IS AN HONEST MAN.

On the uprightness of Gen. Taylor's character, Mr. Crittenden dwelt with great earnestness, as a trait which he knew, and felt, and admired. He said he was emphatically an honest man, and he defied the opponents of the old soldier to bring aught against him impeaching his uprightness, in all his transactions, during a public life of forty years. His appearance and manners bear the impress of such sterling honesty, that peculation, meanness, and rascality are frightened from his presence. Gen. Twiggs, who has been on habits of intimate personal intercourse with him, said to the speaker lately that there was not a man in the world, who had been in the company of Gen. Taylor five minutes, who would dare make an improper proposition to him. Dishonesty flees from his presence.

GEN. TAYLOR IS A MAN OF GREAT ABILITIES.

His whole military life gives evidence of this. He never committed a blunder, or lost a battle. There is not another man in the army who would have fought the battle of Buena Vista but Gen. Taylor,-and not another who would have won it. Examine the whole history of his exploits, in all their detail, and you see the evidence of far-reaching sagacity and great ability.

GEN. TAYLOR IS A MAN OF LEARNING.

Not mere scholastic learning-he has never graduated at a college-but his mind is richly stored with that practical knowledge, which is acquired from both men and books. He is a deeply read man, in all ancient and modern history, and in all matters relating to the practical ties of life, civil and military. He is inti

mate with Plutarch,—said the speaker,-a Plutarch hero himself, as bright as ever adorned the page of history. Gen. Gibson-you all know and love Gen. Gibson, one of your own Pennsylvanians, a man whose reputation for truth and honor was proverbial, and whose word was always the end of controversy, so implicitly was it relied upon,-Gen. Gibson had told him, that he and Gen. Taylor had entered the army nearly together, and had served to gether almost constantly, until he, Gibson, retired, and that during that time they had sat together on seventeen Court Martials, many of them important and intricate cases, and in every single instance, Zachary Taylor had been ap pointed to draw up the opinion of the Courta brilliant testimony to his superior abilities, and ripe learning, and practical knowledge. GENERAL TAYLOR'S HUMANITY AND SIMPLICITY OF CHARACTER.

tentatious, gentlemanly man. There is no price. Gen. Taylor is a plain, unassuming, unos the utmost simplicity of character. no foppery, no airs about him. He possesses the army, he fared just as his soldiers faredWhen it ate the same food-slept under his tent and underwent similar fatigue-for fifteen mont's in Mexico, never sleeping in a house one might His humanity, kindness, and simplicity of character, had won for him the love of his soldiers He never kept a guard around his tent, or any pomp or parade. He trusted his soldiers, an they trusted and loved him in return. Not a drop of his soldiers' blood was shed by him dering the campaign. All the blood shed und his direction was shed in battle. We hear 1 no military executions-no judicial shedding blood. His heart moved to human woe, and. was careful of the lives of his soldiers, and b mane to the erring, and to the vanquished for He is kind, noble, generous, feeling-a frie of the masses--there is no aristocracy ab him-he is a true Democrat. He will ads i the White House, and shed new light over L fading and false Democracy of the day, w has gone far into its sere and yellow leafing Democracy. will bring in a true, vigorous, verdant, refres

GEN. TAYLOR PROSCRIBES NO MAN FOR OFINE

SAKE.

He is a good and true Whig, but he will scribe no man for a difference of opinion. hates, loathes proscription. He loves the fir independent utterance of opinion. He commanded Whigs and Democrats on the of battle-has witnessed their patriotic des tion and invincible courage while standing gether shoulder to shoulder-has seen fight, bleed, and die together; and God he should proscribe any man on account difference of political sentiments. He wa as soon think, said the speaker, of running a Mexican!

He is a temperate man-he never drank a ottle of spirits in his life. His habits are ex-ready, as a Whig, without waiting to hear implary.

honest and prudent, he cannot speak without deliberation: his mind has been occupied with military affairs; in these he is well versed; but as the genius of the great commander differs but little, perhaps not at all in its kind, from that of the civil chief, we may be sure his government will be devoid neither of energy, wisdom,

nor economy.

With energy, prudence and moral force. qualities equally necessary in the Commander and the Governor, the history of the Mexican war shows him to be largely endowed: the same qualities that fitted him to plan a campaign and control the movements of armies, will go with him into the Presidency.

been signalized by the absorption of nearly all authority into Executive hands, by an unhallowed war of invasion and conquest, by the creation of an enormous debt, by the neglect and sacrifice of the great economical interests of the country, and by a policy looking at once to the extension of the political power of the slave interest, the acquisition of foreign and distant possessions, and the necessary exercise of a vast, overshadowing and imperial power at the seat of the Federal government;-if we may see an end put to this dynasty; if we may see the Congress of the United States once more become the government; if we may see the Executive office once more reduced to its constitutional limits, and its power handled with modesty, and with becoming deference to the representatives of the national wants and the national will; if we may see peace and not war -the growth of freedom and not the spread of slavery-made the policy of the administration; if we may see the government mainly anxious for the consolidation of our Union rather than its infinite extension, for the improvement, advancement and true glory of our country as it is, rather than an external aggrandizement, to be maintained only by wars, secured, if at all, only at the cost of order, quiet, public virtue, popular contentment and felicity, and finally of the Union, and of liberty itself;-if we may look to the promise of advantages like these from the election of Gen. TAYLOR to the Presidency-general; it fits him equally to make su and we have many assurances that we may-certainly every Whig, and every patriotic and good citizen, will have occasion to rejoice over that election with unspeakable gladness and joy. In this confidence, I for one am ready to join the Whig party, and the people, in bearing Gen. TAYLOR forward to his destined place in the exalted seat once occupied by the Father of his Country.

I am, gentlemen, with great respect, Your obliged friend and fellow citizen, D. D. BARNARD. Messrs. J. H. Hobart Haws, Joseph R. Taylor, and Royal H. Thayer, Committee of Correspondence.

We cannot but be satisfied with such testimony. Had General Taylor ever discovered a taint of Locofocoism, his enemies would by this time have raked it out of oblivion. But there is no proof, nor at present any suspicion, of the kind, even in the mind of the most discerning of those who know him. We seek no further proof and shall not agitate the question; we hold it certain that the affections and prejudices of the nominee incline him to the side which we advocate. We do not ask of him an immediate declaration on every point of Whig policy. As he is

Our confidence in Mr. Clay as candida:
was unlimited; but it was the character and
principles of the man, and not the fact of L
being a civilian, that gave that confidence
his traits are those of a great general as we
heroes who have been equally successfal
as of a great statesman; he resembles thos
the field and in the cabinet; the sar
moral force that makes him what he is
could not fail to have made him a gr..

cessful use either of civil or of militar
science. Prudence, firmness, justice;
vincible resolution, contempt of opinice.
danger and of accident, an elevated spirit:-
these features enter equally into the ch
acter of him who defends with success,
of him who justly governs, a free peg.

In losing his powerful support the par
lose indeed many prospects of advantag
yet it cannot be denied that the pres
nomination offers opportunities of "ret
of vast importance to the nation. Br
election less violent and more pops
contested not so much against mes
against principles and measures, the
portunity will occur of breaking down.
system of party patronage to a great
tent, and removing a cause of bitter.
and contention more injurions than any
to the morals and happiness of the p

If the private opinions of Gen. Taybe not fully agree, upon speculative points, those of the majority, he will not enter the nation with badly written essays t Free Trade, under the name of messe Congress; a conduct of which one look st countenance may convince us he is inca ble.

"This document went to show that Gen.

His friends Taylor had taken no part in bringing his name before the American people. throughout the Union had placed him prominently before the country, to occupy the high office that was once held by the Father of his

himself.

"Gen. Taylor wished it to be understood that,

It seems to be taken for granted by many | the attention of the Convention to the statement which he proposed to read. Whigs, that the integrity of the party can ultra be maintained by none but an Whig. Admitting this to be true, it is not at all certain that any one of the gentlemen nominated by the Convention were real ultra Whigs; we do not know that General Scott, or Mr. Clay, would fully agree with the ultra Whigs of Mas-Country. General Taylor considered himself sachusetts, in all their views of Whig doc- in the hands of his friends; and under the cirtrine; or that Mr. Webster would in all cumstances in which he had been brought forparticulars coincide with Mr. Clay, two ward, he did not think it proper to withdraw independent minds scarcely ever harmonize perfectly. Mr. Clay might be too lenient towards the South, and Mr. Webster towards the North. It would very probably happen that questions of policy would arise on which the opinion of these gentlemen would not harmonize with that of Congress; all we should demand of them, in that event, would be, that they should not oppose the expressed opinion of the majority unless it was certain that Congress had acted hastily, or under an undue or improper feeling, which time and reconsideration would abate.

In regard to war, General Taylor has declared himself opposed to wars of aggression, and we are assured that he is not the man to excite a conquest fever in the minds of the people. Himself a humane and successful soldier, he knows too well the evils of a successful war to hurry us needlessly into a contest: nor is he likely to follow the policy of the present administration, which ruined itself by an enterprise, of which the only good results were to the glory of its political enemies.

The second disqualifying objection to our candidate was, that he had insulted the party by declaring himself an independent candidate, and saying that he should run, whether nominated by the Convention or not. The validity of this very serious objection was destroyed by the declaration of the General's friends in the Convention. On the second day of Convention, (Thursday, June 8th,) before proceding to the first ballot, Judge Saunlers of Louisiana obtained permission to ead a statement presented by the delegaion from Louisiana in reference to the osition of General Taylor. He said, knowng General Taylor as he had long done, nd knowing that his position had been aisunderstood and misconceived, he called

IN HIS OPINION, HIS FRIENDS WERE BOUND TO
WILL OF THE
ABIDE BY THE DECISION AND

CONVENTION, he being impressed with the ne-
cessity of a change in the Administration, and
thus of saving the country from its downward
career. But his friends would withdraw his
name from the canvass, unless he should be the
nominee of the Convention."*

Thus by the clearest evidence, this most serious objection to the nominee is completely removed.

He is a fair and honorable candidate of the Whigs, and the nominee strictly of the Whigs: it is impossible under these circumstances either to neghim. lect or to oppose

When the Whig Delegates met in Philadelphia, and organized a Convention for the choice of a candidate, they pledged themselves virtually, by that act, to sustain, or at least not to injure, or oppose to the detriment of the party, the nominee of If, after all that has been the Convention. done and conceded, they withdraw their support from the nominee, it will of course be from reasons that can be explained— reasons of a solid and tangible character; but from no quarter, as yet, have we heard any such reasons.

The Convention was agreed upon as a necessary means for the integrity of the party. The delegates were not sent there to elect this or that man; their constituents knew very well, what they had often declared, that the members of the Convention did not go to Philadelphia to elect some one man whom they had in view, but only to elect a candidate who that candidate might be, was a question which only the event could decide.

The members of the Convention went

1848.

National Intelligencer, Washington, June 10,