1848 1st The True Whig Sentiment: General Zachary Taylor's Two Allison Letters

Description: "I have no concealment. I hold no opinion which I would not readily proclaim to my assembled countrymen; but crude impressions upon matters of policy, which may be right to-day and wrong tomorrow, are, perhaps, not the best test of fitness for office. One who cannot be trusted without pledges, cannot be confided in merely on account of them.....I am a Whig, but not an ultra Whig. If elected I would not be the mere President of a party. I would endeavor to act independent of party domination. I should feel bound to administer the Government untrammeled by party schemes." [PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1848] THE TRUE WHIG SENTIMENT: GEN. TAYLOR'S TWO ALISON LETTERS. Zachary Taylor. Boston: Eastburn's Press - 18 State Street, 1848. VG. 8vo, single leaf, vertical center fold, 4 pages. Slight edgewear, creasing, acceptable condition overall. The two letters, addressed to Taylor's brother-in-law Capt. J. S. Alison, setting out his position as a candidate in the 1848 Presidential election, are dated Baton Rouge, Apr. 22, 1848, and East Pascagoula, Sept. 4, 1848. They are generally believed to have been drafted by others for publication over the candidate's signature. ["Who Wrote the Alison Letters?", Joseph G. Rayback, Mississippi Historical Review, vol. 36 (1949/50), p. 51-72]

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