, 1841-11-13

possibility was that letter written, which
few individuals. have attempted to perver
for the promotion Of their own designs; how
far they may be able TO succeed, the future
will disclose.
sin these last days" new lights have
sprung upon the world in regard TO politics
as well as to other things, and ] hope sir, YOU
will illuminate the dark and benigllted re.
gionS by informing the Democrats upon the
GOrdcrS of the State, in mhat manner the
presentation Of my name to their consideration.
is to uork OBSTRUCTION TO TIE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY"
You have charged me with being n "foe to
Democracy" And upon what grounds!
Have done any thing that any man in the
State has not a right to do?
Is it anti-democraiic for a man TO Weld to
the call of his friends TO serve them, if they
think him honest and capable?
Is it democratic to expeI a man from his
party because. his fiepss think proper to
present him as a candidate for an office
which the people hare the right to besiow?
Is it anti-democratic for 4 man who resi-
DIES in the North, TO have bis name presented
by bis friends as a candidate, because he had
not been selected by the Legislative Caucus?
Is it democratic TO ex-communicate me, be-
cause the democrats of Marion recommended
my name 10 the democracy in other portions
at the State, being ignorant at the time that
the caddina,cs were all selected at Jefferson
City last spring?
If this he democracy, "good Lord deliver
me FROM it.
If | had been apprised at the time my
friends called upon ne, that the candidates
for the next Congress were all arranged al
Jefferson last winter, | should not have Civ
en- consent for my name 10 60 before the
Convention. But in as much as | was igno-
rant of that fact, and my friends being equal
ly so, | hope your holmes will absolve me
from the responsibility of breaking down the
democratic party. | had no such intention
or desire, and | know the gentlemen who
wrote that letter too well, to permit the i'm
preston to be palmcd upon the democracy
Of Missouri, that they had any such object
in view. Ii was not division, but the pre-
Of the harmony Of the party. they
were aiming at.
II.noo ,,l,c,ta o,,.1E f-,,, H. ,,,1.,
nant ISLANDERS contained in your editorials Of
the Goth, | shall close this communication
with few remarks to tho Democrats of the
State, whose hostility las been attempted TO
be aroused against me, upon The most I'M
founded and un justifiable grounds, and whose
authority alone, ! shall recognize as being
competent to expel me from their ranks.
The cause of democracy has nothing to
fear a: my hands. ! am the last man in the
State, who would throw any obstacles in the
way of its triumphant march; and i'll thought
for a moment, that the presentation of my
lame to the Convention, would produce any
d~ifiucl,y in our ranks, it shall never be sub
with my consent. WIN thiS dcclara-
ton, as frankly made, as it is sincerely en-
tertained, | hope all apprehensions in regard
to the integrity of the party, so far as | am
concerned, will at once cease. And, in
conclusion, permit me TO say, that should
the partiality of my friends place my name
before the Convention, and that body should
find an individual whose honesty. capacity
and devotion to the cause, should give him
stronger claims upon their confidence and
regard, no man shall excel me in the cheer
fulness with which | shall submit to their de-
cision.
WIN. WRIGHT
Palmyra, Oct. 3Oth 1871.
The Democratic papers in the State, will
please give this an insertion.
w. w.