The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-05-20
SNATcHERS OF FRUIT WHO DARE NO
SHAKE TIE TREE.

SHAKE TIE TREE.
The Madisonian of Friday puts it to few men
"under the shirt" who are attempting to build
up their fame and fortunes upon design they
had neither the sagacty to perceive the disturbing
influences OF, nor the courage to embark in, until
the Guy Fawkes of the plot had set it on foot.
From the Madison.an
HE ONLY PROPER CANDIDATE FOR THE PREsI-
DENcY ON THE PART OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
AND THE FRIENDS OF CERTAIN ANNEXATION OF
IEXAs.-lt is admitted on all hands that the an
nexation of Texas is the most important question
that has occurred in the progress of this Govern
ment since the adoption of the Constitution. Did
the most profound diplomast ever before achieve
SO great boon for his country at SO little cost or
risk of blood treasure! What might well
have baffled the skill of Metternch or the cum
ming of a Talleyrand has been accomplished by
judgment well balanced, and honest determine.
ton. When before was such acquisition ever
made on terms SO easy and SO honorable to both
parties? conquest of intellect and pure pa
triotism, unfollowed by oppression and unstained
with blood! What section Of the Union will not
be benefited by this crewning civic triumph of John
Tyler? Those who have assisted to accomplish
a design which is destined to form the brig htest
in our diplomatic history have been but tools
in the hands of the chief artifcer executing his
Withdrawing out the tracings of his pencil
Tools, it is readily admitted, sharp and well
adapted to the work, but showing no less the
judgment that selected them than their own
fitness for his good purposes. Now that the ed-
flee has been fashioned, and the frame work put
together, there Is, in fact, scarcely anything left
but for the Senate to turn the key and deliver it
to the people. There is, it seems, no lack of
journeymen to admire the plan, and to volunteer
to finish what, if anything, may yet be left I'M
done Thus would the great work enure
monument to the glory of men who were asleep
when it was projected-men asleep, who would
have been sadly startled from their propriety' at
the bare suggestion of the bold and magnificent
design! Which of these eleventh hour
Texas annexers would have had the moral cour-
age to stake the responsibility" at the time and
in the manner that old Veto has done? Not he,
surely, who could never make up his opinion
whether the deposites ought or ought not to be
removed, nor he who always thinks on every
question "pretty much as usual" Can it be
that any one of the peculiar friends of annexation,
who were so prompt to encourage Mr.. Tyler to
throw the weight of his name and talents and The
prestige of his office into the scale-can it be
that any such, be he grave Senator or civilian,
would now be seen acalker up TO to snatch the
chaplet from his brow, and to place it on that of
some cautious hatcher of eUents? Let such can.
did and disnterested statesmen remember that
whatever may be the result of the Presidential
men will think of their sincerity and gratitude!
But there is in the breast of American yeomen
an innate of Justice that revolts at the
thought OF such in6delity as would be displayed
by the desertion of John TYLER by Democratic
advocates of Texan annexation.
misunderstanding" or "The Little Walker"
gets it pretty warmly, but not undeservedly
Gov. Cass, "who could never make up his mind
whether the deposites ought to be removed"
comes in for bis share also, as does Buck"
"who always thinks pretty much as usual"
We think it but fair that John Tyler should
have all the credit which belongs to the org-
nator and prime getter up of this annexation de-
sign 1t was intended as bomb by which both
parties should be exploded; but it was burst IN
the Democratic camp, and scattered confusion
dust and dIsmay among the leaders as well as
the camp followers of that party, and that party
only.