The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-07-19


that he himself was one of the few friends of the
scheme who had access TO the ear of the Presi-
dent and he enjoins the suppression of his
name, as lie apprehends that, if the fact should
become public that he was the advocate of an
nexaton, it would render him unpopular in the
event of the rejection of the treaty.
| Either this friend and adviser of our Secretary
of Stateis an out and out liar. or what he states
is true because he could not he mistaken. And
| if what he states was true, then the statement
of the President, that the people of Texas were
unanimously in favor of annexation was untrue.
In either case the President is placed in di-
lemma for if he stated the truth in reference to
the public opinion of Texas, he has at the same
time avouched the veracity OF writer, who,
with every opportunity Of knowing, contradicts
MIN. a nI 3ak z .4a.Isl
We confess, however, that the letter has very
much the appearance Of having been manufac-
tured "to order," for the purpo,e Of operating
upon the fears Of the Southern people; and we
make the same remark of the re nander Of the
suppressed, as well as the unsurpassed corres-
pondence. Every sort of statements have been
made to operate upon public opinion in different
quarters of the country. A scheme of fraud
was to be effected by the aid of lies and false
prctences, and as these lies and pretences had to
meet various as well as conflicting objections to
the treaty, they of course could not be expected
to harmonise among themselves. In the South
the scheme of annexation is urged on the ground
that it will extend and perpetuate slavery. In
| the North, it is defended upon the opposite
ground, that it will curtail and eventually pro-
duce the abolition of slavery. OF course, the
various falsehoods necessary to bolster up those
conflicting appeals to conflicting interests must
| fall foul of each other. All truths harmonise,
but lies are ever at war with each other. Like
the Kilkenny Cats, they may eventually destroy
each other. Such has been the fate of the an
| rexaton lies-no two will run together.
| For instance, when Senator Walker attempted
to pervert and fasify the truth, and confound the
common sense of mankind by availing himself Of
blunder in the census tables, he entanged him.
self in mesh of contradictions, the grossest, most
glaring, and even ludicrous, which ever environed
sophist. He attempted to frighten the North
ern people into the support of annexation, by
showing the horrible consequences which were
speedily to flow from the presence of the free
blacks. In order to make the evil apparent, he
turned to the census tables, in which the whole
number of insane, paupers, and prisoners, in some
of the New England States or rather in some
towns and counties of those States, were accident
ally set down as colored persons. In this way it
was made to appear that the proportion of such
| persons among the blacks in those States was
some twenty times greater than among the
whites. So glaring an absurdity, SO deplorabe
il true, could never have been taken for granted
| much less, by one who loved his species. But
| Senator Walker never doubted its correctness.
1t ohimed in so well with his nefarious scheme of
annexation, upon which his heart was set, he
| pretends, because it is to sink the value of his
property two hundred thousand dollars, that he
felt no wish to scrutinize it, Had he thought
proper to turn over leaf Of the tables, and com.
pare the number of blind, insane, paupers and
prisoners, set down for any one town, with the
number of colored inhabitants of the town, he
would have seen that it was frequently the case,
that more colored nvalids were set down for a
particular town, than the town contained colored
inhabitants. This has been shown to be the case
in more than dozen instances by the physicians
of Boston, and by others, who have taken the
pains to examine the subject. But glazing and
gross as the error was, and paIpable as it has
| been made to appear, no one friend of anEeXa-
ton has ever had the honesty to retract the
statement
| Senator Walker having shown to his own sat-
isfacton, and to that of his friends, the alarming
proportion of helpless paupers among the free
| blacks, proceeds to show that they are gifted,
nevertheless, with the most remarkable fecnndty
of which the natural history of man furnishes
any account
He proceeds to show how, in fifty years. they
are to cover the land like the frogs Of Egypt all