The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-08-15

then the SECESSION from the North and adhesion
to Texas was to become the "rightful remedy"
Texas being in the Union as a territory by the
supreme law of the land, a treaty her non- admIs-
sion by Congress would become a breach OF that
supreme law, and many under those circumstan-
ces were counted upon to secede who would
otherwise abhor secession.
MIR. b. said he saw the first signs of this
scheme of disunion during the session of Con-
gress in lS42-43. He saw other signs Of it in
the summer Of 1913; and, by the end of the
late session of Congress-, the signs had become
SO thick and clear that he was able to denounce
It on the floor OF the Senate. His reply to Mr..
McDufie on Saturday, the 18th of June, was
the first public declaration of this new treason
against the UnioH. He had denounced it long
before to many persons, and particularly at the
late session of Congress to Mr.. Aaron V.
Brown, member of Congress from Tennessee,
who had vicariously obtained the Texas letter
from General Jackson, and who seemed TO be
vcariousy charged with some enterprise on him
self, and which was nipped in the bud be it what
it might. He had foretold. at the commencement
of the session. all that he had proclaimed at the
end of it. He knew the reasonable design, and
the Presidential intrigue, long before he had
proclaimed it in the Senate. He could not speak
out until the signs were sufficiently developed to
command the attention and the credence of the
public. Before the end of the session this was
the case Believing in the strength Of the Texas
question, and that the patriotic sympathies of
the people might blind them to the consequences
of rash counsels, the old nulfers and disunon-
lists of 1922 went boldly to work to accomplish
the design which they admit they began too soon
then. Dsunlon, consequence OF non-an
nexation, vas proclaimed in hundreds of resou-
tons. Measures were openly concocted for car
rying the resolutions into effect Members of
Congress from the Southern States were invited
to act together; communications with the Texan
Minister were recommended to be opened all
the slave States were to be reused and excited
and, to crown the scheme, Hartford Conuen-
non, under the pretext of a Southern Texas
Convention, was proposed to be held at Nash
vle., All this, he (Mr. b. had denounced in
the Senate. He denounced it in the hearing of
thousands, with the concurrence of almost all
and, without denial from any, Wings and Demo-
Gratis applauded him. Happily there was one
green spot in the political field where Wings
and Democrats united, and that was in the patri-
otto field of devotion to the Union Wings
cheered him as we'll as Democrats when he de-
nounced disunion in the American Capitol; and
since that time a still more striking spectacle
had been seen, when, on the 9th day of July,
the present month, Wings and Democrats as
sembled at Nashville in joint meeting, and in
energetic resolutions protested against the desc
Grafton of Tennessee soil by profaning it to the
purposes of dlsunon Convention These re.
solutions will repulse the Southern Hartford
Convention from Nashville, and drive it to seek
some other locality"