The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-06-27
W A S H | N G I 0 n,
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 81, 1914.

REMOVAL OF THE STANDARD OFFICE.
The Publication and Printing Office Of the
building on the east side Of SirM street, four
doors south Of Pennsylvania Avenue.
MR.. WALKERS "FACTS AND FIGURES"
| The grand instrument which has produced
whatever feeling of interest the Southern peo-
pie have Manifested in the annexation Of Texas,
has been the famous letter Of Mr.. Walker. We
read many of the facts which he pretended to
adduce from the census tables, with the profound
est astonishment, mingled with something more
than misgvng as to their correctness, as they
most palpably confcted with common experience
and common sense We were at the tilne, how
ever, unable 10 controvert them, having neither
the opportunity nor the leisure to examine the
sources from which such information can be OBJ
tained-tbe great folio volumes of National Sta
tistics. Doubtless, the great body of the people
have been imposed upon in the same way, by
want of opportunity or inclination to search the
census tables for themselves. We now have it
III Jul pOWtI " eApOSe Tie SToSS liHpOSIloHS
which have been practiced upon the public by
the Senator from Mississippi, whether with the
intention of deceiving and misleading the South
and the country, we are unable to say but it is
difficult to conceive how man of the understand
ing and general knowledge possessed by Mr.Wal-
ker, could have blundered SO stupendously upon
subject to which it is apparent he has given SO
much consideration.
Mr. Walker has deceived and misled the South.
ern people, and induced them to favor a scheme
upon the basis of erroneous facts, which, if they
were correctly informed, they could never be in
duced to coun,enance. 1t is with this view that
we shall proceed to expose his stupid blunders,
or reckless misrepresentation We shall make
use Of Locofoco authority in replying to Mr.. Wal
ker, and therefore it cannot be gainsayed by the
friends of annexation. The authority is that of
tract, entitled Thoughts on the proposed An
nexation of Texas to the United States" twas
originally published in the New York Evening
Post, with the appreciation of the editor The
Post is the only Locofoco paper in that city, we
believe, which makes any claims to decency, and
ranks among the ablest and most authoritative
oracles of Democracy in the country. The tract
in question, however, was not designed for South
ern circulation, as it is mbued with tone of SEN
timen, in reference to slavery, which would not
suit that latitude. The facts it contains may be
relied on, nevertheless, and their correctness put
to the test by any one who will consult the large
folio volumes of census tables which are deposit
ed in the clerks offices of each county court in
the United States. AS the volume which is issued
by order of Congress at every successive census
contains an abstract of all the preceding, it will
be sufficient to examine the last. But the sum-
mary of the census contained in the American
Almanac, for 1912, will be found more conve-
nent and equally satisfactory source OF informa-
ton.
We have nothing to do with the arguments of
the tract against slavery, or those of Mr.. Walker
for the institution, it not COMFORTING with our po-
slton here, as the conductor of political news
paper at the seat of Government, to enter into
those irrelevant disputes. But so far as Mr..
Walker has argued upon false facts, which he
pretends to draw from the census tables, with the
view of deceving the South, we feel it duty to
expose his lmpoSiures
Mr. Walker has endeavored to frighten the
South and the North, by showing the calamities
which the free negroes are likely in short time
to bring upon the country, and the facts by which
he attempts to support this engine of deception,
are, we venture to assert, the most contradictory
and absurd that were ever imposed upon the Gre
dulous lie, in the first place, asserts that the
free negroes in the Northern States, exclusive of
New England, have increased more rapidly than
any population was ever known to have increased
before, since the world began He says that in
1870 they numbered 1898, and in 1910 they
had increased TO 14S, lO7-being eleven times
greater at the latter period than the former :
This is true, and yet it is not the whole truth.