The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-07-19
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FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 10. 1874.
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Our readers will remember that the President,
in his message to Congress communicating the
treaty of annexation, broadly asserted that the
people of Texas were unanimously in favor OF
annexation, a circumstance upon which he, and
the friends of the measure generally, relied in no
small degree in Their arguments in support OF It.
The country was left to infer, and we believe It
was SO declared, that information to that effect
had been derived from various sources entitled to
credit. The Senate was informed, at the same
time, that, in addition to the official correspond
ence, number of private letters had been re-
ceiyed from Texas. communicating information
Of the state of public feeling, with the probable
effects of the rejection of the treaty, which, from
the high responsibility of their authors, were en-
titled to entire confidence, though their names
would be withheld. The Senate very properly,
from sense of the dignity of their Legislative
junction. refused to consider or in anywise notice
the anonymous letters. They have nevertheless
found their way to the public through the news
papers, and any one who reads them will say in
voluntarily that they harmonize admirably with
the disgraceful treaty which they accompany.
The same assumption as to the ignorance, de-
pravity, and gnllibility of the American people
is perceptible in the letters, as may be read in
every line that has been either written or spoken
in behalf Of the reasonable scheme Of annexation.
But we have called attention at present to the
correspondence. for the purpose Of showing how
palpably the statement Of the President in refer
ence to the unanimity Of the people Of Texas in
favor of annexation is conVadicted by the very
correspondence upon which he has relied, and for
- which he has Hnnehad~i in support Of flfs asser-
ton. We here quote from one of the reliable
correspondents Of the Secretary of State, for
whose yeraciiy both Tyler and Calhoun pledge
themselves:
Extracts Of private letter from gentleman residing in
Texas to the Secretary OF State.
HoUsToN, April 20, 1914.
Dear Sir: write you at this moment, because
/ am sure there is no one here will do II, as most
of those in the confidence of the President here
are bitterly opposed TO annexation.
The enemies of annexation urge upon the Presi-
dent that we cannot get as good terms after an.
nexaton fails, and that it is his duty now to re-
ceive propositions from England
do not say these things because I have any
want of faith ia President Houston but because
/ know the almost overpowering influences that
are brought to bear upon him. You will doubts
less be furnished by this mail, through General
Henderson, with the evidence that the commits
sion for an ariDistice was at once rejected by
General Houston, when it reached him, on the
ground that we were treated in it as depart
ment of Mexico, and that the commissioners had
not the slightest authority to treat upon that ba-
sis. In truth, the commissioners, who are vo-
lenty opposed to annexation, are believed here
to have entered into that agreement for the very
purpose for which it will doubtless be used by
Mexico and the opponents of annexation-to de-
feat the measure.
am not willing that this letter shall 90 on the
files of your Department. am not certain you
think the facts communicated of any Importance !;
orthat you may not have them from other quarters,
on which you have more right to rely or that
they may not be too late for any useful purpose.
If annexation should fail, this letter might prove
very injurious to me, if known here if the mea-
sure succeeds, care nothing about it..
lam among the few friends of annexation who
are so much IN the confidence of the Executive
az TO know what movements are taken to favor
or defeat the measure.
Now, any one xho has read the foregoing ex.
quences from them. Either the writer of Them
the correspondent of the Secretary of State
for whose veracity the Preside ut stands pledged
has told, from beginning to end, a pack Of wfu
falsehoode, or else, if what he states is true
then has the President himself made a Statement,
to the Senate, which is palpably contradcted by
this correspondent. There is no room for expla-
nation or avoidance of the dilemma. This wri-
Ter vss ia Texas, enjoying the confidence Of the
Govesnnent Of that Republic when he penned
the aboss statements; and consequently could
not b migtskes in what he declares. He says
that the President Of the Republic. backed by a
Spowerful inAasncs" which he could not resist, If