The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-07-26

from msconstruction, and that proper efforts will
| secure the nomination of such members of Con-
gress, as will reject the unwarrantablc scheme
now pressed upon the country.
| With these views, assuming that you feel on
this subject as we do, we have been desired to
address you, and to invite the corporation OF
yourself and other friends throughout the State.
lst In the publication of the joint letter, de-
| claring our purpose to support tile nominations,
rejecting the resolution respecting Texas.
2 In promoting and supporting at the next
elections the nomination for Congress OF such
persons as concur in these opinions.
If your views in this matter coincide with Ours,
please write to some one of u.s. and draft of the
proposed letter will be forwarded for examination.
Very respectfully,
GEO. p. BARKER,
WILLIAM c. BRYANT,
J. w. EDMONDS,
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD,
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
THOMAS w. TUCKER,
ISAAC TOWNSEND.
P. S. A copy of this circular has been sent to
the following gentlemen: Michael Hoffman, AL
bert H. Tracy, Hiram Gardiner, Addison Gardi-
ner, Samuel Selden, Henry Selden, Ashley Samp-
son, J. Osborn, Hiram Grey, Jared N. Wilson,
James M. Smith, Thomas G. Talcot, William
Allen, Freeborn Jewett Daniel Chandler, Hiram
Denie, John Tracy, Jabcz D. Hammond, John L.
De Graf, N. L. Benton, Preston King, Rensom
Gillett, Samuel Young, L. Stetson, James B.
Spencer, David L. Seymour, David Buel, Har-
manus Bleecker, A. C. Flagg, Robert McLelIand,
r. D. Davis, James Powers, Archibald Niven,
Nathaniel Jones, John w. Lawrence-and will
be sent to any other person you may wish.
The Evening Post thus comments upon the
circular and it's objects, and hurls back defiance
at the Plebean:
THE TEXAS QUEsTIoN.-The Plebeian has
undertaken to regulate the political conscience
of the Evening Post. One or two articles have
lately appeared in that paper the object of which
appeared to be to set us right on the Texas ques-
ton by threatening US with immediate expulsion
from the Democratic party, unless we should de-
clare ourselves in favor of the annextion of Texas
to the United States. We have always, through
course of many years, whenever the subject
came before the public, protested against that
measure and as we still entertain the conviction
that it is neither wise nor just, we do not see
how we can give it our support. Our opposition
hitherto has never caused our attachmentto DEM
ocratic principles nor our friendship to the Dem
ocratic party to be called in question, nor do we
entertain the least apprehension that it will have
that effect hereafter.
| The Plebeian, to give occasion for its attack
upon us in its sheet of this morning, descends to
the infamy of procuring and publishing private
letter, signed by one o the editors of this paper
and six other persons. The letter contains only
the expression OF opinions which are frequently
repeated in the Evening Post, and will be repeat
ed hereafter; but we claim a right to correspond
privately on political subjects, when we choose,
ard if our letters are plfered and published, we
merely ask the community to mark those who
are concerned in the act as spies and thieves.
Here the Post inserts the circular, and adds j
By the sentiments expressed in this letter, the
course of this paper in relation to the Texas ques-
ton has been governed hitherto, and will be 60
yerned hereafter We do not intend to recognize
the annexation of Texas as an issue between the
two great political parties. 1t cannot be made so
with safety to the Democratic party, in this State
at least 1t is only by taking the ground marked
out in the letter, adopting the nomination of Polk
and Dallas but rejecting the interpolated question
of annexing Texas, and leaving that to be an open
question in the party-lt is thus only that the De-
mocratic party can be saved from defeat through
out the State.
letter from one of the western counties of this
State SAYS Already in this county men of cha
racter and influence, who have always acted with
us hitherto, have avowed their determination to
abandon Mr. Polk and vote for Mr.. Brney, or else
refrain from voting at all, while deep sense OF
dissatisfaction with the course of the Baltimore
Convention pervades the minds of many. These
are not your Drawing pot-house politicians, but
quiet and rejecting men, who are accustomed
to think and act independently Such letter as
that mentioned in your circular, would be calcu-
lated not only to prevent the feeling Of alienation
and disgust from extending, but would perbaps
bring back some, if not all, of those who, under
the influence of a temporary evaporation, have
for the present left our ranks"
In another county Of this State-the county Of