The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-11-19
TENNESSEE.

TENNESSEE
This gallant State, second of the daughters Of the
Old Thirteen, and worthy Of her Immediate parent,
tho vrtuous Old North, has recorded her suffrage
against ns ons dshonor and national Ioiy, oy css'
Ing her vote for "HEsKx CLAY and NC linton against
..PoLx and Texas sriih without the Uno" oh1 mas
thus ratified the patriotic and honorable but hazard
our stand. taken by her hgh-mnded Senators IN Con-
gress against the scheme fleece weak and friend
ly neighbor under tho forms of treaty with third
party which to 90 halves IN the sPoil. In mus
nopy deciding the State of Tennessee deserves more
than ordinary respect; for perhaps no other member
of the Confederacy was impeed by so many or SO
strong ties towards Union with Texas as herself
Yet for national honor and good faith, she resisted
all motives Of private interest, OF State pride, ana
the strong feelings Of fraternity which bind her
to multitude Of the earliest and best emgrants to
Texas who went thither from her bosom. W th the
vote OF Tennessee the vote Of New YORK would have
placed HENRr CLAY in the Presidency, station
which he was so fitted TO fill which he SO well earn,
ed by life of devotion and pre-eminent SERVICE and
for which he has received larga majority OF the
votes of his countrymen. How burning is the shame,
and how deep the disgrace, that The will OF this ma
iorty should have been rendered abortive, and the
ondss hopes of this great nation crushed, by means
openly and undcniaby fraudulent and yet without
remedy!
Now il is by no means ascerlained that Ten
nessee has been carried for Mr. Clay; and ii IL
should be, ii will certainly be retaken before
the lapse of TWO years. That triumph for the
President elect, and modification for his bitter
enemies at home, would undoubtedly come to
pass.
But the assertion that to have gone for MIR.
Polk, would have been deciding in favor OF ma
tional dishonor, and national folly" is saying
no more nor less than that majority OF the
States have recorded their suffrsges" in taror
of "nalonal dishonor and national folly" The
IntelIigencer is not wont 10 bestow such dis
graceful epithets on majority Of the States OF
the Union and we infer from itthal its shame
less advocacy of the interests OF Great Britain
and Mexico. in opposition to the interests oil lis
ostensibly adopted country, and the exposure OF
the circumstances which influenced its detes'a-
Bile course, have convinced its editor that large
majority of the States will withhold their pa
tronage from it in future. Such considerations,
and such convictions, we are led TO believe,
have induced this out-bnrst of vindictive pas
sion, this wholesale and unmerited attrlbulion
of dishonesty and dishonor 10 a majority OF the
States.
But the implication goes still farther, viz: not
to vote for HENRY CLAY and the Union," was
dishonorable in any citiZen-and TO vote Tor his
competitor, was to vote for " I'e.rds 1Dih or
1uithout the Union" Grosser libels were sure
date annexation Of Texas, at least ninety nine
in every hundred OF them, have never dreamed
of making any such issue as "Texas with OF
without the Union" This charge, reiterated
by our opponents throughout the campaign, was
gross and wan,on calumny. The advocate:
of the measure art, on the contrary, the trues
and frmest friends of the Union; and thel
standard bearer, whom they have just elevated
TO the Presidency, would be the first man to
"hang as high as Haman," the blue-light Fede
ralist of Vermont or Massachusetts, who woult
be the first TO attempt to dissolve the Unior
upon the annexation of Texas. And ii would
be as well for the British Federalis,s of thos,
States TO take warning in time, for Texas vii
be annexed, and they 'oiH not be dilo1ed e
execute the reasonable practices uhich w.
KNOW them TO hare in contemplation.
As for the "patrotc," and honorable" anC
slituenls have yet in reserve for them the scath
ing rebuke and ultimate punishment they have
so richly merited. And as for the weak spt
friendly neghbor,n we doubt not the result will
prove that she has been more severely ''leeced'
by her unprincipled and mpolent advocates II
this country, than she can justly charge tn,
party which will effect the annexation of Texas
with doing.
We are well aware Of the base means resort
ed to by the Wings to carry Tennessee agains
her own noble son. They declared themselves
and their candidate, to be in favor of the only
practicable means Of annexation. They dc
not dare to say they were opposed to an
nexation, upquai6edy; but they labored tc
prove that Texas could not be annexed if III,
Democratic candidate should be elected, anc
essayed but too successfully, we fear, to show
that some of our ablest leaders were opposed Il
the measure. and had voted against the Treaty
The productions Of certain prominent Demo
Gratis, who differed with the great mass of tn,
party, were extensively circulated, to couvnc,
the People that the sentiments of their author,
were identical with those entertained by Mr.
Clay, and that in reference to this leading mea
sure, it did not matter much who should b,
elected.
Blu, the Tntelligencer goes even farther vet
and asserts, in the face of facts, what is not ,
fact, that Mr.. Clay "has received a large ma
iority Of the rofes Of his countrymen" Thu
is most extraordinary assertion, and has beef
made by several of the rabid Wing prints
Mr.. Clay has been defeated by an immense ma
joriiy Of the electoral votes against him. w,
have not, we confess, yet been enabled 10 cal
culaie the accurate proportion Of the popular vor,