The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-05-09

must take the liberty of telling him. and also our
political and personal friend General Dromgoole,
that they are posting to their conclusions with too
much speed. They may see, perhaps, what is
passing under their own eyes at Washington
but they are not sufficiently acquainted with the
public sentiment of Virginia. They were per-
fectly unacquainted with The circumstances under
which this resolution was submitted as compro-
mise resolution, by its distinguished author.
Whatever exception may have been taken to it,
the very last thing that could have been said
against it, was the slightest disposition to fall in
with any paltry intrigue at Washington. Not
even Mr.. Blair or General ID. is more disposed
to do all honor to Mr. Van Buren, nor are they
even less disposed to become the satellites of any
Presidential candidate than the Republican who
penned that resolution, or the man who offered 1t
to the Shockoe Association. No man could have
more sincerely regretted the views which Mr.
Van Buren, has submitted on the question of an
nexation, honest and able as they were. And
we GO further, and say at once, that If ne
should become the nominee of the Baltimore
Convention, we shall battle for him against
Henry Clay to the last-because, independently
of our great respect and personal attachment to
the man, he decidedly goes with us in almost
every great question, and Henry Clay does not
IN one-because, too, he is so much nearer to us
on the Texas question than Henry Clay-and
because he is an able and accomplished states
man, whilst his ambitious competitor is an cleo
toneering demagogue, and would prove an AFRO
giant Dictator to his country
: But il would have been rather more respectful
in the Globe to suppose, that however we may
have been mistaken in the course we have pur-
sued, the friends of the resolution had some
motives which were at least satisfactory to them
selves. BY what authority does the Globe ex-
press the opinion which it is pleased to sport be.
tore the public Why, in this of-hand manner,
and without the slightest evidence, does it sus-
pect us or our friends of being "dupes" to a
miserable intrigue at Washington? Such a
suspicion is utterly gratuitous We are no dupes.
We have participated in no intrigu AS far back
as March, 1913, we expressed in our State con.
vention the strong desire that the nomination of
President should be effected before the meeting
of Congress. We expressly stated, as one of
the reasons for that preference, that there might
be some caba!ling, and some intriguing about
the Presidential candidates. When we heard,
some weeks ago, that some of our friends had eX-
pressed a preference for other candidates, we no.
tced it in our paper and advised the members of
Congress to mind their own business but with
out at all suspectng them of any petty intrigue,
or any " foul conspiracy" Whatever new views
have struck our minds within the last two weeks,
any intrigue at Washington. We have had
very little communication with our friends there
since the day of our State election. We state,
| without the fear of contradiction, during this
eventful period, that no one has attempted to in
tluence our choice, and that no one at Washing
ton has exercised the slightest bias upon our
mind. 1t was not what passed there, but what
was passing in Virginia, which gave rise to the
free conference that produced this compromise
resolution. 1t was the public sentiment, COM
ing up after the election, as well as after the
Texas letter of Mr.. Van Buren,, which gave to
rise to some movement on the subject and no
intrigue at Washington, of which, in the courte-
Gus language Of the Globe, we and others are
said to have been the dupes. Evidence has been
submitted to US from some of the most respect
able Republicans of Virginia, calculated to ar
rest our attention and excite our reflection. We
cannot spread it upon this paper. The letter OF
Mr.. Van Buren,, able in its positions, and hon
orable as it may be to the frankness OF It's au-
thor, could scarcely have been sent forth without
producing deep sensation upon Southern minds.
We cannot change our position in regard to this
subject to please the varying humor of the hour.
We have been the devoted friends of re-aEnexa-
ton for years past. The paragraph which the
Globe published but the last week, from the
Richmond Enquirer of 1929, bears witness to
that fact. When we found that treaty was
upon the tapis, it was our duty to review the
whole subject, and to express our free opinions
with the trankness of freeman, and we hope
the spirit of patriot We could not, on one
day, take stand for the great interests of the
nation, in one of those mastery arguments,
which we should iE vain attempt to initiate, and,
in few days after, abandon our great position,
and throw wet blanket over the hopes and
prospects of the people.
Again, we must say, if things go on as they
have gone for ten days past, our party must be
beaten, and Henry Clay be elected Dictator OF
the Republic.
Dr. Duncan was again at his dirty work yester-
day in the House of Representatives he exhibited
there several banners which he SAID had been
used by the Wings in the campaign of 40, and