The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1844-11-26

43 He saw Uther signs of il in the summer oil
l843 and by the end of the late session OF Congress
the signs bad become thick and clear that he was
able to denounce it on the floor OF the Senate His
reply to Mr.. McDufhs on Saturday, the 18th OF
June, was the first public denuociation OF this new
treason against the Union. He had denounced II
long before 10 many psrsons and particu arly al The
late sesson of Congress to Mr.. Aaron V. Brown,
member Of Congress from Tennessee, who had vica
riousy obtained the Texas letter from Genea al Jack
SOD, and who seemed to be vicariousy charged with
some enterprise on himself. and which was nlpped
10 the bud, be what it might He had foretold al
the commencement of the session all that no had
proclaimed at the end Of it. He knew the treason
able dss gn and the Presidential intrigue long before
he proclaimed it in the Senate He could not speak
out until the signs we're sufficiently developed to
command the attention and the credence Of the pub
lic Before the end of the session this was the case
Believing In the strength of the Texas question: and
that the patriotic sympathies of the people might
blind them to the consequences OF rash conn-
sells, the old nullifers aud dsunionists OF 1852
went boldly to work to accomplish the design
which they admit they began too soon thcn.-
Dsunion ss consequences of non annexation, was
proclaimed in hundreds Of resolutions. Measures
were openly concocted for carrying the resolutions
into effect Members of Congress from the Southern
States were invited to act together; communications
with the Texan Minister were recommended TO De
osaseas ell the slave States were to be reused and
excited aud, TO crown tho scheme, Hartford Con
psnon, under the pretext of Southern Texas Con-
yen.ion, was proposed to be held at Nashville. All
this he, Mr. B., had denounced in the Senate. He
denounced it in the hearing Of thousands, with the
concurrence of almost all, and without denial from
any. Wings and Democrats applauded him. Hap
PLY there was one green spot IN the political held
where Wings and Democrats united, and that was in
the patriotic field Of devotion to the Union. Wings
cheered him as well as Democrats, when he de-
nounced disunlOn in the American Capitol; and
thA<<; INTO 10 hOh
been when, on the 9th day of July, the present
mouth, Wings and Democrats assembled at Nash
vile in joint meeting, and IN energetic resolutions
piotested against the Dissertation Of Tennessee soil
by profaning 1t to the purposes OF disunlon Con-
vention. These resolutions will repulse the South
Hartford Convention from Nashville, and drive
it to seek some other locality
We shall be truly rejoiced to ascertain that
the speech from which the above extracts
marked for insertion in our paper) are taken
was merely an "inventOn of the enemy ="
although it is quite probable that such senti.
ments, purporting to come from such dislin-
guished source, may have very materially ope.
rated on the election in Tennessee, in which
State this document was extensively circulated.
The measure of Annexation, however, is
sufficiently potential of itself to make its way 10
a happy contamination, in despite of opposition
from any quarter. 1t is the PEoPLE's measure,
and to resist it is TO be crushed. The effort to
stem the tide of its growing popularity, when it
had as yet not acquired one-lourlh Gifts destined
impetus, annihilated schemes for the Presden-
cy which had been connecting for years, and
which formed the grand result of the labors and
ntrigues of powerful combinations of politi-
clans and presses. This was when the mea-
sure was in its infancy subsequently, when it
waxed little stronger, but while still in It's
youth, like young Hercules, it demolished the
Wing party, and placed one of its sincere advo-
Gates at the head of the Government, who had
not, previous to its birth, even aspired TO that
exalted position.
And now, when The power of this great ma
tional measure is rapidly attaining the full vigor
of maturity, it would be well for politicians, be-
fore opposing it, to consider It's importance 10
the country, geographically, commercially
and poltically;" the will of the People, just
expressed at the polls and, finally, in what
light their conduct may be viewed by pos
terity.
| Caumny and detraction did their worst dur
ing The contest just closed so trumphantly.-
If the charges and fdbrications in the extracts
we have copied, be not indeed the productions
of the author TO whom they are attributed, still
they have been every where circulated and
similar ones, of almost equal enormily, have
been uttered by our opponents IN every section
Of the Union and all to no purpose. The
President, the Secretary of State, and all the
able aud patriotic statesmen who cheered them
on in their labors, are sufficiently acquitted Of
the evil designs imputed to them by their cir
cumveuted enemies. The People would moi
believe such preposterous and absurd libes, and
their verdict of "not guilty" has been deposit
ed In the BALLOT BOX.
EMOLlENTS.