The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1844-04-16
The following is from Wing paper, for
merly favorable to the election of MIR. Webster. I

The following is from Wing paper, for
merly favorable TO the election of MIR. Webster I
Fro~ ae ks~ Orleums Bullet;n
The letter Of Mr.. wxssrxn sgshnss the annexn-
ton Of Texas, for which have endsa vored for
three or four days to 6nd place, and which we in
sert this morning Git will be found the 6rst page)
may be considered, we suppose, the leading docu
ment as one Of his partisans expresses the soon
centrated argument" Of the side which Mr. W. has
10 fit spouse. 1t embraces, at all events every
objection which, as far have seen, has been
urged against the measure; and the objections are
pressed we cannot say with Mr.. Webster's usual vi
gor, but with much force as they are capable of
in any hands; they backed also, by as great
name as will probably be arrayed on that side. On
the ground then that weak argument ESPECIALLY
when it is the sole (argumen) strengthens the cause
which it attack, the friends of annexation have rea-
son to congratulate themselves that the enthe stock
Of the opposition has thus been concentrated and
its poverty made manifest.
The first thing, perhaps, which will strike the rea
der, upon the Perusa of This letter., is that, long
| ago the 18Th December, the good people Of Wor-
cester, Mass had an nkling of the designs of Mr.
TYLER on Texas, and rushed for help from the i'm
pending calamity to MIR. Webster; that it was not
until the 23d of January that Mr. W. could get rea-
dy his weapons, felt that they would be need
ed that it not until the middle of March, stimuli
taneously with the memorable epoch 10 the life OF
| the National lntegencer, when that sheet opened
its eyes to the fact that it had been sleeping for half
| a year pillowed on a bomb SHE'LL that the good peo-
pie for whose comfort especially the letter was writ.
| ten, could persuade themselves TO make it public
and finally, that on the appearance of this letter and
at the discharge of an alarm gun by the InteIigen.
Ger, general attack commenced, fast the rvs
| ran, from Dan to Bersheeha, from Wall street to
Chartres street, from the Northeastern boundary to
the tropics. How did the people of Worcester man
age 10 be so much ahead of the rest of the opponents
| of anne atom How could Mr.. Webster be aware
on the Odd Of January that the danger imminent,
and his friends, conhdants and supporters remain in
| ignorance till the 18th Of Marchi How could the
persons to whom the letter addressed in the face
of Mr.. WIS assertion that the question on the
point Of dscussicn conclude that it not so, and
on that plea suppress the letter during period Of
fifty daysi How does it happen that "the proper
time for the publication Of the letter, for the Ma
tions Inteilgencer to its vision and speech
| and for "Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart" to open
their throats occurred almost at the moment that it
was asceriaiDed that a South Carolinap, and not
Massachusetts man, would fill the Department Of
State9 The questions will be asked, but probably
never answered-W neither it will be worth while to
hunt for clue to these condolences will depend on
the issue Of events.
The remarks which are suggested by the subs ancc
Of the letter Of Mr. W., necessarily omitted un-
| Ill tomorrow.