Mobile register and journal., 1845-06-12


 Mexican claimants have appealed tofbe President for the payment of'he iasiaments provided for un- der the general appropriation act ol last session. or to state his reasons for withholding payment.
 The reason assigned is, as we understand it. that the President has yet received sufficient proof as required by the appropriation law, tbat the mo. ne, had been paid to the proper agent of the United States.
 The Tuscaloosa State Journal and Flag, has at length thrown of disguise and moderation, and iak, 2 broadly, the very position which we charged it at first with intending, and the impufation of which repelled as an effort on part, to disturb the har monY of the party by raising dangerous subject for discussion. The danger, t appears, was that the litor of that paper, if not suffered to continue his course of covert hostility a large body of demo crats, would be compelled to take his ground openly; and, since think there is much less danger in his open ihan in his secret hostility, glad to have brought him out fully that he may be understood dis tnctly in the State The sentiment enmty and pro- scrpuon towards the democrats who adhered to Mr. VAN BUREN up to the Baltimore nomination, s no longer vaguely denied or hestaingly deprecated, but boldly avowed and defended. The affectatron of being misunderstood and misstated, when accused of this purpose, is dismssed; and instead O. reproach- es that when we defended ourselves and our friends, we were drawing a 'line of divsion' in the demo- cratic party against the wishes of the Tusca loosa editor, it is now fully confessed that we read his meaning right, anl proclaimed that he stands by and wl maintain the hostile position exactly as we as- signed it to him upon his first demonstrations.
 As first taken, the position was, that the appoin- ment of Mr. SHIELDS of this State, by Mir. POLK, was less acceptable than that of some other person among another class who were more entitled to the | confidence of Mir. POLK. It now assumes the avow- ed ground that Mr. SHIELDS represents that class of democrats who preferred the nomination of Mir. VAN BUREN, over all the candidates presented originally to the Convention at Baltimore; and, being member of that Convention from this State, voted for Mir. VAN BUREN "seven' times,-tha is, until Mr. PoLK's name was brought before the Convention, and as long as Gen. CAss was the opposing candi- date. This course of MT. SHIELDS and of those who concurred with hun, the Journal denominates a ''blind adherence to Mr. Van Baren's Jortunes." h his votes through ''seven successive baottngs" for VAN BUREN against CAss, he is charged with hav- ing 'misrepresented'' the democratic party of this State; and, throughout, it assumed and assei ted, that all who pursued this course and partook Of this position, were thereby proven to be ''oplonents ol annexation," and, by the rule applied to Mir. SHIELDS, are not worthy of the confidence of the democratic party or of the administration of Mir. | PoLKl Nay, so fixed IS the determ'naton of the Journal to unpardonabe sin in adherence 10 Mir. VAN BUREN. that it persists in inferred in- situation against the Register of lukewarmness or dsaection to the of Texas, in the single fact that it would not surrender it's preference for Mir. VAN BUREN until POLK actually nominated, notwithstanding we were all the time ardent sup porlers of Texas-notwithstandng we dissented im- 1 medately and openly from MT. VAN BUREN's opin- ions of the inexpedency of the annexation move ment at the time, and notwithstanding we distinctly favored the ratification even oi the Tyler treaty. The determination to assail was more obslin- ately mani tested with total disregard of reason, fact and probability. The broad rule infer rable from all these, existing in the thought and heart of the Journal editor and those he represents, anA all but literally expressed in his words. is that | the democrats, who preierrIng Mir. VAN BURENo orl- ginaly, did not abandon him al once, irrespective of all considerations save tie annexation question. without assurances of possible union upon any ot- CT named candidate and with no clear Lelef that annexation itself would, in any other hands proposed, l fare better thah il would do in his, who the de- clared friend of it's consuonality and general ex- pedancy; and al, those who did not in this state of uncertainty chime in with a string of denuncatons much of winch had existed before, irrespective oi nth lic ,ia ed enemies of Texas and the Southern democracy, |, and ought to be avoided by the administration of Mr. POLK.
 Having stated this as the sum of the position of the Jou na stripped of it's veIbiage, il might be left revolt by Its monstrous assumptions the good and good feelings of the democracy. without com- mentary of ours. The feebieness of the stab might provoke nothing but ridicue if the morbid dispos- ton to wound did not provoke resentment, and the arrogance of the pretensions excite amazemeBt. They who remember the convusions which in the spring of lS44 reduced the democratic party to Inc very verge of dssouton-who recall the doubts and alarms that shook the strongest hearts-who can re vve the true history of the course of fearful trial through winch it struggled before the right path to union was formed and the for the times brought forward to lead the way to harmony and victory will scarcely bestow the decent cviity of patient hear ing upon the presumption which at this day would charge with dlsaffection treachery those who failed through the clouds and darkness 10 see the certain road to safety. That the Baltimore Con vention was honestly devoted to the acquisition of TEXAS will not be disputed and yet. of that bodya large majority-nore than one hundred and fifty memhers-voed, at various times, that MT. VAN BuRER ought to be the candidate of the party, until Mr. POLK was announced as the point for compro- mise and uAion Never but once, did less than one hun dred members of the Convention adhere to Mr. VAN BeREN against all candidates proposed. These men were the 1rst to bring forward Mir. POLK. They were the leaders in the movement which made him the candidate Of the party; and the conci,aton and unanmiy which closed their labors was ''mainly ' as Gen Jackson has described it the work of "tbe personal and political friends of Mr. Van Buren." With these acis before him, spread broadly on the history of that assemblage, notorious the day pgt it is piece of arrogance al once frivolous and Insuting for the Tuscaloosa edtor representing tho minority of the Convention in their feelings, to estab lish as the test and shbbolet for admission into the true church, hostility to Mir. Van Buren in the Bal tlmore Convention. Had we any individual preiu- dices against him, we could wish hun worse po- Itcal fortune than to stake himself upon that issue in this State,