Mobile register and journal., 1845-05-30

The whig convention for thIs congressional dIs- trict, which met al Ciab, rue on Monday, nominate ed VIM. D. DUNN, Esq., of this city, their candi- date to Congress. His opponent was J. W. l.. CHILDERs. The majority for Dunn. we are told, was considerable, which some what surprises us, as the friends of Mr Childers here confident he is the choice ofa large majority of the mhig voters in the district Mir. Dunn, however, had il all his own way m covention, and is the whg candidate. He has a busy summers work before him, if he calcu lates upon being elected The district is close, and we mean to give him pushing whipping race for t., | and if he has the speed and bottom 10 come in head. he must shew it all.
 The convention, we are further told, recommend ed JAS DELFT 10 whg support for Goyernor.- We glad see ths for one impor tant reason It Is, that notwithstanding the persevering and un- compromising hostility of the Advertiser and it's ed- tor to the annexation of rex"s, his drnurciaons of all who voted for the terms proposed by the last gress. anl now before Texas for consideration. and in spite of the unreentn8 bitterness with which these terms are ass,iled agranily unconstitutional and inexpedcnl, tn. whg party in the district have prac- tically abandoned his ground and surrendered the
 
 they have selected as their choice the only whig who voted in congress, unfinchngly from first to last. in favor 0 annexalpn, the basIs which pre- yaIel. Having no hope of success. and mean | ing only indicate the alying principles of their parry to keep them from dss"lving, they have cho- l sea an immediate annexationist-a supporter of an nexatOn by the legislative power, for the exponent nf thelr opinions II is proved and irresistible evil dence of the power of public opinion. which has for ced he whg party m this district to discard Opposi- ton Texas from the whig creed, and has compell- ed the relentless of adversares To acquiesce m votes which they have been accustomed to stig- matise openly flag tous in spirit, dislonest in de- sign, subversive of the constitution and ruinous 10 the country. The reviIers Ynd enemies of Texas in this district, place al their head the only man in their party who dared 10 act with the demo- crats that munentous question:, aad have thus gi- ven us the strongest possible proof that they der to the power of the popular will, else that they were faclious beure and unprncpled hypocrtes now, which are too polite to suppose un,Il they shall insist upon that explanation of their course There are, 10 be some, whigs who profess to know something oi the motives of their friends, who will have it that the whigs are striving 10 get MT | DELFT Out for Governor because they ap prove of his course, but because his 'reachery' tC whiggerr, as his vrte would be called by most whigs | elsewhere, can be made profitable to whiggery, by | catching some democratic votes. They far from sanctioning his vote, but they believe that it may be useful Tn obtaining for him zealous Texas men on the other sde, and that the anti Texas party ir ,his State may be thus strengthened by Rsusing the generous feelings of the warmest friends of Texas These, we say, some whig calculations, not yer, pbscurely expressed; but they too shallow to bt though, to have influence with SO respectable bod, as the Convention ut Claiborne. They have too mucl sense-at least we are bound in cviy to suppose so-to look for political triumph upon such silly | device.