Mobile register and journal., 1845-08-23

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 | We have several times had occasion 10 remark how much the manly nature of our contemporary oi the Advertiser comes into conflict sometimes with his party habitudes and necessities. Ills whggery which is the daily occupation of his thoughts, the theme of his daily labor, frequently brings him into contact with men and contact with measures which he promptly repudntes whenever his natural inpul- ses get the mastery of the prejudces which his party zeal engenders within him and enables him io see clearly whilher they have been leading him. In yesterdays paper we have notable example of this conflict between his nature and his party obli- gaions and prejudices, his Amercansm with his 1 whiggery. With conscientiousness too, of their incompatibiity. he has placed his patriotism in one article and embodied his whiggery in another, both | being on the sam subject of the war in Texas for Texas.
 The article which is with grace placed first, is spirited generous article on the American slde l ofthe war to which soldiery now summoned in haste. The tone is high apparently and, we doubt not, really natural and sincere. We are very glad 10 see it. the more 70 as il contrasts favorably with the narrow, carping and facous temper of some oi the organs of hs own party elsewhere.
 The next succeeding article is devoted to the other aspect of the matter, it's whigg gshness, as distinct from it's Amerlcansm The warmth of generous zeal for the country, irrespective of party, which gowed in the first paragraph s chilled by stream of cold partizanshp in the second. The good feel ing in national cause, which belongs to the crlss, and which the leading paragraph was so we'll calcu. lated to promote, must be sacrificed to the re- quirements of party; hence tissue of political slurs is brought forward to provoke recrimination and resentment and throw brand of party discord into the public service which the aid of all cti zens is about to be required. The leading democrats are denounced as having brought the country into peril by wlfu lalsehoods, and the men of the party general, stigmatised as towards who having brought the country nto difficulty, will be missing "when the time comes for fghrlng." There IS wretched taste and very bad temper m this sort of insulting language, for which there is explanation but the recurrence of parry sptefulness, which had given way for short to the public instincts of national spirit. We will not be mean enough to relort upon the whigs this insoen language of them champion. We believe that when the time of fight | Ing comes, the mass of whigs will do their duty to their country, but net an inch Tn advance of their democratic fellow citizens. We scorn 10 make any party distinction of personal bravery among our countrymen, and we thlnk our contemporary will fail to recommend himself even to his whg readers by these paliry mputations upon the democrats
 One word as to the real merits of the party attack which he makes upon the democrats as the authors of this wsr-responsible for it's calawites We are told that the whigs foresaw and warned us against | tbo ,l. I.- with lie in their mouths and induced them To adopt the measure (o annexaton) under the assurance that il peaceful measure and would not lead to war'' The substance of the allegation is that the whigs would have avoided war by rejecting anexa- | tlon-,he democrats by consummating annexation. produced the war, and were guilty of deceit in deny ! ing that var would follow, as the whigs affirmed.
 This is u very unfair statement of the position of
 the democracy. They assumed that 1t was | impossible that could follow annexation. hey only maintained that It ought not 10 follow-hat Mexico had no just cause of complaint and no right 10 commence hos,ilities. They affirmed that Texas was independent, and right join the Federal Union without injury 10 any just right of MexIco They have never assumed that Mexican folly and in. science might not produce aggressisns but they did assume that the United States were not bound to abandon great public measure required by national reasons of great weight and sustained by national law, from the anticipation that Mexico might take unreasonable offence and proceed 10 of hostility.
 The whigs could only answer to this and make the annexation ofTexas a national crime in the dem. ocra's-tAat the course of Mexico is just-that she has been aggresed-robbed of her territory, or in- Jnred m her honor by the of the American Gov ernment' Is that the Advertiser's position? In re- curing to the prudence and wisdom of whirgery, which would have avoided this war by abandoning Texas, does he mean take that ground and revive thereby, amidst the clangor of arms, all the marty controversies of the past year1 II so, he w, have two very grave perplexiries before hm-,he first will be maintain the truth of this position, so adverse to the honor and justice of his own country in the war, if he can, and then reconcile its ncongruity with magnauimous professions, with which his lead. 1 ng paragraph set out.
 Oeai rsiarns o the kate election is Mobile county. Bienniel Sessions, 24s9 / | Opposed, 1ls-26l7 mai. 23sl. Removal of seat of Govt, 24o0
 { opposcd, 20s--26os mai. 2l97.