The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-16
THE DAILY UNION.
DOM M UNTO ATOMS.

| For the Union.
Mr.. WALKER AND HIS ASSAlLANTS@,
| THE REGULATIONS AND THE RE-
! SULTS-THE TEXAS CONVENTION AND
I MR.. WALKER, &c.
Seeing in the "Union" of last evening, the cor
respondence which has passed between the rres-
iden of the Convention Of Texas, and the late ex-
President of the United States it strikes me that
similar compliment paid to another OF our fellow
citizens, distinguished by a similar honor, might
not prove unacceptable to your readers. am
also prompted to undertake this pleasing task ny
| other considerations.
| tits perhaps a characteristic Of our countrymen,
that they are curious to know, and sometimes even
credulous TO heed, the very worst that 10 said OF
rising men, in conspicuous POSITIONS; but once DIS
pei the deusion, and unmuffle the defamer, and none
are so prompt just and generous IN their retri-
buttons as thew In their bosoms, deliberate wrong
rarely finds forgiveness; while their rejocings run
even TO excuses over vindcated TRUTH The more
! amable of these characteristics have been most
strikingy exemplfed in the case OF the present
Secretary of the Treasury; and with your leave,
| Mr.. Editor, would claim niche IN the popular
columns of your far spread "Union," TO notice gen.
orally and briefly the last judgment upon his case,
| which has come up from the popular hustings, as
| Introductory to a noble compliment to his public
services, from very high and most gratifying
source
! Few men, IL any, have ever entered the Amer
lean cabinet and remained there so brief time,
| who has had so much said Of him, and against HIM,
as ROBERT J. WALKER! None, certainly,
have endured the infections better, or have emerged
from their nvolvements easier, surer, more un-
sulled than he While imputatons foul enough
and CALLING enough TO put all patience TO the rack
were sweeping over the land and menacing all that
man values, virtue prizes, there sat he the
WHILE in his Treasury studio, toiling, us Is his
wont, over the most gnarled problems in revenue
currency and trade--meeting the many Interrupt
| tons which broke in upon his speculations, with
| so bland and winning suavity of mien, and with
such kind words, so kindly spoken, that he charmed
and won over all corners, and was, IN truth and IN
achievement, absolutely irresistible. witnessed
and shared in many Of these Interruptions; and
deeply reflected upon all they evinccd, and all they
betokened; and the conviction came over me, THAT
/ Robert J. Walker was not the man to be put down
or kept down, under the blight or pressure of any
defamation. Such were my thoughts and feelings
on these occasions; and time which tests the accu-
racy of all progresucs, has, since them come and
gone with its reveaings and have not been disap-
| pointed
Though he never dgnifed many of these calum-
MES by public contradiction, yet how thorough
\ has been the refutaton of them all, and how quiet
and unobtrusive the process through which II has
been wrought! After defamation had strven its ut
termost and done its very worst, tacfs-convincing
| and unanswerable facts--that had slumbered for
years in the passive keeping of honest men in va
red abodes shaken out of their repose by the clam
meeting and mingling together, kindred parcels of
kindred truths, Strengthening and confirming one
another they took their way to public notice; and,
10! the defamers, dumbstricken and COMPOUNDED un-
der the power and presence OF truth, turned away
from the gaze and scorn Of men in very shame;
while the vile calumnies have gone down sleeper
| than plummet ever sounded" beneath the Lethe OF
| the worlds contempt and have been heard of no
more Out of the crcible of these calling trials, his
reputation has come, cleansed of the impurities 1t
mbibed from so vile a contact, and Is now shining
on with brighter and steadier lusre than ever; and
I the tongue of the worlds report proclams, as with
trumpet's blast that Robert j. Walker has never,
since he man. stood fairer, purer higher, in the
| eyes of his countrymen, than noU Reality is all
ready doing for him alLthat he asks; and he would
thank no friend of his TO ask for him more. Here
| is a Christening lesson, from which malice, in the
very zenith of its triumphs, may take warning; and
innocence, in the lowest nadir Of its despair, may
tlke courage
While Mr. W. has thus triumphanty lived down
all these imputations, by practising the admirable
selfdenial of letting Them alone it has seemed to me
a suitable occasion for casting back over few
pages of hs past in senatorial service--con-
WINGED, as ! am, from all see and hear, that the
public after listening long to the rawlings against
/ him. Of malice dire and "ail uncharitableness" far
from begrudging, would gladly award him SO slight
a retrbuton listening TO something IN the way
of praise--that balm of'hurt minds, i" when justly
bestowed, from right motives and on fit occasions
| Most seasonably for my purpose, there has just
reached my hands, from the far south, the noble
compliment already referred to, and which has en-
anated from Texas assembled in her sovereign coun
| Gil, to decide upon the most momentous measure
which ever engrossed her deliberatons--that meas
ure alone excepted which involved her resolution to be
BOND or FREE. Most graciously and gratefully did
her enlightened convention turn aside from its
graver calngs to lavish her honors upon her distn-
guished champion, who had so goriouay earned
them by his arduous and victorious services IN the
cause of her liberty, Independence, and union. As
the resolutions adopted by the convention have al
| ready been noticed elsewhere, do not see the
slightest ndelicacy in introducing them here, with
| the chase and tasteful letter through which it was
made known:
CONVENTION HALL,
| Gerry OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, July %, 1845.
| "SiR: take great pleasure in transmitting to you
the enclosed copy Of resolution unanimously
adopted by the Convention Of the people Of Texas,
now in session.
"The stand taken by you at an early period, as
the friend Of Texas in procuring the recognition Of
her independence, and the accomplishment Of her
annexation to the United States of the north, has
secured to you the LISTING gratitude Of her people.
"You, sir, as one Of the FIRST BEST and staunchest
advocates of the latter measure, the contamination
of which vitality affects the interests Of the two
j countries, are entitled to occupy bright page in
the history Of one of the most important events in
modern times.
III have the honor to be, with the highest respect
"JAs H. RAYMOND,
"Secretary Of the Convention.
"To the Hon. RoBERr J. WALKER"
/ ''REsoLuTIoN.
| people of Texas, tender to the Hon. Robert j.
Walker their profound consideration and gratitude
for the great and untring services he has rendered
them, as one of their earliest BEST and most efficient