Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-04-23
The SENTINEL
YPsILANrI. WEDNESDAY APRIL q, ls45.
To Mr.. Charles H. stewart.

We meet WIN an article over your signature, re-
markable both fuf the extraordinary amount of
it contains, and, for the detesta
BILE effroniery with which it is put forth. As ad-
dressed to the Wing party every wing will feel
it addressed to himself aud think of its author
accordingly.
You commence, sir, with the following asser-
ton, Speaking to the Wing Leaders) "you had
the powe at the last presidential election to defeat
the annexation of Texas" and the extension of
slavery, and you deliberately refused to do it,
We wish TO be respectful sir, but permit us to say
you could not say this at the moment of your de-
parture from this world without dying rah q lie
IN your mouth.
Examine it, sir, first. We hoped we had, we
put forth every effort. buthe election proved, they
that were against US were more than they that
were for us. Had We the power by uniting with
the Birney faction? Mr.. Polk was elected over
Mr.. Clay by majority of IS votes. Suppose
sir, that we had attempted union with yon
the very best result We could have obtained would
have been The gain of Michigan and New York
Al votes, with the loss Of North Carolina, Ten.
nessee, Kentucky and Maryland, d votes, which
would have elected Mr.. Polk over Mr.. Birney by
a majority of7l. will you pretend that any more
favorable result is ever within the bounds oe posi-
biIityl
Do you say, nominate another man? But how
dfernt could be the result, he being nominated for
the purpose Of cementing a union between the
Wings andAboionists And what man but Biz.
ney would have pleased you !? Adams, Slade. or
Glddings, for President, whom you opposed for
Congress "But you deliberately refused to do
it," A faIsehood sir, did we not endeavor to do
il and did not you and Birney and your Press ir
Michigan. in New York, in Massachusetts,, wher-
ever 1t exists throughout the union, ceasing your
efforts to prevent annexation, labor diligently to
convince your own followers and all others that
our efforts were hypocritical. that our pretenses
were false, until the triumphan. election of him
whom you knew to be nominated expressly for
this object, and yet whom you represented as a
sort of "Klng Log" whose mere nertness. not
outstanding the power of his party to impel him.
afford greater sincerity TO The state than his activ.
ily whom you was pleased to represent! as liking
Stork" Notwithstanding the weight of his party
to retard him. Till his election, we repeat were
these efforts continued, and then, oh depth Of das-
tardy meanness, you hung the forlorn hope that
annexation would not take place on the slender
peg. that since both Wings and Abolitionists were
opposed to annexation the popular majority was
against annexation you spake no, 10 conven'
tion-you took not presidential opponen,'-false
again sir frcquea and importan' conventions, pre-
vious to the nomination of MIR. Clay. had uttered
their voices against the inquiious scheme and he
himself had unequiYocally uttered his sentiments
against it, nor till long after his nomination, could
the mos; captlous caviler 1--WE now address you
find the least insincerity in him by the utmos
torture to which you could subject his language
You would not, an AboIitionst," no sir, andneve
rilr' one, whose only qualification is abolitionsm
which is no qualification at all. "Bui you prefer
red STAKEHOLDER" false again, sir, in all that cal
give any force to the assertion. We preferred
Mr.. Clay not as stakeholder, we prefer no mar
for his attachment to slavery. We preferred hin
as our mot YOUR revolutionary sires preferred
Washington, Adams, and hosts Of others boif
shareholders and non shareholders, as patriots up
on whom the country could rely 10 whatever i'm
minent peril might befaI her. But we spurn ant
scorn your nonsensical and unconstitutional dog
mas; that whatever may be a mans virtues ant
qualifications he is TO be rejected from office an,
trust. because he conforms to a custom of tn,
community in which he lives, though it be differ
ent from our own.
"You selected one glad to see annexation whel
| ooWC to0UoO OsUeCusttcc NCfC OUCpt 0UUys " III
were these "cobweb difficulties p they were with
out war; we are now in begerant attitude ant
the weakness of Mexico alone saves US from tn
just punishment of our per6dy, is this " cobweb
swept away? 'wth the common consent of tn
union Eleven states, & but for your efforts Mich
igan and N. Y. might be added to the number no,
unequvocally reject the measure. Is this "cob
web" swept away? upon "just and equal terms.
Look at the terms, do you call them Just and e
quail? and yet if Texas accepts them it will b
with the tacit understanding that she shall hav
still more. Is this "cobweb" likely to be swep
away! you cling to the Missouri compromise
yes. we cling to it still. ITO the Arkansas slave
ry gver." Yes, to the man who said to slavery
: a mandate remember which your party assisted t
revoke.
I "Thus far no farther rage, and here,
Let thy proud waves be stayed"
The early friend of annexation : yes. irvine
the patriot Adams ruled The state under his advic
ard auspices he was the friend of annexation.-
The time was different, the circumstances of III
case were different.
h Read his own lucid statement and bush 70
your ignorance or malignity know not which
The supporter of Texas recognition ; yes, si
and the supporter of Mexican and South America