The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-06-07

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Q. Z j. Clark l6 James M Beil
7. T.. Tucker IT, James A Macrae
.. Thomas M Morton ls Timothy Childs
.. John w. Glenn 10 D. A. Kinchloe
Pursuant to the requirement Of the act Of Congress
above referred the President hereby directs that all
the officers appointed for the volunteer staff named
in the foregoing list either in the Quarermaster Com
missary, Medical Departments, be discharged from
the public service ON the soth day Of June next
BY order R JONES, Adjutant General.
ARMY NEWS.
Captain Edward Webster has been appointed A. D. C.
to General Cushing
The Ex-Prcsiient, John Tyler, and rexas An
nexatiOn.
From tho Richmond Enquirer, June 81
To THE EDITORS OF THE Enquirer =
have been constantly and INCREASINGLY the objec
Of violent attack during and since the period that
act Of wise Providence, and through volition
of my own, the powers and duties of the Executive
were devolved upon me, to have become quite indf
ferent to what should be said of by Others Hence
have remained silent amid the attacks of the public
press the Of congressional orators and the
bright scintlations Of wit which festive occasions have
brought forth at expense Secure in the possession
the Inscriptions Of bad motives for my conduct which
had purer source Of emanaOn than in the bad mo-
t%s VINO Nay
forts for the public good crowned with complete
In the accomplishment Of every important measure
save one, which was suggested or proposedwhen COM
pare the actual condition OF the country on the 4th
April, l84l with what 1t the 4th March, 1916
aud when know that after the struggles Of the
part in them shall have sunkinto their graves the great
er part not to be remembered, impartial history
will not fail to write faithful all nv actions
may well be content to let the brawling demagogue or
the sly intrguer indulge in any of of me
they may please The facts Of my public life mat
ters of and neither expunged nor altered
The impartial future will the motive In the act and
the just historian will look the good evil only which
will have been developed, and lind In the or the
other cause Of censure or Of praise. To this ordeal
submit myself without fear. My only solicituds is that
conjectures and suppositions aud naked state
ments unsustained and unsustainable should be re-
garded authentic merely because the source from
which they flow Is esteemed respectable It is to guard
against this Ia reference to Of the prominent
acts Of my administrator that now address you, and
through you the public
per which deservedy ranks amonst the
journals Of the day and which, along with others of the
same high class will b. hereafter regarded of the
lights ofhisory-the following sentence has arrested my
attention. Under the head of article THE Admins
traton and Its Organ" holds the following language
not been week installed in his present official station
before he began forete the existing war with
the Of which, by his agency in the
annexation scheme he has had to do in infcting
upon the country than any other person Whatever not
excepting President Tyler himself the spectators
counseled and impelled to that unwiss measure
Now, do not mean to object to the ascrpton great
influence to MIR Richie then senior editor Of the Rich
ond Enquirer in aiding carry out the Of
annexation. Far from It. The Of that able and
talented editor has been sensby felt all questions
public policy for than quarter Of century and
do cheerfuly confess that when the ENQUIRER espous-
ed the Texas cause felt increased the ul.
innate contamination OF that great measure. Nor do
to enter into contest whether the annexation
OF Texas either the remote cause Of the
existing Mexican The editors Of the Inselhgencer
and their able ally in the anti-annexaton causc the
Hon. Thomas Hart Benton, may have this either way
that they please will not stop to inquire whether
treaty had been ratified by the Senate should
have had war or not but taking into consideration
that at that there existed no prospect of any
immediate collision with Great Britain the Oregon
question, and so far from 1t, that stronger feel
ing Of smity had been produced between the two
countries by the then recent negotiation Of the Ash
burton treaty, It may well be doubted whether
Mexico without the hope Of from any
ter would have waged war upon the United States
matter in which she had right interest both hav-
conquest recognized by the whole world When she
struck her frstyblow at Gen Taylor, relations with
stood as the world believed, in most critical condition
Equally far am from canvassing at this time Of day the
wisdom, or its opposite, Of Texas annexation Unwise
the editors and others have from the first declared it to
be. The large majority of the people of the United
States have differed with them in opinion and the popu
Of h up P IN
ted to utter their complaints when they please and
they please But what do complain of Is, that the ed
the influence of those Of whose individuality have not
the Eslightest knowledge tho spectators In Texas
stock and lands by whom he was surrounded counseed
and impened him to that unwise MEASURE Now, the
editors have decided advantage II any spec-
lators in Texan stocks lands COUNSEL ed much
less impelled, to action upon that subject declare
myself be wholly ignorant Of the fact Certain It is
that never owned foot of Texas land or a dollar of
Texas stock in my lifsnor do understand the editors
Of the Inteigencer intending to intimate any such
thing. The plain truth is, that nothing but the
country and the whole country-not this that
good the the happiness the glory Of the whole
country in the measure Nor 1t until received
srtns ali their Efforts to induce course Of action on
the part of Texas, at war; rs firmly believed. with
the interests Of the United States gave
directions to my lamented friend, Abel p Upshur then
Secretary Of State to break and scatter to the
the web Of their ntrgues by direct proposition for
nexation advised with NO one consulted with no one
save him, in taking tho initiative. knew no holders
Of stocks Of lands in the matter !" and
that the public considerations which have before
ferred alone impelled to direct the negotiation
Nay may farther aud declare that before the
initiative taken, and when the preimnaries
nearly all arranged their completion being alone pre-
vented by the death Of Mr. Upshur and the appoint
ment Of adjunct commissioner to Mr.. Van Zandt by
Texas have to believe that the holders Of
stock or owners Of land" knew anything OF what
going on-since secrecy enjolned indspensably
necessary to avoid awakening into action what we had
reason to expect more subtle and sti more active in
trgue on the part Of other governments In order to
countcrvai SO much have felt myself constrained
to say with view TO true history Of the in
fcen to relieve the minds Of the respectable editors
the Ineiigener Of the impressions under which they
have seemed to labor and to which they have given
utterance.
As to the thousand and ono Newspaper paragraphs
which would fegn persuade the country that was in
leading strings during my term Of service first under
the influence Of this and then of that man care
but little; and quite as Indifferent to the decara-
ton with which sometimes the Senate chamber
has been favored. that my administration was weak
Weak readily ADMIT 1t to have been, in the number of
partzans the floor Of Congress- but IL was strong
enough to carry its and to ustre most tho
roughly the fact that to keep the three Of
the government separate and distinct Executive in
fuence In Congress- Congressional powers In the Ex-
ecutvs and the Supreme Court perfectly independent
OF both, Is not only wise In theory but sound also in
practice Measures then alone considered and the
Executive may justly be regarded strongest which,
without partzans enabled to carry through nearly
all its measures and even subjects Of It's OPP
ponents to the necessity Of making speeches in public
places In order to explain away the repugnance felt by
the country to their opposition those Of most mpor