The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-05-29


Wing,
TO THE apron or TIE NATIONAL WIG.
MIR. MORTON AND MIR PENDLETON.
WASHINGTON, May %, 1s49.
There appears in the National IntelH-
qencer of Friday last, an extract from the
Richmond Wing, of the 22d instant, which
venture to style the political obituary Of
Hon. JOHN S. PENDLEToN; and exceptfo for
certain portions Of this notice where facts, as
they really existed appear to have been mis-
understood, and therefore misrepresented,
should be content, without word of COM
ment, to allow Mr.. PENDLEToN to reap the
benefit, which have no doubt was intended,
of any favorable impression that this eulogy
(high-colored as it isl might make upon
General TAYLOR.
Feeling, however, avery great interest in
the old 9th District, am unwilling that the
voters who supported Mr.. MORTON, in the
late contest between himself and Mr.. PEN
DLEToN, should be improperly charged by
Mr.. p, or his friends, with combinations
which they neper formed, and which am
perfectly satisfied they neuer could hare
been induced 10 hare formed.
As community, there is not to be found
in our country, anywhere, a more Intelligent,
high toned, and honorable class of men than
the voters Of both parties Of the 9th Congress
sional District Of Va; and that they could be
tempered with, and seduced from the path Of
rectitude and justice, in the manner indicated
in the editorial Of the Richmond Wing, to
which ! have referred, is something that | am
utterly unwilling to believe.
My purpose now is to show that, even il
the voters who supported Mr.. MoRToN were
made Of the supple and unstable materials
which would have enabled Mr.. merton Is
friends to have formed the combination
charged upon them, the entire absence Of the
slightest necessity or motive for the forma-
ton Of such combination on their part, was
very sufficient reason why it should mol
have been formed
Mr.. JNo. S. PENDLEToN and his particu-
lar friends assumed the position that he, Mr..
p, stood as the nominee i a Wing Conven-
ton. Mr.. MoRToN's Wing friends did not
SO regard Mr.. P; but, on the contrary, in
the absence of Convention, regarded the
two candidates as occupying precisely the
same ground; both being as Mr.. MoRToN's
friends considered and stated, sey-nominated
and for these reasons they did not hest
tate, feeling a decided preference for Mr..
MoRToN, to vote for him.
The high (and as have always personal
ly regarded it very unjustifiable) assumption
of Mr.. p that he stood in the same position
as the nominee of Wing Convention, had
the very natural, indeed may say, inepita-
bic effect, to bring against him the mass Of
the Democratic votes Of the District; why I
because it was their purpose and desire, upon
the rule Of party tactics, practised upon by
both parties, to defeat the candidate nomi-
mated or processing 10 hare been nominated,
by the opposing party. This, then, affords
a very sufficient reason shy the Democrats
voted for Mr.. MORTON, and without the
combination charged upon them
So far as the merits of the two candidates
are concerned, without desiring to detract
in the slightest degree from Mr.. p, j am
very decidedly Of opinion, from an impartial
investigation of their respective capacities
and character, that Mr.. MoRToN will make
us quite as good Representative, and is in
spirit and in truth, as good Taylor man
as Mr.. PENDLEToN, the declarations of the
editor of the Richmond Wing to the con-
trary notwithstanding.
In conclusion, cannot forbear to express
the hope that General TAYLOR and his cabi-
net will receive Mr.. MoRToN, NOT as Rep
resentative elected by foul and urighteous
combinations, but by the unbougM and not
to be purchased sulIrages of a majority of
the voters Of his District; and that they will
repose in him the confidence that his merits
as gentleman and most efficient advocate
81 our good cause, most clearly demand.
JUSTICE.
AN AuTo-BIooRAPHY or DANIEL WEBsTEn.--It
In afaed that In the mammalian of The LIE Of Ruck.