The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-07-29
]. B. McFERRIN.
DR.. Edgar's Statement.

DR.. Edgar's Statement
The reverend author OF the above statements has cou-
teously submitted them to my perusal before submitting
them to the press have consequently examined them
carefully and am therefore PREPARED 70 say 50 far az
to extend that consider them faithfully and accurately
set forth.
inaccurate statements which Mr. McFenn has cor
rected both in reference to his course of conduct,
well mine, touching the last days of xPresident
publication had any sinister design in penning the mis-
takes which abound in his publication They must have
been the result of haste Of fogetfuness on the part
for his history Of the last days of Mr. Polk.
It is true, as stated in the Herald that visited him at
his own request; but did so in company with Mr.. Nc
Ferrn, who has happily remarked that, during that VISIT
both "had l free. and very interesting converse
ton with him." Our interview with him, however, re-
suited in no expression either on his part our own, as
TO his preparedness at that me to receive the ordinance
OF baptism, to become enrolled member OF any sep
arate Christian communion He neither asked me to bap-
tie him. nor did intimate to him at that time or subse
quently, that would be ready 10 baptize him then,
at any future period No allusion made any wish
his part that should baptze him, either then or after
fined the subject Of his own affecting expressions, in
relation 10 his of unworthness before God togeth.
er with his painful apprehension that he had too long de-
ayed seek the Divine favor and to devote himself to
a death bed
Part Of one of the statements found in the Herald re.
true. did him that the mercy Of God, in Christ,
ready to abound to every truly pentent and beev
ing sinner but did not say to him that either the mercy
OF God or the promises OF the gospel run mercfully para
lei with mans fe-that is, with every mans life No
such sentiment was nmated by and if il had been,
he himself would have seen it's conrarety with many a-
fectng passages of divine truth. Intending in few days
to publish in the Presbyterian Record brief memoir OF
high OF the character OF President Polk,
tor the present shall fobear to give Impressions
OF his last most interesting days.
All, therefore, would now further remark, in
clusion is, that secarian influence was brought to
bear upon him in reference to his becoming member OF
any church, and that his baptism by the Rev Mr. Meier
rim was the result OF his UNCONVENTIONAL preference,
and not of any political sympathies
P. S-My attention has been called to paragraph in
the Tennessee Baptist published in this city, in which
my mentioned in reference to the baptism OF the
late President Polk. All have to remark about said
paragraph is that such remark that attributed to
in it ever, to my best recollection uttered by
may have said to some minister that the rule of the
Presbyterian Church, it is of all evangelical churches,
is, TO bapze adult but the profession of his faith
in Christ, and promise of obedience TO him.
The ausion to infants is not only untrue applied
to myself, but the of its introduction is both i'm
pertinent and highly indecorous, made concerning
what large majority of the Christian world consider
Divine ordnance-infant baptism. J. I. f.