WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 1850.
MY DEAR DOWNER, You see all is gone. The influence of the Administration became all-powerful. E—— voted in committee against the Wilmot Proviso, direct. D—— was swept away. He voted on the first day against the Texas Boundary Bill, when it was alone; and the next day in favor of it, with New Mexico attached. There will be the most vigorous efforts to wheel the Whigs into line. Will they wheel? All motives on the surface will prompt them to do so. Thousands will say, "What can we do better? It is past it cannot be remedied. Abandon the past, and go for the future." This will be the superficial argument; but I mistake if the Whig party has not received a wound from which it will never recover. Good-by!
SOURCE: Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 326-7
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