John A. Wharton Not a Candidate

In our last paper we published a withdrawal of the name of Gen. John A. Wharton as a candidate for Congress by Edwin Waller. Immediately after our paper was issued we received a communication for the same purpose from the mother of General Wharton. We take pleasure in giving place to this noble and patriotic letter. Mrs. Wharton is herself a historical character-identified with the earliest history and with the first revolution of Texas. But she is not willing to join the lament of the Irish patriot: "Short-lived indeed was my country's freedom-I sat by its cradle, I followed its hearse" and with a spirit more than Spartan she gives her only child to the very thickest of the strife. We trust that her gallant son may return to grace higher destinies than friends, or even a mother's ambition has coveted for him.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEWS:

I have seen through your paper that my son, Jno. A. Wharton, has been nominated for Congress. I feel deeply gratified to the friends who deemed him worthy of a high position. These friends believing the election would not come off before November, doubtless thought there was ample time to hear from him, but by the recent law of Congress the election takes place in August. The late interruption of communication from east of the Mississippi renders it impossible for him to speak for himself. I therefore, as his mother, (feeling I know his sentiments on the subject) take the liberty of withdrawing his name, or rather of saying, I am satisfied as long as this war for the independence of his country lasts, and so long as he has strength to wield a blade, so long will he be founding the field struggling for our liberty, and not in the pursuit of civil office.

Yours Respectfully,

S. A. WHARTON.

EAGLE ISLAND, Brazoria county, June 23d, 1863.