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POLITICAL.
Thirty reasons why james k.
Polk should not be elect.
ED PRESIDENT.
1. Because Ins is a man comparatively
t Unknown to the people whoso suffrages ho
claims, having performed no services enti
■ tlioghim to the ranks of a Statesman, and
possessing no qualities requisite to fill the
Chair once occupied by such men as Wash
ington, Jefferson and Madison.
2. Because he was nominated by the
Baltimore Convention, after that body had
failed to unite upon any of the distinguish
ed members of the party, and merely be
cause he wa> the known tool of Gen. Jack
son, whose influence, it was supposed,
Would carry him into the office, despite his
insignificance as a man, and his numerous
misdeed ■ as a politician.
S. Because it is u dangerous principle
i to he established in a Republican Govern-
E* ovoit. that an” man, however able or failh
p-fiil, -It old have a controlling voice in the
Rielfet.un of .t candidate, and dictate to the
j I ople for u-ii in they shall vote, for the
important anu responsible station of Presi
dent .
4. Because G-n. Jackson, in the selec
tion of h: ■ iton.eii.at, successor, Mr. Van
Purer:, pr o and himself either incompetent
i or un worthy to make such a choice for the
people, having imposed upon them one so
j faithless and corrupt, that he was first
r ejected by an overwhelming majority of
the nation, and finally repudiated even by
his political friends in the Baltimore Con
vention
5- Because the party that supported the
ruinous a Jminislration of Mr. Van Buren ;
that destroyed the credit and character of
ihe Government, both at home and abroad ;
tiiat exhausted the treasury ; that squan
dered millions of the people’s money on
1 official favorites and thieving sub-treasur
ers; that destroyed our trade and naviga
tion, that beggared the people and left the
country with millions f debt and no means
j. for its payment —is the same party, that,
funder new disguises and false issues, are
attempting to regain power in order once
[more to degrade the country, and carry out
the verv principles so signally condemned
in 1840.
| G. Because that party, and Mr. Polk as I
f their leader, afraid to meet their opponents j
J on the old issues, have been guilty of petty
• larceny upon the person of one John Tyler,
having deprived him and his Jupiter To
wns, John Jones, of certain Texas thunder
w hich they had manufactured, after touch
-thought and labor, for their own especial
use, benefit and behoof, thereby compelling
the said Tyler to sell, for a smalfconsider
ation, the very thunder which they had first
stolen, together with all his stock int rade,
patronage and influence, not even excepting
his man, John Jones, and his faithful tMid
poetic son, Bobby. -L,
7. Because, after having feloniously ta
ken and appropriated said Texas thunder.
to their own benefit, they have not had dig
■it honestly and faithfully
e c o u mry.—r-ht call -
rS" anti-slavery men of the
upon them to sustain an
aost certain means of se
ite abolition of slavery ;
;h, they have proclaimed
Southern question ; the
only means ot securing the permanence
and perpetuity of our domestic institutions
; —thus proving themselves doubly false—
'n tl-.e appropriation of Mr. Tyler’s thun
/T r t ° their own use; and false in itsappli
cJfHont reteiided end.
’ 8. Because, to favor
immediate annexation, Mi*>,.Polk has re
fused to express his views in rPgjird to the
Tyler treatn, though his sen ti mention that
subject have been respectfully solicited by
Hrntletneuof both political parlies, residing
&in his own State. The people of the lim
ited States—the men who have had a Wash
ington and a Jefferson to preside over their
Bdesiinies, do not intend to place any man
Sin the Presidential chair, who has too little
independence or too little honesty, to ex
's press his candid sentiments on any and on
Aevery question when interrogated by re
■ spectable freemen.
R 9. Because Mr. Polk has vacillated on \
{Soilier questions, besides that of annexation. ;
as an ultra free-trade man—
IK,'}) uncompromising foe of all protec-
Bgfi, he ‘ betrayed his friends,’ in the lan
gjgpage of one of his own organs, 1 before
gflhad even the power to injure them,’ by
gßw>ing into the bands of the ultra protec-
Kh, and endeavoring to
t he W’as at least as
tariff, as Mr. Clay and
‘e pretending to
teless, as Chairman of
‘ays and Means, intro
l a tax of 20 per cent,
r pound on coffee, and
:1 on salt—articles of
the poor and laboring
s willing to admit the
of the rich free of du
tat he wished to legis
de and the industrious,
f men who, like him
’ortunee, and who love
eir ease : nor will the
ntry be likely to vote a
i year to such a man,
lim with the power to
harm.
las dallied not only on
F questions, but also on
v, having been on that,
iver of Gen. Jackson—-
and denounced the Sub- j
sed the pet banks in
sorted the Sub-Treasu
te banks in 1639 ; and
untry had lost nearly
ars under the operation
having declared, in vi
li and history, that the
worked well, and was
repealed by the Whigs
proclaimed himself in
lisfiment!
12. Becauso this same Sub. Treasury,
which his election would again ftislertKipon
the people, is expensive and unsafe, tend
ing to drive specie from the country and
reduce our circulation to the specie stand
ard, thereby causing a ruinous deprecia
tion of property and wages, making the
rich richer, and the poor poorer, furnishing
one currency for the Government and an
other for the people, doubling the salaries
of office holders and reducing by half the
wages of the day labour; pampering the
one in wealth and luxury, and reducing the
other to penury, to remediless ruin, and in
fjneto a level with the serfs oj Europe
-13. Because his tariff doctrines tend ul
timately to the destruction of our whole
manufacturing system, to degrade the me
chanio and day laborer to the level of the
paupers of England, to reduce us to a state
lof colonial vassalage, and finally render
| us dependant on Foreign Governments for
many of those articles which can be and
ought to be produced at home ; and all
this to gratify a few wealthy nabobs like
himself, at home, and the lordly manufac
turers and merchants of foreign lands ; thus
degrading our people and rendering us in
dependent only in name.
14. Because the inevitable tendency of
his Free Trade and Sub-Treasury doc
trines, when carried out, is to fasten upon
the country a system of Direct Taxation,
by which we will be compelled to contri
bute to the supply of the Government, not
according to the luxuries we consume, not
according to our own pleasure, but what
ever may be imposed upon us bv relentless
tax gatherers, who, if we refuse to pay,
will force our money from us under the
strong arm of the law, either by the sacri
fice of our property or by immuring us in
dungeons.
15. Because he is opposed to the distri
bution of the proceeds of the public lands
among the States, for purposes of eduea
tion, internal improvements, &c.; thus de
nying the people their just tights, and re
taining a fund entrusted to the General
Government for certain specific purposes;
the surplus after said purposes were served,
being declared to belong exclusively to
the States, to be used only for their benefit
and behoof, as a common fund.
16. Because he is opposed to a proper
j modification of the veto power, by which,
I as it now exists, the will of one man may
| be set up in defiance of the wishes of a
majority of the people and their properly
constituted representatives—a power ut
terly at war with the true genius of Repub.
licanism, and purely monarchical in its
character, whicn is so repugnant to the
principles of popular liberty, that though
one of the enumerated privileges of (lie
crown of Great Britain, no sovereign of
that empire has dared to use it for the last
century and a half!
17. Because his party, while secretly
entertaining all these heretie„i views and
principles, have not had the courage or the
virtue Jo- openly avow them, but seek, by
creating new and false issues, and by gross
and unmanly personal attacks upon Mr.
Clay, to withdraw the public scrutiny from
their past misdeeds, and from the corrup
tions and abuses of the late Democratic
administration ; thus cheating the people
into the support of measures u Licit, if pre
sented singly, they would repudiate with
scorn.
18. Because that party is composed of
men whose principles are grossly variant,
and who are held together, as was correct
ly said b)i Mr. Calhoun, mainly by the
“ cohesive power of the public plunder.”
Old Federalists and Nulliliers —Consolida-
tionists and Disunionists—Abolitionists and
Slaveholders—Repudiators and Stock-job.
bers—Mormons and Dorrites—lnfidels and
Millerites—all horde together under the
banner of Polk and Texas, having in
scribed upon its folds the simple but signi
ficant passage, “To the victors belong the
spoils.”
19. Because the only positive principle
avowed by Mr. Polk and bis friends, is the
Annexation of Texas. On all other sub
jects they hold negative opinions. They
are opposed to a Bank—opposed to a
Tariff —opposed to Distribution —opposed
to the modification of the Veto Power—op
-1 posed to home markets and home interests
| —in fine, they are opposed to every thing
j except the interests of the foreign capital
ist, and the possession of the offices by their
own men.
20. Because, having no personal claims
or qualifications of his own to commend
him to the suffrages, of the nation, Mr.
Polk’s friends have endeavored to sustain
him on the false assumption of tiie revolu
tionary services of his ancestors : whereas
it appears from the most indisputable evi
dence, that his grandfather deserted the
, Whig cause in the days of th” Revolution,
and sought British protection, merely from
sordid and mercenary motives to save his
property, while his neighbors aud friends
were ready to sacrifice both, their property
and their lives on the altar of their coun
try.
21. Because, during the last war, as
has been proved and never denied, James
K. P’olk, then a young man able to bear
arms, fled from the county in which he
then resided, to avoid being drafted to de
fend his country, and quietly remained a
student at'ifiw in the office of the late Mr.
Grundy, of Tennessee, while his former
friends and associates were encountering
the privations of the camp and the perils
of battle. Such a man is not fit to act as
the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and
Navy of a brave and free people.
22. Because he has, on several distinct
occasions, voted against bills awarding
pensions to the brave men who fought for
our liberties.
Polk against the old Patriots of the Revo
lution ! !
March 13, 1828, on the passage of the
bill for the relief of surviving officers of
the revolutionary war, Mr. Polk voted in
the negative.-*- Cong. Deb. vol. 4. part 2,
page 2670.
Subsequently on a bill to pay certain
militia &c., he voted in the affirmative.
March 18, 1830, he voted against the
revolutionary pension bill.—Same, vol. 6,
part 1. page 629.
March 19, “Mr. Polk spoke some time
against the bill,” and voted against it.—
Same, page 635.
Feb. 17, 1.831, lie voted against the bill
for the relief of revolutionary soldiers.—
Same, vol, 7, page 730.
May, 2, 1632, he voted against the revo
lutionary pension bill.—Same, vol. 8, part
2, page 2713.
Thus proving that he is not only unwil
ling to fight for his country, but determined
not to reioard others for doing so !
23. Because, in 1828, Dec. 29, [see
Congressional Debates, vol. 5, page 129,J
lie made an elaborate speech against the
Bill for the occupation of Oregon, and vo
ted against the same, [see same vol., page
192,] while now, he professes to be in favor
of the immediate occupation of that Ter
ritory, holding precisely the opposite doc
trines from those which he then advocated,
and having no reason, for his sudden
change of sentiment, except it be to gam
votes for his party, and to place himself in
a chair which he has neither the firmness
nor capacity to fill.
54. Because, in 1827, he opposed the
proposition to interfere by our Govern
merit, in order to effect a reconciliation and
adjustment between old Spain and her col
onies, on the ground that it would be a vi
olation of our neutral relations, and entan
gle us in useless war; and yet, in 1544,
we find him, for mere party purposes, fa
voring an open violation of treaty stipula
tions with Mexico, and proclaming himself
in favor of a measure that would not only
rob the nation of large a portion of her Ter
ritory, but involve us in an unjust and dis
honorable war.
25. Because he not only supported the
corrupt ami extruvagant administration of
Mr. Van Buren, but attempted to shield
the officers of the government against the
investigation proposed by Mr. Garland, in
1836 and ’37—and when the startling de
velopments of nial-praclice in office had
forced the investigation upon even a Demo
cratic House, he, as speaker of the same,
appointed men on the Committee who cover,
ed over the matter even while the immense
defalcations were publicly known. Thus,
under the solemnities of his oath, did he
conceal the swindling operations of his po
litical friends and confederates, until they
robbed the people of millions of the public
money.
26. Because, so glaring was his favorit
ism, or rather his supposed corruption and
partiality in appointing committees . in
vestigation, that the House of Representa
tives, composed of a majority of his own
political friouds 1.. iB3B, took the appoint
ment of a Committee in regard to the defal
cations in New York out of his hands—thus
in the most solemn manner rebuking him
for his past misconduct, and declaring him
unworthy of the station which he acciden
tally fiiled. The man who would tints
wink at corruption and swindling, because
his political friends were the guilty perpe
trators, is not fit to be President of the Uni
ted States.
27. Because, he was the supporter of
Mr. Van Burin’s scheme for a standing
army of 200,000 men—proposed in 1840,
by which the people of the States were to
be compelled to do military duty, of a
most onerous anil expensive character, at
seasons of the year dangerous, and at pla
ces remote from their abode, arid that too
at a time of profound peace, and under the
provisions of a law which would have been
unconstitutional and a gross violation of
the rights of the States, as guaiantecd un
der the National compact.
28. Because, on two distinct occasions,
while a member of Congress, he proved
himself the enemy of the distressed and
unfortunate, by refusing in 1831 to appro
priate a few cords of wood to the “freez
ing poor” of the district of Columbia, who
are under the special guardianship of Con
gress ; and also by voting against a resolu
tion to “ purchase food, clothing and other
articles of indispensable necessity” for the
distressed poor of Alexandria, who had
been reduced to penury and starvation by
the destructive fire of 1827; notwithstand
ing his opposition, the resolution passed by
a vote of 110 to 66. —Sec Niles’ Register,
Jan. 27, 1827, pages 849, 349.
The man who has no heart to feel for
the distressed, is not fit to be their Presi
dent.
29. Because he or his supporters have
entered into a coalition with John Tyler, by
which the latter, for certain unknown con
siderations, has withdrawn from the canvass
for the Presidency, and thrown the patron
age and infiuenceof the Executive into the
scale of the Democracy to secure Mr.
Polk’s election, thus having united with a
man who was stigmatized by Mr. Benton
as “ a double traitor as a “ deserter from
both parties,” and of whom he said that he
“ would as soon take an adulterous wife to
his bosom,” as see him return to the em
braces of the Democratic party—a man
who prostituted the high powers of his of
fice to low and grovelling purposes—who
dishonored his country by placing it in a
humiliating position at the feet of a for
eign power, and who was willing to assume
“ millions of Texas debt,” and to raise the
dangerous question of Missouri restriction
in anew form, merely to increase his own
chances for re-election, and to fill the pock
ets of a set of unprincipled land specula
tors and mercenary stock-jobbers. They
who associate and coalesce with such men
are accessories, being only less criminal
than the principals, merely be.cause they
have had less opportunity to stain the hon
or of their country, and rob the many for
the benefit of the few.
30. Because he and his supporters have
entered into a crusade in behalf of the no
torious traitor, Thomas W. Dorr, holding’
meetings of sympathy within the limits of
R. l.,and appealing to the “United Demo,
cracy of the nation,” to do that which even
his own political associates did not dare do,
when they refused, at their recent Conven
tion in Newport, to pass resolutions expres
sive of their sympathy for the man who
‘ tried to overturn by force, their regularly
constituted Government, but who ran away
himself Rt the first sound of alarm His
relcaseor imprisonment isaqoestion which
that of the Presidency, only shows !(•■
weakness of their cause, and the greater
weakness of their candidate.
For these and many other reasons, peo
ple of Georgia, do we ask you to vote
against James K. Polk, and all his political
friends for whatever office they are candi
dates. If you vote for them you vote in
effect for him, and by voting for him you
vote to dishonor the office once filled by
Washington. You endanger the stability
and liberties of your country by placing a
man at the helm, who is personally weak
and politically corrupt—whose very blood
is tainted with toryism. who is vascillating
and unsteady in his political opinions, who
is “all things to all men” for the sake of
office, and who is utterly destitute of that
moral firmnessand personal corn age, which
are so requisite in a President of the Uni
ted States.
On the other hand you have in the person
of Messrs. Clay and Frelinghuysen. men
of tried character, of high and steady vir
tues, of approved patriotism, of w isdom in
council, of tested firmness, of pine and
patriotic lineage, of avowed principles and
tried integrity—men who have risen front
the ranks of people by their own industry,
and who w’ere not born to princely fortunes,
secured by their forefathers by the protec
tion of British arms—men whp can under
stand and appreciate the wants of the peo
ple, and whose past lives prove them to
have been always quick to feel and prompt
to respond to the wants of the unfortunate
and destitute. Such are the Whig candi
dates, and such the claims which the Whig
party present for the support of the good
and patriotic citizens of Georgia. Will
they respond as they have responded in
days by-gone—by promptly casting their
votes for the Whig candidates for Congress,
and the Whig Electors for President ?
Their past acts and present enthusiasm in
duce us to conclude that they will. The
claims of true patriotism press upon each
man not only for his vote, but for his influ
ence. Every one can do something for die
good cause. Let no one then remain idle.
A fortnight more and the die will be cast
in Georgia. A few days, a few hours
work of each and every good Whig, may
result in giving us so large a majority as
to settle the election in November, beyond
all question, and establish the Whig as
cr-nH'iicy in Georgia, for years to come.—
Who will falter? Surely not the men who
opposed the mnl practices of Democracy in
1840, and aided us in driving the corrupt
and faithless clan of office holdr rs from the
capitol—surely not the men who in 1843
joined with us in cleansing the Augean sta
ble at Milledgcville—in restoring the cur
rency, in saving the honor of the State, in
replenishing the Treasury, in r during the.
expenditures, and in placing the govern
ment on a firm and stable foundation. To
vote against the Whigs now,’ would be to
stultify themselves, ai.d to say that they
were either weak or wicked in their acts of
40, and ’43. To such then, and to the
whole Whig line, we say onward, steadily
onward, and the victory is certainly ours !
— Sav. Rep.
MR. CLAY AND HIS CHRISTIAN
NEIGHBORS.
The Rev. Dr. Bascomb has been bitter
ly assailed by Looofncoism for bis letter
to Dr. Goble, concerning Mr. Clay. Not
content with abusing the man himself, eve
ry body is assailed who ventures to defend
him. The officers of the various churches
in Lexington, of both political parties, have
therefore thought it due to Dr. 8., as well
as to themselves, and to the claims of truth
and justice, to vindicate the reputation of
Dr. B. Sgainst the foul aspersions of the
Loeofoco newspapers, by a public attesta
tion to his wotth and virtue—a denial of
all the imputations and allegations made a
gainst him, and by bearing themselves the
same testimony in reference to the moral
character of Mr. Clay, as was borne by Dr.
8., and Mr. Hall, the Presbyterian Minis
ter. The following is their testimony, as
copied from the Lexington (Ky.) Intelligen
cer.—Baltimore American.
“ Rev. H. E. Bascomb. —This distin
guished divine, urbane gentleman, and de
voted Christian, whose purity of life, burn
ing eloquence, high intellectual endow,
ments, fervid zeal in his Master’s cause,
have spread his name over our broad land,
was recently applied to by Dr. J. G. Goble,
to inform him as to the moral character and
correct deportment of our distinguished
neighbor, the Hon. Henry Clay, who, it
was believed, had beet: falsely and mali.
ciouslv assailed. For his response bear
ing testimony to the correct and portment and
good moral character of Mr. Ctay. Dr.
Bascomb has been denounced as a hypo
critical liar, a perjured blasphemer, an
impious libeller, and other most degrading
and dishonoring accusations heaped upon
him. We, his friends and neighbors, of all
religious denominations, therefore, feel cal l
ed on by considerations of justice to a slan
dered and injured gentleman, to pronounce
these charges grossly false and cruelly un
just, without a shadow of foundation ; arid
do hereby bear the same testimony contain
ed in his letter, as to the moral character
of Mr. Clay, so far as we know and be
lieve.
Methodist Ministers. —Stephen Chip-ley
and N. Headington.
Stewards of Methodist Church. —Joseph
Milward, P. Scott. H. Ruckel, Nat. Shaw,
L. P. Young, VV. King, Wm. Rice, Jos.
George, John Kennard, Hiram Shaw, B.
T. Bealert, R. Ilulott, Gustavus Dilly,
John L. Elbert.
Elders in Christian Church. —D War
ner, Wrn. Vanpelt, Levi T. Benton, Satn’l.
Fitch.
Minister of Baptist Church. —W. F. A
roaddus.
Baptist Ministers. — B. P. Drake, J. M.
Hewitt, R. Brent.
Rector of Protestant Episcopal Church.-
Ed. F. Berkeley.
P. E. Minister — John Ward.
I Vestry of the P. E. Church —D. M. Craig,
:J. J. Hunter, H-I Bodlev, Thomas Hug-
I giu, Jas March, H. H. Tim berlake, Wm.
j fhjttbo, Maslin Smith.
Elders and Beacons of'2nd Presbyterian
| Church. —R. Pindell, James C Todd, Da.
vid Bell, Jr., Win. A. Leavy,-James C.
Butler, John F. Leavy, Geo VV. Norton.
Elders and Deacons of l.vt Presbyterian
Church. —J. L. McDowell, Almi. A’an Me
ter, John L. Price, Thomas C. Orear, L.
Carter, Isaac C. Van Meter.
It is proper to say that the Methodist E
piseopal Conference being in session at
Bowling Green, nearly all the Methodist
divines connected with the Church and the
University are absent, and consequently
their names are not attached to the forgo
ing paper.
NEWS AND GAZETTE.
WASHINGTON, GA.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1844.
FOR PRESIDENT,
HENRY CLAY,
OF KENTUCKY.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
mmm frelinghuysen,
Op NEW-JEUSEtr.
FOR ELECTORS:
[ELECTED By GENERAL TICKET.]
Ou the first Monday in November.
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Early.
WILLIAM I*. McCONNELL, of Liberty.
THACKER It. HOWARD, of Muscogee.
CHRISTOPHER B. STRONG, of Bibb.
ROBERT A. T. RIDLEY, of Troup.
DAVID IRWIN, of Cobb.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clarke.
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
CHARLES J. JENKINS, of Richmond.
WILLIAM LAW, of Chatham.
The Selection.
We have returns from only a very few
counties—in this County the vote stood
For Toombs, 418
Black, 349
09
Being the same majority given for Craw
ford last _vt :\r. Our majority would have
been largely increased, had not numbers of
voters from other counties, mostly Black
in n, honored us with their presence at the
precincts. Their number can be pretty
accurately ascertained—the voters of the
county having diminished 30 or 35 since
last year, hy deaths and removals, notwith
standing which the result on Monday shows
a slight increase in the vote. Mr, Toombs’
majority (the people of Wilkes only voting
in their county) is at least 120.
Lincoln —We have not received a full
statement of th polls. A letter front Liti
colnton, inform ns th;s’ Mr. Toombs’ma
jority is at least 95. The letter was writ
ten before the returns from the precincts
had rt ached the Court-House. „
Richmond.-Tlu) Augusta Chronicle gives
the following as tiie result of the Election,
and states that the Whig majority may be
slightly increased when the official return
is received Toombs, 824
Black, 616
208
Taliaferro. —A friend sends us the re
turn as follows:
Stephens. Janes.
Crawfordville, 349 54
Raytown, 57 00
Stephens’ maj. 352
Oglethorpe. —We learn that the Loco
vote has somewhat increased—last year it
was 178.
We are indebted to the Madison Miscel
lany for a slip containing the returns from
Morgan, Greene and Jasper counties :
Morgan county. —Stephens, 396
Janes, 313
Whig majority, 83
Greene county. —
Stephens Janes
Greenesborough, 554 56
Penfield, 60 54
Two precincts to hear from—Janes’ (lo
cofoco)oo<e in the county will probably be
about 130.
Jasper county. —We have returns from
only one precinct in jasper, (Whitfield’s)
at which the vote stood for Stephens, 91 ;
for Janes, 5 !
Baldwin county. —An endorsement on a
way-bill at this post-office makes the vote
for Stephens, 280
Janes, 258
We are inclined to doubt its correctness,
as the vote of Bald win is generally about
670.
The returns, so far, are not very favor
able, but are not sufficient for us to judge
what is the political complexion of the
• State. We think that the majority will bo
so small either way that the battle will
have to be fought over again’ bctweejjgjthis
and the November Election, w hen llie'qurs.
tiou will he decided whether the Elreto ral
vote of Georgia shall be given to Clay and
Frelinghuysen, or to* James K. Toxas and
George M. Oregon. ‘•
■ HBlßirl,, k *
Glorious Maryland.
©. K.
Whig Governor Elected! Fifty
majority in the Legislature j Whig
United States Senator secured ; a
Crushing of the Polk Stalks ! E
longation of Loco-foco visages l
The Eight Electoral votes of Ma
ryland certain for Henry Clay!
The first news from Maryland was rath
er discouraging, being the returns from
Baltimore, where the Locos by cheating
and rascality, by the importation of illegal
voters, &c. had succeeded in getting an in
creased majority ; but the later news fully
redeems the character of this noble Whig
State, and the incipient grins of the Demo
crats have subsided. The Whigs, for the
first time, iti several years, have succeeded
in electing their candidate for Governor ;
have made a gain of some 2,000 on the last
election, and that too under the most dis
couraging circumstances. “ Carroll,” sags
the Richmond Whig, “ a highly popular
man, is known to have received many
Whig votes, as well as the votes of many
Whig Catholics, being himself a Catholic.
He happened too to be on the popular side
of the Canal and Rail Road question which
agitates the State. Mr. Clay’s vote will no
doubt largely exceed Pratt’s, a fact we be
lieve not questioned or denied.”
The Baltimore American makes Pratt’s
majority, over Carroll, about 800, and the
Whig majority, on joint ballot in the Le
gislature, will be 49, with a contested seat,
which if the Whig claimant is successful,
will make the majority 51.
Hurrah for little Delaware.
The Richmond Whig of the sth instant,
says: “ Each of the counties of this noble
little State gave a Whig majority on Tues
day last at the election for Inspectors of E
lection. The aggregate majority is report
ed at six hundred votes. We never had a
doubt but that Delaware would adhere to
her sound principles.”
The two-laced Party.
We have already noticed the trick prac
tised hy the Washington “ Globe,” in pub
lishing one prospectus for the South, con
taining a violent attack on the Tariff of
1942, and another for the North with the
attack on the tariff wholly left out! A
similar game was practised by the Locosat
Washington in publishing Walker’s Texas
letter for thf South, with the argument
which it at first contained, that annexation
would eventually abolish slavery, wholly
omitted. They have been detected recent
ly in a similar fraud : that of publishing a
tract entitled “ the South is in danger,”
exclusively for circulation here! The
lion. Willis Green has exposed this last
fraud, and having witlrmuch difficulty pro.,
cured a copy of the tract, has republished it
verbatim and literatim for general circula
tion ! The object of the tract was to prove
Mr. Clay an abolitionist, and every pre
caution was used, but in vain, to prevent
the Whigs at Washington from getting hold
of it, lest they should send it North. Such
is this Locofoco party. At the North, for
the Tariff; here, against it. At the North
arguing that the annexation of Texas would
abolish slavery ; here, that it would per
petuate it. At the North, that Mr. Clay is
a slave-holder ; here, that he is an aboli
tionist. Whig tracts, on the contrary, like
Whig principles, are the same North and
South, East or West; all over this broad
Union ; what they say in one part, they
have no desire to hide from another!
A large number of villainous tracts, full
of personal abuse of Henry Clay, have been
received in this town under the frank of
Senator Walker, who has lent his time,
name and reputation, to the promulgation of
falsehood and slander. Among them, is a
•speech ofGiddings, of Ohio ; on which is
the endorsement in Walker’s hand writing
“this is the warm friend of Clay,” which
pamphlet Walker would not, to save lvis
ears from the pillory, circulate among the
Northern Democracy, the constituents of
Dr. Duncan, or Marcus Morton ! We
warn the Whigs to beware of these incen
diary publications.
Publications.
The New-York “ Ladies Companion”
for October is, as usual, prompt in its arri
val and elegant in its appearance. This
number fully sustains its previous deserv
edly good reputation.
We have received some numbers of
“ Arthur’s Ladies Magazine,” a work well
worthy of patronage. Its Editor has long
been favorably known as a writer. Pub
lished in Philadelphia by E. Ferret! A*. Cos,
Price 82 per annum.