JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Stroudsbur?, J si tie 13, 1844.
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FOR PRESIDENT
HENRY CLAY,
OF KENTUCKY.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
THEO. FRKLIKGHUSER,
OF NEW JERSEY.
FOR GOVERNOR,
GEN. 'JOSEPH MARKLE,
' Or WKST.MORELA.VD COUNT'.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
SIMEON GUILFORD,
OF LEBANON COUNTY.
Senatorial Electors.
CHESTER BUTLER, of Luzerne,
TOWNSEND HAINES, of Chester.
Districts.
1 Joseph G. Clarkson, Philadelphia.
l2 John Price Wetherill, do.
3 John D. Neinsteel, lo.
'4 John S. Little, Germantown, Phila. co.
5 Eleazer T. M'Dowell, Doylestown, Bucks co.
6 Benj. Frick, Limerick, p. o. Montgomery co.
7 Samuel Shafer, Chester county.
S William Heister, New Holland, Lancaster co.
V John S. Heister, Reading, Berks co.
10 John KiUinger, Anville, Lebanon co.
11 Alex. E Brown, Easton, Northampton co.
12 Jonathan J. Slocum, Wilkesbarre, Luzerne co.
13 Henry Drinker, Montrose, Susquehanna co.
14 James Pollock, Milton, Northumberland co.
15 Frederick Watts, Carlisle, Cumberland co.
Ifi Daniel M. Smyser, Gettysburg, Adams co.
17 lames Mathers, Mirfiintown, Juniata co.
18 Andrew J. Ogle, Somerset, Somerset co.
19 Daniel Washabaugh, Bedford, Bedford co.
20 John L. Gow, Washington, Washington co.
21 Andrew W. Loomis, Pittsburg, Allegheny co.
22 James M. Power, Greenfield, Mercer co.
23 William A. Irvine, Irvine, Warren co.
24 Benj. Hartshorn, Curwensville, Clearfield co.
The Whig Cause.
It is gratifying to see with what tinparalled
unanimity the people are flocking to the sup
port of their candidates, Clay and Frelinghuy
sen. We can scarcely open an exchange pa
per, without being greeted with an account of
some large and enthusiastic gathering of the
freemen of the vicinity where it is printed, for
the purpose of securing the triumph of our prin
ciples in the success of our candidates. Great
as was the enthusiasm in our ranks in 1840; it
is far exceeded by that, which at present, in
many places, animates our friends. The re
cent attack upon the Tariff, by the Loco Focos
in Congress, has aroused our friends to a full
knowledge of what we must expect, in the
event of that party ever again coming into pow
er and we are therefore determined to relax
no exertions until hare placed our cherished
principles out of the reach of harm or danger.
The issues of Annexation, the Oregon Ques
tion, kc. which the Locos are endearoring to
drug into the contest, will also be met, and dis
cussed, so that the people may hare a full un
derstanding of these exciting and troublesome
question?. But the Tariff, a Tariff which ghes
ample Protection to American Industry (and to
which the Locos are opposed) will be kept con
stantly before the eyes of the nation. We look
upon such a Tariff, as the sheet-anchor of the
country's prosperity, aod without which we
must always retrograde and be dependent upon
other nations. Upon this, as upon every other
question of public policy, eur party is united,
and we are much mistaken, if it does not se
cure for us a victory infinitely more brilliant
than that which we achieved under the Banner
of ihe good and lamented Harrison.
General Markle.
As this gentleman's qualifications are begin
ning to he better known, he is every where
more liked, and his certain election to ihe Gu
bernatorial Office, in October next, hailed with
delight. During the past week, meetings hare
been held in many counties, and we are pleased
to ce by the accounts, that General Markle's
name was prominent at all. The people say
thai us he fought for hcm during the last war,
and risked his life and fortune for the good of
hi country, they will show their gratitude for
lii patriotism, by elevating him to the Chief
Magistracy of Pennsylvania.
ITS ore Falsehood.
The Loco Focos know that they might as
as well attempt to move. the Allegheny Moun
tains from iheir eternal beds, as to succeed in
Pennsylvania with a candidate who is opposed to
a Protective.Tariff. Hence, ever since the un-
looked for nomination of James K. Polk, for the
Presidency, they have been endeavouring to
make the people believe that he is a good,
staunch lariff-nian. Now they know belter
than this. They know that he has ever advo
cated a low rate of duties, and opposed the
principle of protection which the Whigs advo
cate. It was upon these very questions that
Governor Jones, of Tennessee, look issue with
him, before the people of that State, nnd twice
defeated him$ in 1841, by majority,
and in 1843, by ! ! ! Mr. Polk, then
boldly expressed his opposition to Protection,
as we showed last week in an extract from one
of his speeches. That he entertains the same
opinions still, we have only to refer to the dec
larations of his intimate friends, made since his
nomination, both in and out of Congress. In a
debate, in the House of Representatives, on the
3d inst. Mr. Payne, of Alabama, a warm per
sonal friend of Mr. Polk, staled openly and em
phatically, that Mr. Polk is opposed to the Whig
Tariff of 1842 ! That he is in favor of a 20
per cent ad valorem duty on imports of 20 per
cent., discriminating below that I ! That he ia
in favor of a Tariff for Revenue, but not one
farthing for Protection I ! !
Yet in the face of all this, our loco foco lea
ders in Pennsylvania are endeavouring to de
ceive the People, by proclaiming that Polk is
in favor of .a Protective Tariff, and the friend
of Pennsylvania interests. Thi3 falsehood is
reiterated by every loco foco brawler, and pub
lished by every loco foco press, in the Com
monwealth. Rafferty, in his Monroe "Lyre" of
last week, gives the LIE a conspicuous inser
tion, and what is wonderful for him, prefaces
it with eighteen lines of his own perpetrating
which said -eighteen lines contain no less than
four direct and wilful falsehoods, which Raf
ferty must have known to he suph when he
published them. People of Pennsylvania, is
it fair, is it right, is it honest, for the Loco Fo
cos thus to endeavor to lie you into the belief of
a falsehood? We leave you to answer the
question.
Trying to be Pleased.
It is very amusing to see ihe Locos trying
to reconcile themselves to the strange doings
of their National Convention, and to be pleased
with the nominations of Polk and Dallas. In
some places they try to be joyful, and show
their attachment to the party by getting up,
what they call, Ratification Meetings. But
these exhibitions are so devoid of all enthusi
asm and hilarity, that they have aptly been
called poor Martin's funeral assemblages. In
other places they try to raise their drooping.
spirits, and awaken their friends from despon
dency, by burning gun-powder. But even this
won't help them. The sounds come to their
ears like minute-guns fired over their departed
greatness. They undertook to fire SSS guns, at
Easton, on Wednesday evening last, but before
they had got through with eleven of them, all
hands were so sick of the job, that the gunner
spiked the gun, with ihe priming needl. to put
a speedy end to the businesi. Poor fellows,
how we do pity them!
Whiff Prospects in IV ew York.
The Editor of the New York Tribune, who
has just returned from an extensive tour through
that Slate, and has conversed with many intel
ligent and active men from every County, gives
it as his honest and impartial impression, that
the State of New York will give a majority of
not lesi lhan 20,000, and not improbably 30,
000 votes for Clay and Frelinghtiyoen. The
Whigs, he says, are every
confident of success.
where active, and
Irregularity of the Itlails.
We are constantly in the receipt of com
plaints from our subscribers, that they do not
recive their papers regularly, and some tot at
all. We can only account for this by attribu
ting the neglect lo the Post Masters. We are
careful about packing our papers, and putting
tthem in the Post Office ; after ihev are there.
we cannot follow them. Last week we re
ceived complaint from Hope, N. J. that our
paper, which we have regularly mailed to a
subscriber there, lias not been received by him
for the last six weeks. This is too bad, and
unless the evil is immediately remedied, we
thai! lake measures to find out the offending
Post Master, und hold him up to the censure
he deserves.
Resignation off a Bishop.
The Rev. Henry U. Onderdonk, D. D., Bish
op of ihe Protestati Episcopal Church in Penn
sylvania, has resigned his office, on account of
physical infirmity.
Political Greess. t-
Polk, is pronounced poke, and every body
knows what kind of a plant it is. Dallas, read
backwards, spells sallad. Poke and sallad do ve-
TV WpII for iVlrtcn Wnn KL-n liiam in tliA onriitrr
mj IV AJJ.W 4tW UIIU III lilt SjMtllgy
but they are neither of them good for any thin
in the fall. " That same Old Coon," therefore
thinks it will be entirely too lale for such greens
hi November next.
Convention of Clay Clubs.
There was a Convention of ihe Officers of
the different Clay Clubs of the City and State
of New York, held at Ulica, on the 5th inst.
Upwards of 1000 officers of Clubs were in at
tendance, and a plan for a ful.l and efficient
State organization adopted.
Adjournment of Congress.
Monday next is the lime fixed upon for the
adjournment of Congress.
Th.e Texas Treaty Rejected.
The Treaty for the Annexation of Texas to
the United Stales, which has been under con
sideration by the Senate, for some weeks past,
was rejected by that body on Saturday night
last, by a vote 35 to 16. All the Senators were
present except Mr. Hannagan, of Indiana.
Mr. Benton and Silas Wright voted against it.
Poik and Clay A Contrast.
In the course of some remarks in the House,
on Wednesday, Mr. Peyton said he had with
in his reach, though not here, a very precious
document concerning this same J. K. Polk an
extract from a letter (as the Reporter under
stood, perhaps speech) of his, in which he came
out in favor of works of internal improvement
by the General Government within the States.
He was just so in regard to everything. This
was what the great Democratic party had
brought out for the four-mile heat at the fall
races ! A little, beaten, broken-winded, found
ered, spring-halt, shuffling, spavined, bob-tail
nag of Tennessee, to run against the great
Eclipse ! Much laughter, and some punning
among the Democratic members. There was
a turning up of the nose, a sense of the ridicu-
: . u :.i n.i r..
been identified with all the
great
events and
measures in our political history for the last
foriy years. A man ay every inch a man,
in heart and intellect, in firmness, grasp, and
comprehension of mind a whole head and
shoulders above any man that had ever set his
foot-print on this continent, save one only.
When the tyrant power of Great Britain was
seizing our citizens, and confining them in ihe
loathsome dungeon of a prison-ship, whose
voice was it lhal sounded in thunder tones of
indignation through the land, loud and long and
dep, till the injury was redressed ? Henry
Clay. And when another crisis arose in our
affairs a crisis which shook the Government
of the country to its centre, which caused the
good man and the patriot to turn pale, and made
Jefferson himself declare that it struck upon
his spirit like an alarm-bell in the dead hour of
nignt, wno was it mat came to tne rescue,
threw himself into the breach, and saved the
country? Henry Clay. And then, in that
i . i i t
other critical and trying hour, when the flag of
disunion was raised in South Carolina, and the
laws of the Union were resisted aithe cannon's
mouth, while we had in the chair of state a man
of iron nerve and lion heart, who swore by the
Eternal that the laws should be executed, and
that if one gun was fired by South Carolina,
" he would hang Calhoun and McDuffie, and
Hayne and Hamilton, and ihe other leaders of
the rebellion, as high as Haman," who was it
that came again as our deliverer, with a heart
deeply penetrated by the crisis of his country's
fate, and, casting on the issue all he had held
dear in life, once more, by his prudence, mod
eration, and skill, assuaged the angry elements,
and rescued this fair land from the horrors of
civil discord? It was Henry Clay. When
the hour of danger came, there was he ; and
wherever he came, danger was quelled, disor
der fled, and public prosperity smiled upon her
restorer. Now, look on this picture and on
that the counterfeit presentment of two can
didates. 'Tis Hyperion lo a Saiyr. As well
compare a mousing owl lo the imperial bird of
Jove, that sprang aloft aud soared into the very
sun.
The Buffalo Courier says ihat Gen. Jackson
in 1832 iriumphed over the U. S. Bank, aided
by the Brokers aud Stock Jobbers of England,
and I hat said Bank's
" Corruptions and briberies; its purchases of
Presses, and of Senators and Representatives in
Congress, CfC yc. must be fresh ;n the recol
lection of every one," &c.
The Tribune insists that these savage attacks
on Geo. M. Dallas shall be stopped. If ihe
party believe he was bribed to introduce and
carry through the U. S. Hank Charier in '32,
what did ihev put him up for? They should
eiiher withdraw the nomination or treat their
candidate with common decency!
I An Ancient Turtle.
Joshua Sharpless, of Middletown, Delaware
county, Pa., states that there is a laud turtle on
his farm, which has been seen in one of ihe
fields annually for ihe last fifty years. He
beats the maiks of G. B. J 794, and J. N. 1790,
upon his shell, and weighs fifteen ounces.
There is no telling how long these creatures
live.
Fish. The Boston Courier says lhat Dan
iel Webster, al Marshfield, caught a cod weigh
ing 5 pounds and litree-quarters, with a com
mon (rout line and small trout hook.
An Important declaration.
In the course of some remarks made in the
House a day or two since hy Mr. Peyton, he
alluded to the nomination ol Mr. Polk, at Bal
timore, and said :
A distinguished gentleman of New York had
publicly denominated!! as a farce, and without
the slightot reserve; declaring openly thai ii
ought to meet wiih no respect from ihe coun
try, and that James K. Polk could not get one
electoral college, unless that of South Carolina,
and that would depend on ihe mere whim and
caprice of Mr. Calhoun.
This annunciation produced very great sen
sation in ihe Huns',
Mr. Stetson, of New York, inquired of Mr. P.
who the New York member referred to was?
Mr. Peylon replied, ihai for ihe name of the
gentleman, and all the circumstances, he would
refer th gentleman lo the Hun. Mr. Black, of
South Carolina. He would tell him who he
was.
Mr. Steton repealed his inquiry, observing
that the statement had taken him completely by
surprise.
Mr. Peyton replied, it was a member on ihis
floor, a distifisuUhed member of the House, a
great friend of Mr. Van'Buren, and, in fact,
considered as hi right hand man here. That
gentleman had declared that Mr. Polk could
not gel 'he vole of one electoral college, unless
in South Carolina, and lhal depended on ihe
whim and caprice of Mr. Calhoun. If ihe Gen
tleman would apply to the honorable gentleman
from South Carolina, he could gel all the in'for
malion he desired.
Silas Wnghi, jr., was probably referred to.
A Scene in the Blouse.
Mr. Peyton said several pithv and pointed
things, during his speech in the House on Wed
nesday last. In reply lo some charges made
;amst ihe Whigs by Dr. Duncan, be picked
out a dozen or two ieadrs of ihe l Ainu Tmicii
party, and held ihem up to the public eye, in
any but a favorable point of view, in ihe course
of his remarks, this scene occurred, as reported
in tne iNattonai intelligencer:
a k .1 i r -i , t
ttuomer very uisunguisiicd gentleman in
the Democratic ranks, and now, he believed, a
prominent member of Congress one Charles
Jared Ingersoll had declared that, had he been
n Y u" I capable of reflection in the days of the Revolu
Unehao,: l w .ii u3Va unun ., t,.,. tl... ......
l hat neu
ileman was most courteous in his deporimeni
and had always treated Mr. P. with the utmost
personal kindness. He meant him no offence
or injury ; and if the assertion he. had now made
as his was incorrect, he (Mr. P ) would instant
ly take it back. 1 he gentleman was present
and could deny it if it was untrue. Mr. I. re
.: l i t t- . .
aiueu uis seai.i mr. f. next quoted a very
fiery article indeed, from the pen of J. H. Pren
tiss, a van liuren member of Congress. This
gentleman declared it gave him infinite pleas
ure to be able to announce (in his paper) the
triumph of Federalism. Was he a Democrat?
1 hen came William Cullen Bryant, the author
of a. poetical eulogy (of no very flattering kind,
as it seemed) on I nomas Jefferson. fMr. P
quoted from this poem, a sort of mock heroic
Now, then, he would again inquire, where
was Federalism to be found ? He thought ho
had placed it on the right side of the party-di
viding line.
Mr. Ingersoll here asking the loan of the
book from which the above quotations had been
made, Mr. P. replied: " 'Jake good care of it,
I .1 . i -
aim uu uui uerauge ine contents: it is an ex
cellent magazine of Whig ammunition, and
mean to draw on it, for some missiles, I hope,
to iiuri at tlie polk stalks of Tennessee."
All for Clay. 1
By a late trip of Belle Air down the Ohio, a
vote was taken as follows: For Clay 49 ; Lo-
coloco nominee, 12. The passengers were
from 11 Stales.
A vote was taken on board the Waverly, on
a laie trip irom Oinciunaii to St. Louis, which
resulied as follows : In ihe cabin, for Clay 51,
van iJuren 17, Johnson 3, Stewart 1. On deck
Clay received 9 and Van Buren 20.
Another vole has been taken on the Swifi
sure, on the Ohio river, and resulied : For
Clay 46; Locofoco nominee 14: Cass 1 : Joe
Smith 2.
Slay m es Already.
We find the following, ayx tho Union, in
the Baltimore Republican. This is beginning
early.
" A dose of Polk ts perfect pizen,
To Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen."
But there is some logic in the following an
swer any how !
The Polkers say tha't Poke is pison
To Henry C.lay and Frelinchuvsen :
But how this thing can they make out,
And bring so great a change about!
For sure 'twas they that take ihis pison,
Not Henry Clay nor Frelin-hny.sen.
Forum.
It may be remembered that Matthew Ly
on, who was imprisoned under the old John
Adams law for opposing Federalism, declared
after his release, that whoover should live
fifty year; would find ihe Federalists to be pre
tended admirers of Jefferson. nnd Republican,
ism." This prediction is fully verified.
Phila. Times.
The Times had beiier take care hnw it talks.
The friends of James Buchanan, Lewis Cassi
Levi Woodbury, Charles J. Ingersoll and a
!hou,$and other prominent Locofocos will be
down upon it savage all in a lump" like a
thousand of brick." Does it not know lhat
those ancient Federalists are the most vocifer
ous " Jefferonian Republican," a be (bund
now-a-days? Old Warrior,.
The Harmonious Democracy! a
blow up ainou? the Polko Focoh
about Hluhlesiberg.
There was a locofoco ratification meeting at
Harriaburg on Tuesday evening, which appears
lo have been a rich specimen of harmony. The
Clay Bugle speaking of the string of msolu
lions offered, says ihey were all passed whit
ihe exception of one lauding Mr. Mohlenuerq,
and pledging the Locofocracy oj the Keystone to
his support, the passage of which was warjilv
OPPOSED BY SKYER A I. VERY INFLUENTIAL AND
respectable gentlbmen. Here commenced
a scene lhat beggars description, in which the
whole caravan of Locofocos look part, atnLth
hyena nature of the "harmonious democracy"
wan most strikingly exhibited. Those wlm
attempted to speak on either side were- cried
and hooted down, hut .Muhlenberg's friemU
having the majority, ihe difficulty was tempo
rarily settled by ihe application of PHYSICAL
FORCE, and one of ihe most indepeudenr of
the dlsaffecied was actually laid. h.oldof avi
dragged into the street, where a regular
pitched battle took place betweei the belli,
gerenl Polkites, who poked it into- each other
after ihe mosl approred " democratic" fashion.
The torch of discord naving been lit, ih
flame was fanned by the proposition of a cmipl.t
of incendiary resoluiioii3, expressing thanks Uh
John Tyler for his course on ihe Texas ques
tion, and of CONFIDENCE IN THE INTEGRITY
AND STERLING DEMOCRACY OF DaYID R. Por-
ter ! These resolutions were very summanlr
voted down, when the meeting having hy iln,
time worked itself into a terrible atew, it was
thought bei lo adjourn with whole bones an. I
bloodless noses, and leave the settlement of ii,;
difficulties' for some future occaton. Forum
Mr. Polk presented by a Grand Jury.
The New York Courier says ihai while Mr.
Polk was Governor of Teriries-ie.e, in-lead of
attending in the dotic.-s of his office and auin
under the re.srraiul which his position woul,
have imposed upiin him hud he been a man of
the slioh'e-t delicacy, he look occasion on
the 4th of July, 1S40, at a public meeting of ih
locofocos a! Knoxville, Teunes.xee, to nominal'
himself for re-election .' and he for-hwith pro
ceeded to open the campaign in person, avl
bring in bear upon ihe issue all the gubernato
rial influence with which he was inve.std. Th
people cif th u seciimi ihinkinsj that ihis wa
not part of the duly for which he had bee;i
elecled, expressed iheir censure very freely,
and finally the Grand Jury ai ihe Sevier Coun
ty Couri presented ihe Governor as follows :
The Executive of our State, James K.
Polk, instead of being found ai his posi, exe
cuting the laws, devising means of improving
the deplorable condiiion of ihe country, and of
restoring it to the prosperity it has lost he,
our Governor, is found Iraversing ihe Slate,
conducting an electioneering campaiun, for ilia
elevation of others and to keep in train the sys
tem which is so oppressive, and in power lha
rulers who ask for power at such a price.
"This we present as a most serious griev
ance, a dereliction of duty an evil example n
others who may be prompted to do ihn like,
and which in the end will prove the overtliruvr
of our free institutions, &c. &c.
JAMES S EATON".
Foreman of the Grand Jury."
The Grand Jury of the nation will lake a,
similar liherty wiih Polk next fall. He na-i
nominated in a " disorderly house," obialneil
its vote under "false pretenses" and will be in
dicted as a " Burner by the people. torum.
Reasons why Mr. Clay is
opposed to Tin;
" Immediate" ' Annexation of
Texas-
CONDENSED FROM HIS LETTER.
1st Because it cannot be done without ihj
loss of naiional character.
2d Because it cannot be done without this
hazard of foreign war.
3d Because it cannot be done without dan
ger lo the integrity of the Union.
4th Because it cannot be done with thu
general concurrence of the nation.
5th Because it cannot be done without gir j
ing an unreasonable price for Texas.
Good. Mr. Crittenden remarked in hi
speech at Baltimore, that Mr. Van Buren, ia
lus Pennsylvania letter, said " thai he was
en in 1840 by a whirlwind of excitement."
This year, said Mr. C, we will change it to a i
Harrycane.
A Strange Duel Prevented.
On ihn morning of ihe 3th ult. iho Police Pi
New Orleans succeeded in stopping
sanguinary affair between two nymvJls
1 1 -v - - 1
pave, naineu uatnanne uoacn anu ijarj;ai"
Ivelley, who, with their secqn,ds, jlrzabdh hi-
nis and Springfield Mary a,n,d a.hundreil or tw
of spectators, had repaired. iQ.the liiyou i -John,
lo fight a duel, with bowje knivis ani
pistol! Finding they would, not bo allowed f
endanger each oihe.r,H lives according to ?
proved and faslupnabla. rups, he. heiUgci
had a small flghi an naturel or in oil er wo;
set to and lore each others. hiir, niil face ui
regular cat audi dog style. 'J-hey were all aciit
to the calaboose.
Almon H Read, M-. C. from ihe I2ih dis
trict of this State, died at his residence in Mn
irose, Susquehanna county, lat week. M'
Read was compelled to leave WasbjJii"n 3"inf
six weeks since on account of hi decline,,!
health. He was a prominent pohticimi, n j
has long held office in our State.
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Early- Harvest.
The Richmond Compiler sayv (ha,t the far
mers along James River, below that city, have
been tngaged in harvesting their wheat crop
for a week or mnre The crop, tt ts, tiuugni
will prove a very good on