JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
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JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Stroiulsburg, July 25, l44.
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FOR PRESIDENT
HENRY CLAY,
OF KENTUCKY.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
THEO. FUELING HUSEN,
OF NEW JERSEY.
FOR GOVERNOR.
GEN. .JOSEPH MARKLE.
OF WEST.UOK ELAND COUNTY.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER
SIMEON GUILFORD,
OF LEBANON' COUNTY.
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Senatorial Electors.
CHESTER BUTLER, of Luzerne.
TOWNSEND HAINES, of Chester.
Districts.
1 Joseph G. Clarkson, Philadelphia.
2 John P rice W elhcrill, do.
3 John D. Ninesteel, do.
4 John S. Litiell, Germantown, Phila. co.
f Eleazer T. M'Dowell, Doylestown, Bucks co.
f Benj. Frick, Limerick, p. o. Montgomery co.
7 Samuel Shafer, Chester county.
8 William Iliester, New Holland, Lancaster co.
9 John S. Iliester, Reading, Berks co.
30 Alex. E Brown, Easton, Northampton co.
1 1 John Killinger, Anville, Lebanon co.
12 Jonathan J. Slocum, Wilkesbarre. Luzerne co.
13 James Pollock, Milton, Northumberland co.
14 Henry Drinker, Montrose, Susquehanna co.
15 Frederick Watts, Carlisle, Cumberland co.
16 Daniel M. Smyser, Gettysburg, Adams co.
17 James Mathers, Mifrlintown, 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.
TIte Jliocos ItTwEnmce.
The nomination of James K. Polk, for Pres
ident, is certainly one of the most surprising
political events which has taken place in this
country since the War of the Revolution.
"When the people of the States had fought them
selves free from the thraldom of Great Britain,
and adopted our present excellent Constitution,
they elected Gen. Washington, Chief-Magis-traie
of the Union thus establishing a rule that
the greatest and best should always be selected
for that high and important siation. Since then,
a succession of our most distinguished men
have filled the Presidential seat and up to the
present time no man has ever been nominated
for the office, who had not, either by his com
manding talents or heroism distinguished him
self before his countrymen.
But now we have arrived at a new state of
affairs, and the old order of things has been en
tirely reversed. The present nominee of the
Loco-Focos, is a fourth or fifth rate man ; en
tirely unknown to fame, and before his nomina
tion, not one out of a hundred of our citizens
ever dreamed that buch a man as James K.
Polk existed.
It has also been a settled principle of the
coutitrv, thai the office of President of the Uni
ted States was entirely" loo high and dignified
to be sought after by any individual, but that the
honour should be a free and voluntary offer of
the people to one who had distinguished him
self by a long life of public service. But how
does this comport with the nomination of Mr.
Polk! Was it the free and voluntary reward
of his countrymen for such services ? Nothing
of ihe kind. Before the Baltimore Convention
met, not a man, woman or child in the country,
dreamt that its nominee would be Jas. K. Polk,
of Tennessee. And it was only when the
wire-woikers of ;he party found that they stood
no chance with Martin Van Buren, the person
'they were pledged to nominate, thai the idea
occurred to ihem that ihey could do better with
koine one unknown to the people, than with
any of their numerous prominent men who had
been named in connexion with the Presidency.
They knew that the principle of Mr. Van Bu-
i en, had been condemned by the people, and
they were fearful that those of Gen. Cass, Mr.
Buchanan, or Col. Johnson, would share no
Letter fate. The principles of these men, are
familiar to the country, and they knew they
could not deceive the people in regard to them.
They therefore took Mr. Polk, a man unknown
to the mass of his countrymen, and are en
deavoring, by falsehood and misrepresentation,
io induce the 'people to believe, he is the very
man to suit the emergencies of the country.
But they rely too much upon the credulity of
ihe freemen of our land. The people are not
so ignorant but they can see through ihe means
which the locos are employing to deceive them.
They do not know James K. Polk but they do
know .Henry Clay, and will gloriously rally to
his support in November next.
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tiife of Gen. IKarklc.
We are gratified in being able to state that
ihe editors of the " Vaterland's Waechter," at
Harrisburgh, have issued a sketch of the Life
and Public Services of Gen. Joseph Markle,
ihe Whig candidate for Governor, in the Ger
man language. This publication should be very
generally circulated and read, for we are sure
that ihe people require but to be made acquaint
ed with his character, to esteem and honour
the man. It is sold at the low price of $1 per
A
100 copies.
Personal Abuse.
The Locos are as busily employed as they
can be in villifying and vituperating the char
acter of Henry Clay; hoping by such conduct
io defeat his election. But they will be disap
pointed in this, as they were in 1810, when
thry iried to defame the character of the good
and virtuous Harrison, and make him oui one
of the most loathsome beings on earih. Gen.
Harrison was elected by 145,000 majority, and
Henry Clay will be chosen by nearly double
that, in spite of all their lies and abuse.
View Publications.
We have received from the publishers, Messrs.
Burgess, Stringer & Co. New-York, Nos. 3, 4
and 5, of the Literary Remains of the late Wil
lis Gaylord Clarke, of Philadelphia. A com
plete sei of the writings of this distinguished
auihor has long been desired by the reading
community, and that wanl is now supplied in a
good and correct edition. The work is edited
y Mr. Clarke's twin-brother ; is well got up,
and sold at ihe low price of Twenty-five cents
per numbc The whole will be complete in
five numbers. We hope the publishers will
orward us numbers 1 and 2, so as to make our
copy complete.
A Grand JProccssion.
Tlie Gallant Whigs of Louisville, Kentucky,
tad a splendid procession on Saturday evening
a week, which numbered many thousands.
There were over two thousand banners and
transparencies, and several hundred flambeaus,
carried in it, from which streamed forth, along
ihe entire line of march, a soft and beautiful ra
diance like the light of an hundred full moons.
Many of the transparencies were so large that
they had to be borne on carriages constructed
expressly for the purpose. Beautiful likenesses
of Clay and Frelinghuysen were seen upon
scores of the banners. Larco Balls, upon
which the names of the States were emblazon
ed, were rolled along the streets, amid the
shouts of the multitude. Blacksmith's and
other tradesmen, were ai work upon platforms,
drawn by horses; and to crown all, ihe Sixth
Ward came up wiih a Ship fifty feci long,
manned by a noble Whig crew, whose soul
stirring songs and shouts, as they passed along,
were responded to on all sides wiih the most
deafening applause.
Keep it before the People,
That James K. Polk's paternal Grandfather,
was a TORY in the Revolution, and assisted
the British in iheir efforts to subdue the patri
ots of Nonh Carolina. People of the United
Slates, shall it ever be said, that the grand-son
of a Tory, was President of the United Slates ?
It is for you to answer.
YcEIow Fever.
The rainy season has already set in, in many
places in the South, (much earlier than in for
mer years,) and the yellow fever is raging with
considerable virulence.
Affairs in Philadelphia.
The disturbances in Philadelphia, have at
length been effectually quelled, and nearly all
the military which had been called to the City,
have again returned io iheir homes. The civil
authorities are busily engaged in inquiring into
the causes of the riots, and binding those over
who participated in thorn.
John Henderson, Esq., Secretary of ihe Lo-
cofoco meeting in St. Louis, Mo., has repudi
ated ihe party now and forever,
swallow the Annexation of Texas.
He can't
I M POT A NT INQUIRY. A portion of ihe
citizens of Hanover, N. H., recently held a pub
lic meeting and appointed a committee to as
certain who Polk and Dallas might be!
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"The Coons! the Coons will beat creation,
In spite of Polk and Annexation !
Louisiana.
We have noi yet received full returns of the
late eleciion in this State. In the 4th Con
gressional District the run is very close be
tween Judge Bordelon, Whig, and Mr. Moorse,
Loco. Bordelon is 97 votes ahead, as far as
heard from. For the Legislature the Whigs
have already secured members enough to give
them 10 majority in the House. In the Senate
the Loco majority is one, which leaves nine
for the Whigs on joint-ballot. Next week we
will have full returns from the whole State.
The Whigs are surprised and rejoiced at iheir
unexpected triumph in Louisiana. They iho'i
that Annexation might gain Polk this one Stale,
but it could not do it.
Opinions on the Tariff.
We ask the particular attention of our read
ers to the following opinions on the present ex
cellent Tariff Law, by Henry Clay and James
K. Polk, the rival candidates for the Presiden-
m i t i r
cy. 1 tie people can now see wno is in lavor
of protection to American Industry, and who is
not. Whilst Polk is in favor of reducing the
duties to what they were in 1842, Mr. Clay is
utterly opposed to repealing any of them. We
say, read ! read ! ! and then decide who you
will vote for.
Ashland, 29th June, 1844.
Dear Sir: I hare received your favor, sta
ting that our political opponents represent me
as being a friend of protection at the North,
and for free trade at the South ; and you desire
an expression of my opinion, under my own
hand, for the purpose of correcting this misrep
resentation, i am afraid that you will find the
effort vain lo correct misrepresentations of me.
Those who choose to understand my opinions
can have no difficulty in clearly comprehend
ing them. I have repeatedly expressed them
as late as this spring, and several times in an
swer to letters from Pennsylvania. My opin
ions, such as they are, have been recently
quite as freely expressed at the south, as I
ever uttered them at the north. have every
where maintained, that in adjusting a Tariff for
revenue, discriminations ought to" be made for
Protection; that the tariff of 1842 has op
erated most beneficially, and that I AM
UTTERLY OPPOSED TO ITS REPEAL.
These opinions were announced by mu al pub
lic meetings in Alabama, Georgia, Charleston
in South Catolina, North Carolina, and in Vir
ginia. Your friend and obedient servant,
Mr. Fred. J. Copo. H. CLAY.
Thus stands Henry Clay. Let the following
letter, equally explicit and emphatic, define the
position of James K. Polk.
Winchester, May 29, 1843.
To the People oj Tennessee :
The object which I had in proposing to Gov.
Jones, at Carrollville on the 12lh of April last,
that we should each write out and publish our
views and opinions on the subject of the tariff,
was, that our respective positions might be dis
tinctly understood by the people. That my opin
ions were already fully and distinctly known I
could not doubt: had steadily during the pe
riod I was a Representative in Congress been op
posed lo a Protective Policy, as my recorded votes
and public speeches prove.
Since I retired from Congress, I had held the
same opinion. In the present canvass for Gov
ernor I HAD AVOWED MY OPPOSITION
TO THE TARIFF ACT OF TJ1E LATE
WHIG CONGRESS, as being highly protec
tive in its character, and nol designed by its
authors as a revenue measure. 1 had avowed
my opinion in my public speeches that the in
terests of the country and especially the pro
ducing and exporting slates REQUIRED
ITS REPEAL, and the restoration of the prin
ciples of the compromise tariff act of 1833.,
JAMES K. POLK.
It will be recollected that we slated a few
days since, that Mr. Loring, editor of ihe North
Carolina Independent, formerly a locofoco pa
per, ha avowd his determination not to sup
port Polk and Dallas. In a'late number of his
paper he says he has received a letter " which
j-uus in ihis wise."
"Mr. T. Loring: Dear Sir: I am requested
to send your Independent newspaper hack to
you, as your doctrine won't do here ; and you
will, 1 think, find out when too late, as the vul
gar saying is, "you have barked up the wrong
tree."
To the above Mr. Loring replies " We have
really a personal regard for dur old friend of
Stokes county, who wrote ihe above, and are
sorry to see hiru still in ihe u house of bondage."
He will please recojlrci, however, that we bark
tip a tree of our own choosing, while !i is obliged
to bark up any tree to which his master chooses
to tie him."
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Facts for Itlecliance.
We would lhai every Mechanic in ihe laud
would "readmark, learn, ami inwardly digest"
the contents of the following article, from the
Poughkeppsie Eagle. It is a concise state-
nieni of (he effects which ihe election of anti -
protectionists will have, on all the industrial
classes of our country, and we cannot too
strongly commend it to their notice:
In the years when 'he rates of duties upon
all imported articles ranged at 20 per cent., ii
is well known not only that ihe foreign impor
tations so far exceeded the exports as to create
a ruinous balance of trade again-! us, but lha
owing to the low duties, in addition to the
usual foreign goods brought in, large quantities
(if article made by mechanical labor began al
so to be imported, and that kind of business
was increasing so rapidly that had it not been
slopped by the tariff of 1842, it would soon
have proved a vast injury, if no! utterly ruinous,
to a large portion of American mechanics
Hardly a ship tame from England that did nol
bri'ig as a portion of her cargo, a lnrgc quanti
ty of London made hats; French cabinet form
iur began also to come almost by the cargo
but among the chief mechanical articles were
French boots and shoes, afld ready made cloth
ins-
All who had occasion to visit our large cities
in those times, could see in every quarier signs
upon showing shops filled wiih French boots
and shoes, and the ready made clothing brought
from London could also he found almost as ea
sily. But we wish lo call the attention of shoe
makers and tailors especially ihe journeymen,
to two simple facts, which we noticed particu
larly at the time. A single ship that arrived in
the spring of 1842, before the Whig tariff was
passed, brought sixteen thousand pairs of Paris
made boots and shoes, which were at once
thrown inloour markets. It was also stated by
the city papers, at about the same.time, when or -
ders were constantly going to England for ready
made clothing, thai by the steamship Greal Cornwallts, w hen he thought the Whins we;..
Western, in one trip, there were sent measures 1 likely lo be conquered. Ami James K. PJ
lo London for 1200 full suits of clothes, to be has proved a regular 'chip of the. old block.'
made lo order for New York and Philadelphia, j He has voted repeatedly against grdioing Peu
I3y the boots and shoes brought in the single j sions to our Revolutionary veteran, and he h.n
caro here mentioned, American journeymen
shoemakers were directly deprived of patron
age to the amount of at least $15,000, and more
probably of $25,000, all of which was as so
much cash taken directly from their pockets.
And in reference to the clothes ordered in one
trip by the Great Western, the journeymen tai
lors, to say nothing of iheir employers, were in
like manner sufferers directly from iheir pock
ets in the loss of so much work, to the amount
of at Iea?t $5000 cash, for the making of the
1200 coats alone would have amounted lo $3,
600 to them. And ihis, let it be understood,
was lost to American journeymen shoemakers
and tailors, in but two instances, without reler
ence to the hundreds of others, of similar char
acter, in the importation of ready made clothing, j changes from the Whig party, is one by the
hats, cabinet furniture, &c. to fill the shops in pulsburg Morning Post, asserting tli.n E.vtio
our large cities. vernor Ritnei: of this- county has abandoned
Now we wish our workingmen of all classes, r Cj AV aj.w.j M,pjIOrl Polk,
many of whom are doubtless still acting wiih, .p.,, ,1, we arn ahc, !o 1Vt. an authorita
ihe locofoco party, would consider these facts TJVE DENIAIj Gov. Ritiier does not o;iimm
well, and then, without reference to past pref- Mf am VILL X0T SUpp,ui J.linL..s K I 'oik.
erences, according to ihe dictates of their own j A fren j ifrms us that when ihe libellou- par
sobor judgment, judge which policy is best ca, J a;raph of the Post' was shown to the. p;tiri..m:
dilated to promote their own interests and those! 0jj Qovernor t r0Used him, as it would an
of the country. One single fact like that of ihe t i,ish.niinded opponent of locofocoism, to th.
arrival of 16,000 pair French boots and shoes ! hjghesl indignation, and without a motoenw
in one cargo, is worth more to enable ihetn io j heUatjon he sternly declared "he would ;h
reach a correct conclusion than all the theories sooi cul 0rj- rjlt ,amj as desert his print- -in
the world. A journeyman shoemaker or tai- j p,.a,,e sound principles he has clung to fr
lor. when he finds he is charged, and himself: t,onrc , nn,s an,,,!,,.,. 0f xhe falsehemdH
i r ..rr U 1.:,. . ...... ..i m
aim lamny suiiering ituuugii ma ii em
ployment, and because the articles upon which
he works are made in Paris or London al pri
ces below which he can possibly mako a de
cent living, does not want to read len columns
about "democracy," poor man's "rights," and
"bank," and so on, to understand his position. I
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He sees at once, if he looks at iho subject with-
out prejudice, lhat both his interests and his .,
rights are sacrificed through the bad policy of j
the government, which allows foreigners
take away his substance by depriving hirnoli
the patronage to which he is entitled. Ihe
same rule applies to every branch of industry.
But, says a locofoco demagogue, anxious to
conceal the real issue Iftnn tl.e people what
lias ait tins to uo won ui i icmuuuuiii ijuuo-
Hons we answer, u nas every ining io uu wiui
it, and upon the settlement of that question will
depend entirely the protection or the prostra
tion of American industry. Henry Chiy has
always been ihe steady advocate of that system,
and if he is elected it will certainly be estab
lished during his administration upon a basis
so firm that it can never again be shaken. On
tho other hand, James K. Polk is and always
has been an avowed opponent of protection and
an advocate of free trade, ho is now supported
at the South solely upon that ground, as all his
partv papers and meetii.g- show, so that if he
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this issue, howeier much demogogues may
seek 10 mystify it. Lei mechanics then choose
which of ihe two ihey consider as presenting
tho best claims to iheir support. It is to them
a plain business matter.
" Out of the abundance of the heart,"
&.c. A Whig and a Loco-Foco of ihis city
convening together a few days since, the Whig
remarked, " Well, if you succeed in electing
Polk, I hope you will have Loco-Foco princi
ples carried out lo your heart's content." To
which the Loco very ingenuously replied,
" Thai's Whiggery ! if you can't elect Clay,
you want to ruin the country .'" Thus allowing
it to escape him thai the very doctrines he ad
vocated were ruinous and deslrnciive.
NTewurk Daily Adr.
The Calumnies of JLoce-SFocoivtji,
The Plebeian of yesterday has a ' Song Tue
Brave Patriot Boys' which, .after beastly .tbtiae
'of Clay as Old Ham and 'traitor-knave,1
J and Frelinghuysen as ' a blue-skin saint,' p;0-
iceeds
" These sons of brave old Tories
The title ' Whig' they claim;
Like the Ass thnt brayed in the Lion's skin,
Boast they their stolen fame.
To Britain's camp their fathers j'.cd,
While our bold sires to battle led,
And for their country fought and bled,
Like brave patriot boys.
" Their patriot blood ! 't is thrilling
Yet in their children's veins
The same on Bunker's Ilight that flowed
That dyed the Jersey Plains 1
They fought for freedom and for right
For freedom still their sons will fight,
Till tyrants fall 'neath freemen's miht,
We're brave patriot boys."
Now these libelous rascals compel us to re
mind them again that the father of Mr. Frk
linghuysen was a Whig soldier of '.he Revo
lution, and poured out his blood in battle fur
' Liberty in the hours of its darkest depression,
and that Theodore Frelinghuysen, who is to
our next Vice President, was throughout our
Lasl War Captain of a company of Volunteer
at Newark who stood ready for service tlmmufi
the contest, and were iwice called out by ihs
Governor, and aided lo throw up entrenchments
at Fort Greene for the defence of this City.
They wero not in battle, but this was from no
lack of disposition on iheir part, as they were
regularly in service and ready to go wherever
ordered. On the other hand, Ezekiel Polk.
Grandfather of the Loco-Foco candidate for
j President, was a British Tory of ihe Revolu
tion, and not a 'brave old Tory' either, but a
mean, cowardly, unprincipled one not one of
ihose who adhered lo ureal Britain through a
' mistaken loyally, but one of those who sneaked
i over to her and took a British protection fnir.t
j been charged to his face by Gov. Jones on
stump wiih skulking out of the county in whicli
he lived into another in order to avoid tein
drafted to serve in the last War and he duwl
not deny it. Are not ihe supporters of tht- man
pretty lellows to be talking of ' brave old To
ries,' and ' To Britain's camp their fathers jl "
which was jusl what James K Polk'.-, gnn-.-faiher
did, while J. K. has evinced a knuire.l
disposition. Should not a decent sense of
shame constrain them to 6top their calumnies '
- iV. Y. Tribune, July 18.
Ex-Go vena or Elitzicr.
Amori" the. last of ihe innumerable faisehnoJs
: flnntirui lhronoh ihe locofoco papers, relative L
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our opponents are so industriously circulating
Carlisle Herald and Expositor.
" Youns Hickory.
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A friend remarked the other day, after rul
ing tho particulars of Henry A. Wise's a'i.it
....... rx.tl- ,.. ..!.w.li ilw. lutipr dinlaved siic'i
UIJUIl 1 III iiivii - .
M,. nmi ,, ,,.,! ibere wa
a srjki semhanCtt belwelM1 0iu'
y Hickory." " As great," s:i.J h. .
as .he s.ron' likeness which exisied t.etv.c-a
. Dey M, ,nuc t
, ( r C(1!ll.i
Uo n(ie was .,
. h he forel,ai, . (ie
. wiJ a WflfA pol , dc ,.
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A Son shot by his FaJlier.
Another deed of blood was perpetrated t
Warren county, N. J. on Wednesday nigln il.
10th insi., at a'place called Allmuchy, 1 V lu
as we learn from the Newark, Post, a s.,n cam
to his death by the hand of his father. Matins
Ayres, the father, is a man about 60 years i.
age, has a wife now living, and is worih abot
$5000. He had been living for some iihib
a state of adultery with a woman of dotibtfu
character, in his "own house, having on nnrt
: ... .1 .)' ..,.1 nf ilvr.
! OCVBiill ttliniij"- "7 . -
I r mil I fripnds to break off ihe illiril Utteicou .
but without success. On Wednesday nu-
nbout 12 o'clock, a dozen persons in the net,,"
borhood, among whom were two soin ana
son-in-law of the old man, determined to nul
another effort to get ihe woman oui of the- hoe
They proceeded to the house, made some noi
. J , i f!..n.. K...I... ...-,4.11 iho
ana uisturDance, anu uuauy unno
door. This exasperated the old man.aiJ
came down stairs gun in hand, loaded wt i
heavy shol, to repel the invaders, and at e'
first onset fired, killing his son, Walter Aye
a young man about twenty-five, dead up"" l-
spot. An inquesi was held on the body
Thursday, and the funeral attended by abou
1UUU persons, among woum
itk. Kil.1 Ha had not been at-
Willi wrpv ime a uuiii
rested on Thursday.