rjcnzn i un nn i.iu "t t jrvrrx' JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Strouti.ibEirsr, August 1, 1844. Serins, $1,00 :n advance: $2,05, naif yearly: and $2,50 if not paiu ocioit lite end oi tlie year. (Gr V. IL Palmer. iT..J-at his Iivil Estate nnd Coal Office, No. 59 PineStreet, befow Third, two squares S. tjie Merchants' Excliangc,,Phila-, and No. 10 Nassau street, (Tribune bujidings,)-' N. Y.,is authorised to. receive subscriptions and advertisements fifr'the Jeffersonian Republican, and give receipts Yor tiie same. Merchants, Me chanics, and tradesmen generally may extend iheir business by-availing themselves of the op portunities for advertjsiilg ja country papers which Ills agency affords. TOR PRESIDENT HENRY CLAY, OF KENTUCKY." FOR. VICE PRESIDENT THEO. FRELIXGHUYSKN" OF NEW JERSEY. FOR GOVERNOR GEN. JOSEPH MARKLE, OF WKST3I OU ELAND COUNTY. FOR CANAT. COMMISSIONER, SIMEON G UILFORD, OF I.K1IANON COUNTY. Senatorial Electors. CHESTER BUTLER, of Luzerne. TOWNSENDIAINES, of Chester. Districts. 1 Joseph G. Clnrkson. Philadelphia. 2 John Price Wetherill, do. 3 John 1). Ninesteel, do. 4 John S. Littell. Germantown, Phila. co. 5 Elcazer T. MTJowell, Doylestovvn, Bucks co. fl Benj. Frick, Limerick, p. o. Montgomery co. 7 Samuel Sliafer, Chester county. 8 William Hiester, New Holland, Lancaster co. J John S. Hiester, Reading, Berks co. 10 Alex. E Brown, Easton, Northampton co. 11 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. Ifi Daniel M. Smyser, Gettysburg, Adams co. 17 James Mathers, Mifilintown, Juniata co. IS Andrew J. Ogle, Somerset, Somerset co. 19 Daniel Washabaugh, Bedford, Bedford co. 120 Jnhy L. Gow. Washington, Washington co. 21 Andrew W. Loomis, Pittsburg, Allegheny co. t2 James M. Power, Greenfield, Mercer co. 23 . William A. Irvine, Irvine, Warren co. 24 -Benj. Hartshorn. Curwensville, Clearfield co. I. ! . II I I J ' First Page. We call the aiiention of our readers to the feast we have served up for them on the first page. There is an excellent article on the prospects, qualifications, &c. of Gen. Markle, as also a chapter relative to the unfortunate Cilley duel. They will both amply repay the labor of an attentive perusal. Polk and the Tariff. The Loco Foco editors and party-leaders in Pennsylvania, and some of the adjoining States, are so well convinced of the popularity of our excellent Protective Tariff, that they are stead ily laboring to gel up the impression, that their mushroom candidate, James K. Polk, is in favor of the measure, and that if elected President, he will do nothing to disturb any of its features. This they do in the face of well-known facts to jhe contrary. But actinj upon their favorite principle that all is fair in politics, and a lie well stuck to is as good as the truth, they do not "hesitate knowingly, wilfully, and deliberately to deceive their own friends into the belief that in voting for James K. Polk, they are voting for a good protectionist. To prove, that this a gross and unprincipled attempt at deception, we have only to refer to he published letters and speeches of James K. Polk-, and we -will at once have abund ant evidence of all we assert. He has uni formly, and on all occasions, expressed his hos tility to protection and to the present Tariff. In ,a speech delivered at Jackson, Tennessee, in P343, whiLt he was a candidate for Governor, lie emphatically declared "The Whigs are in favor of DISTRIBU TION anda PROTECTIVE TARIFF-- daw H'tuidily and at all times, OPPOSED BOTH." And again in his letter to the people of Ten nessee, dated, Winchester, May 29, 1843, he &ays : . ' "In the present canvass for Gorcrnor, I have avowed my opposition to the Tariff act of the late Whig Congress, because it is highly pro tective in us character. 1 have also given it a my opinion that the interests of the country require its repeal, and the restoration of the principles of the compromise tariff act of 1833." Here, then, we have the free and untram melled expressions of Mr. Polk's opinions on this vitally important subject, and we see that ihey are exactly the reverse of what his friends in these parts arc representing them to be. In . . , ...... ; .' stead of being in favor of protection to 'Ameri can Industry; we prove him by his own words, to be the advocate of tho blighming doctrines of Free Trade. Truly, the editors and leaders of the loco foco party must have a very poor opinion of the intelligence and patriotism of the American people, thus to endeavor to cram falsehood so notorious as this, down their throats. In the South, the battles of Polk, are fought under the banners of " Free Trade and Texas" The Whig Tariff of 1842, is there denounced by them, "as the most odious and abominable Tariff that was ever enacted," and it is boldly asserted bv his neighbors, that Mr. Polk is fa m a vorable to us repeal. What a difference is this, between the party at tho South and the North professing exactly the opposite doctrines But the decepiion will avail them nothing. The people at the South know that Polk is op posed to protection, and proclaim it and the people at the North will not be gulled and de coived by a different cry. A Poke Pole. The Locos of Monroe had a Poke Pole rais ing at Middle Smithfield, on Saturday last. Great efforts had been made to secure a large attendance. For several days expresses had been sent into erery quarter inriting the faith nil to come and participate in the fun. But the call was unanswered. When tho time arrived, but few presented themselves. A small dele gation from Stroudsburg, however, made its ap pearance, during the afternoon, with a disfigured piece of old muslin at the end of a pine stick, or a poke-berry bush, we could not rightly as certain which, on which was inscribed in black characters, " Polk, Dallas and Muhlenberg Dorr and Texas:1 J. H. Walton and C. B. Shaw, the modern Demosthenes and Cicero, ac companied them; and after a little Hickory had been raised, made a kind of a speech a piece. The company soon after separated, heartily sick of the farce thev had been enacting. A Capture. Messrs. J. Scott and W. H. White, of Strouds hurg,,whilst out on a fishing excursion along Brodhead's Creek, on Friday morning last, suc ceeded in capturing a magnificent Bald Eagle, which measured six feet and six inches from the tip of one wing to that of the other. These birds are scarce, and very rarely met with in this part of the country. Tlie Louisiana Victory. As wo intimated in our last the Whig vic tory in Louisiana is complete, and under tho circumstances one of the most astonishing po litical results which has happened in years. The Whigs, notwithstanding the Texas ques tion, which the Locos thought would sweep the State for them, have gained in every thing. They have gained one Congressman over last year one State State Senator four Assembly man and several thousand on the popular ote. The Whig majority on joint ballot in the Le gislature will be seven. Last year it was only one. No one doubts now but that Louisiana will go for Clay by a handsome majority. State Elections. The State Election in North Carolina will be held to-day. A Governor and members of the State Legislature are to be chosen. Look out for Whig thunder from them parts. The elections in Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Alabama and Missouri, will take place on Mon day next. The result, no doubt, will show that the Whig spirit i3 alive within their borders. Mass Meeting. We have seen accounts of about fifty Mass Meetings of the Whigs, since our last, the smallest of which numbered several thousand. The fire is sweeping all over the country; and will insure an unparalleled Whig victory. On tlie Stump. The Hon. Win. C. Rives and Win. Sr Arch er, U. S. Senators from Virginia, have taken the Stump in their own State, and intend doing good service to the Whig cause from now until the election. None are belter able. A Military Visit. The National Guards, a fine and well-disciplined Volunteer Company from Trenton, New Jersey, will visit our neighbor of Easton on Tuesday next, and .spend several days with them. They will no doubt be entertained in first rate military style for the Eastonians know how to wait upon strangers. Sale of tlie XJelaware Canal. On to-morrow, the Commissioners, appointed by the last Legislature, will offer the Delawaie Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, for sale at the Philadelphia Exchange. The stock is di vided into 25,000 shares, and each share must bring at least $100. The stock will be dis posed of ai auction, JEFFERSOMAN REPUBLICAN E2 hi ILoeofoco Consisteaacy. For a long time the locos have kept before their readers the exploded falsehood that Hen ry Clay is.a gambler. The cry of 'j stop thief" will not answer now-a-days, however. The trick is too well understood. We copy the following article from the " Berks and Schuyl kill Journal" of Saturday last : " We understand there was quite a row some days since, at a card table, in a certain tavern in this place, between the Rev. Henry A. Muh lenberg and Mr. Henry Bmkley, late Sheriff of this county. It appears by inquiry, iht;t one of the gentlemen playing ucrc at the lime, was suddenly called for, and .'hat he repeatedly de sired Mr. Binkley to take his seat for a few moments, and that when Mr. Binkley, after re peated solicitations, consented to do so, Mr. Muhlenberg refused to recognize him as a fit partner, and made somo'reinarks amounting to an insult. ' Mr. Binkley was much grieved and made the thing public. Doubtless many will say this is a " Damned Whig lie," but it" it is at all doubted, it can be satisfactorily proved that Mr. Muhlenberg is in the daily habit of playing cards and drniKing whiskey; if any pi ous locofoco questions the matier, let him crowd us, and it shall be proved by witnesses of the first respectability." h h h h R R w Keep it before Use People. Since last fall the Whigs have carried 12 States out of the 2G, giving 141 electoral voles, three more than is necessary for a choice. Tim Whis Prramid. OHIO 23 GEORGIA 10 VIRGINIA 17 V E R M O N T 6 KENTUCKY 12 LOUISIANA 6 TENNESSEE 13 MARYLAND 8 RHODE ISLAND , 4 CONNECTICUT G PENNSYLVANIA 26 MASSAC H US ET T S 12 141 "STILL, THEY CORE." More Changes. " Clear tho way for old Kentucky." The following communication appeared in the " Miltonian" of Friday last. The Miltoni an is published weekly at Milton, Northumber land county, Pa. Messrs. Editors. The subscribers, citizens of Northumberland Borough and Point town ship, heretofore acting with the Locofoco party, and as many of us as were old enough, suppor ters of Mr. Van Buren in 1840, hereby public ly renounce our adherence to that party, and what we consider, its destructive policy. We do this, not through caprice or the fdle whim of a moment, but from a settled conviction, that upon ihe election of "Clay and Frelinghuysen" and the permanent establishment ol their great leading measure, the Protective Tariff, depend the welfare and prosperity of the Union, and most especially of Pennsylvania. And being convinced, by evidence the most incontestable, that James K. Polk, and the great mass of his party are fiercely and bitterly op posed to the Tariff of 1842, we hereby most fearlessly avow our determination, calmly and deliberately formed, to oppose the aforesaid James K. Polk and his party, and to support with our might, the illustrious advocate of American Industry -HENRY CLAY. And further believing that a change in the Administration of the Slate government is es sential to the well-being of this Commonwealth, and incited by a spirit of gratitude towards one who in the hour of need and danger, risked his life and pledged his fortune for his country, we are also resolved to give our support to the hon est farmer, and bravo old soldier GENERA L MARKLE. And to save the leaders of the part)' we have abandoned, any further trouble on our account, we would admonish them, that all their efforts to lwhip us lack into the traces' must prove utterly am and Iruitless. Utir lathers fought for their country in '?G we strike for curs in '44. ABRAHAM HAM Ell, THOMAS JOHNSON, NICHOLAS PAUL TIIOS. PURSEL, .JACOB PHILLIPS, JOHN ARMSTRONG, JOHN RAKE, GEO. W. HOFFMAN, JOSEPH MARTIN, WILLIAM LEIGHOU, ABM. TROXELL, WM. NEWBHRRY, JOSEPH PURSELL, CORNELIUS B SMITH, J AS. P. MANLY, CHARLES PAUL, P. MOVER, DANIEL SNYDER. ISAAC H. JAR RETT, J AS. PARK, S.J. JOHNSON. , , 'If- 'Vi I' ' ' i'. ' ,4, jr.-, i..t. -f Prentice's very last. The editor of the Albany Argus mentions ihe name of some person, who, he says, has deserted the Whig parly, and adds that "straws show which way the wind blows." Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, says thai this seems to be an admission that the pretended deierter a man of straw. New Bedford Bulletin. Some scare-crow, we presume. This image is usually formed by siufliing old clothes with straw ; and? of course, has nj principles. ' From the NT. T. TriUtine a'ke'ciSScy Slue'!. The Albany Atlas s;ivs : " Who were the participators in this duel ; who its chief instigator ? For year'Mr. Wise' rested under this imputation. Again and again i John Quincy Ad.-niis branded h'.in on the floor ol Congress, as one ' whoie hands were drip ping with the blood of Cilley!' At lat Mr Wise was forced to exciiljrtue himself, and he charged, what has never been denied, than Henry Clay wa the secret instigator of the duel, had managed il to Ms fatal termination, and had penned ihe cluHenjje to Cillev with his own hand, and that il was his. own hand that alone dripped with the blood of murder. " The Tribune chooses to look buck into the history of this duel, and seeks to lay ihe bur den of guilt on its victim. 77 complains that Mr. Cilley refused to fight with Mr. Webb." We are oiieu amazed at ihe recklessness with which ihe leading Loco-Foco presses will assert ihe most glaring falsehoods. When, where, have we "complained ihai Mr. Cilley refused lo light with Mr. Webb V Never. We should have honored, praised him for refusing to fight with Webb or anybody. Wo certainly think he should have fought with Welti) if any body, hoth because his controversy was entire ly with Webb, and of his own making, and be cause, as popularity appeared to be Ins object, Webb was clearly lite man for him. Graves was unwittingly involved in the trouble, with no ill-feeling toward any party, and only anx ious to escape with honor. This Cilley might easily have allowed and should have done. He hiitl only to receive Webb's note, which was courteous and peaceful, and answer il like a frank, true man, stating in substance what he had said about Webb and why he had said it, and declining any responsibility lo any man for his acts as a Representative of the People. Tiie whole Country would have applauded this course. Or, if he had resolved to refuse Webb's note, he had only to say in writing, as Mr. Graves understood him to say verbally, that, wiihoui implying any disrespect to any one, he declined to give any explanation (save to his constituents) of his acts as u Member of Con gress, and ihero the matter would have rested, at least so far as Mr. Graves was concerned. But Cilley fell into the hands of bad advisers, and a most deplorable tragedy was the result. On the heads of those advisers his blood rests evermore. The Atlas slates untruly that Mr. Wise charged Mr. Clay with having instigated the Duel or being responsible for it. Mr. Wise indeed, when stung by disappointment at his failure to be chosen Speaker of the. last Whig Congress (which he attributed to Mr. Clay's in fluence) and goaded by the reproaches of Mr Adams respecting his agency in ihe Duel, said that With regard to the preliminaries of that duel, it was not my advice, but that of a high- main quiet and if they move, they are sure i, er, belter, and more distinguished man Mr. loose voles. Such is iheir unfortunate utia Clay that was relied on." j tion, and the people are so maliciously tm-hnrJ, But this ebullition of phrenzy is contradicted j that they absolutely taunt them with their in -by notorious and indisputable facts. The gist j fortunes. Capt. Weaver, of Minersvilie, gue of the charge against Mr. Wise was thai he j orders that a meeting must be held at hi- hntic and the other Second might and should have j For eight or ten days the faithful throug'iu.i bottled the difficulty there being no ill will be- ih part of the region were drummed up. a i tween the parties if not before, at least after j word sent out that at Ieasi 200 might be exp-c -the firsl fire. It was the extraordinary ferocity t ed from this Borough and neighborhood. Li', of three deliberate rifle-shots from each party j Saturday arrived Capt. Mills marslrilMl that shocked the nation, and called forth the j Band through the streets the multitude l;.) denunciations of Mr. Adams and others. But this Borough, Port Carbon, Mill Creek, an J !: of all this Mr. Clay knew nothing knew not surrounding region assembled in Centre s rf. that the preliminaries were settled until after the procession moved when lo, and beito j. the parties had gone out, and on the first inti- j the number consisted of forty -eight, indepen if. mation of the fact, he started with friends in of the Band. Several Locofocos, when Im'V anxious haste to separate them. If ho had bull saw the complexion of the procession, refill! known where the duel was to be fought an hour! to go with them and we have the mi'ne before it took place, he would have prevented , three, who immediately declared their deierut. it if in the power of man. Hear the explicit 1 nation to vote for Clay and Markle. testimony of Mr. Graves in his letter to Mr. I The Locofoco leaders looked blue ol co i'.-. Clav : " 1 do not recollect naming the subject to you until tho morning before the meeting, when I called at your room, 1 think with Mr. Wise, and exhibited to you the correspondence, and per haps detailed the circumstances of the affair. 1 remember that you suggested to me some modification of ihe challenge which 1 had writ ten, by which milder language was employed, and the door was not so completely closed against adjustment. I recollect well, at the lime you suggested the modification which 1 be lieve was written by yourself on another piece of paper, you staled that you thought the mil ler ought to be and would be amicably adjusted, and in this I remember Mr. Wise concurred with you in opinion. 1 recollect this the bet ter, fromtho conviction, resting on my mind at the iime,"lhat there were influences which I thought I saw more fully than any of my friends, that militated against this view of the subject; some of which 1 think I mentioned to you in reply lo your suggestion that you thought the matier would be adjusted without a hostile meeting. I adopted your form, with but little or no modification, and I suppose destroyed it, and thai drawn by myself. "It is utterly untrue lhat you ver exhibited to me any wish thai the meeting should take, place. 1 believe 1 had no friend in Washing ion who more regreited it. I recollect, after the affair, when we met at your boarding-house, you seemed to sympathize most deeply with me in my misfortunes ; you wept and were un able io titter a word." Mr. Clay himsolf, (as we see by a passage of his statement on the subject which we find in the Newark Morning Pot i,) corr ecis Mr. Graves on one point, where we followed the statement of the latter. Mr Graves did consult Mr. Clay on the mailer afier his interview with Mr. Cil ley, when lie j-upposed himself happily freed from ihe quarrel. Mr. Clay (who then first heard of the controversy) rejoiced to hear that it had been so happily settled, and suggested that what had paed between Mr. Graves and Mr. Cilley be reduced to writing, to gnnij ,,. gainst future difficulty. This wa.i nm i K a pacific but a necesjary precaution. Tiieaf- fair was certain to become public, or rather In be whimpered about, with misapprehensions anj perversions which would be Mire to breed fu. turo difficulty. The only way to guard againn evil was to put the conversation in writing le. fore malicious tongues could get hold of it ... Had this been done, the deplorable issue wnjjtj have been averted. Unhappily, there ur., those pretending to be friends of Cilley ul. j prevented this, and hastened on the caJain;:v : which followed. What was their purpoe? purpo The letter from Hon. Reuel' Williams (who an intimate friend of Cillev) explains: " C,;. j ley is confident of success, and if he is sncces. Mil, it toill give htm such a standing in Conn as no other Naw-Englander ever enjotcJ" Ti. , was the fatal vision of ambition which dduJel ' the martyr Cilley' to an untimely grave. As to ihe foul charge that Mr. Clay "iihm.. led" or in any way promoted the duel, let ,lv appeal lo the testimony oT Henry A. Wise, tlB only witness produced against htm. Mr. ii, before the Committee of Investigation, male a statement on oath of ihe' whole matter, in win; t he sum?) up the causes and incidents ol ihe du el as follows : First. Mr. Cilley, a Mr. Graves aififnH, and still affirms, denied in writing, a satisfac tory answer which he had made lo Mr. Graves verbally. Second. He made this written denial in an swer to a letter of Mr. Graves, which he hai himself requested to be addressed to linn upft a view to form a pretext for a written admis sion of the very facts which he denied. Third. He impeached the honor of one whom, as a gentleman, Mr. Graves undertook, by the very act of bearing his note, to vouch. For those causes Mr. Graves challenged hLn to mortal combat ; and Fourth. When Mr. Graves called on him for " that sati-fartiou which is recognized anions gentlemen," he prescribed barbarous an l s:taj terms; an unu-nal weapon, the ino-t de.nl v. .i the distance selected, in the hands ol a gti. shot. Fifth. He precipitated the time of ueH! . when the second of Mr. Graves was itumi!,;' a want of preparation and a desire for dfijy. Sixth. A weapon, not one of a pair, w;is ,,,. dered for the use of Mr. Graves, in a in:ii;:itr that was considered taunting. Seventh. In the. second exchange of shot. Mr. Cilley fired deliberately at Mr. Grue-'-life, after the rifle of Mr. Graves had go.ie accidentally, and without effect. Here, on the testimony of our adversary sole witness, we rest the investigation. Goiujr! Gone! The Locofoeos in this region are in a l;i;l box. Their fears will not permit them to re- (but thai is a tint which seems natural to nvf countenances ; at least ever since the no.ni.u- tions were made.--JiHer.s' Journal. Some people seem to be surprised at Polk's uniform votes in Congress, to deprive tv old revolutionary soldiers of iheir pension. Wa don't think it at all strange that he pur', this course, for we presume that he finds li;.'. self in a predicament similar to lhat in w.i.c ihe Cincinnati Atlas says a sealotis loco int"" Stale was placed, when asked a lew days sin if he intended to vote the Whig ticket nex' ! i. i: ..i m.. i r. i i... n';.:i.' i no repueu ni: tuiiiuuuu mo they hung my grandfather in the Revolution War r The New York Republic, an ably conJuc" . paper which has heretofore been neutral in j itics, has raised the Whig Banner. A1 close of an article announcing the change, editor says : "From this time henceforward-, then. ' - Journal will give a steady, zealous, and hoi.5 support to the Democratic Whig, party, and uv its best endeavors to promote the eleeiun j Henry Clay, whose principles, elaijii the uk dence of ihe people, and who-e service e-i him to this higheat of all earthly lowarJs Still Another ! The Pojitlaxd Exrst! hitherto neutral, has come out for Clay ai;d H! linghuyseil. It is an excellent paper. Prentice's last and best. We clip the following from the Liu:sv Journal : Mr. Wentworth, the member of Congre from Chicago district, Illinois is so tail when he addresses the people, insu:i! 1 mounting a Mump, as is usual in he West, t have to dig a hole for hjin to, sjaiiJ in'- change Paper. They dig a hole for him, not because he ' tall, but because he never feels at home exc'ij when he ia up to hia chin in dirt.
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