JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN "as It JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Strou dsburs, Atignst 15, 13-84. Terms, $2,00 m advance: $2.25, naif yearly: and $2,50 if not paiu utyoie inc cnu 01 me vear. tt?" V. B. Palmer, Esq., at his Real Estate and Coal Office, No. 59 Pine street, below Third, two squares S. the Merchants' Exchange, Phila., and Iio. 1(10 Nassau street, (Tribune buildings,) N. Y.,is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements for the Jeffersonian Republican, and cive receipts for the same. Merchants, .Me chanics, and tradesmen generally, may extend their business by availing- themselves of the op portunities for advertising in country papers which Jus agency affords. FOR PRESIDENT HENRY CLAY, OF KENTUCKY. FOR VICE PRESIDENT THEO. FRELINGHUYSEN". OF NEW JERSEY. FOR GOVERN OI?, CRN". JOSKPH MARKLE, OF WESTMORELAND COUNTY". FOR CAN AT COMMISSIONER, SIMEON GUILFORD, OF LEBANON COUNTY. Senatorial Electors. CHESTER BUTLER, of Luzerne. TOWNSEND HAINES, of Chester. Districts. 1 Joseph G. Chrkson, Philadelphia. 2 John Price Wetherill, do. 3 John D. Ninesteel, do. 4 John S. Littell, Germantown, Phila. co. 6 Eleazer T. M'Dowell, Doylestown, Bucks co. G Benj. Frick, Limerick, p. o. Montgomery co. 7 Samuel Shafer, Chester county. 8 William Hiester, New Holland, Lancaster co. 9 John S, Hiester, Reading, Berks co. 10 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 cn. 16 Daniel M. Smyser, Gettysburg, Adams co. 17 James Mathers, Mifflintown, Juniata co. 18 Andrew J. Ogle, Somerset, Somerset co. 19 Daniel Washabaugh, Bedford, Bedford co. 50 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. Death of Henry A. Muhleuberff. It is our painful duty to announce the death of the Hon. Henry A. Muhlenberg, the late Lo co Foco candidate for Governor of Pennsylva nia. He died suddenly of apoplexy, at his res idence in Reading, on Sunday afternoon last. On Saturday evening he was sitting before his door, in conversation with a Mr. Nathan Na lhaifs of Philadelphia, until 10 o'clock, when Mr. N. left him. At half past ten, the watch man passed by and found Mr. Muhlenberg ly ing insensible on the steps. Medical aid was immediately called, and he lingered until about 5 o'clock the following afternoon when he ex pired. Mr. Muhlenberg, has long occupied a promi nent place before the public, and his death must be lamented by all, and particularly by the par ty to which he has been for years connected by strong political ties. His personal friends are oppressed with deep'gloom, by this sudden and unexpected dispensation. Truly "in the midsi of life we are in death." George M. Dallas. The favor wnh which Mr. Dallas regards all monied institutions, and the efforts he made to secure a renewal of the charter of the U. S. Bank, are so notoriously matters of history, that no one but a lying loco foco stump orator, or newspaper editor, will dare to deny them. Yei Mr. Dallas is held up by the locos, both on the slump and in their papers, as an uncompromis ing opponent of all Banks in general, and a ZL 5. Bank iu particular. Those who would thus deceive their confiding friends, have re-t ceived a severe rebuke from a meeting of their own party held at Rochester, N, Y. on the 3d of August insi. at which the following Resolu tion was unanimously passed. " Resolved, That as opponents of a National Bank', we cannot but renrel the nomination for the Vice Presidency of George M. Dallas, of .Pennsylvania, a man, who in opposition to Gen. JarkMHi, in 1832. introduced a Bill into Jhe Senate of the U S. for re-chartering ihe 4 Old Monster,' and declared that he was the 'willing as well as instructed .agent of his Slate' to se cure the passage of 'he Bill' The New York Whig State Convention, for the purpose id nominating candidates lor Orov- emor, Lieutenant Governor, Presidential Elec tors and State Canal Commissioners, assembles st Syracuse, on the 11th of September next. : ev.. "The Coons! the Coons will beat creation, In spile of Polk and Annexation ! North Carolina, O. K. GLORIOUS WHIG VICTORY. The election for Governor and members ot the Legislature, which took place on the 1st inst:, in the Old North State, has resulted most gloriously for the Whigs. News has been re ceived from all the counties but eleven, which show a majority of 3,657 for Graham (Whig) over Hoke (Loco). The remaining counties will increase the Whig majority to over 4,000. The following is the role. Graham (Whig) 34,935 Hoke (Loco) 31,278 3.657 In tho Legislature, the Whigs will have an overwhelming majority. In 1842, the locos had 8 majority in th Senate, and 16 majority in the House, or 24 majority on joint ballot. Now the Whigs hae secured 2 majority in the Senate, and 20 in the House, giving them Thir- 1 ty Two majority on joint-ballot. Truly, this is glorious news. Henry Clay will receive 10,- 000 majority in the State. " Get out the way, you 're all unlucky, Clear the track for Old Kentucky." Another Splendid Whig Victory! Gallant Old Kentucky, ever true to her glo rious Harry Clay, and the advancement of Whig principles, is rolling down her thousands to swell the tide of victory. The election be gan on the 5th inst. and continued three days, and we have the returns only of the first two days but they are sufficient to show that Judge Owsley (Whig) has been chosen Governor by from 10 to 15,000 majority. Set down Ken lucky 30,000 for Mr. Clay in Novomber. Indiana. We will not crow until we are out of the woods, but the indications are that Indiana has righted herself, by going for ih Whigs. The election was held for half a Senate and a whole House. Returns have been received from 19 counties, in which the Whigs have gained 12 Representatives and 4 Senators. Last year the Loco majority was 2 in the Senate, and 10 in the House. This has more than been de molished already by the Whigs. The popu lar vote slo shows a large Whig gain. Next week wa will be able to tell all. Other Elections. Alabama, Illinois, and Missouri, also voted on the 5th insiant, but we have not yet received any returns. Great Whiff Rally in Old Northamp ton. . - The gallant Whigs of our Mother County, will rally in their strength, at Easion, on Wed nesday next, the 21st inst., when-they will be encouraged in their persevering efforts to re deem their soil from ihe sway of loco focoism, by ihe encouraging smiles of some thousands of their political brethren from Lehigh. Bucks and Warren Counties, who will be with them to hear Thaddeus Stevens, make one of his el oquent and foul-stiring appeals. Mr. Stevens, at great personal sacrifice, has promised our friends in Northampton to be wiih them on the 21st., and speak to them about our public men and measures, and in person contradict the falsehood which ihe loco foco ediiors at Easion, and elsewhere have circulated in respect to him, viz : that he had abandoned Mr. Clav. Thaddeus Stevens, is as staunch a Whig as ever; there is no change in him; - he loathes loco focoism from his very sonl-.-and the way in which he will expose its wiles and decep tions on Wednesday next, will be worth a fifty miles journey for any Whig to hear. We guess a few of our Monroe Regiment will be theTe ! Hon. E. Joy Morris and Joseph R. Chandler, of Philadelphia, will alno address the meeting. Another iHeeting. There is to be a rally of the Whigs of Up per Mount Bethel, at Cenireville, on Saturday the 17th insi. The Hon. E. Joy Morris, of Philadelphia, and A. E. Brown, and H. D. Max well, Esqrs. of Ea&inn, will be among the speak ers, j lie wings Irom Lower Mi. lieinei, ana the neighboring townships in New Jersey, will atlend in a body. Some from Monroe will also go down. General Mark!e. The unexpected death of Mr. Muhlenberg has deprived the loco foco party of its nominee, and left Gen. Markle in sole possession of the field, which he will thus occupy for some weeks at least. Now whilst the locos are wrangling and quarrelling about nominating Francis R Shunk, or some other new man, it becomes the Whigs to rally around their, candidate, and give him such an elevation, in the estimation of the people, that when the locos gel another man, no opposition can effect him. Now is the lime to work. A few weeks work now, will insure the election of Gen. Markle by thousands. Politics before Religion. We are credibly informed, that on Sunday a week, one of the Elders of a church, not many miles from Siroudsburg, got up after service, and staled that the members of tho Church would hold a meeting on the following Saturday, to mako arrangements about getting a Minister, &c. Upon this another Elder (who was once a member of the Legislature) rose and said there was lo be a political meeting of the loco foco party on lhat day, and as the ministerial meeting would interfere with it, he wanted it put off until some other time. Political meet ings are more desirable in his opinion, we sup pose, than the saving of souls. This man be longs to the party which charges Henry Clay, with a want of proper respect for religion. Shame on such liypocracy ! ! Serious Accident. We regret to learn thai at a Poke Pole rais ing, at Overfield's, on Saturday a week, the pole fell, when almost up, and broke the leg of a poor man who had been drawn there through curiosity to see ihe Polkats erect their stick We are sorry to-say that some of the Locos in this place, instead of being humbled b y the mis fortune, rather rejoice ai it, and say it ought to have occurred when such a man as William Overjield undertook lo raise a pole. These, we suppose, are to be regarded as specimens of Loco Foco feeling and harmony. ' To Pensioners. The following notice, so important, and, at the same lime, so unfortunate for tho class of persons affected by it, we publish for the in for raation of those concerned. Pension Office, Washington, August 1, 1844. Sir: It is proper that widows who are en titled to the benefits of the Act of June 17, 1844, continuing certain pensions for four years longer, should he informed that Congress has made no appropriation for paying these pen sions, and lhat, therefore, no payment can be expected before the latter end of December next. Important Political Movement. At a meeting of Democrats, held in Cumber land county, a short time since, to consider what course it was proper for them, as friends of the Tariff, to pursue in the coming Presi dential election, the chair.was taken by Samu el Shaeffer, and a committee, consisting of Gen. Thomas G Miller, Montgomery Donaldson, and John Moore, were appointed to prepare resolu tions for ihe adoption of the meeting. The committee reported a long preamble, and a num ber of resolutions, which were unanimously adopted. The preamble sets forth with great clearness, that the protection of our own indus try is essential to the prosperity and indepen dence of the country. The resoluiions declare lhat ihe letter of Mr. Polk on the Tariff, to John K. Kane, Esq., is " not entirely satisfactory" that the members of the meeiing "are in favor of the Tariff of 1842 ;" and for the purpose of bringing Mr. Polk to a categorical answer, the following resolution was passed : Resolved, That Montgomery Donaldson, Esq., Henry Linch, General T. C. Miller, Francis Hutchison, John Moore, Joshua ShI lers, John Myers, Esq., Jacob Byler, and Mar tin Snyder, be appointed a committee to address a letter to the Honorable James K. Polk, ask ing him to state, explicitly, whether, if elected, he will sustain the Tariff of 1842 ; and if not, then to slate, in unequivocal terms, (without reference to any past letters or speeches, or the measures of any other person,) what kind of a Tariff he will sustain, and what extent of pro tection he would allow to native industry. The meeiing then adjourned lo meet again when ihe answer of Mr. Polk is received Daily Chronicle. We copy from the Memphis Enquirer of the 27th ull., the follow ing extract from a leued da ted " Lafayene county, Miss., July 22, 1844." The Enquirer lenders Mr. Polk the use of its columns for ihe purpose of replying lo this let ter. Will he do no 1 Here is the extract : " I, as well as some ten or twelve of my friends, have been as untiring democrats as ev er stood shoulder lo shoulder; but as matters and things now stand, we are rather stumped. We want to know from the Colonel himself, whether his casting vote in 1836 against in vestigation into ihe abuses in the Indian De partment has two sides or one. If one only, we can't vote for him ; if two, we want to see the other one. You shall hear from me so soon as I see the Colonel's letter on this subject. Yours, &c. R. H. LOVE." Slavery has been formally abolished in the Briiibh settlerucut of Hung Kong, China. Mr. Polk's Grandfather. From the Middletown (Ct.) Seniinel, July 31st. Infamous Falsehood. The N. Y. Tribune and iu kindred prims have charged Gov. Polk's grandfather wiih having been a Tory iu ihe Revolution. It is utterly lalse there is not a word of truth in it. Ezekiel Polk, ihe grandfa ther of our candidate (or President, was one of ihe signers lo the celebrated Mecklenburg (N. C) Declaration of Independence. So says the Jeffersonian, printed at that place, the Editor of which status that he has the first copy of that Declaration ever primed, which has Ezokiel Polk's name signed. Wonder if The Tribune will correct this infamous slander! JXJ We have repeatedly stated lhat we don't oppose James K. Polk for what his grandfather was, but for what he is and what he supports and opposes. We should not hav thought of alluding to Mr. Polk's ancestry had not his par tizans attempted ro make him capital upon it. In the pamphlet Life of Polk and Dallas, got up ai Baltimore soon after the nominations, ihe first page reads thus ; "James K. Polk, who is the oldest of ten children, was born in Meeklenberg County, N. Carolina, on the second of November, 1795, and is consequently iu the 49ih year of his age. His ancestors, 'whoso original name, Pollock, has, by obvious transition, assumed us present form, emigrated more than a century ago, from Ireland, a country from which many of our most distinguished men are proud to derive their origin. They established themselves first in Maryland, where some of their descendants still sojourn. The branch of the family from which is sprung the subject of this memoir, removed lo the neighborhood of Carlisle, iu Pennsylva nia, and thence to ihe Wes'ern Frontier of North Carolina, some time before the Revolu tionary War. Its connection with that event ful struggle is one of race distinction. On the twentieth of May, 1775, consequently more than a twelve-month anterior to the Declaration of the Fourth of July, the assembled inhabitants of Mecklenburg County publicly absolved them selves from their allegiance to the British Crown, and issued a formal Manifesto of Inde pendence in terms of manly eloquence, which have become familiar as household words' to the American people. Col, Thomas Polk, ihe prime mover iu this act of noble daring, and one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde pendence, was the great uncle of the present Speaker, who is also connected with the Alex anders, Chairman and Secretary of the famous meeting, as well as with Dr. Ephraim Brevard, the author of the Declaration itself.5' Tradition ascribes to Thomas Polk the prin cipal agency in bringing about the Declaration. Here you see the leading partisans and inti mate friends of James K. Polk attempt to glo rify him on account of the connection of his great-uncle, Thomas Polk, wiih the Mecklen burg Declaration ol Independence and the strug gle of the Revolution. But they are careful not to say any thing of Ezekiel Polk, the grand- father of James K., and for a. very good reason. If 7e had been a Revolutionary Patriot espe cially if he had a just claim to the lofty renown of being one of the Signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration do you think lhat would have been passed over iu silence, and so much ado made of the prominence of a great-unce in ihe matter ? This Memoir was made up with great care originally for the Democratic Review, if we mislake not and the long note respecting Thomas Polk and Dr. Brevard, of which we have quoted the commencement, is copied from Jones's North Carolina, a work of great research and high character, which we are certain (though we cannot now lay our hands on it) contains the Mecklenberg Declaration, with the names of all the Signers. Does any man ima gine, if James K. Polk had really been descend ed from a signer, his ancestor would have been passed overtn silence, and all the honor heap ed on a iTen-uncle 1 But the Seniinel has been misled. Ezekiel Polk's name was indeed interpolated into a printed lisl of the Signers of that Declaration (and for a purpose pretty well understood) but it never belonged there. There is no room for cavil. The Mecklen burg Declaration is preserved in ihe National Archives at Washington. The Editor of The Globe has examined it, and reluctantly says : " Upon reference lo the Mecklenburg Decla ration of Independence, contained iu the Amer ican Archives, we find lhat the impression which has generally obtained that Ezekiel Polk, Col. Polk's grandfather, was a signer of that celebrated instrument, is erroneous. The name attached to thai declaration, which has led lo ihis impression, is that of Thomas Polk, who was the grand-uncle of Col. Polk." This is undoubtedly true. Now hear what one of the real Mecklenburg Whigs has lo say of the matter : Mecklenburg, June 19, 1841. At the commencement of the War of the Revolution, Ezekiel Polk, at that time a resi dent of Norih Carolina, received a Captain's Commission in ihe militia, and raised a compa ny on the frontiers of the State, against the Cherokee Indians. I was one of lhat compa ny. Alter Hits, .bzekiei folk was ordered lo proceed with his company into South Carolina, to protect tho whiles against the neproes. That he refused lo do. The winter following, he proceeded with his company on an expedition against ihe Tories, stationed not far from Ninety-Six, under Cun ningham. From this time he did nothing ta fa vor the Whigs during the War. Whtn Lord Cornwallis marched his army into this country, and erected his Head Quarters in. Charlotte, EZEKIEL POLK WENT IN AND TOOK BRITISH PROTECTION. One Jack Bar neite, having learned that Polk, had gone to Charlotte to avail himself of British protection, determined lo waylay him as he returned and kill him. From this course he was dewrrej by his friends. I was in the war, and person ally know these facts lo be true. THOS. ALEXANDER. Subscribed and sworn before me, one of tn9 acting Justices of the Peace for ihe said Conn ly of Mecklenburg and Slate of North Carolina. June 19, 1841. Tiios. M. Kerns, LP. Will the Sentinel have any more 1 Will it please recollect The Plebeian's unsuspecting observation that Ezekiel Polk could not hav been under British Protection ai the time Corn wallis was in Charlotte, for he (Polk) was thai in Pennsylvania? Can any body guess tthij Ezekiel Polk made so sudden a dive in CariiL. na and came up in Pennsylvania ? We bare no positive evidence, but we have not a dnu'it that it was because the country had become tm hot for him outside ihe British lines. We lute the affidavit of another Whig of that lime, whi swears that he saw Ezekiel Polk marched into GreensJiorough (then the Whig head quarter, and still the same sort,) a prisoner of the Whs r ipi.:.. l .1.. ur..... U i ,? lorccs. t ins vrus suuruy uciuic in iciiiuveu lo Pennsylvania. We take no offence at the Sentinel's chare of falsehood, for if any man suspects that wrt swerve from ihe truth, we thank him to spcal out manfully. But may we not now ak that paper to withdraw us charges? We are q'iuH willing to let ihe dead rest ; but if the Loco- Foco Press will provok the exhibition of these- facts, they shall be gratified. jv. 4. Inbunt. Mow the lLocos -"Manufacture a 'Re spectable' tie. The Sussex Register remarks, lhat amnnjf the numerous falsehoods promulgated by tho . cofoco papers against Henry Clay for the put. pose of blackening his character, there is norm which they have insisted upon with more coa fidencp. than ihe charge lhat he is a profet. siuual gambler.' The' give General McCalk of Kentucky as their authority ; and talk know ingly of the General's "high character" "un questioned integrity," &c. All 'his goes down very well in the Nurtlt ; but in the West whet Gen, M, is known, the humbug dues not o,era quite so smoothly. The Knoxville Renter has taken the trouble to 'serve up' ihts fu mouthed General and portray his real chanc ier. Instead of a " gentleman," he turns out d be a low and infamous creature, scarcely a k more respectable than the Northern editors wli have so eagerly circulated his base slanders against Mr. Cl.iy. The Register establishes by indisputable proof, the facts, that Gen. M. u " a pit bile swindler, and an asociaic and boMiia friend, not only of gamblers, but of a man vth stands branded with having forged the name m a person in escape a gambling debt ; that lie is both a personal and political enemy of Mr Clay ; lhat ho knows nothing of the mailer m which he professes lo speak, but relies upmi hearsay testimony; that this testimony is tint of a negro slave, and only inferred from a re mark said in have been made by the negro ; an I finally that the negro denios having ever made such a remark !" Such is ihe respectable" and disinterest ed witnesses relied upon by certain loeofno editors to blast tho good name of Henry Clay! Verily, they are welcome lo all (hey can mak? out of such a blackguard. Wm. J. Babbitt, a leading citizen of Gamej Orleans Co. N. Y. declares in a public leite that. thotiL'h he has supported Van Buren De- mocraey throughout, and is now opposed to i National Bank, he can't stand Polk and Texa-, and is in favor of a Protective Tariff, whereforn he supports Henry Clay. He has been bw nervisor of the town, and wo think has reprr- sented the Couniyin ihe Legislature.-:-Tn6r. MARRIED, On the 10th inst. bv the Rev. Mr. Johnson Mr. Bernard Kemmerer, of Hamilton, ani Mrs. Mary Hankinson, daughter of Col Jo;ii Husion, of Stroud tsp. In Hamilton, on Sunday last, by the Rev. G. Heilig, Mr. Jesse Scribner, and Mrs. Eliza beth Fravel. In Siroudsburg, on the 15th inst. by the hV T. C. W, Hoffediiz, Mr. John Oyer, and Mi" Christiana Ruth, both of Hamilton townhv At the residence of her brothe-in-law, Jame JJCII, Otlll. Ill OIIIIIII1ICIU lljn liainjr, uu i i " - Margaret Thomas, late of Montgomery conn', iu the 76th vear of her aue. The decensrl r..n o.. : o. i. :.. l, i 1,1,. it.hi-i.' was beloved and respected by all who knej her. NOTICE. The undersigned, appointed by ihe Coiui'l Monroe county, to audit anil re.-eiiie tne ai count of Aaron B. Dreisbach and John H Ha inan, assignees of John Dreisbach, will aiteii" to the duties of their appointment on Tupstty ihe 24th day of September next, nt the lnU' of Jacob Knecht, in SiroudsDum, at ten in "'1' in ihe forenoon, when and. where all jierau:-'! interested can attend. JOHN HUSTON, ) FRANKLIN STARBIRD, Auditors J. II. STROUD.. ) Siroudsburg, Aug. 14, 1844. 4t CAMP MEE1 A Union Camp Meeting for i ton and Delatsare Charges, N ference, wi.U be held; on- the Shay, Esq-, about on-half mile idence, to commence on Moudi and close the Saturday follow; The preachens and people circuits and stations, are respe attend. M- F August 1844. DING. Milford, Sandy few Jersey Co'1'! ground of J',Iin i south of his re; ay beptemoex ins. of the. adjoinio.il cifullv invited w v v j I K. 1
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