f JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Strondsbur;r, August 29, ISM. Terms, $2,00 n advance: $2.25, naif yearly : and $2,50 if not paw ucioic uic cnu 01 tne vear. (t3' r. IS. Palmer, Esq., at his Real Estate and Uoal Unice. JNo. 59 LJine street, below lliiru, two squares S.. the Merchants' Exchange, Phila., -and No. IfiO Nassau street, ( Tribune buildings,) JN. Y.,is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements for the Jcffcrsonian Republican, and eivc receipts for the same. Merchants, Ale chanics, and tradesmen generally, may extend their business lv availing themselves of the op portunities for advertising in country papers which Jus agency affords. FOR PRESIDENT HENRY CLAY, OF KENTUCKY. FOR VICE PRESIDENT TIIEO. FRELINGHUYSEN, OF NEW JERSEY. FOR GOVERNOR., GUN. J OS K PIT MARKL-K, OF WESTMORELAND COUNTY. FOR CAN AT COMMISSIONER. SIMEON GUILFORD, OF LEBANON COUNTV. Sk.vatorial Electors. CHESTER BUTLER, of Luzerne. TOWNSEND HAINES, of Chester. Districts. 1 Joseph G. Clarkson. Philadelphia. 2jJohn Price Wetherill, do. 3 John D. Ninesteel, do. 4 John S. Littell, Germantown, Phila. co. 5 Eleazer T. M'Dowell, Doylestown, Bucks co. fi,Benj. Frick, Limerick, p. o. Montgomery co. 7 Samuel Shafer, Chester county. 8 William Iliester, New Holland, Lancaster co. 9 John S. Hiester, Reading. Berks co. 10 Alex. E Brown, Easton, Northampton co. 11 John Killinger, Anville, Lebanon co. 12 Jonathan J. Slocum, Wjlkesbarre, Luzerne co. 13 James Pollock, Milton, Northumberland co. 14 -Henry Drinker, Montrose, Susquehanna co. 15 Frederick Watts, Carlisle, Cumberland cn. lf Daniel M. Smyser, Gettysburg, Adams co. 17 lames Mathers, Mifflintown, 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. Hartshnrn. Curwensville, Clearfield co. Clay Clnb. The spirited Whigs of Stroud township, Mon roe couniy, met in Stroudsburg, on Saturday evening last, and formed. a Clay Club. Doct.' Sydenham Walton, was chosen President. All communications are to be addressed to "William Davis, Esq., William Easiburn, and ,Da'is D. Walton, Corresponding Secretaries. The Club has also opened a reading-room in the building formerly occupied by Thomas J. Albright. Stated meetings are held erery Sat urday evening. Gen. Joe iUarkle. ' The prospects of our Gubernatorial Candid ate are daily brightening. In places where his election was hardly considered possible a month tgo, there now exists the greatest enthusiasm iin his favor, and a firm conviction that he will he chosen Governor by a majoriiy of thousands. A correspondent of the Pennsylvania Tele graph, writing from York county, says. " Mar kin stock is rising rapidly. You have no idea of the prospects of Gen. Markle in York coun iy. There has been a great change in the minds of Jhe people about his election of late. If he continues to increase as he has done for the. last jsix weeks, we will give the loco foco nominee, whoever he may be, Wolf's majority of 4 832, which was 10 for Ritner." From the Western part of the Slate ihe news is Mill moreexhiliraung. The Pittsburg paper says 4l0!d Joe is going it finely, and will run a tremendous vote in this County hundreds more than the parly strength. Old Allegheny will give at least 4000 majority. Our friends are cuhain of it and we will try to beat Old Lan caster." This is the way our friends talk abroad. Lei us not ihen be inactive at home, but see that every voie is polled for the lamented Harrison's gallant "fighting Captain." Loco Foco Convention. Next Tuesday the 4ih of March Convention will re-axfiemble at Harrisburg, to nominate a Loco Foco Candidate, for Governor.in the place of Henry A. Muhlenberg, deceased. From present appearances it is almost certain thai Francis R. Shunkof Allegheny, will be the nominee. Well, we are satisfied. We would as yoon defeat him with old Joe Markle, as any body else. We 'aim at all panicular. Old 'Northampton Aroused. GLORIOUS WHIG GATHERING. The largest political meeting, of any party, eer held in Easion, catue off in that place on Wednesday the 21st inst. It was called as a County Meeting merel)', and not as a Mass nieeiing-T-bui such is the enthusiasm of the people in that and the adjoining counties in favor of CLAY, FRELINGHUYSEN and MARKLE, that ihey could not remain at home, and Lehigh, Bucks, Monroe, and even New Jersey, sent their delegations to swell the im mense assemblage. There were at least FIVE THOUSAND persons present many of whom were ladies. One of the delegations from Jer sey, consisted of a pariy of ladies and gentle men on horseback, attired in uniform costume, carrying flags and banners, on one of which was inscribed. 7. wtfvy-.t V .-. gf THE JERSEY GIRLS, g j5 We are for Union. ?y & But not with Texas. Y4 Many came in learns, waggons, &c. Thero was tine team with fourteen horses, filled wilh singers, who made excellent music as they passed through the Htreets. At half past one o'clock the meeting organized by appointing the Hun. Samuel Yohe, chairman. Ab'le and el oquent addresses were delivered by Jacob Hoff man, Esq. of Reading, and H. D. Maxwell and A. E. Brown, Esqrs. of Easion, in which the principles and candidates of the two parlies were fully and fatrly discussed and which were listened lo with the most marked atten tion. It was a great day lor ihe Whigs ol Easion. What Polk's own Friends say. In these diggins the locos are deceiving their friends by telling them that James K. Polk is in .favor of Protection to American Industry, and tf friend of the Tariff In other parts of the Union, however, they act more honestly and speak truly of Mr. Polk's sentiments. For in stance, Mr. Elwood Fisher, a distinguished lo co foco of Cincinnati, thus pointed out the dis tinguishing traits in Mr. Polk's character, in a recent speech. " We have nominated a man who is neither a hero nor a magician, a citizen comparatively undistinguished, beaten twice in his own Stale in the Governors canvass, but A MAN OUT AND OUT FOR FREE TRADE, OPENLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY OPPOSED TO PROTECTION, AS INEXPEDIENT AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL. We have nominated him as the exponent of our principles, we fight on our principles and without any ex traneous aid." This is the kind of protectionist Mr. Polk is does he" suit those who are honestly opposed lo free trade, and in favor of sustaining 'Ameri can labor against the pauperism of Europe ? Polk's Grandfather a Tory. The last number of the Charlotte Journal, printed in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, contains the affidavits of no less than one dozen persons, men and women, who lived in the days of our Revolution, and who say that Ezekiel Polk, ihe grand-faiher of James K. Polk, was a TORY in 1775-76, and look protection under Lord Cornwallis.'when the British troops inva ded Mecklenburg. Freemen of the Union, re flect upon this, and consider what you are about to do before you vote to reward a Tory and T raitor in the person of his Grandfather. Clay Poles. In a letter from Easion, we learn that no less than three beauiifiil Clay liberty poles were raised in that vicinity on Saturday last. One at South Easion, and two at different points in Forks township. The right spirit is abroad. Four Acres of Whigs. The Whigs of Bucks and neighboring coun ties held a Mass Meeting at Newtown on Sa turday last. Upwards of Two Thousand ladies and Four Acres of men were present. In the procession there was one team with 52 horses, and another' team of several waggons lashed to gether, drawn by 52 oxen. This is the way they do up things in Old Bucks. She will give a good account of herself in October and November. Old itfother Cumberland. A mass meeting of the Whigs was held at Carlisle, Cumberland county, on the 17ih insi. Fen thousand pons attended, and (hat sterling patriot Ex-Governor Ritner, presided. He is one who was claimed as a convert to Polkism, by the Locos. Large Apple. The editor of the Annapolis Star has re ceived an apple, taken from a tree in the or chard of Mr. Isaac S. Hopkins, of Aon Arun del couniy, which measures 1 foot 2 1-2 inches in circumference, arid weighs 1 1-4 lbs. The tree from which this apple was taken is very young, this being ihe Aral year il has produced any fruit. ' A Sign. At a Stone hauling a few days since, at Ben jatnin Bush's, in Price, township, Monroe coun ty, a vole was taken touching ihe Presidential election, which resulted as follows : For Clay ' 26 For Polk 3 In this Township in 1840, Gen. Harrison re ceivedonly 5 votosr Another. We learn from the Miners' Journal that a vote was taken in the stage be tween Pottsville and Northumberland, on Sat urday, the 3d inst., which resulted as follows: Clay, 1 1 Polk, 1 Yet Another. A ballot was taken on Thursday last in tho cars from Utica, and resulted as follows : Clay, 111 Polk, . 37 Birney, P 8 Calhoun, 3 Capt. Tyler, ' 1 Ex-President Van Btiren, Hon. Millard Fill more, and Judge Kent were among the passen gers. More off Them. The Laboring Men for Clay. The fol lowing from the Bridgeport (Conn.) Siaudard is one of many like cases that meet our eyes : At the Saddle Factory of Messrs. Harrall and Calhoun, in this ciiy, we hear that the workmen took a vote touching the Presidential election. It sioud thus: For Clay 40 For Polk 6 Hurrah! Hurrah! the Nation's risin For Harry Clay and Frelinghuysen. Ex-Governor Ritner. Joseph Rimer, late Governor of Pennsylva nia, whom the loco focos, and particularly the Monroe Democrat, alias "Lyre," claimed as be ing opposed to Mr. Clay, has wriiten a letter to a gentleman in Berks county, from which we make the following extract. That men can be found who lay claim to ihe character of gentlemen, who stand up in day-light and declare at a Loco Foco meeting, that I am supporting Polk and Dallas, is very incredible, but then it seems that it is neverthe less true. could not go in favourof British interests and against the Protective Tariff, and sound National Currency, the Distribution of the Proceeds of the Sales of the Public Lands among the States, and in favor of the annexa tion of Texas, for any consideration. I ihere fore go for Gen. MARKLE first, and then I go for CLAY and FRELINGHUYSEN. "I am, dear sir, yours, &c. "JOSEPH RITNER." Will Rafferiy make the necessary correc tion. Delaware Canal. The sale of the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, says the Daily Chronicle, has proved abortive. Tuesday being the last day, agreeably to law, for the sale of the stock by auction, and only thirty-two shares having been sold, the auctioneer, Mr. Thomas, gave noiice that the money would be returned to the purchasers of these. Public expectation has been disappointed. At the commencement of the sale the impression was that the stock would all be taken. New Jersey. The new Constitution of New Jersey has been adopted by over 15,000 majority, and goes into operation on the 2d of September, and all laws conflicting with its provisions are from that day repealed. The bill of rights a boiishes all forms of slavery, and imprisonment for debt, unless in cases of fraud. Is Polk a "Black liCff?" The Cincinnati Gazelle states lhat the Hon. Thomas L. Hamer, formerly a member of Con gress, and the most able man of the Locofoco party in Ohio, gave evidence of his knowledge of James K. Polk, at a meeting at West Union, in the following language : I am acquainted with James K. Polk. I have slept and PLAYED CARDS WITH HIM!" What say ihe sanctimonious hypocrites who falsely assail Mr. Clay as a gambler, lo ihjs ac knowledgement of a leader of their own pariyf State Elections. The next Siaie elections are as follows Vermont, September the 3rd; Maine, "Septem ber the 9ih. Seven Statps vote in October, namely Ma ryland, Ocioberthe 2d; Georgia and Arkansas, October 7ih; New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio, October 8th, t and South Carolina, Octo ber 14th. The Mississippi Slate election takes place on ihe 4th November, and Delaware on ihe 12th. Beautiful SentUient. Mr. Clay in his speech on, ihe Compromise bilj said "The Protective Policy siatds self-vindicated il has scattered jis rich fruit.i all over the land, and is siisiained by the experienced of all powerful and prosperous nations," The Difference". LOOK ON THIS PICTURE. CLAY and FRELINGHUYSEN, PROTECTION to American Industry.? No assumption of $2 0,000,000 of TEXAS DEBTS, and NO WAR with MEXICO ! NOW ON THIS. POLK 'and DALLAS. Free Trade to benefit the SLAVEHOLDER, and put the, FREE LABORER on a level with Slaves !!! TEXAS DEBTS and TEXAS VAGABONDS, ami it War with Mexico, or DISUNION !!!!!!!!! ILetter from Jjfr. Brovrnlow. In order m ascertain with certainty the views of Mr. Polk on ihe Tariff, the editor of the Dan ville Democrat, addressed, some lime since, a letter to Mr. Brown-low, of JoucHboro, Ten nessee, in order to learn whether Mr. Polk re ally is in favor of Protection, as his friends as seri in this neighborhood, and throughout the State generally. The subjoined is Mr. B's re ply. We copy it from the Democrat of Fri day Iasi : Jonesborougii, Tenn. Aug. 10, 1844. Dear Sir: Your favor of the 11th tilt, .would have been answered sooner, but for the fact thai I was absent. Never since the organization of parlies in Tennessee, has there been as warm a coolest here, as the one at present going on. Almost every man in the Slate of both parlies, who can speak, is on iho stump; the Stale will go for our noble Harry of the West by from three to five thousand voles. Our opponents have no hope of the election of Polk, and only fight with a view to carry this Stale We live on ihe borders of North Carolina here, and I have correct return from 20 coun ties, in which we have gained thirteen, members to the Legislature, with an increased vole in favor of the Whig candidate for Governor. We have made a clean sweep in Norih Carolina and no mistake. By this day's mail 1 send you the address of J James K. Polk lo the Peoole of Tennessee, in 1839, printed by himself, jlf, in the lown in which he lives, in an office then owned by his brother-in-law, a Mr. Walker. The Democracy of your State will certainly acknowledge ihis doc ument as good authority. I Mtart to Knoxville in the morning, to attend a Great Meeting of the Whigs, and when 1 get thero I will forward you other documents. I he locofoco papers of this Stale utterly re fuse to publish Polk's lale Kane letter, and all ; co-operaied politically wilh the Denioera'i the Whig papers and orators can say, they wont I parly; that we were aciive supporters of Mar publish it. The locofoco orators here avow, every day, that Polkjs OPPOSED TO THE PROTECTIVE POLICY, IN EVERY SHAPE, AND IS WITH THE SOUTH FOR FREE TRADE. This is notorious. in all this county. They charge the Whigs wilh being Federalists, and when enquired of as to what makes them Federalists, they reply because they advocate a Protective Tariff, Dis tribution, &c. They utterly deny that Polk favors the Protective Policy, in the re motest degree. As lo Polk's ancestry, I assure you two things, which I challenge the world to disprove. Firsi, his grandfather, Ezekiel Polk, was as recreant a tory as ever lived, and did take protection un der Cornwallis, during the war of the Revolu tion : next, Jaraes K. Polk, himself, fled from his native county, or rather his home in Middle Tennessee, during the last war with England, to Chapel Hill College, to avoid being drafted, as he would have been, had he remained at home. He called " Young Hickory!" Why, sir, a greaier cowaid never trod the earth. Respectfully, &c. W. G. BROWNLOW. The Locofocos in this Stale are playing the same game. They well know, and some of the more candid do express themselves to that ef fect in privale, that Mr. Polk stands no earthly chance of being elecled, but that they wish to carry Pennsylvania for him. Their efforts here will be as unavailing as they are in Ten nessee ; for from all the information we can gather, Pennsylvania is safe for Mr. Clay. Ed. Dem. James K. Polk has 100 Slaves on a farm in Mississippi, which he purchased, and ho has been so immersed in politics for the last few years, that he has only seen ihese slaves but onco in four years, leaving them all that time It) ihe lender mercies of an overseer. So savs a letter from a gentleman in Tennessee to a gentleman in Philadelphia. Henry Clay is also a slave holder. But his slaves he inherited. He neither buys or sells he has never trafficked in htintan flesh but keeps his slock, together with the increase and so devoted are they to their owner, lhat no abolitionist could ever prevail upon one to leave him. They have permission to do so at any time they think proper. James G. Birney, ihe Aboliiion candidate for the Presidency, was also a slave-holder and il has been recently proved and admitted bu Mr. B., that he sold a slae by (he name of Charles, into hlavery lor life, afier he turned abolitionist. This is one of the reasons why so many Liber ivmeti are abandoning the standard of Birney, and uniting in the support of Henry Clay, be lie ing him lo bo the most consistent candidate, even on Slavery, now before the people. Miners' Journal, Prentjcb's Last. The Locofocos say lhat " Democracy" is the salt of the earth. - From ihe manner lit which is Hcked all over the couniry, we incline to think so toor "Vj Kentucky election. .. Owsley's maj. for Governor is about 5.000 Dixon for Lieut. Governor (which was ilio has about 12,000 majoriiy. The LegilatUrf is more largely Whig than ever it was before ihere being at least ihree Whigs to one Loco foco. The candid Locofocos m Kentucky ad. mil thai Clay's majoriiy in Kentucky will lut fall much short of 30,000. Indiana Election. The returns of the Indiana elections are a! in. The result is highly salisfaetoiy and is a follows : Whig. Seriate, 25 House, ' ' 55 Locofn oca. 45 ' 80 70 The Whig majority oh joint ballot is in, , gain of 20 since last 'year. THE STATE 1$ REDEEMED! Missouri flection. The St. Louis Republican of the IGih give the result in general terms. The State ta gone for the Locos by a greatly diminished ma jority. In the House ihe Whigs will have fur. ly-four r forty-five members : in the Sciki'b eight. Edward's majority is over 4,000. The Republican counsels the Whigs i now efforts in (lie hope lhat ihey. can give ihe elc loral vole to Mr. ClaiY. Activity, energy, mar secure- it. Howard county has set an exampf,. which, if followed, will ensure-.this result. A I lhat is asked for is a complete ocganiza'ion o the party over-the Slate, and victory in Novem ber is not beyond the achievement of ihe Ylu Alabama Election. The Southern (.Tuscaloosa). Advocate, saw "ihe Texas flag waves, oven the Siaie in it iimph. Unable lo pay their own debt, the ppn ple vote to assume the immense debt of Texa The Whigs have struggled nobly for ihnr principle and for protection to our own n--zeti, but it has. been in vain. The fan-ir'IIvi -efits of foreign aggrosion and war hare da" zled ihe eyei of ihe Locos, all. lo save 'IVx-i-and haic caused- them lo lo Mghi of z. their country-stands-so lamentably in neml c . bteady, Whigs, steady I btrliie earne-ly 'ro,.. to ,!ie election: in fa "avor of the good r:ii- Do your dinv, and leave the reuit lo Prm'- dence. Elsewhere all is well. Lucufocoisi.. is doomed." Head the the follow ino , Brunswick, Me., Aug. 12, lSll. TliR undesigned, citizens of Brunswick, re spectfully represent, thai we have hereiolmt tin Van Buren in 1840, and lhat we continue i to act with the Democratic party mini we be came convinced that the leaders of said party had abandoned every principle which wai cal culated to. sustain the rihis and inlere.-is of ti e American, people ; that we have been con vinced by ihorough investigation, that the prin ciples advocated by the V. hig pary are dm'ci- ly calculaied to foler and protect the Ameri can laborer, a well as the busmpss coiunui'in generally; lhat we are opposed to ihe rrjv1' of the Tariff of 1842-. and, in favor of the !). tribulion of the Land Revenue; and tint I " these, and'Other reasons which we might un we have pledged ourselves to support Hens Clay and Frelinghuysen, and mj h ('! '" men as we are assjnred will' sustain the pnac pies and measures we have adopted. CHARLES A. POWERS, JAS. COLBATIV THOS. B. W1LLET, $.Ub,LFQRD GODDARD: IQaanc. A letter from this Slate, in. the "Boston A las" of Saturday, con.iains.ihe following pasa- " The result ol my observations in, Maine an undonbiing conviction, that the Stn'e i&stin for Clay and' Frelinghuysen, iiotwithoaum, the Loco, Foco trick of i-ha hist Legi.Nlaiup. " substituting- the majority for ihe plurality prm cjple, and thai ihe Whigs of oiher Slates. V be most agreeably snrpred in ihe result ofilr election for Siate oflicers and the L.fgila'r' Maine is on her feel aain, and will .show li't self erect this. fall. Nothing lmii e-eed ih enthusiasm and. determination of lite good ei" pie there." The Whigs and Locofocos of Nashvi!. Tenn., had great limes the other d.iy in ratm: poles on Capitol Hill. Immediately al.er tli j Loco pole had been raised, one of ihe carjieii Iters vvenl up on a rope 'and stood erect on in ! very top of it. Thereupon, a hig who prue himself in not beiujr beat at any thing, aceui ed his party's pole to the top, and acuiaU stood on his head. John Tyler's Last- A gentleman, who 'v taken the trouble to count, says, that Mr. 'ly ler's address declining the nomination, win- occupies a space of less ihau two uew-.pi,-" columns contains tlie personal pronoun" ' MY-rME ono hundred and Ibriy-iwo nines. Political Swindling. Bowman ihe convict Editor of the Bedford Gazette, al the last AiigUst Court made a speech in which he denounced the present Tariff 3 " a rascally Whig enactment." We are informed by the Bedford Inqar thai the fellow is now busily engaged in a e' fort to swindle the people of thai .section of country into the belief that the Tariff was p'" ed by his party; and thai Polk and his s pppr' era are the only genuine Tariff men to be Wxi Such scoundrelism and political wind Log v worthy, of a convicted libeller of tho doa I. 'Af exposed slanderer of the living ! ! ! Old 3
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