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OPINIONS OF THK CANDIDATES.
Hknrv Clay.
Without intending to
sxpress any opinion
ipun every item of the Congress. I am m fa-
1'anfT, I would say thai
tl ilntik the provisions,
James K. Polk.
1 am opposed to the
Tariff Act of the late
vor of repealing that act,
and restoring the Com-
in the main wise anil promise Tariffof March
proper. Sept. 13,1843
Letter to a Committee
If Georgia Whigs,
1832.--May 15,1843
Reply to citizens of
7 ennessee,
tct il be Remembered,
That James K. Polk is opposed to the excel
lent Tariff Act of 1842, and to all Protection
of American Industry. Also, that George M.
Dallas, introduced a Bill into the Senate of the
L'niied Stales to re-charter the U. S. Bank, and
voted to pass it by two-thirds, after Gen. Jack-
tun had vetoed it.
Tiie Difference.
LOOK OK THIS PICTURE
CLAY
and
IFRELINGHUYSEN.
PROTECTION
:o
American Industry.
No assumption of
C 2 0,000,000 of
TEXAS DEBTS,
ami
NO WAR
viih
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,
and a
War with Mexico,
or
DISUNION!!!!!!!!!
Circumstantial Evidence.
1 have heard some very extraordinary cases
fofmiirdur tried. 1 remember, In one where I
was ciuiiisel.Tor a long time the evidence did
nut appear to touch the primmer at all, and he
looked ahoui him with ihe most perfect, uncon
cern, seemiii" to think himself quite safe. At
From the Newark Daily Advertiser.
The ISickorys.
There once was a hickory old and tough,
And. the pride of the forest was he,
His limbs were strong, and his hide was rough,
And his mien, was noble and bold enough,
As all acrree.
He stood in his wayward, stubborn pride,
As firm as a Dutchman's pate,
And the storms and the lightning he defied,
And, (if the old fellow -was not belied)
He was really great.
But when, like others, he'd had his day,
And his leaves were sere and brown,
And the moss had covered his trunk with gray,
And his limbs grew weak, and began to decay,
They cut him down :
And many a year he laid,
Neglected and lone to rot,
While his dolorous friends some fears betray'd,
That they'd lost forever their favorite shade, ,
And mourned their lot.
But the blackest clouds that enveloped our heads,
On this lerreous ball below,
May break and develope the rosiest beds ;
So fortune has only to sever the threads,
And in ice go.
A friend of old hickory hung his head,
And he whistled a dirge-like air,
As he ' waddled' around his grass grown bed,
And many a hopeless tear he shed,
-While strolling there.
He was scanning his way with careful eyes,
(For he walked at a gloomy hour.)
When he suddenly stopp'd with a stern surprise,
As if poke-berry juice had fell from the skies,
In a bloody shower.
For down at his feet where the tree had been,
Or where the old stump then stood,
There shot up a sucker, as fresh and green,
(Although rather puny) as ever was seen,
And he sung out, " good."
And he caper'd and danced, and bawled as loud,
As a hippopotamus calf,
And his friends around him began to crowd,
With their heads as high and they felt as proud
As a young Giraffe.
He called for a body and " now" says he,
"A diop of the joyful" we'll take,
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From the Daily Fonyn.
Henry Clay'js views of Religious Duty.
On one or two occasions we have spoken of
ihe immorality and blasphemy of the leaders of
the locofoco parly. Not only have they allu
ded, in language which ought not to be lolera
ted in an enlightened country, to the religious
opinions and strict moral conduct of Theodore
Frelinghuysen ; bin they maliciously circu
late among the people ihe .most outrageous
falsehoods relative io Mr. Clay's character, as
a citizen and statesman. All this is done for
the purpose of diverting attention from the onor
miiies of locofocoiMii, as well as from ihe int
morality and blasphemy of ihose who have as
hociated infidelity with the political doctrines
advocated by the supporters of Polk and'Dallas.
On Monday we published two letters, written
by Mr..Bascom, a clergyman, who has long re
sided in the vicinny of Aahland, and who has
lor manv years been intimately acquainted with
Henry Clay. "There is not a locofoco in this
country, however reckless, who will venture to
question ihe inuh of Mr. Bascom's statements
relative to the honesty, integrity, unexception
able moral deportment and benevolence of the
Statesman of the West," and yet the misera
ble, contemptible, irreligious hirelings who con
duct the loco pres, without attempting; to im
peach the testimony of Mr. Clay's friends, and
without adducing any reliable evidence to sus
tain them, still continue daily to retail the most
vile calumnies thai demons in human form are
capable of inventing.
Who, we ask, have they placed before the
people as the opponent of the man whose fair
fame they would destroy, if in their power I
Ay, who is he? what is his character? We
have at hand a case in point a transaction
in which both Mr. Clay and Mr. Polk took
part, and we will give ihe circumstances in or
der that our citizens may be able to decide
which of these two gentlemen manifested the
truest sense of moral obligation :
In 1832. while the cholera was raging with
alarming faialnv attacking and desolating
whole towns and cities, and baffling the skill of
man, Mr.-Clay introduced a resolution in the
Senate of the United Slates for the appoint
ment of a committee to wait upon the President
and Jo " request that he recommend a day to be
designated by him of public humiliation, prayer,"
' d m. r.it : .1... ;.,
OiC.
The following were the
nroceeutnjrs
in
the Senate :
"June2S, 1S32. The following resolution
offered by Mr. Clay was taken up for consid
eration : ,
And we'll throw away care, and be jolly and free, , Resolved by llic Senate and House of Repre-
And we'll christen this sucker, 'young hickory,'
For the old one's sake.
" And ' by the eternal,' tho' now but a twig,
We can soon sivear it into a tree,
And each one, (if not an incredulous Whig,)
Will exclaim, ' why la! it is almost as big.
Already as old Hickory !' "
But chill November came n at last,
And their reverie suddenly broke,
For its leaves dropp'd down at the first rough blast,
Like sailor's wet shirts around a mast,
3ut not a word they spoke,
No ! they stood with a wild and idiot stare,
j rescntulivcs, I hat a joint committee ot both
Houses wail on tlie president and request that
he recommend a day of public humiliation,
prayer, and fasiing to lie observed by the peo
ple of the United Slates with religious solem
nity, and Willi fervent supplications to Almighty
God that he will be graciously pleased to con
tinue his blessings upon our country and thai
he will avert from it the Asiatic scourge which
! has reached our borders ; or if, in the dispeusa
1 lion of his providence, we are not to be exempt
I li-
stance of a member of the House of Represen
tatives from Virginia, and President Madison
ssued his recommendation accordingly.
A single word, Mr. President, as io myself.
I am a member of no religious sect. 1 am noi
a professor of religion. 1 regrei that 1 am not.
I wish thai 1 was, and trust dial I-shall be.
But I have and always have had, a profound
respect for Christianity, ihe religion of my la
thers, and for iis riles, us usage:, and its ob
servances. Among these, thai which is pro
posed in the resolution before you has always'
commanded the respect of the good and devout.
And I hope it will obtain (he concurrence of
the Senate.
Mr. Frelinghuysen said he inferred from
the call of ihe yeas and nays that ihts resolu
tion would be opposed, and lie therefore desired
again lo reler the Senate to the precedent ot
1814. The resolution atthal lime was induced
by the slate of war into which ihe country had
been plunged with Great Britain, and was of
fered by Mr. Clopton, of Virginia. The pre
amble, which ho read, laid it down as the duty
of Congress to adopt measures of this charac
ter m times of" calamity and war." The prop
osition had passed the Senate without any op
position. If in time of war it was ihe duty of
ihe people to ask the special protection of God,
and to supplicate the interposition of.hls mercy,
how much more incumbent was it in reference
to a scourge which had in its progress swept
many millions of human beings into eternity,
which went abroad on the earth as the agenl
and minister of God to do his errand, and to
come and go at his bidding, and over which hu
man power had no influence. No occasion
could be so fit and appropriate for humiliation
as this. He hoped thai no constitutional objec
tion would be interposed to check this resolu
tion, which was nothing more than a recom
mendation. Il was our duty devoutly, and in
the conviction of our entire depeudance on God,
to ask for the interference of his mercy ; and.
he hoped that the present resolution would pass,
as did the resolution of 1814.
The resolution was adopted: Yeas 30, nays 13.
On this resolution being taken up in the
House of Representatives, a few days after,
viz. on the 5th of July, Mr. Polk voted virtual
ly to reject il by voting to lay it on the table.
That motion having failed, by a vole of ayes
46, noes 91, the consideration of the resolution
was resumed on the 9th of July, when Mr.
Polk again voted lo lay it on the table. This
motion again failed, when, on motion, the reso
lution was referred lo a select committee. Ste
Journal House of Reps, of Cong, of 1832, pages gay or angry, sometimes indulging in heafiy
1004 II 10.1 uut c"ar;,e jokes, and sometimes imprecating
j . . i .1 i i t i. i i
Woru o finii hpvuv i .i iv Sim heodore i curses ooon inose wno nau utspieaseu
i J V 14 ' AAA I
Frelinghuysen standing side by side before
iln axxMiililftl wisdom of a ?reat nation, and
as left the impress of his renins unim ih
..,.. lit . 1 ' ' S'J?.
in wliicll tic ileu; tie lias car veil mt lurnr.iix
self a title to a page in the hiMory of his vinxn
try, and his name will be leiiirmt.ureti. for good
or lor evil, when the names uf half iht- vpi'ti
meral Statesmen of the age v. ill be forgotten; '
IJorn in the very humblest walks' of fife,
reared to poverty and obscurity, wiitntut educa
tion, without intelligence, acciisioinnd tor vrpis
to rude mid severe labor, rough even to tho
hour of his death in his deportment, coarse,
vulgar, low, he lias succeeded lo esunfjslmi
a Religious Creed, whicn has been pricl;iiiit:ii
tliroiiihoul America and Europe, :n ihe4fi-irba-ry
Slates of Africa, along the h'dtiks oi the Nil.,
amid the ruins of ancient Jerusalem, and umIih
Courtly Halls of the modern capital oflhe ilu?
sian Empire. The Creed whscli he has eaiao- ..
llshed, and which in the last few years h is .
made rapid progress throughout ihe civilized
uorid, will continue to flourish until million-; uf
converts will slake their, eiuma! destiny upon
its until
He has founded a city upon one of themn.nt
beautiful spots in the whole Western votld,
where he has gathered together more lhairi wen
ly thousand inhabitants from every purl. of iho
earlh, of every nation, tongue and kindred; ho
has planted one oi the most magnificent archi
tectural specimens of the age, ami reared to tha
height of forty feel a Temple which, when com
pleted, will be at once the most beautiful, tllo
most costly, ami the most noble buildinu in
America. Its walls are of solid stone four feet
in thickness, supported by thirty iof:y pillars,
whose huge size and strength will endure an
long as time will last. Thai building is a mon
ument which will never decay, and the name
of its founder will never be forgotten. Wm
can gainsay thai Smith was a remarkable maiij.
He ruled by the force of his genius.- Like Ub
naparie, he could control and command his Tel?
low men. The secret of his power is unknown,
but the fact thai he lived in the -full enjoyment
of unbounded influence up to the hour of his
death is indisputable. For the Jasl iew years
he had acquired property rapidly, and whenev
er he travelled he used an expensive equipage.
He was a pretended prophet of God, and a tavern-keeper
J He labored lor the souls of men
gratuitously; he supplied their temporal neces
sities for dollars and cents.
In his personal appearance, I have said Jot'
was rouh; he was- a remarkably stom and
athletic man;, ho loved to wrestle, and gloried
in his ability io 'floor' the .strongest man in his
community In his deportment, he was either
him'.
last the surgeon was called, who stated that the For they found that the sprout which had promis'd
i . . . . . ... . . r
rieeea"eri had been killed by a shot (a gunshot;
iitt the head, and he produced the malted hair
and stuff cut from and taken out of the wound.
!lt was all hardened with blood. A basin of
warm water was brought into Court, and as the
i blond was gradually softened a piece of printed
paper appeared the wadding of the gun, which
prined to be half of a ballad, the other half had
been found in ih'e matfa pocket when he was
: taken. He was haned. Lord TZldais Note
Book.
, .. .i. . n.
supporting a resolution, requesting ino jl resi
dent to recommend a day ol public humiliation
and prayer a day on which the people ol this
Union miijht raise one voice of supplication that
the Almighty Ruler of the Universe would avert
from them ihe threatened dangersa day on
which this entire nation might approach the
m iu uo ciicm n- r ., . inii t h i ftn. from
ed from the calamity, that through his bountiful ... '. , , i h r
i i wiiuiii an us 1JICHWII3 iHtasiiii-i ...,w.. .-
ceived, lo continue his merciful dispensations,
Fascsnatiots and Fear.
A correspondent of the Journal of Commerce
te!U tiie following anecdote: I once in a forest
wcncd for a few moments a striped quirrel
Crawling slowly towards ihe open jaws of a hid-
-tu rattle snake, which lav Btretched across
'In; road, in the path my horse was travelling.
A second thought induced me to tease idle
Hazing, and at once dismounting, I cut a long
P"le, drove the reptile from the path, and took
'If xniiirrcl m mv h-jtirf without il aitemntinc
' escape; bin it died in a few minutes, although
not wuhin len feet of the serpent.
Wei! Supplied.
Aha wk'p nest, recently found on a large pine
',rre, nearly 100 feel from he ground, on ihe
irni of Liberty patridgp, in Westminster, Mass.
"ttiaiiied one'black nake 13 1-2 feet in length,
,lv large -adders, two green snakes, one striped
l'rr hitak i five striped makex, xix chickens,
1 e sparro vx, one -striped squirrel, two mice,
Kiad, one frog, two" voUng. hawTis nearly
half grown i . T
At Hartford, Connecticut, the experiment of
merino xhf: body with slicnd onions, and re-
'" winorjjieni ofton till the fever subsides, has
"n triejl with, great effect in cases of scarlei
fcver. '
so fair,
And which they had tended with so much care,
Was a puny stalk of POLK ! !
Princeton, December, 1844.
DIDYMUS.
Wosaelerful Will king.
An Indian of the Penobscot tribe, by ihe
name of Lolah, started from Bangor, Maine, on
Thursday morning week, at sunrise walked
to Ellsworth, 26 miles from Ellsworth lo
Bucknport, 18 miles and from Bucksport to
Uangor, 18 miles more making sixty-two miles
in all, and arrived at his starting place sunset.
mercy its severity may be mitigated and ils du
ration shortened.
Mr. Tazewkll asked for ihe yeas and nays.
Mr. Clay rose and observed that he had on
ly one word lo express. The resolution had
not been submitted without consultation with
the members of ihe Senate whose opinion was
entitled to more respect than his own. It was
indeed first suggested to him by a reverend
member of ihe clergy, and, after deliberate con
sideration, he (Mr. Clay) thought the occasion
j fit for the recommendation ol the religious cer
emony which the resolution contemplated. It
was the practice of all Christian nations, in sea
sons of general and great calamity, to implore
Divine mercy. Of all the pestilential scourges
u hich had afflicted our race, the Asiatic chol
era, in some of its-characteristics, was ihe most
remarkable.
Should the resolution bo adopted (said Mr.
Clay) the act of the President, in conformity
io iis request, will be merely recommendatory
Voluntary as to uii, il will be obligatory upon
none.. There seems lo bo a peculiar propriety,
on the ground ol uniformity, in ihe proposed
A Eelor.
We learn from the Cecil Whig that when
Mr. Collins was addressing ihe Whigs' at Elk
ton, a drunken fellow accosted him thus :
" Collins, you ate a demagogue." The speak-
er pretended noi to hear him. "Collins I say measure. Already, in different parts of the
Collins, you are a demagogue" This was too j Union, ihe clergy of several 'denominations
and a day on which in a spirit of humiliation
we all might join m asking the Saviour of the
world to.pardnn all past transgression, and in
future control the actions of those who hold the
reins of our government. Where then was Mr.
Polk ? What was his conduct 1 what was his
language? Read the above extract. A repe
tition is unnecessary, and we cannot dwell
without mortification and shame upon a scene
in which a man who professes to be a moral
and respectable " Democratic" citizen acted so,
Ho was ao arbttrary man, and loved powKjt
tie claimed lor tits iWuutcipal tourt sucii un
bounded power as no Court ever yel exercised,
and under shelter of such claim he committed
acts alike destructive of law and order. Ho
was also ambitious and vain, and it was this
last trait that involved him in all his difficulties,
and finally consumaled his ruin. If he had not
Iven intent on the exercise of his power, and
determined to gralify his vanity as well as to
glui hi- revenge, he would in all probability
have been alive at this hour. But his vantiy
prompted him to disregard the threats of his
enemies, and to persevere in the execution of
his own plans, when he ought to have concilia
ted and yielded. It was his great fault to per
severe in all his plans, even when prudence
and circumstances demanded a different course
He has been accused of many crimes; of adul
tery, forgery, counterfeiting and of an attempt
io murder Governor Boggs of Missouri. That
he availed himself of the power which ha
wielded to gratify his sensual appetite 1 have
. r . . . - ! I
difracefnl a nart ! Read it, ye slanderers oi no uotiui; ne was a man oi siroug pansiuns, a...v
much, and Collins slopped and looked the per
son in the face for a moment, and' said mildly :
" If you had straw wrapped' around you, you
would be a demijohn.
off.
The fellow staggered
Tvrcuty-seven ays wilSioist Food.
A family residing in Baltimore possessed a
favorite cat, about half grown, which was a pet
with their little boy. On the 58th'of July the
cat, after having been playing wiih the child,
was not to be found; several unsuccessful
searched were made, but without eflect, until
the 24lh of August, when some one of the
family had occasion to go to an unfrequented
closet in the cellar, and found the cat there, still
alive. Il had been in this prison twenty-seven
days, where the child had shui il up, without
food or drink. Il was reduced to skin and
bones.
have, it is believed, had their attention turned
lo the subject Different days of prayer and
humiliation will be probably recommended. Il
is desirable thai the whole nation, oh ihe same
day, shall pre-eni its united , praters andsup
plications to the TJirone of MeFcy.;-"And there
can be but little doubt that, although there will
be nothing coercive in ihe recommendation of
the President, there will be general acquies
cence in il. The measure will be grateful to
all pious and to all moral men, whether mem
bers of religious communities or not. In limes
of national or individual distrust;', all who suf
fer feel an irresistible impulse to appeal lo thai
Being who is alone able lo afford adequate re
lief. 1 should have hesitated to present ihis reso
lution (said Mr. Clay) if it had been unsanction
ed by precedent. But during ihe late war a
resolution was adopted by Cotigretjs, at the in-
Henry Clay, and blush that while you are at
tempting to defame one of yum own most mor
al fellow-citizens, you are supporting a man,
who, on no occasion, has manifested any regard
for the religion taught in the Scriptures ! Read
il, voters of Pennsylvania, and of the- Union,
and entertaining as you do, an abiding love for
the morality of your children, candidly docide
which of these two men are entitled to your
support, and which of tho two political parties
is governed by principles best calculated to pro
mote the honor and welfare of your country.
From the N. V. Tribune
Sec SssialSr'tlie'JZorinosk Pioplie.
BY A SUCKER.
Joe Smith i dead and gone. He was one
of the most remarkable men of the age. The
tirno for. writing his history has not arrived.
Men who have known him long and well, dif
fer in their estimate of his character; the future
historian alone can reconcile the contradictory
statements of his friends and enemies, and
place hi.m in his true position. The personal
manners of everv man makn him friends or
enemies, regardless of his principles or conduct.
This remark -is-clearly illustrated in the case
of Smith. He was a inan of rough exterior and
coarse manners; thousands who approached
him were ,o completely disgusted at once by
his manners, that they refused to look at the
good he claimed io li.rve dono. But notwith
standing this he was a remarkable man, and
his education had not taught him to control or
suppress his desires; but thai he ever engaged
in the other acts wherewiih he stood charged,'
1 seriously doubt. The men who would hav
sworn it the men who murdered him would
not have slopt at the commission of a less crime,
to gralify their revenge. They hid re.solyed
on his destruction, bul they feared io encounter
him, when he had ihe ability to defend himself:
He was a man of genuine courage, and'wonld
have fought to the last moment of life. Hr
was pursued by a baud of three hundred infuT
ried demons, and cruelly shot down like a wild
beast, while confined in a small room where he
could not escape. It was a glorious exit for
him. Whatever there was of etil in lit heitrt
will be forgotten in the recollection ol In death.
He will be eulogized by his disciples, ami wor
shipped as a gad. Time and distance will em
bellish his life with new and rare viriues.jand
more than earthly power: his doctrines will
flourish, his influence will extend o agesyet
unborn, and future generations will cele.braje
his birth and death by public festivals. Pjjbjju.
nrnvnra nml iirilirnitpfl ileVOllOII. ti
Lewistown, Illinois, July 1 0; 1844.
Tiliaiiksivau.
Gov. Letcher, of Kentucky, has isued a
proclamation, appointing Thudny. lit26'h
day of September, iirti., o be. ohservedbihe
people of that State as a day of prayer, piaisev
and thanksgiving. " ' '