THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL,
country, one constitution, one destiny."
IXtea ft=
Wednesday morning, June 12, '44.
<y. V. B. PALMER, Esq. (No. 59, Pine street
below Third, Philadelphia,) is authorized to act as
Agent for this paper, to procure subscriptions and
advertisements.
V' The Huntingdon Sournal has a
larger circulation than any other
Newspaper in Huntingdon county.
We state this fact for the benefit of
Advertisers.
" , Once more our glorious Banner out
Upon the breeze we throw;
Beneath its folds, with song and shout,
Let's charge upon the foe!"
FOR PR 1. SIDENT,
HENRY CLAY,
OF KENTUCKY,
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN,
OF NEW JERSEY,
Senatorial Electors.
CHESTER BUTLER, of Luzern.
TOWNSEND HAINES, Chester.
Representative Illectors.
Ist District—Joseph C. Clarkson, of Philadelphia
3d John P. Wetherill, do
8d John D. Nineateel, do
4th John S. Litteil, Germantown.
6th Elleazer T. M'Dowell, of Bucks co.
6th Benj. Frick, of Montgomery.
7th Isaac W. Vanleer, of Chester.
Bth William Hiesor, of Lancaster.
9th John. S. Hiester, of Berks.
10th John Killinger, of Lebanon.
11th Alex. E. Brown, of Northampton.
12th Jonathan J. Slocum, of Luzerne.
13th Henry Drinker, of Susquehanna.
14th James Pollock, of Northumberland.
15th Frederick Watts, of Cumberland.
16th Daniel M. Sinyser, of Adams.
17th James Mathors, of Juniata.
18th Andrew J. Ogle, of Somerset.
19th Daniel Washabiturn, of Bedford.
10th John L. Clow, of Washington.
21st Andrew W. Loomis, of Allegheny.
22t1 James AL Power, of Mercer.
33d William A. Irvin, of Warren.
24th Benjamin Hartshorn, of Clearfield.
FOR GOVERNOR,
30371P11 "frallltUn,
OF WESTMORELAND COUNTY.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
SIMEON GUILFORD,
OF LEBANON COUNTY.
0 We received the proceedinge of the Whig
Mooting held in Alertendria, too late f r publication
in to-day% paper. They shall apprer in our next.
c 0". Our thanks are due the lion. A.R. Wit,
v.arrrs. and the lion. JAnts Farts., for numerous
favors received from them.
By reversing the letters in the name of Dal
las, the locofoco candidates for President and Vice
President will make Polk and .31 1 / a d. It will he
too late in the season for such greens in November
nest, and the people won't swallow 'em.
Adjourned Court.
An Adjourned Court of Common Pleas will he
held for Huntingdon county, in this place nommen
eing on Monday next. (17th inst..) and to continue
one week. This will afford a good opportunity for
our friends to visit the Printer.
cli• The Locofoco presses seem very tenacious
about calling their candidate Colonel James K.
Polk. Thia is laughable. He gained hie title, we
believe, by being appointed a Governor's Aid-de-
Camp !!
(C)* There was a great Polk-ing meeting held in
Harrisburg last week; same had their heads—aome
their faces—some their eyes— some their bones
Polk-ed pretty considerably. What unanimity !!
cy By a reference to our advertising columns, it
will be seen that Mr. William Furlong, of this
place, has purchased a few of Mr. Wise's splendid
Mezzotints, full length portraits of Hstrnir
It is engraved by SARTAIN, in his most exquisite
style of Mezzotint, front a painting of Mr. JAMES
WT., and we were shown a certificate from Mr.
Clay himself, in which he states that he conceives
it be one of the most faithful likeness extant.—
Those who wish to procure a good portrait of the
next President of the United States should not miss
this opportunity.
The Senate has concurred in the resolution
of adjournment, passed some time since by the
House, which provides for the adjournment on
Monday next, the 17th of the present month.
Jo Smith has determined to stand as a candidate
lir the Presidency. Jo should give his views of
annexation, in imitation of the example set him by
his illustrious competitors.
Humbug.
The New York Journal of Commerce, in closing
it* account at the Locofoco procession of that city
on the 4th instant, says:
" Among:at their numerous banners, flags, em
blem. and devices, was a neat wooden monument,
mounted on a wagon and drawn by horses, and on
the basp of the monument, was inscribed in large
Choi. ..sared to the memory of Jonathan Cilley."
That -in net the name of the person whom Polk
ohm et is a duel.
For the Jwr►wl."
PAINTnva.
"Boat be that art, which keeps the absent near,
The beautiful unchanged from Times rude theft,
Gauds the fresh tint of childhoods polish'd brow,
And when Love yield its idol to the toom
Doth snatch a copy."
A visit to Mr. J. Wilson'. studio in the Ohl Court
House cannot fail to excite pleasing sensations in
those who have any tutu for the sublime and beau
tiful in Art. This young and promising artist has
now a large collection of Portraits finished—
many of them being copies of our own citizens—
which will afford the curious a fine opportunity of
testing Mr. W's skill by comparisons with the ori
nal*.
Mr. Wilson's soul appear. to be completely wrap
ped up in the beautiful imagery of his profession;
and should he receive the patronage he so richly
merit., 4 doubt not he will soon attain an eminent
position amongst the best Portrait Painters of the
day and reflect back upon his native home the sun
beams of a glorious renown.
Mr. 'Wilson is a native of our own county, and
this, in itself. should stimulate those who cherish
the principle. of n ENCOURAGEMENT TO
HOME INDUSTRY," and whose pecuniary cir
cumstanc. a will justify them in expending the small
sum necessary to secure a faithful likeness, to lend
a helping hand in fostering, with golden shown,
this tender plant of Genius in the nursery offame.
VIATOR.
Muhlenberg at Home.
. _
The York Republic an Lys :—" The 7 Alt Berk.,
or Stern im Osten,' a German Locofoco paper of
large circulation and great influence, published in
Reading—not only refuses to support !Actium..
for Governor, but pours hot shot into him in every
number. It declares that Shunk was the choice of
the party, and that Muhlenberg's nomination was
obtained by intrigue and corruption. Thia is a bad
sign of the Ex•parson at home--in " Old Berks,
the Star in the East." The Locofocoa are doomed
to ho disappointed in the great majority of 6000
which they expect from Berks.
Another indication that .‘ there is something rot
ten in the State of" Berks, is seen in the abandon
ment of Col. Hugh Lindsey, of the Locofoco party.
The Col. has been a Locofoco of the deepest dye--
he went it strong against banks and rag money, and
was carrying out the professed principles of the
party. He has discovered however that the leaders
were only humbugging the people. In his letter
announcing his determination, he says:
" In regard to H. A. Muldenberg, I cannot sup
port him. As a neighbor I love him, but I am
bound to love my country better; he is one of the
Van Buren stamp, his nomination was received on
the 4th of March in a manner that I cannot for a
moment believe that any honest democrat of the
Jefferson School can or will support him. That
worthy may pretend to be a Jefferson Democrat, so
might Satan pretenp to be a Christian; but we are
not bound to believe at this late day in their demo
cracy and their love of country--their love of mam
mon is the leading trait of their democracy.
ss I,ook back for a moment upon the leading ad
vacates of Van Buren and Muhlenberg, how they
did traduce Gen. Harrison anal Capt. John ter in
the late Presidential Campaign. But as quick as
the demise of the lamented Harrison, how quick
were those worthy patent democrats on their knees
supplicating for the contents of the Sub-treasury ;
and now you can behold with almost magic power,
that Capt. John Tyler's Cabinet is filled up with
staunch Van Buren men of the horse and leech
order. Consistency thou art a jewel!! Friends, if
it were possible for our beloved Jefferson to conic
back for a moment from his silent grave, and look
upon those pretended disciples of his democratic
principles, no doubt it would cause him to weep to
sce his principles so degenerated in the hands of
these demagogues; and bellying thus, my friends, I
ant morally bound before God my maker, and my
fellow countrymen, to support those num principles
and measnres, which I humbly believe to he for the
benefit and welfare of our common country.
"Believing as I do. that the Whig party is at
this time the real Democratic party of Pennsylvania
—and I enlist with a warm and patriotic heart in
the country's just cause—and in regard to the nom
ination, I consider it a good one; Gen. Issuer
M ill K., of Westmoreland county, is a man fresh
frosts she people, and no way intlentitied with the
1 corruptible influences of David R. Porter or his ad
ministration, or John Tyler's Custom !louse influ
once. Gen. Markle the patriot, when the country
was invaded by the savage anal British foe. left his
home, his dear wife and children, with sword in
hand, willing to sacrifice his life and money for his
1 country and the western citizens."
Mr. Polk Presented by a Grand Jury
The New York Courier says that while Mr. Polk
was Governor of Tennessee, instead of attending
to the duties of the office and acting under the re
straint which his position would have imposed up
on hitn if he had been a titan of the slightest deli
cacy, he took occasion on the 4th of July, 1840, at
a public meeting of the locofocos at Knoxville,
Tennessee, to nominate himself for re-election!
and he forthwith proceeded to open the campaign
in person, and bring to bear upon the issue all the
gubernatorial influence with which he was invest
ed. The people of that section thinking that this
was not part of the duty for which he had been
elected, expressed their censure very freely, and
finally the Grand Jury at the Sevier Ct u..ty Court
presented the Governor as follows:
The Executive of our State, hem K. Pour,
instead of being found at his post, executing the
laws, devising means of improving the deplorable
condition of the country, and of restoring it to the
prosperity it has lost—he, our Governor, is found
traversing the State, conducting an electioneering
campaign, for the elevation of others and to keep in
train the tiyatein which is no oppressive, and in pow
er the rulers who ask for power at such a price.
"This we present as a mot actiona grievance, a
derelic.ion of duty—an evil example to others who
may be prompted to do the like, and which in the
end will prove the overthrow of our free institu
tion., &c. &c. JAMES SEATON,
Foreman of the Grand Jury."
The Grand Jury of the nation will take a similar
liberty with Pour next fall. He was nominated in
a "disorderly house," obtained its vote under " false
pretences" and will be indicted es a " Burner" by
the people.
j Ae an evidence of how obscure and little
known the Locofoco nominee for President is, even
among hi. own party. Philadelphia papers mention,
that at the "Democratic Head Quarters," in that
city, the other day, a flag was suspended with Jas.
R., instead of James K. Polk ! 1
JAMES K. POLK AND THE TARIFF.
Hu Opinions against Protection and for
FREE TRADE
EIBSMIII:2LILIUEII3D29
After reading the following correspondence, no
Pennsylvanian who is truly at heart a Tariff man
—no Protective Tariff man—no friend of the Tar
iff of 1842, which is already covering the whole
country with blessings—will think for one moment
of giving his vote and influence to elevate JAMES
K. Poue to the Presidential Chair of this Union.
The mechanic—the laboring man—who votes for
the Tennessee Free Trader, when his opposition to
the protection of Home Industry is thus made clear
and undisputed, " puts a knife to his own throat,"
and tries to elevate to office one who, when the
power is in his hands, will use it to prostrate the
Free White Laborer of the Country, to subserve
the "INTERESTS OF THE PLANTING
STATES."
To the Editors of the National latelligeneer :
Hovel OF }lgen. ENTATI v Es, May 30,1844.
Messrs. GAL. & ScsToN The interest which
I feel, in common with the citizens of Pennsylvania,
on the subject of the Tara and the protection of
American labor, induced me to make an inquiry of
Gen. Halms relative to the views of Col. POLK,
the recently nominated candidate for the Presiden
cy, on the subject of the Tara. His answer to that
inquiry, which he has been sogood as to furnish me
in writing this morning, presents the facts in rela-
tion to Col. Pot.n.'s views on this all-absorbing topic
in such an important light, that I respectfully ask for
them from the people of Pennsylvania and the
whole Union that attention which they deserve, and
I have no doubt will receive; and I therefore re
quest you to do the the favor to publish the enclos
ed letter of Gen. HARDIX.
Very respectfully, yours, &c•
JAMES IRVIN.
Col. Z. R. Polk and the Tariff:
To THE HIM JAMES luvls , OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Sin: Upon the announcement of Jos. K. Pour.
on yesterday as the nominee of the Baltimore Con
vention for President, which equally astonished
Whigs and Locos, you inquiringly asked, What
are his opinions on the Tarier"
According to the promise then given, I proceed
to answer your inquiry. Mr. Pout is, and claims
to be, a consistent opponent of a Protective Tariff;
has advocated the principle of tree trade, substen.
(laity; in 1833 was for restoring the tariff to the
rates prescribed by the tariff of 1816; and has been
a bitter reviler of the Whig tariff of 1942 ; is for
its repeal; and is in fuvor of returning to the hori
zontal 20 per cent. rates of duty which prevailed at
the time of the passage of the tariff of 1842.
In the session of 1832—'33, Mr. POLE was a
member of the Committee of Ways and Means,
which reported a bill (which did not pass) greatly
reducing the duties below those adopted by the tar
iff act of the proceding session, (Tariff of 1832.)
He made a lengthy speech its favor of the proposed
bill, and against the protective system, which will
be found in Congressioird Debates, vol. 9, pages
1162 to 1175. As a specimen of the views pre
sented in that speech, I will quote a few short
extracts:
"It appears from this testimony that the duties
upon woollens (now fifty per cent.) may not only
he reduced, but that twenty-five per cent. will be
a sufficient pratedi‘w, :: a corres
ponding reduction on the raw material, and the duty
be fully and fairly collected; and that the nianulltc
tureen of cottons, and especially of coarse cottons,
would he able to continue their business prwitabie
at the reduced duty ef twelcc and a hay per cent.
on the rival foreign article." • • • •
-1 propose nett to establish, by testimony equal
ly entitled to credit, the third proposition, which is,
that the manufacturers of the United Status were
in a prosperous condition under the act of 1816,
and for the eight
,years intervening between the
years 1816 and 1824, and also that the act of 181.6
afforded theta unipk incidental prolection."—
[Cong. Debates, vol. 9, page 1,170.]
"The wool-growers consider the duty upon for
eign wool as important to their prosperity. This
opinion, I apprehend, is founded in error. Very
little wool of the middling quality, such as we pro
duce, is imported. The kinds chiefly imported are
either the course South American wool, costing
eight cents and under the pound, or the fine Saxo
ny wool, costing more than a dollar the pound,
neither of which we do produce, or if we do, to a
(.very limited extent." • • • •
My own opinion is that wool should be duty
free; but no wool-growers think otherwise, •.ve have
retained a duty of fifteen per rent. upon the inipor
ted article."—[Con. Debates, vol. 9., p. 1174.]
' -
In relation tothe tariff of 1912 we are at no loss
for his opinions. Mr. POLK was a candidate for
Governor in Tennessee in 1843, (in which race,
you know, he was a second time defeated by a large
majority,) and during the canvass he permitted no
opportunity to escape him to denounce that tariff in
the most bitter terms. In response to an inquiry
whether he " approved of such a tariff as would
give protection to home industry against foreign in
dustry," he answered, as i am informed by gentle.
men who are perfectly familiar with his views, an
given on the stump and in his circular, that he
was opposed to the principle of pro
tection. His answer to this and other interrog
atories will be published as soon as they can be pro
cured from Tennessee.
Fortunately, however, I am at no loss for an au
thentic document which presents Col. POLK'S views
of the tariff of 1842. I have before me the "Sy
nopsis of Gov. Polk's speech to the people of Ma
dison and the adjoining counties, delivered at Jack
son, on Monday, the 3d of April. 1843," printed in
parnph:et form, and written out for publication by
Gov. Pout. From it I quote the following extracts:
"Ile took other views, briefly presented, of the
subject, and proceeded to the discussion of the pro
tective tariff act passed by the lost Congress. Ho
showed that it was a highly protective tariff, and
not one for revenue. He showed that, by the com
promise tariff act of 1833, the tax on no imported
article wart to exceed 20 per cent. upon its value af
ter the 30th June. 1842. No hither tax than 20
per cent. woo imposed on any article after the 30th
of June, 1842, until the 30th of August, 1842, on
which latter day the present tariff law was passed
by the Whig Congress. Tho Whig Congress laid
violent hands on the compromise act of 1833, and
broke it up."
"It was clear, therefore, that the late tariff act
was not a revenue measure. It had raised the rates
of duty so high as to shut out imports, and conse
quently to cut off and diminish rmnue."
"Judging from the amount of revenue received
at the Treasury, under the operations of the present
tariff act, for the last quarter el 1942, as already
shown, it will not produce annually half the amount
of revenue which would have been produced by the
lower rates of the compromise act, had that act been
left undisturbed.'
" He was opposed to direct lazes, and to prohibi
tory and productive duties, and in favor of such
moderate duties as would not cut oif importations.
IN 0771E1? WORDS, HE WAS IN FAVOR
OF REDUCING 771 E DUTIES 7'o THE
RATES OF 771 E COMPROMISE AC7;
WHERE THE WHIG CONGRESS FOUND
THEM ON THE Nth OF JUNE, 1842."
" The South, and he with them, had voted for the
act of 1832 because it was a reduction of the rates
of the act of 1828, though by no means so low as
he would have desired it to be; still it was the
greatest reduction which could be attained at the
time of its passage."
•. THE DIFFEIIENCE RE
TWEEN THE COURSE OP THE
POLITICAL PARTY WITH
W RICH HE (1111 3.ln.Tuy
ACTS AND :11YSELP IS, WHILST
TI/EY 4RE THE ADVOCATES OF
DISTRIBUTION A ND A PROTEC
TIVE 7.4111 F- -M EA SURE.%
IV NCH I CONSIDER RUINOUS TO
THE INTERESTS OF /WE' 001I,N
VII', AND ESPEC IA LY 7'o
THE INTERESTS OF THE PL AN
TING STATES—! HAVE STEADI
LY AND /IT ALL TIMES OPPOS
ED BOTH."
The extracts conclusively prove the hostility of
Col. Pout to the protective policy, which he con
siders, "ruinous to (he country, especially to the
planting States." That is a sufficient argument
with him. He therefore is now for " reducing the
duties to the rates under the compromise act, where
the Whig Congress found them on the 30th June,
1842;" and Gov. PoLtt himself shows that " the
tax on no imported article was to exceed twenty
per cent. upon its value after the 30th of June,
1842." Then it is clearly seen that he is for a
nonizoNTAL TAMtu of twenty per cent., with dis
criminations (if any are made) below even that rate.
I pass by, without comment, the far-seeing states
manlike predictions of Gov. Pock, that the tariff of
1842 ..had raised the rates of duty so high as to
shut out imports, and consequently to cut off and
diminish revenue." The subsequent increase of
oath imparts and revenue under this tariff have
given such a fulfillment to this prophecy as must
forever immortalize Col. Polak as a wonderful pro
phet !
During the consideration of the tariff of 1842, as
the revenue proth.ced by the twenty per cent. duties
of the compromise act were altogether inadequate
to defray the expenditures of the Government, a
proposition was made to lay a duty on tea and cof
fee, for which a number of the Whigs in Congress
voted, in order to increase the revenue and redeem
the sinking credit of the Government. Col. Po.
seized upon this vote to give castigation to those
Whigs who had voted for this proposition. This
called forth a response from the Hon. MILTON
BROWN, of Tennessee, and led to a political discus
einn ae Judsovat, avlacto COI. rout tie
livered the speech above referred to. He was most
triumphantly answered by Mr. M. BnowN, who
clearly demonstrated that the bill of 1833, reported j
by the Committee of Ways and Means, of which I
Col. Po. w,,g r tr.-10,r, (arid in favor of which
he made the speech first quoted from,) proposed to
impose a duty of twenty per cent. on tea and coffee.
At the time this propositon was made tea and cof
fee were entirely free of duty ; and another striking
fact appears from Col. PoLit's speech in 1833, that
the Government then had "six millions of reve
nue from the impost more titan toe need."—[Con.
Debates, vol. ix, page 1174.] Yet, notwithstanding
such was the admitted fact, Col. Po. voted against
a proposition to strike out lea and crece from the
proposed bill, so as to continue them free front
duty.—[Journal House of Representatives 1842-'3,
pp. 390 and 391.] But this subject was so ably
handled, and Col. Po.'s ad captandum objection
so thoroughly exposed by Mr. Mows in his re
sponse to Col. Por.tt on that occasion at Jackson,
Tennessee, that I must beg to call your attention to
jthe extracts from his remarks which I here append:.
and I do so the more earnestly as it gives an insight
into some of the traits of character of the newly-
• made candidate of the Locofocos fur the Presidency.
j Coinciding as Col. Po. does in opinion with
Mr. CALHOUN and the ultra-tariff-free-trade men of
the South in his views on the tariff it is not surpri
sing that they should have been willing to compro
j mists on Min, nor is it at all astonishing to hear that
Messrs. Prcaays and ELMORE, the ministers plen
ipotentiary from South Carolina to Baltimore, al
though refusing to participate in the proceedings of
the Convention, yet, when the nomination was
made, rose up in the Convention and pledged the
Ivote of S. Carolina for Col. POLK. And it now only
remains to be seen whether that large portion of the
Democratic party who believe in the policy and pro
priety of bestowing fair protection upon American
industry, will consent to be handed over without
notice or consultation to the support of a free-trade
horrizontal-tariff advocate, who is the makeshift
candidate of the Baltimore Convention.
Respectfully, yours,
JOAN J. HARDIN, of Illinois.
W►su[aororr, MA! 30, 1844.
" As the extracts here referred to would occupy
more space than we can spare to-day, they are re
served for publication in another paper.
MURLENRERG ' S UNPOPULARITY IN BERRA.-
The Editor of the Miner's Journal states that be
had the assurance of a gentleman conversant with
the fact, that in one district in Berks County, which
generally polls about 200 votes—of which number
the Whig party usually has front 28 to 30, Mulen
berg will not receive more than TWO votes, and
even these two are considered doubtful. Almost
every day we hear of prominent Locofocoa avowing
their determination to oppose him.
(0- The Loco nomination for President is received
in every direction by the Whigs, as the beet joke
of the season—the poor Locos try hard to brave it
out as a capital result, but it is evident that they
consider it as the last throe of their motley party.
Mr. Dallas and the "Fountains from
which he imbibed his Principles.
The Pennsylvanian of yesterday contained an
article laudatory of tisonen M. DALLAS, in which
we find the following:
1. The present Mr. Dallas was almost born in the
atmosphere, and he was entirely educated and
forni,d in the maxims of these great men (Jeffer
son. Madison, Gallatin, Brent, Giles, Nicholas,
Livingston, McKean, &c.) Imbibing his political
principles from such fountains, they have been in
dellible to him. They make part of his nature.—
He never had any other principles. From them he
has never swerved. The leopard could as soon
change his spats. In youth, in manhood, in mature
life, abroad or at home, he has been devoted to them
from conviction and practiced them as a duty."
This we deny, as a base libel on the master spir
its of the pure republican age—as a foul calumny
on those whose names are interwoven with our
national fame, puriety and honor! Froin whatever
fountains Geom. M. DALLAS may have imbibed
Iris political principles in early life--however pure
they may have been originally, they have been sadly
polluted in after years. We have seen chemical
experiments where a perfectly pure liquid having
been adulterated with but a single drop of another
liquid, the entire mass immediately becomes black
and muddy—so with Mr. DAm.vs—loeofocoism
touched the pure doctrines which lie early imbibed.
and since then his principles have been muddy, im
pure and unwholesome. Which of the mighty
fountains contained the germ of the following sen
timents?— which was the pure stream whose wat
ers contained the embryo of such principles as Mr.
DALLAS but a sew years ago announced in a fa
mous, or rather in-famous letter of his l Read and
answer, are these the principles of Jefferson, Gil.,
Madison and Gallatin, or the foetid masma which
exhaled from the cispool of Fanny Wrightism or I
Tammany Hall Locofocohnn ?
Hear Mr. Dallas!
WlLit may a Convention not do ? It
m.y Er-organize our social existence, ter
iinatina and prim, ibing what it deemed
injurimiA, and establisliiin t what it prefer
lA. It might restore the institittion cf
slorery awing us ; it might make u penal
code as bloody as that if Dracco ; it might
withdraw the charters ol our citizens;
it might sup, cede a standing Judiciary
by a scheme of omisional wmp , roge ; it
might prohibit curtain professions or
trades ; it might permanently suspend the
privilege of a writ o/ habeas corpus and
take from us (lei right of trial by jury"
We ask again is it not a base libel, a foul cal
umny to say that the principles of Guilt.: M.
DALLAS are those of the early and venerated foun
ders of the republican school? Would not such
senthuents as are contained in the above extract.
have poisoned and polluted the whole " attnos
phere" it which it is boastfully said he was born
and educated !—Forunt.
Mr. Polk and the Tariff.
The Democratic Union, in its peculiarly chaste
and characteristic manner, takes exception to an ar
ticle in our last paper,
designating a Mr. Polk, ns
0 an open and avowed Free Trade Theorist," and
denounces the charge as a gratuitous assertion, un
supported by authority. The editor goes on to de
ny the charge and says:
Now we happen to know, and state upon the
authority of a Tcnnesseean with whom we conver
sed at Baltimore—a near neighbor of Col. Polk--
that he holds the doctrine of Free Trade in unqual
ified abhorrence. He never had advocated it, and
never will. He is in favor of a judicious revenue
tariff, affording the amplest incidental PROTEC
TION TO AMERICAN INDUSTRY. He is
the especial friend and advocate of the COAL &
IRON INTERESTS. the too great objects of so
licitude with Pennsylvaninns, and believing perma
nence in our laws to he of incalculable value, is op
posed to the disturbance of the existing larff"
Now we happen to have the authority at hand to
sustain our assertions, and to prove that the Union.
notwithstanding the authority of the Tennesseean,'
grossly misrepresents the position of Mr. Polk
upon the Tariff question.
First, we give ,
the declaration of Mr. PAYNE. a
leading Locofoco member of Congress, and an inti
mate personal friend of Mr. Polk, who M perfectly
conversant with his opinions on this subject, uttered
on the floor of the blouse of Representatives no lon
ger ago than on the 3d inst. A debate of a polit
ical character arose in the House, when Mr. Mou
nts of Pa., expressed his gratification that in the
selection of a candidate for President, the opposite
party had named an individual who was opposed to
the protective policy, and in favor of Free Trade.
He was rejoiced that the issue was fairly made.
Mr. PAYNE, of Ala., obtained the floor, and ex
pressed his joy that a candidate had at length been
presented to the American people WHO WAS
OPPOSED 'CO THE INFAMOUS DOCTRINE
OF PROTECTION! Mr. P. believed their was
no power in the country to Protect American
industry.
Mr. MORRIS desired to know if Gov. Polk was
opposed to the Tariff of '421
Mr. Parse took pleasire in stating THAT HE
WAS, AND THAT HE THOUGHT NO TAR
IFF SINCE 1828 SO ODIOUS AS THIS.
Here may be raised to be sure, a question of ve
racity between the Democratic Union! and Mr.
I'ayne. The Union asserts that Mr. Polk is in fa
vor of protection—Mr. I'ayne says that he is not.
The Union says that Mr. Polk is in favor of the
present Tariff—Mr. Payne says he is opposed to it,
and regards it as ODIOUS !
But scondly, we have better authority still for our
assertion, and that is no less than the authority of
JAMES K. Pout himself! In 1943 he was a can
didate for Governor of Tennessee, in which contest
lie was beaten the second time by the gllant JONES.
During this canvass he repeatedly in his speeches
DENOUNCED THE PRESENT TARIFF in
the bitterest terms, and avowed himsel distinctly
OPPOSED TO THE PRINCIPLE OF PRO
'T'ECTION ! For proof of this we refer to ex
tracts from some of the speeches given in a letter in
another column of this day's paper, from Jou9 J.
HARDIN, of Illinois. to Gen. JAM. IRVIN. It will
be seen by those extracts that our assertions so far
from being gratuitous, are sustained by such au
thority as the Union dare not disparage, and will in
vain attempt to explain away. The people of
Pennsylvania will repudiate James K. Polk, as they
will any and every candidate who is opposed to this
great cardinal measure of their prosperity.—Penn
sylvania Intelligeneer.
Van Buranism and Polkofocracy.
The New York Evening Post (the leading Loco
foco paper of that State, if not in the Union,) speak
ing of the late Locofoco National Convention and
scheme by which Mr. Van Duren was defeated,
says There never has been a grosser or more
manifest piece °Quavery transacted:"
The Zioaofoco Party.
The events of week belbre last have produced en
entire revolution in the Locofoco party, and created
a general wonderment and feeling of indignation
in the breast. of the rank and file. New men have
been presented for support, whose nomination was
never dreamed of--Polk !—Dallaa who could
hove believed it ! " Old things are done away, behold
all things have become new." Yen Buren, Calhoun,
Cass, Buchanan, Stewart, and even " Old Tecum
seh; are to be forgotten, and all the political can
vassing—the political intrigue and the political let
ter writing within the last few year., to advance
their claims for the Presidency, goes for nothing:--
Who could have supposed that the once great and
powerful Locofoco party, whose nomination was at
one day almost equivalent to an election, should
have been no thoroughly convinced of the futility
of their effort. in the ensuing canvass, as to agree
by common consent to a virtual declaration of the
wt., hopelessness of their prospect, by the nomina
tion of such men as Polk and Dallas !--O democ
racy !—democracy !--how art thou fallen 1 How
beautifully are thy lofty pretensions and aspiration
"knocked into a three cocked hat."*Pa.l.
Polk and Tree Trade,
The Washington Spectator has immediately over
the nominations of Pont and DALLAS, whom it
warmly supports, the following extract from Cal
houn's letter:
The great popular party is already rallied almost
en /fme around the banner which is leading the
party to its final triumph. The few that still lag,
will soon be rallied under its ample folds. On that
banner is inscribed—FßEE TRADE; LOW DU.
TIES, &c. &c.
This assertion of Mr. CtLuoVN was a prophecy
--the fete that legged, have rallied under the ample
folds of FREE TRADE, Pout and DALLAS. Thin
is the issue, Ponnsylvanians ! " Free Trade with
Polk," against " a Tariff Policy with Clay."--
Choose ye between them—choose, but do not any
after the election, if you are betrayed, that you were
not weekly warned from the columns of our paper
and other Whig prints, Eliot the election of PoLx
would be the repeal of the Tariff of 1842, and the
destruction of the Protective Policy.
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QUI very spendid Mezzotints, full length portraits
of Henry Clay.
WM. G. FURLONG,
At Moore'. Cash and Exchange Store.
Huntingdon, June 12, 1844.
S. Hearsley Henderson,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Huntingdon, Pa.
Office on Main 'greet, one door West of William.
Dorris' Store.
Huntingdon, June 12,1844.