i A T I 0 •N . •:!.P1 , - 1 ' , l • .. ~ ._...... .. , 3 1 . . 4 3 3 :.,. :s. it , , e t'v •' I I- Ilictiota to (setter ail Intelltnettcr, arit crtioiug, t)otttico,Eittratttmli-lorittito, g.L 4 ctencto, agriculture, imminent, UV., Ut. `ZPea)ll. E2E3M PVIILISHED BY THEODORE H. CREMER, w_Ebasautoazilo3. The aim:maxi." will be published every Wed nesday morning, at $2 00 a year, if paid in advance, and if not paid withili six months, $2 50. No eubscriptim received for a shorter period than eix months, nor any paper discontinued till all ar reamgee are paid. Advertisements not exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for $1 00, and for every subse quent insertion 25 cents. If no definite orders are given as to the time an advertisement is to be continu ed, it will be kept in till ordered out, and charged ac cordingly. INZLO LONG. One Day gust at Set of Sun. Tins —., Git along home ye yaller Cala." One day just at set of sun, When labor ceased its busy hum, I took a walk and heard this tune, Sung glibly by that same old Coon. Olt along home you Loco clique, For your Texas Star's declining; Oit along home you Loco clique, For the Star of the Whigs is shining. There is man in Tennessee Our President he wants to be, We lick'd that virmint twice with Jones, And Harry Clay will break his bones. Git along, dm. Yee, Jimmy Polk he is the man, The Locos took instead of Van ; But Jimmy you can't win the day, For Polk elate never grow in Clay. Git along, &c. The Locos think they have us slick ; They think on Polk to make no sick, But they ll find out, and that right soon, That Polk juice will not hurt this Coon. Git along, &c. You'd better koep your Polk away, Or we will cover him o'er with Clay ; The Coon will never atop or baulk, nut oat up borrica, Polk and Stalk. Git along, &c. There is old • Cave, he's just returned From Washington, as you've all learned, Ho tried ono day this Coon to tree, But he got lick'd by Guss Henry. Git along,.&c. Now Cave, just take this Coon's advice, You've tried it once, don't try it twice, For if you ever raise a fuss, We'll send you right down for our t Gass, Git along, &c. And Captain Tyler much does yearn, To keep his seat a second trim, But Captain you must "crawfish" soon, Now murk the words of this here Coon. Git along, d:c. But right down here in Old Kcntuck, If this old Coon has any luck, We'll find a wan to gain the day, And who will stick as tight as Clay. Git along, &c. Yes, give on Harry of the West, Thr truest, unseat and the beet, And then if things don't mend right soon, Then take the hide of this old Coon. Gil along, arc. We have a man you all know well, And he will call his name John Bell ; And when you get him wide awake, •Oh 1 how hell make your Polk stalk shake, Cit along, &c. The people say 'tie not surprisin, We go for Clay and Frelinghuysen, The ship of state needs no such ballast, As James K. Polk and George M. Dallas. Git along, &c. With Prelinghuysen and our Cloy, We all intend to win the day, And never, never, wear the yoke Of George M. Dallas and James K. Polk. Git along, &c. Now to you ladies, blocs your souls, Oh! send your husbands to the polls, And as they go be sure to say, "Do vote, my dear, Harry Clay." Git along, &c. And to the girls throughout the land, Do mind to whom you give your hand ; And before you set the wedding day, must make them swear to vbte for Clay. Git along, &c. • Cave Johnson. t G. A. Henry. The great Nashville Convention. The Nashville (Tennessee) Gazette, a neutral paper gives a brief 'Tema of the great Whig Convention held there on the Vet ult. From the accounts given it far exceeded the locofoco Folk Convention held the week before. 'rho Gazette says: 44 Never did such a mass of citizens form in pro cession in any of our Western States, if in the Union. On the ground, from the beat of our judg ment, there must have been in the neighborhood of THIRTY-FIVE or FORTY THOUSAND. The Nashville Whig gives a glowing account of the arrival of the delegations, the various manifes tations made by the uniformed volunteer cornpardes, the numerous speeches, and other enlivening scenes of the day. Hon. John BELL, presided over the Convention, and l ion. S. S. Prentiss, of Miss., and others addressed the immense assemblage. The Convention was a glorious affair, such as might have been expected of the true-hearted Whigs of Tennessee, and furnished ample assurance that neither feelings of State pride, Annexation of Texas, ar .anything else can deprive HENRY ()LAY of the eleetoral rote of Tennessee! Zi_=-)elaQ aUE3 0 gaCE342,41. From the Nashville (Tenn.) Whig. The New and Old Issues. The Texas " humbug" is fast passing to the " tomb of the Capulets." President Tyler's ap peal to the House of Representatives will be unable to give it new life. Tho Capital our democratic opponents expected to make out of it will be dead capital. Prue to their political faith and firm in their adherence to the principles which they profess, and for which they successfully contended in three successive battles, the whigs enter upon the con test burning with the ardent zeal that inspired them in 1840-41 and '43. Those among them who, led astray by impulse of feeling, were favorable to immediate annexation, have, upon more mature re flection, and examination of the subject, come to the conclusion, that their first impressions were er roneous. They are perfectly willing to trust the whole matter to Mr. Clay—a man whose reputation as a statesman and friend of liberty fills this broad continent—whose name is as familiar as -"house hold words" to the furtherest verge of South Amer ica. They feel assured that under his auspices an nexation will be accomplished, whenever it can be done without violating the faith of treaties, or im pairing the national honor. The project of immediate annexation, so much insisted upon, having been decisively settled by the vote of the Senate, locnfoco orators, much as they may dislike to meet the question ust return to the old issues—to those matters of national policy which vitally concern the country at large—they will not be permitted to place the issuu of the con teat upon on isolated, and what will soon be an obsolete question—they must meet the doctrine of protection, or encouragement of domestic manu factures, of home industry—of the distribution of the sales of the public lands—a sound national cur rency—the restraint upon the executive power and .patronage—and their favorite doctrine of the "one man power," which they learned to praise under President Jackson, and which praise they have con tinued under President Tyler, until they have made him believe, like Louis XIV„ "I am tire State." By shifting their old leaders and taking up " a new pair" who are scarcely known beyond the limits of their respective States, they need not expect to aban don old subjepts of discussion and controversy, and plant themselves upon a new one, such as Texas, as if the salvation of the country and the preserva tion of civil liberty depended upon the issue. In this avowed hostility to the present tariff, and to the principle of protection, Gov. Polk has raised a Artier which he will find it difficult to overleap. With regard to the present tariff he has shown himself a false prophet—he has shown that with all the political sagacity which his friends ascribe to him, he was totally mistaken in its operation. In stead of " shutting out imports" and " cutting off and diminishing the revenue," the imports, and consequently, the revenue, have greatly increased, so that at the port of New York alone, during the first five months of the present year, the amount of duties exceeded by five and a hay millions, the amount received during the corresponding period of the last year. One great object of locofocoism is the over throw of the present Tariff; and in the election of Gov. Folk they wilt find a willing, if not a very able, auxiliary. To the present tariff, and to any tariff which will raise any of the dutieson imported articles higher than 20 per cent, he has declared his uncompromising hostility. With his open and avowed hostility to the protective policy, how can the manufacturing States, with any regard to con sistency, support his nomination ? How can any noon who regards the prosperity of his country, con sent to the elevation of one to the Chief Magistracy who would prostrate one of great instruments of that prosperity ? That the country in its whole extent . has been greatly benefitted by the erection and ex tension of manufactures, none will deny. unless they be absolutely blinded to passing events; :hey cannot but know and feel "the diflbrence," as re marked by the New York Express, " between the state of things, as it regards the public prosperity un der the present tariff. and that which existed pre ", viously to the establishment of that system." To a system thus productive of good, to the farmer, the manufacturer, the mechanic, and the merchant, Gov. Polk is opposed. Are the people, we ask, willing to advance to the Presidency a man thus adverse to their interests ? Tan GAME or BuAo.—A noisy locofoco of this city has been for about a week past loudly offering to bet $l,OOO that New Jersey would go for Polk. Yesterday morning a young whig (who, by the way, not long since renounced locofocoism) went to the residence of this bossing loco, and proposed to plank down the cool thousand!' The loco not only refused to bet, but threatened to kick the young tvhig out of his house. This is another illustration of locofocoism. The friends of Polk and Dallas understand "the game of brag'--they are the first to offer to bet, but when their propositions are ac cepted, they immediately " tly into a passion V—Fo rum. FACINATION AND FEAR.-A correspondent of the Journal of Commerce tells tho following anec dote: I once in a forest watched for a few moments a striped squirrel crawling slowly towards the open jaws of a hideous rattle snake, which lay stretched across the road, in the path my horao was travelling. A second thought induced me to cease idly gazing, and at once dismounting, I cut a long pole, drove the reptile (ruin the path, and took the squirrel in my hand without its attempting to escape; but it died in a few minutes, although not within ten feet of the serpent. From the Nashville (Tenn.) Whig. Col. Polk and the Tariff. One of the most barefaced and outrageoda mis representations for political effect we recollect to have met with, is the following from the Harrisburg Democratic Union, which we find in the Republi can Banner of the 21st ult.: We happen to know, and state upon the author ity of a Tennessean with whom we conversed at Baltimore— , 4 near neighbor of Col. Polk—that he holds the doctrines of Free Trade in unqualified abhorrence. HE NEVER HAS ADVOCATED IT. AND NEVER WILL. He is in favor of a judicious revenue tariff affording the amplest inci dental PROTECTION TO AMERICAN IN DUSTRY. He is the especial friend and advocate of the COAL AND IKON INTEREST, those two great objects of solicitude with Pennsylvanians, and believ,ing PERMANENCE in our laws to be of incalculable value, is opposed to the disturbance of the existing tariff. These facts we state upon the very best authority, and caution the Democracy of this great State against listening to the misrepre sentations of the coons?' The assertions contained in the foregoing para. graph aro known to every friend of Gov. Polk in this State to be utterly false. We do not know that he has ever directly and openly supported the doctrine of FREE TRADE, as the term is generally understood, but this we do know; that he has at all times BEEN OPPOSED TO THE PROTEC TIVE POLICY. His own language in relation to the present tariff is "I am opposed to the act of 1842, not regarding it to be a revenue tariff, but in many of its provis ions HIGHLY PROTECTIVE ANII OPPRESSIVE IN ITS CHARACTER. lam in favor of the restoration of the Compromise act of 1833." The Nashville Union, one of the favorite and leading organs of Gov. Polk, holds the following language, which the people of Pennsylvania, fur whose special use the foregoing paragraph from the Democratic Union was concocted, should ponder. Let them compare these passages, and ace how far they agree. " We wish it borne in mind, that the oppressive ' tariff of 1842 has been condemned by every true Democrat, and by none more decidedly than Mr. Van Buren. That its provisions are viewed with abhorrence by Gov. Polk andel' his friends we need not repeat." Gov. Polk is " opposed to the disturbance of the existing tariff!" says this "near neighbor of Gov. Polk." "1 ant in favor of REPEALING THAT ACT" (the act of 1842) says Gov. Polk himself, in iris reply to certain queries addressed to him from Memphis. NOW who is most to be relied upon, the Ex-Governor himself, or his "near neighbor?" However Gov. Polk's opinions in relation to the protective policy, and the existing tariff may be represented in other States to gull those who are in favor• of protection, it is well known ill this State, that he is opposed to the policy of protection, and that this opposition formed the burthen of his speeches during the last Gubernatorial Canvass.— The present tariff he denounced as a bill of abom inations, and it has been from time to time assailed in the most bitter terms 6y the leading organs of his party, as the " black tariff." How then can his "near neighbor" say that he is in favor of a tariff, "affording the amplest incidental protection to American Industry," and that he is the ESPECIAL FRtgND and ADVOCATE of the Cosi. and trios IN. TEnEST? We have frequently heard him speak on the subject of the tariff, bait was always in terms of violent denunciation. If he has ever declared himself the "especial friend and adiocate of the coal and iron interest," it must have been very re cently when his aspiring hopes led him to think the Presidency was within his grasp. His friends may endeavor to modify his opinions in relation to the tariff in order to suit particular sections of the country, but his doctrines on this subject stand up on record, and cannot be obliterated. They may represent that he is in favor of the amplect inci dental protection," but his own words will rise in judgment against him—. I AN OPPOSED TO A TAR. IFP FOB PROTECTION " -...1 HAVE AT ALL TIMES BEEN OPPOSEDTO THE PROTEC TIVE POLICY." From the U. S. Gazette. General Markle. Wo observe our opponents, the allies of the Southern, Free Trade " Democrats," aro raising the cry of e/dShunk" in various parts of the State.— Why he is thus designated, unless it be with the view of bringing him down, as it were, to the level of the great mass, we cannot divine. Mr. Shank may be in the sere and yellow loaf of life; his head may be frosted an white as the top of Mount Blanc, and yet we do not know that ho is any better or worse for his age—he may be more venerable, but not less able to discharge properly whatever pub lic duties the people of Pennsylvania may think proper to impose upon him. We have nothing to say against Mr. Shank—we leave personal war fare to our opponents, who appear to be fend of it, and who seem to be provided with full quivers of poisoned arrows, which they shower upon CLAY, FOOLINUIRTTLIEN, and MAntrLa. In speaking of the latter, our opponents say that he is not known. Wo admit that he is not notori ous ; he has not made himself known to the people of this state, by standing at the public crib and feeding at their expense. He has not become no torious for accumulating large sums of money by moans of contracts upon the public works. and the etceteras attending them. He has not made him self known by hanging around Harrisburg during the sessions of the Legislature, and acting ae a borer for all sorts of companies that would pay him - Y , , . bountifully. No: he is not known—that is, not to the politicians—not to those who congregate every winter at Harrisburg, and manage not only to be come known, but to thrive by doing so. He is not known to those who " cut and dry" every thing for the people, politically, and save them the trouble of thinking about public affairs, or of forming public opinion—kindly taking all that upon themselves without any extra charge. He is not known to those who have been too busily engaged in atten ding to the affairs of the people to read the history of the last war, or to make themselves acquainted with the part taken in it by Pennsylvania's sone. But let us ask, who knew Gen. Jacob Brown, before he was placed in command of some New York militia, and made his mark, like Captain Markle, upon the enemies of his country Who knew Gen. Green, when he took off his blacksmith's apron, and volunteered to fight the British I For ourselves, we do not believe notoriety is a necessary qualification of a Governor of Pennsylvania. We prefer honesty, good sense, and sound discretion. We prefer a plain, unsophisticated farmer, with such qualities, to a man versed in all the skill in political manouvering and strategy which can be acquired by years of residence at Harrisburg, where those arts are said to be practised to perfection.— We may be somewhat singular in this respect; the honest yeomanry of the State may prefer a different sort of a man—a thorough bred politician—one who will preservehings as they are, touch no abuses, abate no corruptions, reform no bad prac tices, by which the State has become deeply invol ved in debt and the people saddled with heavy taxes; we doubt it, however. We believe they are willing to try a plain, honest, uhhackneyed man, whose sole object will be to re-establish the honor and and credit of the State, by providing means to meet , promptly, her engagements, and eventually of re ducing her debt .by establishing her credit upon a firm and immovable basis, and then procuring loans at reduced rates of interest to pay off those at high rates. 'We have ho doubt but General Markle would accomplish this—not alone, but by the effi cient aid that would be at his command. Place the whigs in power, and they would go to work in good earnest to restore the credit of the State, and relieve the people eventually of their present oner ous burden of taxation. It would be worth while, at least..r try them—to make the experiment; if they did net fulfil the expectations of the people, their opponents could then be restored to power, and allowed to gorge themselves once more at the public expense; it would only be transferring a portion of the tax payers' earnings from their own to the pockets of a favored few, and if the tax pay ers themselves were content, surely no ono else need to complain of such a transfer of the deposites, except the creditors of the State, who are thereby defrauded of their just dues. But Gteneral Markle is known, respected and es teemed, by the people of the western portion of the State, among whom he has lived ; and , oy them, at least, he will be supported with a zeal and ardor that will show the high estimation in which they hold him; and if the middle, northern, and east ern counties of the State will but second the efforts of the whigs of the western counties, as we trust they will, he cannot fail of being elected by a very hand some majority. We trust they will not overlook the importance of carrying the State at the October election. Markle's election will give us an easy victory in November. Do your duty, whigs— your tvhole duty, and all will be well. Let it not be said that you might have elected your Governor —elect him, OZROULAtt. It has been suggested, that after the 25th of Sep tember, a substitution by the Whigs, of Township meetings in place of mass meetings would be ad vantageous. It is certainly desirable that a meeting should be held in every Township in the State before the second Tuesday in October. There never was so much at stake in Pennsylvania upon the re sult of an election, and there never wore means re• sorted to, of a character so extraordinary as are em ployed by our opponents. A false issue is made up, anti a most disrespectful appeal is made, addressed to the ignorance and credulity of the people, to sustain that false issue. It is certainly the first, and it will probably be the last, attempt to carry an elec tion upon the bold assertion and maintainance of such a position as truth, It is an insult offered to the intelligence of a community—to tell them that James K. Polk ever was, or is now, in favor of a Tariff for protection. He himself has always de clared to the contrary—in his speeches, his letters, and by his vote? The people will most certainly rebuke the attempt. The Whigs rely upon the sound Democratic prin ciple, that the People cannot and will not be deceiv ed. Their adversaries areabout to try the exper iment—how far deception can be practised.— And on the second Tuesday in October the contest is to lie decided by the voters at the ballet-boxes.— It belongs to the people to decide it, and the Whigs have entire confidence they will, decide it rightly. It is earnestly reccomiuended that Township meetings be held in every township in the Stale, in artier to consult together, to ascertain the truth, that the voters may be enabled confidently to decide which party is attempting to impose upon the pea plc-. By order of the State Central Committee. JOHN REED, Chairman. The people say that Jimmy Polk Can't go down with the tariff folk." Ilarrison's Opinion of Markle. The Pittsburg Gazette contains ►he following communication frcra a responsible source. Mr. Warrs :—Being at Washington city, in March, 1841, I was accosted in Pennsylvania Av enue, by my old friend, Major Jame. Moorehead, of Westmoreland county, then at the seat of Govern ment on business connected with his mail contract.. He was going with some friend, whose name I do not remember, to pay his respects to Gen. Harrison, and pursuaded me to accompany him to the White House. We were promptly shown into the President's reception room and in a few minutes were joined by the venerable and good Harrison, who readily recognized Maj. Moorehead, from meeting him a few weeks before at Pittsburg, and (what I thought quite remarkable) also recognised me, from having spent but a few minutes together at Lawrenceburg, Indiana in the previous October. We all knew how much the President was necessarily occupied at the beginning of his administration, and remained with him but a few minutes exceedingly pleased with the ease and republican simplicity of his manners and conversation during the interview—but especially impressedawith the manner of his allusion to Gen. Markle, our present candidate for Governor. As soon as the usual civilities of our reception were passed, the President remembered that Gen. Markle was a neighbor of Moorehead's, and inquired in the most friendly and solicitous manner after his health --and when we were about withdrawing, charged Maj. Moorehead to renew to Gen. Markle the invi tation he had given him at Pittsburg, to visit him at Washington; and, said the good 01/ soldier. "Tell MARKLE when he comes to Waal and encamp at Me White House, gether uncl;r the same blanket in ern swamps, and he is as worthy oj I am." I thought the complimer beautiful and ao Characteristic: that get it. : Maj. Moorehead, if he see! doubtless corroborate my account and the people of Pennsylvania wi Markle r;one the less for 'the love with which he was regarded by the ted Harrison; than whom no one knew hint "Dlr. Clay under Bond The New York Tribune nye :—There be' end to the falsehoods and slanders with which Mr. Clay is assailed, we do not mean to cliace them up any farther, but to offer a refutation whenever it comes in our way. Here is an extinguisher on the slander that Mr. Clay is under bonds to prevent his seeking a duel with Hon. William R. King. It is from Hon. S. S. Phelps, U. S. Senator from Ver mont, who was a witness to the whole difference between Messrs. Clay and King—a diffeMnce, by 'the way which has since been entirely effaced from their minds, and they are now cordially friendly : _ Middlebury, Vt. July 23, 1844. DEAR Stn: The circumstances of the affair be tween Mr. Clay and Mr. King, about which so much has been said, are briefly these: In the course of a debate in the Senate upon some subject—l do not remember what—the die cussion assumed a party character. Mr. King of Alabama rose and proceeded to indulge in some very pointed arid harsh remarks in relation to Mr. Cloy. The precise tenor of these remark. I cannot attempt to rehire, but they struck me at the time not only as a departure from Mr. King's usual gen tlemanly manner, but as unprovoked and uncalled for. bo much so, indeed, as to excite in me a sus picion that Mr. King's equanimity had been dis turbed by something of which I was ignorant. I am confident that Mr. Clay hail indulged in no previous personality to provoke or justify the re marks of Mr. King. After King sat down Cloy rose, evidently much excited, and responded. He closed what he had to say with a remark in substance, that the course of Mr. King was ungentlemanly and cowardly. Upon hearing this expression Mr. King seized his pen and attempted to write something which I supposed must be a challenge. he was, however, too much excited to write. Ile-threw down the pen and remarked that he would not reply, hut in timated that he should notice the matter in another way. I hie collision between these two gentlemen, of course, excited such feeling, more especially an a challenge from Mr. King was expected from all aides. The magistracy of the city, however, took the matter in hand, and, with a view to prevent the challenge, Mr. King was put order bonds to keep the peace. And with a view to prevent the accept ance of it, should one be given, Mr. Clay was put mpler bonds also. Indeed it would have been in vidious to place Mr. King in that position without putting Mr. Clay in it also. No challenge ever pas sed. Through the interference of friends the chili , culty was adjusted—a public explanation took place in the Senate, and there, matters ended. Nobody expected that Mr. Clay would give a challenge. It was expected from Mr. King. Yet the Locofticos have endeavored to throw the whole odium upon Mr. Cloy. Very respectfully yours, S. S. PHELPS, E. FAIRBANKS, Esq. Who Texas Humbug. The Saratoga Republican, a Locofoco paper put, fished at the Spiings, gives its opinion of the Tex inn policy of Locofocoism in the following strain. The extract refers to the returns from North Caro lina: "There can be no possible doubt, we repeat, that the State has gone for the Whigs, both the Gurer nor and the Legislature ; and if this is an indication of the state of parties in North Carolina, the electo ral vote of the State may be set down fur Henry Clay. Those who were instrumental in defeating the nomination of Mr. Van Buren, on the ground that the candidate in favor of annexation could carry the whole South, must begin to discover their mistake, and will learn that our northern .interests are not strong enough to sever the ties which bind together the supporters of Mr. Clay, and that very few, if any, Whig votes will be changed by the nomination of Mr. Polk." Why is a lady like a blacksmiths apron I Because it catches the sparks. \-",StatICIDaOIS) EZYCZ). diaet;ig2., Democratic Tariff Meeting. VOICE OF DICKINSON TOIVNSIIIP, 0 UMBE BLAND COUNTY. At a large and respectable meeting of the Demo crats of Dickinson township, friendly to the Tariff of 1842, held pursuant to notice, at Trego's Tavern, on Saturday the Slat of August, dues Moons, President—Capt. Jacob Cheencll, Henry Lind'. Jacob Plyler, Peter Uts, Philip Perim, John Mc' Kinney, and Henry Smith, Vice Presidentii—Mar tin Snyder, Secretary—the following proceedings were had. The Committee appointed at the former meeting to address a letter to the lion. JAMUS K. POLK, make report that they have addressed the following communication to Mut; that live weeks have since elapsed, and that no reply has been received : Carlisle, July 22, 1844. Hon. him K. PULL, o llp ear Sir:—At a meeting of the Dem neon Township, of this (Cumberlan , a.,) the undersigned per sons Were ap a committee, to address , you on the subject of the Tariff, and enquire lat. Ale you in favor of the Tariff of 1542. Id. Would you if elected support that act as it is, without modification; or would you be in favor of modifying it. With every desire to support and uphold the Democratic nominees, we moat respectfully request a distinct and positive answer to the above intoner. atorie. Very sincerely, Your most obd't., , JOHN MYERS, BENJAMIN PEFFER. Whereupon the following preamble and resolu tions were unanimously agreed to, as the declared sentiments of the meeting. We profess to belong to the democratic party, and we cherish the principles of that party, as taught to us in the lessons of our youth and the reflections and practices of our store mature years:—we cher ish them as sure safeguards of our republican inirti lotions and a certain guarantee of political freedom —we cherish them, more especially, because they are true and the only system by which practical ef fect is given to the opinion*, wishes and interests of the people. Our intimate connection and ling habits sf association with the members of that party cause us to look with more unfeigned regret upon the false position in which it is placed. undo lain a Tariff for the protection of American industry is at thie moment the most interesting and desirable principle which occupies the minds of the people of Pennsylvania, and it is the almost universal desire and wish of the democratic party to support and maintain it: and yet accident or perhaps design has thrown us into the false position of being obliged to abandon our principles or vote for a man for the highest oflice of the government who is directly op posed to the hopes, wishes and intereets of the dem, ocratic party. We arc determined that we will do neither. Is taking the important step which we are shout to do, it is respectful to our democratic friends, with whom we have heretofore acted, that we should declare the reasons which impel us to this course. We look upon a permanent and protective tariff, one which will give security to free American lahor against the influence of British pauper labor, and the ingenuity with which it is used by the English Gov ernment to break down our agricultural and manu facturing capital, es the most important political in terest which the people of Pennsylvania now have, and one which is advocated by some tenths of the democratic journals of the time. The lion.Jsmza K. Potts, the candidate of the party, has declined to answer our respectful inquiry upon this subject, from which our worst fears with regard to his opin ions have been realized. The declarations front his own mouth are stronger proof to us of the spin. ion. of Mr. Polk, than the declarations of design ing men who would gain our votes, secure their offices, and sacrifice us. Can we as Pennsylvanians, can we as democrats support the man, who is thus hostile to all our views, all our principles? NV bat can we hope from an administration such as his would he The hand of destruction would be laid upon us, and wo would again be brought to the footstool of British influence and power, and live by the labor of British hands We cannot, we will not sacrifice all wo hold dear on earth to maintain tho pride of a party name. Therefore, Resolved, That we cannot support the election of James K. Polk to the Presidency of the United States, because he is opposed to a tariff of protection. Resolved, That we feel the moat earnest desire and anxious wish to preserve the purity of tho democratic party : and that we are most firmly con vinced, that deigning men have now placed the party in that false position of giving support to a man whu is hostile to then principles and their in terests. Resolved, That we call earnestly and anxiously upon the Democratic party of Pennsylvania, indi vidually and collectively, to look seriously to the attitude iu which they are placed, and view the de ments of destruction which now threaten to pros trate them na a party, and to sacrifice the interests of the country. [Annipso,ymitted for went of room.] Resolved that these proceedings be published in the county papers. TeZr. Clay's Neighbors. What a blush of shame ought now to mantle the cheeks of the vile traducers of Mt. Clay I—With all the influence which the baseness of his enemies could bring to bear against hint, his own neighbors have given the Whigs a majority of 720, being s gain over the vets of 1840 of 111. Wnere now are Gen. M Calla and old Bob Wickliffe? FayeUe has spoken in a voice which cannot be misunder stood; her verdict of condemnation against these bitter revilers of the pure and honest Statesman of the West, has gone forth in terrible and thundering tom em, and if they are nut wholly incorigible, as we. suspect they are, they will hide themselves income private retreat and not again appear, before their outraged fellow citizen. at least, until after the rrosidential election.
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