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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
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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.