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Our flag is there ! our flag is there !
We'll hail it with three loud huzzas !
Our flag is there! our flag is there!
Behold its glorious stripes and stars!"
FOIt PRESIDENT,
JAMES K. POLK,
"TOU.NQ HICKORY" OF TENNESSEE.
FOR VICE rtKSIDENT,
GEO. M. DALLAS,
OF PENNSYLVANIA. '
ELECTORAL TICKET.
SENATORIAL.
JosErsi II. Larwill, of Wayne,
Dowty Utter, of Clermont.
CONGRESSIONAL,
1st District Ci-atton Webb, of Hamilton,
2d
3d
James M. Doksev, of Duike,
R. D. Foreman, of Green,
Judge John Taylor, of Champaign,
David Higoins, of Lucas,
Gilbert Beach, of Wood,
John D. White, of Brown,
Thomas Meoiiaov, of Itoss,
Valentine Keefur, of Pickaway,
James Parker, of Lickinsc,
Crenvili.e P. Cherry, of Marion,
George Corwine, of Scioto,
Caution C. Covey, of Morgan,
Isaac M. Banning, of Guernsey,
Walter Jamison, of Harrison,
Sebastian Brainard, of Tuscarawas,
James Forbes, senior, of Carroll,
Neal M'Coy, of Wayne,
Milo Stone, of Summit,
Benjamin Adams, of Lake,
Stephen N. Saroent, of Medina.
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FOR GOVERNOR OF OHIO,
I AVI1 TOD, of Trumbull.
HARRISON COUNTY
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
REPRESENTATIVE,
CHARLES WARP EL.
AUDITOR,
JOHN SHARP.
RECORDER,
MATTHEW M. SLOAN.
COMMISSIONER,
Col. DAVID FINNICUM.
DIRECTOR OF THE POOR,
JACOB IIINES.
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THE CADIZ SENTINEL.
EDITED BY L. HARPEB.
"HE ISA FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE."
CADIZ, OHIO:
WEDNESDAY MORJWtG, JULY 17, 1811.
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05" We republish the cull of llio Executive
Committee, of the Democratic p:irty of Harrison
county, for township meetings, to appoint dele
gates to a Congressional Convention, at Morns
town, and a Scmtorial Convention at such place
as m;iy be hereafter designated. Wc trust our
democratic friends in the country will not fail to
attend these meetings, and at the same lime, let
them efficiently organize in each township in the
county, if they have not already effected an or
ganization, take up their arms like good soldiers,
and never lay them down until victory perches
upon our standard. We feel confident, th it wc
can carry Harrison county this fill, but to do so
we must not slumber at our ports. Deinocints,
work work WORK !
DEMOCRATS AXIQUSE
AND ORGANIZE FOR THE CONTEST!
OUR SISTER COUNTIES ARE MOVING IN
THE GOOD CAUSE;
Therefore, the Democratic Central Committee of Har
rison county, would earnestly call on the Democracy
of the several townsliipsin this County, to hold meetings
in their respective townships, on Saturday, the 3d day
of August next, at 2 o'clock P. M. of said day, at the
usual place of holding elections, or at such other places
as they may designate, for the purpoee of appointing
two delegates to meet with delegates to be appointed
by the counties of Belmont and Monroe, in Congrcs
ional District Convention, at Morristown, at such
timo as may be fixed on by said counties, for the pur
pose of nominating a democratic candidate in Congress,
for the 15th Congressional district, composed of the
Counties of Monroe, Belmont and Harrison and that
they also at the sume time appoint two other delegatus
in each Township to meet with delegates to bo appoin
ted by the Democracy of Jeflerson county, in Senatori
al district Convention, at such time and placo as may
be agreed upon by Central Committees of Jefferson and
Harrison Counties, for the purpose of nominating a dem
ocratic candidate to be supported at the ensuing elec
tion, for Senator in the State Legislature. It is hoped
that the above call will be promptly attended to ns it is
important for the interest of Harrison county that she
should have a full delegation in each of the above con
templated conventions. Let every Democrat turn out
to the township meetings, and appoint delegates that
will be sure to attend tho convention to which they lire
specially appointed.
N. B. It is expected that tho Congressional Conven
tion will be held at Morristown, on Thursday, the 8th
day of August next, at 1 o'clock P. M. but of the pre
cise time the Delegates will be duly notified, by the time
of holding the Township Meetings,
WM. MILLIGAN.l
Executive
Committee.
jno. McNeill,
j. r. hunter,
J. McGONAGLE.
The Prospect in Maine. The Augusta Ago
of tho 14th ultimo says: " Wo have heard du
ring the week from all soctions of the State
The republican spirit in Maino is thoroughly
aroused.' Polk and Dallas will sweep the State
by not less than 10,000 mnjority. The murder
er of Jonathan Cilley can never carry Maine.
(She will have nothing to do with " the man of the
frloody hand." Mark tho prediction!"
, . Two columns of Advertisements have
been crowded out of this day's paper.
VIRGINIANS IN OHIO.
Federal Meeting Free Trade The Tarif
Federal misrepresentation and duplicity expo-
tea Ifpinionn of James A. Folk and Henry
Clay How the Whig Tariff ruin our far
mersfacts and figures Texan What Ho
race Greely says about the uObscurityn of
James K. Polk Refutation of an infamous
libel on Gov. Polk's ancestors James K.
Polk the friend and advocate of old Soldiers''
right, proven by the Journals of Congress
Mordecai Hartley and other federal coons, op
posed to the scar-worn trtcrans who fought
our Bailies.
A COUPLE OF COOXS SKIAXED!
" Tho earth hath bubbles as the ocean has,
And these are of them." imkspeare.
" Who knows to what their ribaldry may run,
When asses such aa these, like liaalum's, prate."
The Clay coons of our good town of Cadiz,
believing that their own orators were not profi
cients in tho art of dealing out humbuggeiy and
falsehood, imported a couplo of long-eared ani
mals from Wheeling, named Titt3 and Russell.
These persons addressed the Clay Club' at the
Court House, on last Friday evening. We have
in our time listened to the most reckless federal
speakers that ever attempted to enlighten the
country on the beauties of coonery, but we must
confess that this yoke of coons from the Old Do
minion, rather exceeded any persons we have
heard lately, in dealing out sophistry and non
sense, falsehood and flummery. Mr. Pitts, the
more decent of the two, if any distinction could
be made, spoke first, and at onco mounted the
favorite federal hobby of a "Protective Tariff."
He commenced by asserting a downright false
hood, based his argument on false premises,
drew forth false deductions, and consequently
arrived at false conclusions. Ho asserted that the
democratic party were the advocates of Free
Trade, and that James K. Folic, our candidate
for President, is a Free Trade champion. This
charge is utterly destitute of truth, and we defy
Mr. Pitts, or any other federal orator, to produce
the proof, either from the proceedings of demo
cratic meetings, the speeches of democratic
members of Congress, or the writings and
speeches of James K. Polk. It is the easiest
tiling in the world to make assertions, and reck
less federal politicians deal in little else. Pos
sibly there may bo a few individuals, and these
few not confined to any one party, who aro op
posed to even a Tariff for Revenue who think
that the fabricks of all foreign nations should be
admitted fee of duty, and that the amount of
money nccossary to defray the expenses of Gov
ernment, should ho raised by direct taxation.
But. wc opine that the persons who hold such
sentiments, are few and far between, and are
not found in one party more than another. '
Both tho democratic and whig parties are the
advocates of a taiilT; but with this difference:
the Democrats are in favor of such a tax or ta
riff being imposed on foreign imposts, as will af
ford sufficient revenue to defray the expenses of
an economical administration of the General
Government. We contend, and rightly too, as
experience has proven, that such a tariff is all
that is needed, and will necessarily afford inci
dental protection to all American interests.
The federal party in the North, go farther than
this. They advocate what they call " a Protec
tive Tariff" -that is, that tho interests of the
wealthy manufacturers of the country must be
specially looked after, and that it is right and
proper for Congress to single out one class of
men, and legislate money into their already
well rilled coffers. But Mr. Pitts, instead of:
dwelling upon these incontrovertible facts, made
an issue which does not really exist, prepared a
man of straw, and battled him with as much va
lor as over Don Quixote exhibited in his memo-'
ranlo encounter with the windmi ll And Mr.
Pitts did not tell his auditors Mr. Clay's views
in regard to a tariff--oh, uo! That was entirely
too unimportant a matter! He knows full'wcll that
Mr. Clay has been playing a deep and deceitful
game on the tariff question. In tho South, Clay
s supported on the ground that lie is claimed to
be "moio of a free trade man than Mr. Van
Bnren." In the North, he is supported because
he is for a high protective tariff; and in tho West,
he is supported, because it is said he is in favor
of a horizontal tariff; that is, a tariff without dis
crimination, somewhat like the Compromise Act,
with uniform duties of 20 per centum. Mr.
Pitta will find it an up-hill business to convince
the honest farmers of Harrison county, that the
policy of Mr. Clay and tho whigs will have a ten
dency to increase the price of their grain. It is
well known that tho whig tariff of 1812, had the
effect of causing a retaliatory protective tariff to
bo passed by the Canadian Parliament, &. the best
wheat market wo have ever had, for the farmers
of this region, and tho country immediately
west of this, has been entirely shut up. The ta
bles will show that comparatively littlo wheat is
now shipped to Canada, through tho Ohio Canal,
Now, to convince these long-eared federal dan
dies, who came over from Virginia to preach ser
mons on a tariff, that our present protective ta
riff has injured our farmers, we will present
some figures, and " figures cannot lie." From
tho reports of tho Board of Public . Works for
the years 1811 and 1813, we have obtained the
following facts. We challenge a denial:
Table showing the number of bushels of wheat
shipped from thefollowing places on the Ohio
canal,for the years 1811 and 1843, for Cleve
land: 1811.
Columbus, (bushels) 54,855
Newark, do 400,778
1813. Dechk.uk.
24,801 20,901
201,510
209,477
(504,210
lt)7,010
47,738
20,210
159,208
Dover, do
Massillon, do
Akron, do
Circleville, do
Chillicothc, do
31)0,370
812,450
237,503
00,155
(52,084
0,000
148,211
40,547
12,117
30,471
Falling offat the above places, 430,831
Farmers of Ohio! look at this! At seven
villages alone, the falling off in tho single article
of wheat is nearly half a million of bushels!
What a glorious protection to wheat growers.
How they are benefitted by a tariff.
We whall now give our readers Mr. Polk's
views on the tariff question, and contrast them
with those of Mr. Clay. Mr. Clay in his letter
to Mr. Merriwether of Georgia, says he never
was in favor of a high tariff; and in his speech
in Congress, on the 21st of January, 1812, as
reported in the National Intelligencer, he said,
" Carry out the spirit of the Compromise Act.
Look to revenue alone for tho support of Gov
ernment. Do not raise the question of protec
tion, which I had hoped had been put to rest.
THERE IS NO NECESSITY OF PROTEC
TION FOR PROTECTION." We shall now
quote further from this Janus-faced politician, this
duellist and writer of challenges, who is making a
crazy effort to get himself made President of the
United Stales. The following is an extract from
Mr. Clay's great speech at Raleigh, as published
in the wlrg papers:
" We must reject both the doctrines of free trade and
of a high and exhorbitant tariff". The partizans of each
must make some sacrifices of their peculiar opinions.
They must find some common ground, on which both
can stand, and reflect that, if neither has obtained all
that it de3ires, it has secured something, and what it
does not retain has been gotten by its friends and
countrymen. There are very few whodissen! from the
opinion that in time of peace, the federal revenue ought
to be drawn from foreign imports, without resorting to
internal taxation. Here is a basis lor accommodation,
and mutual satisfaction. Let the amount, which is re
quisite for an economical administration of the Govern
ment, when wc are not en-rased in war. be raised ex
clusively on foreign imports, and in adjusting a tariff
for that purpose, let such, discriminations he made as
will foster and encourage our own domestic industry.
All parties ought to he satisfied with a tariff for reve
nue and discriminations lor protection."
These are Mr. Clay's views as expressed in
te South. Now hear what Col. Polk says.
The subjoined letter, it will be seen, was written
since the nominations at Baltimore:
MR. FOLK'S LETTER.
COLUMBIA, Tennessee,
June 19th, 1844.$
Dear Sin: I have received recently several letters
in reference to my opinions oil the subject of the tariff,
and among others yours of the 30th ultimo. My opin
ions on the subject have been often given to the public.
They are to be found in my public acts, and in the pub
lic discussions in which I have participated.
I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as
will yield a sufficient amount to the Treasury to de
fray the expenses of Government economically admin
istered. In adjusting the details of a revenue tariff,
I have heretofore sanctioned such moderate discrimina
ting duties, as would produce tho amount of revenue
needed, and at the same time afford reasonable inci
dental protection to our home industry. I am opposed
to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue.
Acting upon these general principles, itis well known
that 1 gave my support to the policy of General Jack
son's adminstration on this subject. I voted against
the tariff act of 18:28. I voted for the act of 1 8.1,
which contained modifications ofsoine of the objection
able, provisions of the act of 1828. As a member of
tne l,oniunttee ol VV ays and Means ol the House ol
Representatives, I gave my assent to a bill reported by
that Committee in December, 1833, making Outlier
modifications of the act of 1828, and making also dis
crimination in the imposition of tho duties which it pro
posed. That bill did not pass, but was superseded by
the bill commonly called the Compromise Bill, for
which I voted.
In my judgment, it is the duty of the Government to
extend, us far nsit may be practicable to do so, by its
revenue laws and all other means within its power, fair
and just protection to all the great interests of the
whole Union, embracing agriculture, manufactures, the
mechanic arts, commerce, and Navigation. I heartily
approve the resolutions upon this subject, passed by the
Democratic National Convention, lately assembled at
Baltimore.
I am, with great respect,
Dear sir, your obedient servant,
JAMES K. POLK.
John K. Kane, Esq., Philadelphia.
The following arc the resolutions of the Dem
ocratic National Convention, referred to by Mr.
Polk:
" That justice and sound policy forbid the Federal
Government to foster one branch of industry to the det
riment of another, or to cherish the interests of one
portion to the injury of another portion of our common
country ; that every citizen and every section of the
countiy has a light to demand and "insist upon an
equality of rights and privileges, and to complete mi
ample protection of persons and property from domedic
violence and foreign aggression.
"That it is the duty of every branch of Government
to enforce anil practice tho most rigid economy in con
ducting our public affairs, and that no more revenue
ought to be raised than is required to defray the neces
sary expenses oi tne ijovcrniiiciit."
Now, we would ask, are these Free Trade
sentiments? The person who would assert that
Gov. Polk is a Free Trade man, after reading
tho above letter, must cither be a knave or jack
ass; and by the exhibition given us on Friday
evening, at the Court House, it is evident the
federal party are not in want of both articles.
Tho remarks of Pitts and Russell relative to
Texas, may pass for what they are worth. They
are welcome to all the capital they or the fede
ral parly can make out of that question in Ohio.
We sec it slated that Mr. Clay's friends, fearful
that the views of the Mill Boy, on annexation,
will lose him the votes of several States, are
about requesting him to publish another letter
on the subject, more palatable to tho South.
We shall wait for it tvith great anxiety; but per
haps it will not be intended " for the public
eye."
Mr. Russell, tho longer oared gentleman of
the two, after repeating over some stale and
plagarizcd anecdotes, commenced firingyhia pu
ny gun at James K. Polk, and declared that he
was an obscure, fifth-rate county lawyer! That
may do to tell to the Marines! Mr. Polk has
occupied as high stations as the High Priest of
Federalism himself. For thirty pieces of silver,
Judas Iscariol betrayed his Lord and Master, and
for the Secretary of Stateship, Henry Clay be
trayed the democratic party, and had John Q.
Adams placed in the Presidential chair. Gov.
Polk has never been corrupt enough to bargain
for the office of Secretary of State, so as to have
himself placed "in tho lino of safe precedents"
for tho Presidency. Tho people of Tennessee
have made Mr. Polk their Governor Clay has
never been Governor of Kentucky. Mr. Polk
has been in Congress, and while thore, battled
manfully against the profligacy and corruption of.
tho United States Bank and other federal mea
sures. And wo are certain his acts will bo re
membered with more gratitude by the country
than the acts of Henry Clay during tho same pe
riod. It is acknowledged on all hands, that Gov.
Polk made an excellent speaker, and so popular
was he as presiding officer, that even the whigs
themselves bore testimony to his fidelity and
correctness. These Wheeling wiseacres in at
tempting to make wit about our candidate's ob
scurity, only made themselves ridiculous and
contemptible. Thoy have not a man in tho fod-
oral ranks in Virginia that will compare to Gov.
Polk, eithr in political fidelity, intellectual en
dowments, or moral worth. It is Hyperion to a
Satyr, to contrast them together! Perhaps the,
opinion of Horace Greek, the Ajix Tclemon of!
whiggery in New York, will be of as much!
weight, as any thing that can come from these
lesser lights of Wheeling. Hear him :
"In 18.19. JAMES K. POLK, ONE OF THE A
BLEST MEN AND MOST POWERFUL SPEAK
ERfS IN THE SOUTH-WEST, took the field aa the
Administration (Van liiiren) candidate for Governor;
and after a canvass of unprecedented vehemence, in
which he ptottd himself an ocer match both in speaking
talent and in personal addreit and pojndaritj, for bis op
ponent, Governor Cannon, he was elected by eonie
tweuty-fivc hundred majority."
So then, if auy benighted whig enquires "who!
is James K.Polk?" we have whig authority for
saying that " James K. Polk is one of the ablest
men and moet powerful speakers in the South
West!"
These "Lying Varlets" of Wheeling, not be- j
ing able to bring any charges against Mr. Polk's
character, which they know is as pure and un
contaminated as tho mountain snow, must travel
back to libel his ancestors. Like Hyenas, they
dug up the smouldering ashes of tho grave!
they charged some one of Gov. Polk's ancestors
his grandfather, we believe with being a To
ry. It is as false as Tartarus! The North Caro
lina Standard, published in tho neighboihood
where Gov. Polk was born, thus contradicts this
most vile and inflamous slander:
" We hurl back this foul, unmanly, and false charge.
It has nothing of tiuth to sustain it. James K. Polk
is the eldest son of Samuel Polk, and was born in 171)5,
more than three years after the clote of the revolutionary
war. Samuel Polk was too young to take any part in
the struggles of that period; but all the members of his
fumily were true Democrats, and we learn from a
source not to be contradicted, that he, Samuel Polk,
was a staunch Republican, and voted for Mr. Jefferson
in 1800. Shame upon the editor who thus attempts, for
low party purposes, to slander and defame an honest
man now in his grave! He who would injure the son,
by tarnishing the fair reputation of a worthy father,
deserves and will receive the cxerations of all honora
ble men."
The NashvilleJJnion published in Tennessee,
where Gov. Polk resides, also refutes the same
slander, when published by the notorious George
D. Prentice, Clay's biographer. Read what the
Union sajs:
" The Louisville Journal, edited by Mr. Clay's biog
rapher, and which is his confidential organ in the West,
is waging the same kind ot warfare upon Gov. Polk
which was waged by Mr. Clay's organ in 18:28 against
General Jackson. Unable to invent any Blander
against Gov. Polk himself, which can effect his charac
ter, that vile tool of Mr. Clay is engaged in digging up
the ashes of his ancestors and slandering them before
the people of Kentucky. He charges and asserts that
Gov. Polk's ancestor was a tory in the Revolution, and
only escaped the gallows by concealment. This most
foul slander is uttered by Mr. Clay's confidential
friend, and goes unrebuked by him. A viler slander
never issued from the mouth ofa fiend than is this which
.Mr. Clay's biographer utters. Yet Mr. Clay is willing
to see the ashes of the ancestor of his competitor raked
un and slandered, and to ernov the benefit ot the calunv
ny. It is just such conduct as this that has forever
disappointed and prostrated the ambitious hopes of Mr.
Clay. Tho truth is, that no menjn the south were more
highly distinguished nor more prominently remarkable
for early fighting and hard fighting in the camp of free
dom, than that of Gov. Polk's ancestors and rela
tives in North Carolina. It is with shame and scorn
that we, the descendants of North Carolinians find
our next neighbor reviling the great and good name of
Polk one of whom was shot through at the Cowpens
shot through at Germnntown, and shot through at
Monmouth. A laimly who wore some ot tho ueepest
scars and brightest laurels of the Revolution. It does
seem that uo man can come in the way of Mr. Clay,
that he is not stigmatized and slandered by his hireling
tools; but itis a matter ol consolation, tliatin every in
stance heretofore, justice has been meted out to the
slanderer. So it will be now."
After reading these extracts, if any whig is
scamp enough to repeat the infamous libel, he
would rob hen roosts, or open graves at midnight
and steal the shroud that encircles the dead.
We shall notice one more of the reckless
statements of these perambulating, loafing, fed
eral popinjays of Wheeling, and we are done.
Wo have extended our notice of their speeches
already too far; but while we refute their asser
tions particularly, it will also servo as a refuta
tion of similar statements, when made by other
Clay orators. One of them said that Gov. Polk,
when in Congress, invariably voted against grant
ing pensions t') old Soldiers, who had fought the
battles of their country. Now, the Journal of the
House of Representatives itself is the best refuta
tion u,e can offer in relation to the matter. From
those Journals wo copy what follows. It will be
seen that in evory instance, Gov. Polk's' votes
prove him to bo tho unswerving friend of those
who had fought and bled in defence of their
country, while Mordecai Hartley, the federal can
didate for Governor in Ohio, and the federal mem
bers from this State, invariably voted against the
scar-worn veterans who fought our country's bat
tles: '
3 3 3 3 m
In House of Representatives, Thursday April
The House proceeded to the consideration of the bill
for the relief of the surviving officers of the ARMY OF
THE REVOLU HON. A motion was then made by
Mr. Mitchell of Ti nnessce, that the further considera
tion of the said bill be postponed until the first Monday
in July next. And the question tlieieupon being but it
was decided in the negative, yeas 39, nays Id t. John
Shane, Joseiih lance, Samuel t I iUoh and John C.
H right, of die Ohio delegation, voted with thc2) yeas,
to defeat the bill, and Mordecai Hartley did not vote at
ali.
JAMES K. POLK voted with the nays to sustain the
bill.
See House Journal 1st sess. 19th Congress p. 479.
In House of Representatives, Monday, May 1, 18 G.
On a motion to amend the above mentioned bill, so
as to provide for the "widows of officers and soldiers
who fell or died in the Revolutionary war."
AIOtiDECAI HARTLEY voted in the negative.
JAME8 K. POLK voted in the affirmative.
llnd. page 497.
On a molion to lay the hill or. the table, Sluanc, Vance,
Vinton, Wright, and MORDECAI HARTLEY voted in
the qffirmative.
JAMES K. FOLK voted in the negative.
Ibid p. 499.
In Ihiiiee nf TJenrpsenintlves. Tuesday. May 2. 182fi.
Sloane. Vance. Vinton. II riuht and MORDECAI
HARTLEY tttmin voted to lay the above mentioned
bill on the table.
JAME.S K. POLK voted against it.
Ibid, p. 503.
In House of Representatives, Tuesday, Jan. 1G, 1837.
The bill for thereliefof tho surviving oflicersof the
ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION being under consid
eration, JOHN WOODS, of the Ohio delegation, mo
ved to lav it on tho table. Sloanf, ranee, V inton.
Wright and MORDECAI BARTLEY votod for this
motion.
JAMES K. POLK voted agaiml it.
On the sanio day, a motion was made to postpone the
consideration of the bill until the 3d of March, which
wnt to defeat it. Sloane, Vance, Vinton Wright and
MORDECAI BARTLEY voted for this motion.
JAMES K. POLK votod againit it.
See House Journal Sd. sess. 19th Congress, p. 1G7-8.
In Hohbo of Representatives, Wednesday, Feb, 25, 1G29
The question being on the passage of a bill to amend
"tin act to provide for certain persons engaged in tho
land and nnval service of the United States in the REV
OLUTIONARY WAR; Sloans, Vance, Vinton and
John W oodt voted against it, and MORDECAI HART
LEY did not vote nt all.
JAMES K. POLK voted in favor of the bill.
See House Journal, 2d " 20th Congrese, p. 337.
lu House of ReprecntaiiTM, Saturday, Fcb.2, 18L
The question being on ordering to third teadinr a
bill to oiiiinrnvate Suian Decatur, Vuwidoic of CAP P.
STEPHEN DECATUR, John Sloane, Jonph Vance,
Samuel F. Vinton John. Woods and John C. Wright
voted in the negative. MORDECAI HA RTLEY did
uot vote at nil!! -J
AMES K. POLK voted in the cHrma te.
llnd, p. 359.
Dut later, when most of the aboTC bargainers of Mr.
Clay were dismissed by the people for their want o f hon
esty and principle, vii: in 1832, JAMES K. POLK
succeeded in getting the law passed, a liberal and just
law, the one under which the old soldiers now re ceive
their just reward.
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In House of Representatives, Tuesday May 1, 1832.
On motion to crant PENSIONS to those who defen
ded our frontier in the INDIAN WAUS from 1776 up
to the treaty of Greenville in 1795,
ft. rujjllvotea in tne ojirmalire.
See House Journal, 1st Ses. 22d Congress, p. 678.
In House of Representatives, Thursday, May, 21, 1832.
The question being on ordering to a third reading the
bill from the Senate, supplementary to the act for the
RELIEF OF CERTAIN SC'KV IVING OFFICERS
AND SOLDIEKS OF THE REVOLUTION,
JAMES K. POLK voted in the affirmative.
lbidp.192.
In House of Representives, Thursday, May 31, 1832.
JAMES K. POLK voted for the previous question on
the passage of the last mentioned bill.
llni, p. eau.
We have now scattered to tho four winds eve
ry argument and charge of these imported crea
tures from Virginia. We would advise them if
they desire hereafter to exhibit theit long ears
before the people of Harrison county, to pay
some little regard to truth and decency. They
should at all events endeavor to mix one gra in
of truth with the bushel of falsehoods they may
measure out, and then they might probably find
some poor deluded, benighted coon, fool enough
to place some little reliance on their assertions.
MOKE RIOTS A1VD BLOODSHED
IN PHILADELPHIA.
There has been another alarming riot in Phil
adelphia. The demoniac spirit of Mobism has
been again at woik. An outrageous attempt
was made to destroy the St. Philipe de Ncri
Church, by the Federal Native American Party,
in which it appears fire arms were deposited.
The utmost excitement prevailed, and our ac
counts stale that near one hundred persons were
killed and wounded. We have no room for par
ticulars. May the God of Peace restrain the
evil dispositions of a misguided people.
I-OIISIAXA ELECTION.
Our last Exchange papers brought only par
tial returns of the recent election in Louisiana.
Messrs. Slidell and Dawson, (democrats,) are re
elected to Congress, from the 1st and second
Congressional districts. It is doubtful which
party has succeeded in the city of New Orleans,
as the whig judges rejected upwrards of 600 votes
of persons who had been naturalized by Judge
Elliot, (a whig judge, too, by the way) and se
veral of the polls were closed before the proper
time. There is no doubt, however, but that
democracy have a clear and undoubted majority
in the city.
Convention and Legislature.
Dem. Whig.
1st municipality,
170 3IJ
2d
do.
ICS
410
151
3d
do.
Majorities,
Democratic Majorities,
Whig do.
2S4
410
284
Absolute dem average mnj. 120
In Lafayette city, the democratic runj. was about 150.
In the Parish of Jeflerson, tor Congress, Labranche,
(dem.) 244 ; Thibodeau (whig) 230.
Parish of St. Bernard Leonard (D.) and Legendve,
(W.) elected without opposition, to the convention.
White (D.)e'ected to Senaie without opposition. Carick
(V.) elected to House.
LATER.
Welcaia from a passenger in the Wheeling stage,
that news had been received at Wheeling on Monday,
direct from New Orleans, that the democrats have car
ried the State beyond all doubt. Polk is ceitain of e
electoral vote of Louisiana.
L Gkkat Tribtjlatio.-v.. The Washington
correspondent of the New York Journal of Com
merce, states that he has been told by those well
advised, that an express has been sent from
Washington to Clav, "for a further expression
of hist opinion on the subject of annexation of
Texas!
Retraction. Tho United States Gazette,
having charged Mr. Polk with being a duellist,
" takfijs pleasure in acknowledging that it was in
crrorfi
. ,i
Cefiiso Back. The following were given
at it$ celebration of Jackson's birthday, at Bal
timore :
By Theodore Sumwalt: I changed in 1840 to
get a change, now I change back to get some
change.
By Mark Cox: "Roast beef and two dollars
a day." I voted for it in 1840, but I find it to
he " ull talk and no pay."
By John Wilson Brown, a Ilarrisonian in
1S40: The whig party promised us peace,
plenty and prosperity; they now wish to inflict
on us " war, pestilence and famine.''''
Coonkry in Indiana. A vote was taken on
board tho steamboat Monticello, while returning
from the Clay convention, held on the Tippeca
noe battle-ground, and rcsulled as follows:
For Clay, 121 ; for Polk and Dallas ISO! Clay's
chances in Indiana arc small potatoes, and few
in a n. II.
How it Gom. On board the packets, rat
road cars, in stiices. everv where, tho r.rv i
Polk! Polk! Polk! Will von nlease r,olk von
sen along that seal! folk along that bagrrnce!
voile me a ticket: l'olh- mo the change! It's
Polk, Polk, and nothing but Polk, till over tho
Union. '
Thomas W. Dour. A petition has been pre
sented to tho Senate of Rhodo Island, signed by
Sullivan Dorr, praying that the General Assem
bly, now in session, will liberate his tion, Thos.
W. Dorr, or if that cannot be done, that the pun
ishment might be commuted to imprisonment in
the county jail in tho county of Newport, instead
of the Stale prison.
Mr. Randolph, who presented the petition,
said that Mr. T. W. Dorr had no part in its offer,
and was not desirous that any efl'ort of tho kind
should be made in his behalf; and Mr. Bnllou
said that Mr. T. W. Dorr would not unite iu any
petition that might be offered.
r, i .
(r Strange to say, there has not been a sin
gle " whig victory " heard of, jince th& nomina
tion of Polk and Dallas. "
I'ltblic Debt of tlie l'ni(Ht -r:itc.
Every whig stumper from Maiua to Georgia,
asserts, when speaking of the Debt of the United
States, that Mr. Van Luren left tho Presidential
('hair with an enormous National Debt hanging
over the people of this country, and that it requi
red all the financial skill of the whigs to extri
cate the Government from this great debt. But
what are the facts! By the tables below, which
are oflkial, it will bo seen (hat the whig! in
cieased, instead of decreased the debt.
In obedience to a resolution of the Senate of
the 23rd of December, 1S41, the Secretary of
the Treasury, Mr. W. Forward, transmitted the
following statement, prepared by the Register of
the Tieasury, of the amount of the public debt
on the 3d of March, 1341, when the whigs camo
into power.
Statement of the public debt on
1841.
the 3d of March,
$8,007,351 51
Treasury notes outstanding
Debt of tho corporale cities of
the District ot Columbia, as
sumed bv ihe United States
1,440,000 00
53,174 38
2 13,106 30
26,622 U
4,475 00
4,320 09
6,379,059 81
The (old) funded debt-principal
interest
The unfunded debt:
Registered certificates
Tieasury notes issued during the
late war
Mississippi certificates
Truascky Department,
Register's Office, December 23, 1841,
T. L. SMITH, Register.1"
Now we will take a look at the other side of
the picture, furnished by the same officers, and
see the retrenchment and reform of the whig ad
ministration.
Statement of the debt of the United States, De
cember 1, 1843.
1. Of the (old) funded debt being
unclaimed principal and interest,
returned from the late loan offi
ces $208,009 34
2. Outstanding certificates and in
terest to 31st December, 1798,
of (old) unfunded debt, payable
on presentation 24,214 29
3. Treasury notes issued during
the late war, payable on presenta
tion 4,317 44
Certificates of Mississippi stock,'
payable on presentation 4,320 09
Debts of the corporate cities of
the District of Columbia, assum
ed by the United States, viz:
Of the city of Washington 900,000 00
Alexandria 210,000 00
Georgetown 210,000 00
6. Loans, viz:
Under the act of 21st July
141, redeemable 1st Janu
arv, lS4o
5,672,976 S3
Under the act of 15th April,
1842, redeemable 1st Janua
ry, 1803 8.343,880 03
Under the act of 3d March, 18-
43, redeemable 1st July, 18-
53 7,000,000 00
. Outstanding treasury notes:
Of the several issues prior to
31st August, 1843 3,917,725 92
Of notes issued and paid out
under (he act of 3d March
1843 247,500 00
20,742,949 99
Treasury df.pabtmf.xt,
Register's Office, December 1, 1843.
T. L. SMITH, Register."
By tho above tables it will be seen that the
whigs while in power, increased the national
debt to the round sum of EIGHTEEN MIL
LION, THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY
THREE THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED
AND NINETY DOLLARS, AND EIGHTEEN
CENTS. This certainly looks but little like re
trenchment. Not only was the general government but lit
tle in debt when the whigs came into power, but
there was over half a million of dollars in tho
treasury on tho 3d of .March 1841. Theso aro
facts which the whigs cannot deny. Spirit of
Democracy.
Or Col. Polk is not only not a duellist, but
was instrumental, more than twenty years ago,
in procuring the passage of a penal statute
against duelling iu Tennessee, which has had
the effect of arresting the practice in that State
altogether. Not an occurrence of the kind has
disgraced the State since its passage.
Home Industry. Col. Polk says: "Home
Industry," a term so ofien used by the advocates
of the protective tariff system, is comprehensive
in its meaning; and by a just legislation should
be made to embrace the industry employed in
agriculture, in the mechanic arts, in commerce,
and all other pursuits, as well as the industry
employed in mauufacturcs.
Temperance Notice.
The Cadiz Washinirtonian society will meet in the
Court house next Friday evening the I9th inst. at early
canine ugniing 10 ciect some new ouicersanu to atieuu
to some other important business.
J list lieccived a fresh lot of Mackerel and for
sale low by
july 17 S. & II. McFADDEN.
ROAD TAX. Notico is hereby given to the tax
payers of Harrison county, that the Commission
cis have made a levy of 2 mills on the dollar of valua-'
tion for road purposes and that said tax may be dischar-
1 U.. ' - .L.. A .V .f O-
j;uu uy mum on we rouu unuer uie uircuuuu oi tuts ou-
uei vieurs oi imc several uisincis, hi me rate oi eevetiiy
live cents per day. J. SHARP, Auditor
Auditor's Ol!iee,july 17. of Harrison Co.
TO SUPERVISORS.
The following is the form of it road receipt that will -be
received by the county Treasurer, to wit: This is
to certify that A. B. has performed labor on the public
road in district No. of Township, between the
1st day of April and the 1st day of October 1844, un
der my direction, in payment of his rond tax for laid
year, charged against hnn on the grand levy to the a-
mount of dollars centsand mills given under'
my hand this day of A. D. 1844,
A. B. Supervisor of said din. ,
FltESH AND CHEAP!
Latest Arrival of New Goods!
f I"MIE subscribers are just receiving from the cittea of
I Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, u (urge and splen
did assortment of summer nnd tall Roods, which were
purchased within the lust ten days lower than any oth
er goods purchased this season, and wril consequently
be sold cheap for eneh or country produce. Call and
ce before purchasing elsewhere. .
july 10. ; MAIIOOD&GRIME3.
FARMERS, LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST I
THRASHING MACHINES
OF every description made and repaired In the short
est possible notice, and in a neat and workman-.
manner, and warranted to nerform to the entire sat
isfaction of the owners, on ai reasonahlo terms as any ,
other establishment in this country. All kind of cast
ings furnished on short notice. Also clover hulleri mads
on the most improved plan. Please coll at the shop on
Warner street, Cadiz Ohio. CHAS. PATTERSON,
july 3.-3 m. SIMON BRICKER. .