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professional gamblers, or attend their public
tables. For upwards of thirty years he has
played at. no game of hazard whatevcr.--
When fatigued and oppressed by ‘care. and
business, if he has sought recreation, it has
been chess or whist, which of late years. lit‘
more rarely than ever indulges in. _He has
resided a period of upwards of thirty-five
years at Ashland, and we have it from the

inost undoubted sources, that a game of cards

was never played, and a pack of cards was
never in his house, with his knowledge.

He has the highest respect and greatest
deference for religion, and its ministers: and
we believe that there is not a clergyman
who knows him, who does not cherish
towards him cordial esteem and regard. On
the memorable occasion last fall, of the great
discussion between Rev. Messrs. Campbell
and Rice, Mr. Clay, by common consent.
was selected to preside at the public meeting.
He has contributed with as much liberality
as he could to the building, we believe. 0i
every church or house of divine worship,
that-has been erected during his abode in or
near Lexington, of which there are innny.-—
He h tS always held a pew in the Episcopal
church in this city, of which his lady is a
communicant, and he generally attends di-
vine service on the Sabbath, when at home.
No man in the community displays more
public spirit, or is more ready to second and
succor all objects of public improvement and
enterprise. As a farmer, he is conspicuous
in all the departmentsflof his vocation, but
especially in the improvement ofthe breeds
of all domestic animals. Nor is there any
one whose heart is more affected by cases «of
affliction or misfortune, or whose purse IS
more open to relieve the distressed.

Such is the individual upon ivhose head
bitter, malignant, and vindictive enemies are
constanly pouring out torrents of vile abuse
and calumnyl! But, to use his own emphauc
language, “truth is ornnipotent, and public
justice is certain.” The universal shouts of
his countrymen have already proclaimed in
tones of thunder his innocence and his vindi-
cation ; and ifit shall please God to spare his

' valuable life, a glorious triumph awaits him

in November next, as honorable to their
hearts as it is justly merited by long, faithful
and signal services to his country.

FRELINGI-IUYSEN & AMOS KENDALL.

The Hon. Reverdy Johnson, in a speech at
Smith’s Island, Penn. on the 4th inst. is jiistlysevere
upon the loathsome creature who bears the name of
Amos Kendall, for his malignant assaults upon The-
odore Frelinghuysen as well as for his general cliar-
acter. Mr. Johnsoii_’s tribute to Frelitigliuysen, is as
beautiful and just, as his portrait ofKendall is faitli-
ful. The speaker said:

"And who is Theodore Frelinghuvsen 2
It was siid, my fellow citizens, by a distin-
guished son of your own State, as soon
soon as the nomination was proclaimed with-
in the walls of the church in which the Con-
vention sat in May last, th it the nomination
had one attribute about it which, perhaps,
-coiild not have been attributed to any other
-.rnan—-his character was so spotless, his life
had bcen'so pure, his spirit was so perfect,
‘that not even Amos Kendall could slander
.]n'-m,. (Laughter and applause.) The state-
ment was hailed as the strongest eulogy that
-could be pronounced, and the prediction
which it contliined, it was thought by the
members generally, would be fulfilled to the
letter. I did not partake of that opinion, my
fellow citizens. I thought I lmcw the wretcii
better. I thought, and the result has proved
that I was right: that the very factthat Fre-
linghuyscn was pure and spotless; his life,
in every thing that can adorn the man, as
perfect as is allowed to human frailty—-a life
illustrated by a firm. full and practical belief
in the religion of I-Ieaven—would all, in
themselves, afford an irresistable inducement
to such a miscreant as Kendall to fasten up-
on it with delight. I was sure that to do so
would be to him a sort of mental luxury-
that to breathe upom such a character as
that would be, to him unspeakable felicity-
to cast his poisonous breath againstone whom
he knew had lived always in an atmosphere
where high moral and religious duties are
alone known and observed, would be to him
a triumph; for he would know that he need
only touch him to inflict upon him intense
pain. And I have not been mistaken, gen-
tlemen. He edits a paper called "The Ex-
positor,’ and hardly a number issues in
which we have not the morality of Mr. Fre-
linghuysen assailed and ridiculed—his reli-
gion made a constant theme of ribald jests—
the very part which, from Sabbath to Sab-
bath, his faith and duty lead him to take, in
places dedicated to God's worship, held up
to the American people as an objection and
a stigma upon the man and the Convention
by whom he was nominated.

But my fellow citizens, however the poi-
sonous breath of such a mass of moral piitre-
faction as Amos Kendall may affect for a
time the peace and happiness of Theodore
Frelinghuysen the day is at hand when the
people ofthe United States will sanction, by
a voice almost approaching to UflZ1Dllllll_:,','.l‘.3
choice of the Convention, while his inhuman
libeller will be sunk still lower in that depth
of infamy which he has so long been labor-
ing to fathom. (Cheers) No one of us
could have been so listless a spectator ofthe
events which we are now called upon to en-
gage in, as not to perceive that weareto fight
against f.ilsehood—reiterated froui hour to
hour. The whole scheme of warfare from
one end ofthe Union to the other, is an or-
ganized system oflies and libels, such as a
civilized community never before witnessed.

Mr. Johnson, thus showed up the loco foco claims
to great changes from VVhiggery to Polkism:

“One oftheir plans is to talk about changes
in our ranks—of the men who have left us
and joined their standard. Now gentlemen.
to speaik in a phrase a little technical—7nima.
fncie——the fact must be untrue. There have
been no changes. No honest man with any
brains in his head, ever turns from whigism
to L'icofocoism—to Jacksonism-to Van
Burenism—to Tyler or Polkism. [Roars of
.3‘tigl‘.iéir'.j Anti the moment, therefore, you
hear of anysuch changes, you may be cer-
tain either that the man should be taken
care of by his friends, as a fit stibject for a
lunatic asylum, or that he always was a loco
foco at heart. [Laughteii] Gentlemen, to
give you an instance ofthis kind of lying: I
I stopped at New Castle the other day, and
went to see, as every good Whig does, your

distinguished friend, John M. C_|ayton.—
[Enthusiastic cheering] He Said 10 me.
‘Johnson, I thought Maryland and Delaware
would have been neutral ground in this lying,
uiode of warfare of our opponents; but I find
it is not so. Why, sir, will you believe it?
in your "Elkton Democrat,” published In
Cecil county, in your State, it was published
the other day, in large. capitals, that JOHN
M. CLAYTON had seen the error of his ways
--[laughter] and turned Loco-Foco-Poko-
Democrat.” [Increased laughter.]_ I though‘.
gentlemen, at first that he was quizzing me.
but he assured me that it was no joke, but a
fact. It speaks volumes as to all the alledg-
ed changes that fill the columns of their
papers.

THE CALUMNIES OF LOCOFOCOISM.

The Plebian of yesterday has a ‘Song—“The
Brave Patriot Boys”——vvliich after beastly abuse of
Mr. Clay as ‘Old Harry,’ and ‘traitor knave,’ and
Frelingliuysen as ‘a blue skin saint,’ proceeds.

‘These sons of brave old Tories
The title VVhig’ they claim : _ _
Like the Ass that brayed in the Lions skin,
Boast they their stolen fame.
To Britaiii’s camp their fathers fled,
VVhile our bold sires to battle led,
And for their country fought and bled,
Like brave patriot boys.

‘Their patriot blood ! ’tis tlirilllng
Yet in their cliildren’s veins-
The same on Buiiker’s Hight that flowed-—
Tliat dyed the Jersey Plains! .
They fought for freedom and for right-—
For freedom still their sons will fight,
Till tyrants fall ’neatli freemen's might,
VVe’re brave patriot boys.’

Now these libelous rascals compel us to re-
mind theni again that the father of Mr. Fre-
lingbuysen was a Whig soldier of the Revo
lotion, and poured out his blood in battle ‘for
Liberty in the hours ofits darkest depression
and that Theodore Frelinghuysen, who Is
to be our next Vice President, was through-
out our last war Captain of a company of
Volunteers at Newark who stood ready for
service through the contest, and were twice
called out-by the Governor, and aided to
throw up entrenchments at Fort Greene for
the defence of this city. They were not in
battle, but this was from no lack of disposi-
tion on their part, as they were regularly in
service and yearly to go whenever ordered.
On the other hand, Ezekiel Polk, grandfather
ofthe Loco Foco candidate for President,
was a British Tory of the Revolution. and
not ‘a brave old Tory’ either, but a mean
unprincipled one——not one of those who ad-
hered to Great Britain through a mistaken
loyalty. but one of those who sneaked over
to her and took a. British protection from
Cornwallis, when he thought the Whigs
were likely to be conquered. And James K.
Polls has proved a regular ‘chip of the old
block.’ He has voted repeatedly against
granting pensions to our Revolutionary vei-
eruns,and he has been charged to his face
by Gov. Jones on the stump with skulking
outof the County in which he lieved into an
other in order to avoid being drafted to serve
in the last war—and he dmezl not deny it.
Are not the supporters of this man pretty
fellows to be talking of ‘brave old Tories,’
and ‘To Britain's camp fhei1'falliers_fled'----
which was just what James K. Polk’s grad
father did, while James K. has evinced a
kindred disposition.

Should not a decent sense of shame cou-
strain them to stop their calumnirs .7

Tribune 16th.

 

If l’f’ill Out.-Major Noah thus talks to
his locofoco friends of New York city, in ii
letter addressed to them and published in the
Messenger :

“We cannot rally the Democratic party
throughout the Union to support a candidate
for the Presidency, pledged to immediate
annexation. Disappointment and disaflection
seem to prevail among many ofthe old men
of the party, particularly those men who
have voted heretofore for Mr. Clay, who re-
member him the suppoiter of the war and
negotiator of an honorable peace, their can-
didate for Speaker, session after session, and
a democrat of the old school.

Another C/range !—The locos announce
very pompously that the Honorable James
Looinis, Mayor of Bridgeport, has come out
for Polk and Dallas. This is for effect a-
broad. Loomis never was a Whig. He is
one ofthe most conteinptible politicians in
the State, for the reason that he attempts to
be with all parties that will tolerate him and
give him a small office. His course has
been the spoit of the Whig papers for the
last year, and they have probably been the
cause ofdriving him from his Tylerism,with
which disease he was last afflicted, into Polk-
ism.—Bridgepo7°l Standard.

One other change in this State in addition
to Peter Bierce and Jan es I oomis the Reg-
ister appears to have overlooked, ue mean
that of Royal R. Hinmun, who voted for
Harrison in i840 and was the \Vhig Secre-
tary of State the year following. True hr-
Wfls ejected, from the Whig party in 1841,
but he is as good a subject for a loco loco
paragraph on changes as any that they have
yet had.—Pall.

Who are the IV/rigs ?-—It has been re’
marked. and well deserves to be repeated
that all the survivors of the College of Elec-
tors which cost the vote of New York for
Mr. Jefferson in 1800, and all the surviving
members ofthe Senate and of the Assembly.
who voted for those Electors, are still whigs
and voted for Harrisonjin l840; and \vill,iif
alive, vote for Cla'.~ and Freliughuysen in
I844! Among them are Gen. Van Cort-
land, James Burt, John \Voodworth, Am-
brose Spencer and Erastus Root.

Albany Adv.

Mo7'mons.—The I3ufi?ilo Advertiser says
it is satisfied that Joe. and Hyram Smith
were killtd by acompany ofdisaffected Mor-
mons.

During a heavy thunder shower on Sat-
urday afternoon 13th inst. the barn of Mr.
Peter M. Hubbell. of Brookfield, Ct. filled
with hay, was struck by lightning and burnt
to the ground.

In »‘3eason.—-Gov. Steele of N. H. has se-
lected the l4th day of November next to be
observed as a day of Thanksgiving in that
State.

IMPORTANT Lawn:-r mom Mn. CLAY.-—
The following letter from Mr. Clay toa gentle-
man of Pittsburg, completely disposes of the
doubts.~if any body ever doubted, concerning
his views of Protection. ,

ASHLAND, 20th June 1844.

Dear Sir:—I have received your favor
stating that our political opponents represent
me as being a friend of protection at the
North, and for free trade at the South; and
you desire an expression of my opinion un-
der my own hand, for the purpose ofcorrect-
ing this misrepresentation. I am afraid you
will find the effort vain to correct misrepre-
sentations of me. Those who choose to un-
derstand my opinions can have no difficulty
in clearly apprehending them. I have re-
‘peatedly expressed them as late as this
spring, and several times in answer to letters
from Pennsylvania. My opinions, such as
they are, have been recently quite as freely
expressed at the South, as I ever uttered
them at the North. I have circry where
maintained that in adjusting a. Tarifii for
1‘ei:enue, discrinziitations ought to be made
for Protection : that the Tarifi‘ of 1842 has
operated most beneficially/. and that I ant ul-
tcrly apposed to its repeal. These opinions
were announced by me at public meetings
in Alabama,.Georgia, Charleston, in South-
Carolina. North Carolina, and in Virginia.
Your friend and obedient serv't,
Mr. Fred. J. Cope. H. CLAY.

Heuivy Damages for Libel.--Mr. Rust of
Syracuse, has recovered $7,300 agaipst
James Watson VVebb, Esq. of the Couricr
c§~ Enquirer for the publication of articles in
the Courier, at the time of the robbery of
Ponieroy &. Co’s Express, implicating Mr.
Rust in that transaction. Mr. Webb is now
in Europe, and made no defence at the trial.
It is presumed that he will appeal from the
decision of the Syracuse jury, to a higher
tribunal.

The Price of Texa.s.—For what does
Loco Focoisui contend. in the new phase
which it has assumed ? Simply, the Annex-
ation of Texas. We tlefy any man to show
another issue. At what price do they pro-
pose its purchase? or rather—what would
they surrender for its acquisition .7

lst—'I‘hey endorse a man who always
opposed the Right of Petition.

2-‘l——They sustain one man who has up
posed the granting ofa pittance to the survi-
vors of the Revolution.

3d—-they endorse the odious and condemn-
ed Sub Treasury.

4th—'l‘be North and West must abandon
the Protective policy, and give up in a ineas-
ure, the only reliable markct they have for
ther produce.

5th—-The country must assume a debt un-
known in amount, but not less probably, than
$520,000,000.

6th—They must incur a war with Mexi
co, and the odium of prosecuting an unjust
lVar for the extension of our domain.

VVhat do we get in return?

lst— We get the extension and perpetua-
tion of Slavery.

2d- We getthe balance of political power
into the hands of South Carolina Nullifica-
tion, and impose the Sl-ive-power for a cen--“
tury upon the Nation.

3d—'We gain an extension of our territory
simply for the above purposes.

Upon such an issue. who will hesitate in
deciding? Polls and Texas, or Clay and the
Union as if is——choose ye!

 

Before and Behind. —T'ne Murfreesburgh
(Tenn) Telegraph gives the following as a
specimen of the manner in which the locofo-
co nominations are presented by the party in
that neighborhood:

FOR PRESIDENT,

Gen. Andrew Jacksolvs
Friend James K. Polk, of Tenn.

FOR vicn PRESIDENT.
George M. Dallas,
of Pennsylvania.

This reminds us of a sort of Currency
mu_cli in vogue here some time ago, which
read souiewliat as follows:

On demand, the subscriber, whose office is on

« THE CANAL BANK,

Promises to pay John Smith One Dollar, &c.

Cincinnati Chronicle.

Thomas IV. .D0}'7'.---VV8 learn that this
notorious convict is employed in the State
Prison at Rhode Island, wherein for flagrant
and manifold treason he has been sentenced
to abide for life. in the painting of fans. It
is well known he rt-fuscs to sign a petition
for his release, or to take the oath of allegi-
ance to the established and rightful govern-
ment of the State. He even caused the gen-
eral assembly to be informed that the petition
presented by his ftlll]t'I‘,—\\'ll0Se unwavering
integrity and manlinissofcleportmenfthrough
all the public troubles, have been the theme
of praise from one end of the republic to the
other, and have conciliated the sympathy of
every honest Rhode lslander—--was presented
without his knowledge and in opposition to
his desire. In justice to the State's magna-
nimity, the fact should be universally pro-
mulgated, that the government has been
throughout inclined to mercy, and this incli-
nation has been thwarted by Dorr himself,
He remains in prison, says the Providence
Journal, not the_victim of oppression, which
he is represented to be, and scarcely the
victim ofjustice, but rather of his own on-
yielding obstinancy, which refuses the prof-
fered mrrcy of government, unless he can
dictate the terms upon which it shall be ac-
cepted.-——N. Y Join‘. of Com.

VVe were amused, on Thursday, by a. re-
mark made by a uiost worthy and esiimable
Locofoco, who acted as one of the Marshals
in the Locofoco proccsion of last Saiurday
9V9"5".I- '1 am.’ Said he’. ‘a betting man,
and I never hesitate to bet when I think I
am likely to win. But upon this Presiden-
tial Election, I swear'I’ll make no bet ex.
cepi that Mr. Clay will not get the vote ei-
ther of Canada or Texas !”

Louisville Journal.

Joe Smith is said tohave left in the hands
of his wife. a document appointing his suc-
cessor. which she was directed to open on

the third day after his death.

MR. CLAY VINDICATED BY MR. POLK.
“Old Documents are Ugly things.-—PoLK.”
The U. S. Gazette presents us with a. short ex-
tract from Mr. Polk’s address to the People of Ten-
nessee, April 3, IS39, printed at Columbia, Tenn.
Mr. P.’s own residence. 1 '
On page 7 occurs the following paragraph:
"Gen. Jackson, like Mr. Jefferson, brought”
the ship of State back to the Republican
tack. On the coming in of his. administra-
tion all the odious doctrines and principles.
and the ultra federal tendencies of the admin-
istration which proceeded it, were suddenly
arrested and reversed. The great results of
Gen. Jackson's administration belong to the
history of the country, and can be but briefly
sketched or alluded to in an addrsss like
this. In repeated instances he recommended
modifications and reductions of the Tariff
with a. view to the final abandonment of that
odious and unjust system. So effectual were

change in public opinion, that the friends of
the Tariff, and even Mr Clay, its imputed
father, seized on a favorable moment to
save the whole from destruction by to timely;
compromise. It was the defence of Mr. Clay
with his friends at the North, that by yield-
ing a part be prevented the destruction of
the whole, and in their continued and devo-
ted support of him the Northern capitalists
have shown that they are grateful for the
fortunate rescue.”

Here we have Mr. Polk’s opinion of the Tariff‘
policy undisgiiised.

It seems that it was the intention of Gen. Jackson
mid Mr. Polk, for the latter boasts that he went frilly
with Gen. J. in all his measures—to destroy the
whole Tariff policy, and they were only prevented
from doing so by Mr. Clay, “who seized a favorable
moment to save the whole from destruction by a
timely compromise.

C/reap Postage at Lrisl.—The American
Letter Mail Company is now in operation
carrying letters to and from this city at the
following very low rates :—-

Post Master.
Letter Mail Co. W'ickliff'e’s Mail.

Boston, 6 1-4 cts 18 3-4 cts.
Philztdel. G 1-4 12 1-2
Albany, 5 12 1-2
Troy, 5 18 3-4

The result ofthe present movement, legal-
ized by the decision of Judge Story, will be
to throw the Post Office on to the General
Government for support. it is supposed that
VVickliffe's and Grahamls Obsllnacy in op-
posing cheap po.-‘Iago will create a deficiency
in the rt-venue doublethat which would have
occurred from reducing the postage on all
letters to five cents for any and every dis
tance. We hazard little in saying that ll)r-
mistaken pozicy of those two functionaries
will cost the nation at least one million of
dollirs during their continuance in ofii-:e.——
A large sum to pay for one year’s service of
two such characti-rs.---JV. Y. Sun.

Allotment of the Judges of the

Superior Court for 1844-5.
Suiutvizit Ti-:R.\is.

\Villiams, C. J. Litchfield & New Haven.

Cliiirch J. Fairfield.
\Vaite, J. Middlesex.
Storrs. J. I-Iartford Jr, Tollanil.

New London in VViudliam

VVINTER Trzniiis.
Hartford.

Iliiiiiiaii, J.

VVilli:ims, C. 1.

Church, J. New Haven & Tollaiid.
Waite, J. Fairficld & \Viiitlliam.
Storrs, J. Middlesex & New London
Ilininan, J. Litchfield.

New Year: do New Havi-zu R. R.-So
small a portion ofthe Stock of this Road has
been iakeii that ii is said the enterprise has been
abanrloiicd for ilie present. This is contrary to
general expectation in this quarter.

The Hartford Journal says th t it has rea-
son to believe that the report which it yes-
trrtluy p'1bllSll((i from the N. Y. Tribune,
that the project of building the New York
and New Haven Railroad has been abandon-
etl for the present, is unfounded, and that
the rumor probably originated from persons
interested in rival routes. Negotiations,
sajysthe Journal, are in progress which it is
believed will complete the entire subscrip
l.l(tn. We shall be glad to learn that such
negotiations are completed but the informa-
tion we gave did not come from persons in-
terested in rival routes, but from as good a
friend as the New Haven Road has in this
city. — Trtbun c.

On the Slump.—T-he western papers
announce that Janzcs K. Polk has determined
to urge his claims for the Presidency. inper
stn on the slump. He was to open the cani-
paign at Nashville. on Monday last. He
riiet with no flattering success in stumping it
for a few years past--and though his ambi-
tion has been raised a peg. his prospect is
only rendered the more polrerish by the eli-
vationol He is the first Presidential candi-
date that has attempted openly to electioncer
forhimst-lf—but the scarcity of friends to
undertake for him. renders his seeming lack
of modesty excusable. The l‘t';‘l.t]l'DS from
Louisiana must give him rather a hard
sfurzper to start with.

Pol/is Pa.lriolism..—-The editor of the
Janesboro,’ Tenn. Whg says the locos must
not talk of Polk’s services on the field of
bottle, or he will point them to the day on
which the valient Colonel‘/led from Ruther-
ford county to Maury, when a young man,
to a-void being rlraflerl and called out into
the service of his county

New Line ofSlea.mc'rs.-VVe are informed
that A new company has been organized in
this city, with a capital of $300,000. They
have contracted with Mr. Brown, of New
York for.two large boats to be ready next
spring, which are to outvie, for magnificence
and speed, anything now on the river. Suc-
cess to them.—A._’brim/ Atlas.

Coniplitrtcnlarg/.—The Ashtabula, Ohio
Sentinel in announcing the consummation of
John 'I‘ylcr’s annexation treaty with Miss
Gprrdner says “All we care about it any how
is.-We wish well to Julia. She's handsome,
a great belle, (so far all’s well)—but she has
losther beloved father by John Tyler's fool-
ishness, and now she ought to have a good
husband. Doubt if she’s got one. John
Tyler is mean enough to whip his wife, if
things don’t go riglit.’

The Ottowa and Chippewa Indians have

losl everything by the recent floods in the
weltern rivers.

 

these T€C0mm€Ud3ll0“5- and 3" rapid lb"- examination by the collection of smoke in ilieir

Nop.w.o.K GAZETTE.

Wednesday, July 24,_1s44.

FOR PRESIDENT,

HENRY CLAY.

FOR VICE PRESIDENT, '
THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN.

DESTRUCTION BY Lion'rtviive.—On Tues-
day evening last, during the violent thunder
shower, that occurred about 8 or 9 o’clock, the
house owned and occupied by Jared St. John,
in Ridgefield, was struck with the fluid and en-
tirely consumed. The family in the house at
the lime, consisted of four persons who had re-
tired. They were unconscious of the situation
oftbeir tenement, until they were aroused to an

sleeping apartments. The house was new,
having been occupied but a short time. The
furniture and contents of the house were sated.
There being no insurance, the loss falls heavy
upon a worthy and industrious man, of but
moderate means.

focos' to l4”Whigs, there is now but- one
Puke man! Last Fall the Locos voted the
‘Liberty’ ticket, but this year, convinced that
the most practical, sensible, certain and effect-
ual method of ‘heading’ Slavery, is to vote

with thesolitary exception named above,resol-
ved to unite with the Whigs. And this isvthe
feeling which pervades Western New York.
W'est. Slate‘ Jour.
OHIO.

John W. Arnold, of Miamisburg, Mont-
gomery county, Ohio, in a letter dated July
lst says he has voted for the Locos at every
election from I828 to I843: but now he
goes for the Whigs and the tariff. He is
if respectable citizen. Among other reasons,
he gives the following: _ .

‘The party with Van Buren at its head
were opposed to the annexation ofTexas. I
am so still. I am not to be led off by south-
ern Poke or to be ordered ‘right about wheel,‘
March !’ No, sir! I had hoped to see the
party more independent, than to see them-
change their front in the twinkling of an-
e el
yThey are opposed to assuming the debt‘!
of our own States, but are willing't‘o~swallow’
$10,000,000 with Texas without a grin l--r
Well, now, if I was in favor of either, I-
woiild certainly say ‘pay our own first.’—-

, Fiioit THE RIGHT Quaivri-zn —The auda
city ofthe South Carolina locus, on the subject
ofthe Texas plot, has recently manifested itself
in a proposal to hold a Slave Stale Convention,
at Nashville, Tenn. This infamous proposal
called together a large meeting of ilie citizens of
Davidson County, without distinction of party,
who solemnly protested against any such trea-
son being brought to Tenn. to be hatched. The
following are a part of the resolutions which

were unanimously adopted on the occasion.

Resolved, That while we never have interfered,
and never will interfere with the arrangements of
any of the parties divided on the general political
questions of the day, and while we absolutely repel
the charge of designing any such iiiteiference as
totally unfounded and unjustifiiible, yet when we
see men of any party and any quarter of this nation
aiinouiiciug as their motto “Texas or Disuiiioii,”
and singling out the City of Nashville as a place of
general giitlieriiig in order to give formality and
soleiiiiiity to the presentation of that issue; VVe feel
it to be not only our sacred right. but our solemn
duty to protest, as we now (l0 protest, against the
desccratioii of the State of Tennessee by any set of
men, lioltliiig within its borders a Coiiventioii for
any such object.

Resolved, That when our fellow citizens of any
State come hither as Amcricaiis, loyal to our glorious
Union, they will be received and welcomed by us,
with all the kintlucss and liospitality which should
cliaractcrize the iiitcrcourse of :1 band of brothers,
whatever may be our difl'crciice.s on political subjects
-—but when they avoiv ther williiigiiess to break up
the Union rather than fail to accoinplisli a f'avorite
object, we feel bound to tell them this is no fit place
to concert their plans.

Resolved, That we entertain for the People of
South Czimliiiii and the other qiiartcrs in which the
cry of “Texas or Disiinion" has been raised, feelings
of frateriial regard and affectioii——tliat we siiicerely
lament the exliibition by any portion ofthem of dis-
loyalty to the Union, or it disposition to urge its dis-
solution with ii view to Auiic.\'atioii with Texas if
not otherwise obtained, and we hope :1 rctiirniiig
sense of what is due to themselves, to the other
States of the Union, to the Aincricaii People, and to
the cause of Aiiiericuii Liberty, will prevent them
from persevering in urging the issue they have pro-
posed.

“Screws Loose”—-1,\t'otliing Like it!
Clear the the T raclc Polls, Texas,
Slavc)'_t/ and Free Trade .’

Erom the Tribune.

The Loco Foco papers are publishing a list
of pretendud changes from the \Vliig party to
theirs, of’ \\ liicli two thirds of them have not yo
fed with us for years, and net rly all of the other
iliird are still Whigs. Such as Hon. Louis
-.\i'Lanc of Delaware, Secretary ofthe Treasury
under Gen. Jackson, who on hearing of Polk’s
noniinalion, cxulted at it as one that would use
up the demagogues who made. it. It was at once
reported that he had come out in favor of Poll: .’

A maj iflly ofihosc who are parradcd a con-
verts to locofocoism are Political Abolifionisls.
who left the Whig party two or three years ago
oniliat ground, and are now rank for Biiney
and Morris. Ofihcse are Gen. Fessentlen cf
Maine, Col. Cilley of New Hampshire, the
Mercer Luminary. Pa. and a number of others
Yet the Polk papers would make their readers
believe‘ tliai these are changes to Polka: Dallas 5
There have been a few—a ’L°c'r_7/ fcw—noiablc
changes of Harrison men of 1540 in Polk men
of 184-1-maiiily old Free Trade men, who
prefer Polk on that ground. M r. Verplanck of
this State is one; Gen. Geo. \V. Cral:-b ofAla-
bama is anoiher.—Tlie latter was twice elected
to Congress by the \Vhigs, and run a third time
unsuccessfully. He recently renounced the
VVhig party in a loco foco meeting at Tuscaloo
.sa, stating in his speech that he is an uncondi-
tional Annexaiionist, and that he always was a
Free Trade rnau. He stated that he agreed
with the VVhigs on the Currency question, and
ihatonly; and that considering the Tariff and
Texas ilie main issues now, he must go for Polk.
This is fair and for every vote we loose on these
grounds, we gain ten.

We make no parade of the changes to our
side, but we ktiow that they are numerous and
general. 'I‘akea single fact within our knowl-
There is a township in Pennsylvania
which gave Van Buren 7-5 majority in 1840
and out oftwo hundred voters in the town, one
hundred and seventy/five are members ofthe Clay
C'l-vb. This is one case out ofinaiiy.

John Bush, formerly editor and proprietor of
the Baltimore Republican, the Locofoco organ
of Maryland, has come out for Clay and Fre-
He was a leading Van Buren

edge:

lingliuysen.
man in 1840.
Hon. John V. L. l\1'_\Iahon, long a Jackson
leader came out for Harrison in 1840, but since
1841 has been a neutral or Tyler man. Two
or three times the Locofoco papers have raised
the cry that he had come out for Polk and Dal-
las. He has publicly contradiciedtlie assertion.
He as yet takes no part in the contest.

VVe will now given few of the many changes
to the Whig side that we find in our papers:

NO CHANGES EH?

A gentleman whose veracity is not to he
impeached, stated on Ssturduy, that in one
Election District in Lenox, Madison Co.

‘Charity begins at home,’ gentlemen; anoth-r
er good maxim which you have forgotten.’

_ lllolly Sta-r/'.' Amusing.-—The Canton, 0-
hio, Repository of the 4th instant states that‘
in two townships oftltat county. (Stark) one‘
hundr.ed and fifty Democrats, who are in fa--
vor of the Tariff, and against the Polk doc--
trine of Annexation have come out’ from the
locofoco party, and pledged themselves to‘
vote for Clay and Frelinghuyscn.

To the Editor of the Ohio State Jour.

DEAR SIR--I have been and am still_ V a5
Democrat. and I have voted for Martin Van‘
Buren ; but since the party chose to advocate
the annexation of Tex-«s.to the Union, and
make that a reason why Mr. Polk should be‘
elected President, I for one cannot go with
him. * * * And although Henry Clay
is a Slaveliolder, yet he has the manhood to
say what he knows to be true on this as well
as other subjects; and he will have my vote‘
in October. ST!-.l’llEN SMITH.

Mill Cr. ek, Dcltiware County. June 28.

Editor Clci.-elanzl Herald-—Sir :——The
undersigned, citizens not.’ mechanics of the
township of Hudson, Summit county, Ohio,
have come to the conclusion that we cannot
coiisistently support Messrs. Polk, Dull s
and Tod. for the offices to which they are
nominated. * ‘* * \Ve will conclude by
inviting all our Di-mocratic friends who love
the old landmarks of Washington, Jefferson
and Madison, more than this system of pro-
gress, which after all is progressing, back-
ward, to cut loose from the party that has re-
solved itself in favor of the extension of Sla-
very to the neglect ofevery national interest
-_whose only rallying cry is Polk and Tex-
as, Tod and victory, and unite with us in
electing Clay and Fri-linghiiysen, who are
pledged to the great principles ofDemocracy
which we love more than men. Yours &c.

HIRAM C. IIART.
J. L. Quay.
From the New Lisbon. Ohio, Palladiwn.

‘Ever since I have been a voter (l5yr-ars)
I have been a steady supporter of the party
calling itself the Democratic party. True
at times, I was lml to doubt the propriety of
so doing, when I found unprinciplcd men
playing the rlemagogiie, and using the sacred
name of Democracy, as a swift nag on whose
back they might ride into office and power,
at the expense ofthe best lI1l.rl‘(‘SlS ofan hon-
est people.

'S'.ill, however, lgloried in supposing that
I belonged to the l)ctn'zocruc_I/, though some,
even many, of its leaders were dishonest.—-

At length, however, upon the most mature
deliberations, I have been compelled, by the
boldnrss of and recklessness of the leaders
of the party, to ‘renounce all allegiance to it,
and da-lure myself inlep.-ndent of its shack-
lcs.

He goes on to say; Quit then, fellow-
Democrats, the hollow sound of the name,
and go your all in favor of "Harry of the
West,” whose acts during the late war with
Grout Britain. proved him a real democrat
and zealous patriot. ASIIFORD ’.\/IANKIN.
Elkrun Tp. Columbiana Co Ohio,

At a meeting oflndependent Democrats of
Pery County. held at Somerset on the l7th
ult. Col Isaac Thorn was called to the Chair
and Ed wa rd Keenin appointed Vice Presi-
dent. Dr. J. L. Brown, Henry» Lovell and
H. M. D-vis, Esqrs. were called upon, and
delivered most effective addresses. A large
number of resolutions were presented con-
demning the proceedings of the Baltimore
Conve-ntion, and denouncing Southern dicta-
tion. Resoliitions approving the leading
measures ofthe Whigs, both ofa State and
National cliaracter, and denouncing James
K Polk, were also adopttd. We regret that
we have not room to day to insert them all.
Resolved, That we view the Delegation
from Ohio to the late Democratic Baltimore
Convention, together with the delegation
from some seventeen other states, in no other
light than a set of true loco focos—recrea'nttq
their pledges; and disregarding the instruc-
tions oftheir constituents.

South Solon, Madison Cu. 0, June 27 '44
M7. Spring-—Having been it warm sup-
porter ofthe Democratic party for upwards
of 38 years. I wish you to publish to the
world, and to the loco foco party that I have
left their ranks, and shall go for Clay and
Frelinghuysen. Yours &,c,
VVILLIAM P. LINVILL.

A meeting will be held at the court house
in London, on Saturday, the 13th instant, at
four o’clock, P. M. by those who have for-
mcrlgy supported the democratic party, and
Who are now favorable to the election of
Henry Clay to the Presidency, for the pur-
pose of forming ourselves into a society to
promote the princip|-s of the ‘Whig part_v——
wliich we believe to be the principles advan-
ced and supported by VVasbiiigton, Madison,

Jefferson and all true Republicans ofthe Un-

Z. T. FISHER.
J. F. CHINOWITH.
GEO. PHIFER.
WM. B. CDALTER.
VViu. J'ENK_S.
H. -M'CAiin»ism.i.

ion.

Where parties in 1840 stood 24 loco-

London July '

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