Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-06-20


Benton for the admission of Texas as a
State into the Union, was lost to-day
in the Senate by distinct party vote.
The unanimity on both sides-the fed
erallsts to man opposing a congress
sional annexation, the democrats to a
man sustaining it-manifest that this
question Of extending the dominion,
the power, the prosperity of republican
government, is, as Of yore, most dis
tinct and exact defining line of the two
great parties in this country. The
principle and motive which operate in
producing this result whenever a ques-
ton of extending the boundaries Of
the republic arises, have shown them
selves on every occasion when an issue
has been presented in Congress invol-
wing the enlargement of our limits. =
Immediately after the revolution, the
federal party opposed, as far as they
dared to do it, all the measures aiming
at quoting the Indian troubles beyond
the Alleganies, to prevent the settlement
of the new States in the West. Fed
eralism opposed the acquisition Of Lou
iSiana; federalism opposed the applica-
ton Of the territories for admission in
to the Union; and federalism now OPP
poses, with one voice, the reannexa-
ton of Texas to the Union.
The principle on which this party al
ways proceeds, is repugnance to bet
tering the condition of the people
Farmers settled on their own freeholds
constitute the great power which ar
rests the strides Of aristocracy, and de-
feats all those schemes which-by her.
ding the people in masses in manufac-
turing towns and villages, land on lands
held of superiors as tenants-tend in
variably to their subjugation. The
spread of the republic is the spread of
the democracy, and blasts the hopes of
those who would make stockholders,
manufacturing companies, incorpora-
tons welding moneyed influence,
the animating principle Of government,
instead ofthe free sutfrageS Of our in
dependent people.
After the above was written, we
learned that Mr.. Hannegan, a demo
Graf, voted for laying the bill on the ia
bic; and Mr.. Tallmadge, a whig, voted
against laying it on the table.-GIobe.
The Wigs Refuse to prevent Pipe
ng.-Mr. Berrien, the chairman of
the Judiciary Committee in the Sen
ate, has reported the bill from the house
Of Representatives which provides for
holding the presidential election on the
same day in all the States, with an a.
mentment, which postpones its opera
ton till after the next election.
This is certainly a remarkable piece
Of frankness; for while it plainly ac-
knowledges that this bill is required,
to prevent frauds on the elective fran
chise, it postpones correcting the evil,
SO as to give Mr.. Clay the benefit of
it in the coming election. This is I'M
questionably the real motive Of the a
mendment; and it cannot be disguised.
The most enormous frauds have been
Ijudicially proved to have been practis-
ed by the wing party upon the demo-
cratic party,-frauds which go to de-
stroy the very foundations of our gov
ernment-popular sovereignty; and
which the democrats, in a body, allege
gave the wings success in 1870
The democratic party in the House of
Representatives pass a bill to prevent
repetition of those frauds, and the
wing Senate postpones its operation
till after another presidential election!
Can any honest mind resist the conclu-
sion of the wings of the Senate know
the advantages they have heretofore
derived from the frauds complained of,
and that they do not intend to give
them up till after another election,
which, if they carry, will enable them
to substitute the power ola bank of the
United States over the people for the
frauds they must now resort to upon
their sullrages'-Globe.
-eSo-
Wig Promises Of 1S44.-The
Wing papers are beginning to repeat
the Humbugging promises of prosperi-
ty in the event Of Clay'S election, which
they made in 1910. The Wabash
Courier of May 18th says:
"With Henry Clay President, the
country will prosper-Industry will be
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS directed moder
ately, in proper channels, will be en-
couraged and receive tsjust dues
All branches of business, acting and
reacting, though each first for itself,yet |
all for the whole-mutually and recip- I
rocally aiding each other, must flourish.
The prosperity of one, an almost neces-
sary consequence, under the influence
of proper. Tariff, and steady Nation
al Currency, will be the aid and SIM