The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-11-15
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that Mr.. Calhoun will be Mr.. Folks Secretary Of
State. We doubt it. Mr.. Polk, as every body
knows, is the creature of Gen. jackson, obedient
and submissive to all his whims; and unless the
old hero has undergone miraculous change of
| feeling, he would far sooner see Mr.. Calhoun
promoted to the gaows than continued in his
present position under Mr.. Polk. Gen. Jackson
is not the man to give up his antipahies 80 sud
deny--not his profession of repentance for all
his sins, nor the Intervention of the grave can
shield his victim from his relentless hate He
to this day visits the memory of Judge White
with his bitterest anathemas, and since the death
| of that gentleman has called him by names which
it is unseemly to write of dead man.
Gen. Jackson few years since spoke of Mr.
Calhoun with equal harshness-denounced him
by the strongest epithets which are generally
used to describe character destitute of truth
| and honor, and said that he possessed the evil
dence Of Mr.. Calhoun's depravity, which he would
one day publish to the world but if he neglected
it, he would set apart fund, with directions in
his will to his executor to publish it. If he still
| cherishes such feelings towards Mr.. Calhoun,
Mr.. Polk would sooner commit treason than ap-
point that gentleman to the Office of Secretary Of
State. We are inclined to believe that Mr.. Cal
houn has finished his political career, and after
| the 4th Of March will be permitted to return to
| that paragon of republics, South Carolina, there
to brood over the beauties of ullification-recon-
Gle its paradoxes, or, perhaps, to hatch some
scheme for it's practical application. 1t will be
sort Of retributiye justice which will thus over
| take Mr.. Calhoun, for his shameful coalition with
the "rogues and royasts," who are only "held
! together by the cohesive power of the public
plumber" McDuffie and Hamilton, and all those
who arrayed themselves against Gen. Jackson in
1928, will fare no better. Old Hickory would
have changed the rascals' in 1888 but for the
timely Intervention Of Mr.. Clay with his Com
promise but no Clay will be here in March to
save Mr.. Calhoun's head from tho gulotine of
political prescription
Mr.. Calhoun joined the Rogueu and Royal
ists," because, as he said, the victory, if won by
the Wings, would not enure" to his benefit.
In joining the party which he had thus charac-
terized, he doubtless had an eye to the maxim
that there is honor among thieves" 1t would
be hard if he should xd his confidence misplaced
but it is, nevertheless, likely to turn out so.
| We are inclined to expect that Mr.. Senator
| Walker will come in for the first place in the
| Cabinet. Mr.. Walker has been the most indie
fatgable champion of Mr.. Polk and Annexation
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Texan scrip holder in the manufacture of facts to
deceive and wheedle the people. He is, besides,
"southern to the backbone" and we don't re-
member that he has ever given intentional offence
to the lion of the Hermitage. Mr. Walker has
| likewise been called the "Warwick of the party"
and has owned the justice Of the charge. He,
| therefore, stands the best chance for the pre-
miership upon calculation of the probabilities.
The tory predictions Of Charles ]. Ingersoll
| might serve him turn, if he were not from the
! North. The coming administration is to be
Southern to the backbone" and, of course, the
| white-lvered Northern toadies who were brow
beaten at Baltimore, will not be allowed to fill
any respectable station. They ought not; and
we trust that their mean compliance with South
ern hautcur and dctation will 60 unrewarded
| HENRY, CLAY AND THE WIG PARTY.-Allu-
ding to the results of the election, the Baltimore
Patriot says:
"Henry Clay has received in this election
more votes than were ever given before to any
man for any office in this country, fact which
demonstrates that the Wing party is now of itself
stronger than at any time since its formation. Of
| what noble host it is composed it is unneces.
sary to say--of the wisdom of its prncipl even
many Of those who have recently opposed it are
convlnced-and of the ultimate triumph of the
men of the Wing party, and of the principles OF
the Wing party, few will doubt who know who
these men are, and look to the principles they
advocate, and then regard the means by which
they were 50 recently defeated, and the spirit
which the exposure of those means has excited
in the minds of the American people,"
| ABOUT TWo WEEKS TOO LATE.-Six hundred
and thirty passengers from Europe arrived at New
| York in one day this week