The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-11-01
Wa S HIN GTON.
FRIDAY EVENING, NOv'R |, 1874.
THE LAST CARD.

III LAC1 SahD.
Next Monday, the election for President and
Vice President takes place in many of the States,
and in order to meet the exigency, we shall issue
our weekly edition two days in advance of the
usual time. The number will be found to con.
tain much valuable information bearing upon the
great questions to be decided, and we respect
fully suggest to each of our subscribers to the
Weekly to hand the paper over to his Locofoco
neighbor, after first perusing it himself. Be sure
to select some honest, sensible man, who has
been imposed upon by Locofoco demagogues, and
whose mind is open to conviction. Nothing can
be easier than to connect all such to the great
and glorious cause Of the Wings, if the proper
steps are taken to effect the object. 1t is inpos-
sible that it should be otherwise. The Locofocos
have no fixed or uniform principles which they
are willing to defend and maintain in every quar-
ter of the Union, and when men of sense and
honesty are convinced of the fact, they will infa-
libby desert party thus constituted.
We have abored from the commencement of
the campaign to the present time to expose the
fasehoods and impostures and Inconsistencies of
our opponents; and we fatter ourselves that we
have not labored in vain. Scarcely day, and
certainly not week has passed, in which we
have not been called upon to expose some gross
fraud concocted by the Locofocos to impose upon
the people. In one or another part of the Union
they have avowed every shade of opinion upon the
various political questions which agitate the coun-
try. These opinions, diverse and inconsistent
as they are, have not Only been avowed by the
individuals of a district or neighborhood, but they
have all been unbushingly attributed to Mr..
Polk, and proclaimed to he the principles Of the
so.caled democratic" party
When Mr.. Polk was put forth by the Balti-
more Convention as the candidate for the Presi-
dency, he was declared to be Southern to the
backbone" This was the epigrammatc expos-
ton of his views, given by his Multiplying friends,
the Walkers, McDuffies, and Rhetts, who. it
will be remembered, trumphed in the Conven-
ton over the more numerous but irresolute and
spiritless adherents of Mr.. Van Buren,. Mr..
Polk was declared by his Southern friends who
have known and watched his whole career, to be
thorough going friend of free trade, and irrecon-
cileably opposed to protective tariff He was
also represented as sound upon the subject of
annexation; going for that measure with all his
heart, which, according to its projectors, Messrs.
Calhoun and Tyler, was to extend and perpetu-
ate slavery.
But after all, ii was found impossible to elect
Mr.. Polk without the aid of Northern votes 1t
was found necessary to conciliate Pennsylvania
upon the subject of tariff, and the North gen.
orally upon the subject of slavery. To effect
these most desirable objects, the Pennsylvania
Locofocos boldly hosted the tariff flag, and have
as Justify battled for "polk and the Tariff" as
any Wing could do for "Clay and the Tariff"
Grossly and UNANIMOUSLY absurd laughably alb
surd as was this imposition, it has been persisted
in to this day, and not we fear, without effect, in
deceiving many an honest Pennsylvania, who
never heard the name of Mr.. Polk f;om his natal
day up to the hour of his nomination for the Pre-
sidency. Thus it has happened that the very
circumstance which it was imagined would have
foled the Locofocos, the obscurty and insignif.
cancy of their candidate, has operated in his "a
vor Had the Locofocos fought the battle with
the weapons Of truth and fair dealing, the case
would have been otherwise; but their object be-
ing to deceive the people in regard to the rea
sentiments of Mr.. Polk, they found his lttlenese
and obscuri,y conducive to that end.
In regard to annexation and slavery, the North
ern demagogues who have been forced into the
Texas scheme have all along maintained that an
nexation, so far from accomplishing the object
for which it was projected, that of extending and
perpetuating slavery, would be attended with the
very contrary consequence, that of aboshine
slavery. Processing to be the friends and allie,
of the South, and supporting measure which
Southern men had conceived in the hope that il
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