The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-07-17

Soty; " NSuhast ulCuu toBtHti. EeiNdp7 inc
opinion of Horace Greedy, the A iax Telemon 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 1899, JAMES X. POLK, ONE OF THE A.
BLESF MEN AND MOST POWERFUL SPEAK
ERS IN THE SOUTHWEST took the field as the
Administration (Van BUREN, candidate for Governor;
and after canvass of unprecedented vehemence, in
which he PfOred hiBlsefG match both speaking
taIet and N prsonal address and popularity for his op
ponent, Governor Cannon, he was elected by some
twenty-five hundred majority"
30 then, if any benighted whig enquiries " who
is James K Polk2" we have whig authority for
saying that " james X. POLt is one Of the ablest
men and most powerful speakers in the South
Vest"
These "Lying Varlets" of Wheeling, not be-
ing able to bring any charges against Mr.. Folks
character, which they know is as pure and un-
contaminated as the mountain snow, must travel
back to libel his ancestors. Like Hyenas, they
dug up the smouldering ashes of the grave J!
they charged some one of Gov. Polk's ancestors
his grandfather, we beieye--with being To-
y. 1t is as false as Tartarus! The North Caro-
lima Standard, published in the neighborhood
where Gov, Polk was born, thus contradicts this
most vile and infamous SANDER:
'Wehurl back this foul, unmanly and false charge
1t has nothing of truth sustain it. James X. Polk
is the eldest of Samuel Polk and born in 1895,
than three years after the close othe revolutionary
war. Samuel Polk too young to take any part in
the struggles of that period; but all the members of his
family 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 1900 Shame upon the editor who thus attempts for
low party purposes, to slander and deiame honest
man now in his grave! He who would inure the son,
by furnishing the fair reputation of worthy father,
deserves and will receive the exerations of all honora
bic men,"
The Nashville Union published in Tennessee,
where Gov. Polk resides, also Iefutes the same
SANDER, when published by the notorious George
D. Prentice, Clay's biographer. Read what the
Union says:
The Louisville Journal edited by Mr.. Clays biog-
rapher, and which is his confidential organ in the West
is waging the same kind OF warfare upon Gov. Polk
which was waged by Mr. Clay's organ in 1928 against
General Jackson. Unable to invent any slander
against Gov. Polk himself which effect his charac-
ter that vile tool of Mr. Clay is engaged in digging up
the ashes of his ancestors and sanderng them before
the people of Kentucky He charges and asserts that
Gov Polk's ancestor tory in the Revolution, and
only escaped the gallows by concealment. This most
foul SANDER is uttered by Mr.. Clays confidential
friend, and goes unrebuked by him. viler SANDER
never issued from the mouth ofa fend than is this which
Mr.. Cay's biographer uers. Yet Mr. Clay is willing
to the ashes Of the ancestor Of his competitor aked
up and sandeed, and to enjoy the benefit Of the calum
N.Y. 1t is just such conduct as this that has forever
disappointed and prosrated the ambitious hopes of Mr.
CLAW, Tho tmth is that the south were more
highly distinguished nor prominently remarkable
for early fighting and hard fighting in the camp of free
dom than that of Gov. Polks ancestors and rela-
tiyes in North Carolina. 1t is with shame and scon
that we, the descendants Of North Carolinans find
next neighbor revng the great and good name of
PolI--one of whom shot through at the Cowpens
shot through at Germantown, and shot through at
Monmouth. A family who some of the deepest
and brightest laures of the Revolution 1t does
seem that no man can come in the way of Mr.. Clay,
that he is not stgmazed and sandered by his hirelng
toos but it matter of consolation, that in every in
stance heretofore, justice has been meted out to the
sanderer. 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, loafng, fed
eral popiniays of Wheeling, and we are done.
We have extended our notice of their speeches
already TOO far; but while we refute their asser-
tons particularly, it will also serve as a refuta-
ton 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 to old Soldiers, who had fought the
battles of their country. Now, the Journal ofthe
House of Representatives itselfs the bestrefula-
ton we can offer in relatonto the matter From
those Journals we copy what follows. 1t will be
seen that in every instance, Gov. Polk's votes
prove him to be the answering friend of those
who had fought and bled in defence of their
country, while Mordecai BARLEY, 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