The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-06-06

their measures, the people would be fools to try
them again; for, what has happened once may
happen twice; what is bred in the bone will show
itself in the flesh; and mans calling himself a
Democrat don't make him one.
z That it is more prudent to let well enough
alone; and though ten shllings per day be better
than Six shllings, yet that six shlngs per day is
better than nothing. M
3. Finally, we should remember that employ
ment depends upon the amount of capital and the
activity with which it moves; and that tariff in
creases the amount of capital by preventing its
being drawn off to pay for foreign goods, as also
the activity of that capital by embarking it in
manufacturing enterprise, and thus circulating it
through the country. As employment is poor
mans only capital, it surely stands him in hand
to carry it to the best market
Here the speaker ceased. His observations
were received in silence, and the meeting quietly
dispersed, without noise or any further remark.
HOW THE NOMINATION is RECEIVED.
The New York Evening Post, in the bitter.
ness OF its disappointment at the defeat of Mr..
Vas Buren,, gives vent to its indignant feelings
in he following plain but energetic language.
From the Evening Post of May 3l.]
THE RESULT OF THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION.
tween the friends of Mr. Van Buren, and those
who were determined to exclude him from the
nomination for the Presidency, because Of his
opinion concerning the annexation of Texas, has
ended in sort of compromise by which the NOM
inaion has been unanimously conferred upon Mr.
Polk, of Tennessee. Mr.. Polk is man Of hand
some talents, of fair and manly character, and
right views in regard to the questions on which
the two parties of the nation divided, but like
L.
the Texas question.
Meantime, Mr.. Van Buren, retires from the
field with more honor than could possibly await
upon any man to whom the convention might
offer the nomination. He has sacrificed the
chance of being the candidate of great, and in
nine times out of ten, successful and ascendant
party, 10 the honest expression of an opinion in
favor OF observing the law of right in our beha-
vlour towards a weaker nation. He retires, os-
tracised, like Arstdes, because he is too just for
the times No part of his public life, great as
are his merits, will have fairer place in history
than the act of noble frankness by which he lost
second nomination.
Of the result to which the Convention came
we must speak with sincerity, bnt we desire to
speak with moderation. We have called it
compromise but it is one of those compromises
in which the concession is all OH one side. The
southern delegates were determined that no man
snould De nominated who was not IN their way Of
thinking in regard to the annexation of Texas
and showed themselves ready to support any man
who might be named-the thipnest and feeblest
shadow of canddate--provded he agreed with
them on this question. They have carried their
point, as they usually do in such controversies
and the North have submitted.
We have no taste for the unravelling of these
mysteries but we believe that if the secret his
tory of the Convention, from the adoption Of the
two thirds rule through its various proceedings
could be written, large number Of the delegates
would stand dlsgraced in the ewes of their con-