The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-12-26

Truth is mighty and mill prerail-I'he bold
fiction hathe British mere in fapor of Mr..
Poh's election retuted by their oaon nords.-
The London Times, to uhich spurious
article ras attributed by the Wing press,
denounces The election Of Mr.. Polk as nep
proof Of the eriis Of Republican Gorern-
menf.
Among the irradiations shed by the Wing
press on political views and principles in the
late contest, was the invention of a paragraph,
as from the London Times. to the purpou that
the Free Traders had voted an immense sum of
money TO abby tracts lin the election of Nh. P ok.
The Times newspaper now shows, as well as
many other British prints, the keen disappoin-
ment they feel in the election of Mr.. Polk and
that, DESTROYS as they are Of free trade with the
United States, the prevention Of the annexation
of Texas, and free trade with her, are so dear
to them that they express their profound regrets
that the Tariff candidate should not have been
elected. Nothing could evince more powerful
ly the British feeling on this subject, nor elicit
more clearly its extent and energy, than the fact
that Mr.. Clay was their favorite candidate, al
though laboring under the heavy disability, in
their eyes, of decided friendliness to a high tariff
Great Britain so ardenuy desires the abolition OF
slavery in our county-grounded on her wishes
for commercial ggrandizement-that, although
she has thirty millions Of people in her own
dominions in worse condition than our slaves
the consideration Of the amount Of commercial
intercourse with usis comparatively trining. She
so earnestly wishes to curtail the of that re-
publican freedom Of ours which she considers Ian.
gerous TO monarchy, that the tariff weighed bu
feather against the annexation of Texas
Indeed, as one of her own journals has openly
proclaimed, by the independence of Texas, sh,
calculates on being able to regard with total in
difference any tariff OF the North American
States.
We now see who spoke truly the sentiments
OF England as TO the candidates for the Pres
dency They stand Observation-Disclosures
The English aris,ocrscy speak out in tones o
disappointment, loud lament and scorn. 9TH,
canvass" says the London Times in ar articl,
subjoined, " has, by the election of Polk. onl,
rendered The vices of their present condition
more conspicuous, and prepared the way 70
the increasing evils and excuses of their futur,
career" Let the reader peruse with attention
the articles quoted below from the Times an,
Liverpool Mail, and he will readily perceiy,
that, few expressions were dropped ndicalio.
locality, it would naturally be taken for a Viii!
efiusion on the deplorable consequences of hi
recent election, 'the ignorance, ingratitude. an,
vicious propensities of the Democratic masses.
| Deception can last only for a time. Truth
in the end will prevail. Who now was RICH
in the judgment formed of England's wish il
regard TO the Presidency, and in regard {,
that high office, mainly because Of ii,
Texas question: For in some other res
poets, Mr. Clay was less acceptable to Eng
land than Mr.. Polk Mr.. Folks position
on the Texas question made her totally adyers,
to him, as looking to the aggrandizement of :
power which she would gladly see contracted
nay, as Tar as republIcanism is concerned, ami
hlated. Hence The talk in the organs of the
arslocracy of the deep stain on the morality OF
the country by the election of Mr.. Polk. This
from men whose morality is calculated by their
interest, and 10 the main exactly scanned by ats
dictates and measures men who have not been
willing or able to provide remedy for The evil.