The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-11-14

men OF Barnard.
"IIA! HA! SUCH A NOMINEE
AS JIMMY POLK FROM TENN
ESSEE."
We can't help copying from the Boston
Atlas of June,I, 1914 an article in relation
to the Baltimore Democratic Convention.
Editorial Correspondence Of the Atlas
BALTIMORE, May 90, 1874.
VAN buren, OvERBoARD-JAMEs X Polk
NOMINATED.
After long and agony, the mountain
has labored and more ridiculous abortion
,cas ncrr produced. AT the ninth ballot,
james X. Polk, of Tennessee, has received
the requisite number of ballots, and has
been declared to be the nominee oflhe Loco
Foco Convention. A more ceak and ab-
sud nomination can hardly be imagined.
A broken DOZEN, Gshonored dcmogoguc
twice repudatcd by the people of his own
State, as unworthy Of their confidence
offensive MORALLY as well as politically
where can he look for any thing like even
decent suppOrt1 TO the North! Anti
Observation-Disclosures pro
Texas-what has he to hope from the
Norhl TO Ncm York; Will ever the
Locos of that State, who have been cheat
ed ont Of their candidate, feel like making
any effort for such a cempeti,ion1 TO
Pennsylvania or New Jersey? What will
their sturdy Tarriif:men say, to such a
nomination? When the question shall be
put to them-Tariif or no Tarif-Henry
Clay or James X Polk-who can double
the result! 1t is received here with much
surprise, and no little disappointment, on
the par, of the rank and file Of that party
who have no knowledge of the man, and
see, in the necessity OF his nomination,
only sure indication that the case Of their
party IS wctl nigh desperate" (Ahem,)
Our Baltimore letters, which we pub
lish this morning, will furnish our readers
with full information of the proceedings
of the Loco Foco Convention at Balti-
more, in relation to the nomination Of
candidates for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency. A more miserably Inefficient
Termination ola rude, disjointed, uncouth,
and acrimonious assemblage could not well
be imagined. fit had been left to as to
decide upon course to be pursued by
that convention-pertselly suicidal to the
Party which it protested to represent,
and calculated to STRENGTHEN OUR
OWN PARTY, AND ENSURE ITS
SUCCESSIVE could not have planned
series of measures more likely to even
tuatc in that result than those which have
been adopted by the Convention.
although ace hare been for some time
arac that the Wig party could beat then
Loco Eoco opponents at the ntrt Presiden-
tial election, in whatsoever shape those OPP
ponsnts might present Themselves, we have
nevertheless, desired that they would
nominate Van Buren, as their candidate
for the Presidency.
The Baltimore Loco Foco Convention
in seeking temporary refuge from the
strife and contention which were the re-
suit of the elementary formation of their
party, have skunk away into an utter a
abandonment of the men whom they have
hitherto supported, and the measures or
which they have hitherto protested to re-
ly. AS to the nomination Of JAMES X
Polk, it is the mersst aimsy subteJuge IL
The porId. There is not man among
those who nominated him, who has the
least expectation of his being elected
: The contcnding factions in their Convcn'
ton were so bitterly hostile to each other
and their enmity was found to be so i'm
placable, that they were forced to aban
don all hope of nominating any one ofth'
men whose lanes were prominently be
fore them. They were compelled, eithe
to incur the shame of dissolving withou
making nomin alton, or to take SOM
/. man Of stra,c to shelter them from the dis
grace Of that alternative.
JAMES X. Polk has never been nomi
mated, at any meeting of their party il
the country. In the whole range ofthei
prominent men, it would be impossible
to select one less likely to collect an
; scattered fragments of the party-les
delensible upon the score of public o
private WORTHLESS entitled to respect o
regard for any valuable public service
rendered, either to his party or the couu
try--or more likely to be soundiy or hor
, oughiy beaten in the contest. With HENRI
CLAY against this james X. Polk. W
Y ARE PERFECTLY SURE or THE VICTORY. i
/ the downfdH Of this candidate Of the las
resort, the nhoie party wiH be inrOlred-
: His defeat rih be The signal Of their ute
! annihiiation."
"Ha! ha! In! sneh a nominee,
4, Jimmy Poll from Ttnnessee."