Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1844-09-13

tlO PoA APooS VI dIulHg LH6lI common SCnOC
system, Mr.. Polk is opposed to a
this. Mr.. Clay is in favor of the one tern
principle. In this Mr. Polk, we believe
agrees with him, at least as far as he il
concerned.
Mr. Polk is in favor of the "immediat,
annexation of Texas" to our country.-
MIR. Clay is opposed to the annexation, un
less ut could be got "withom dishonor, ,oah
out aCdT, 10tth The common consent of The u,
MON, and upon Just and fair ierms."-
The Mexican Government gave notice
through their Secretary of foreign affairs
Don Bocanegra, that annexation would be
received by Mexico, as a declaration oi
war on part of our Government, and
treated accordingly. A large portion OF
our country have spoken against anneEa-
ton; yet this is all the affirmative measure
proposed to better the condition of the
country. Whether Mr. Polk and his
friends have abandoned the Sub Treasury
and Standing .4rmy schemes Of Mr.. Van
Buren,, we are not advised: though we be-
lieve, that covertIy, they are to be immedi-
ately dug up from the grave towhich they
were consigned by the people, in 184O.-
That is if Polk is elected.
We have the strange spectacle present.
ed to the country Of two parties in the
field, one with THEN principles and measures
inscribed on every flag; whilst the others
have no affirmative measures whatever,
Texas excepted; and indeed the party in
this county, don't all of them, openly a
VOW it. But their weapons of warfare all
over the country are the same. In Ohio
the small fry Of them about here, draw
their weapons from the common laboratory
Of lies, ond wholesale calumnes;-w
mean the office of the "Ohio Statesman"
at Columbus, Samuel Medary, who is paid
by the party at the rate OF some $4,000
per year out of our State Treasury, in Tnrt,
as the wages Of his iniquity, manufactures
and circulates all the thousand and one
bare faced lies, that petty malice can in-
vent against Mr.tCIay, and every other
prominent Wing in the country. Nosoon-
er do these lies appear in his filthy sheet,
than all the little Statesmen OF the same
kidney publish them to their readers; and
when the refutation of tie SANDER comes,
they never publish it.
We have only to say to our readers in
conclusion, that when such men as Thos.
Ewing, Thomas Corwin, Benjamin Rug
giles, John Mclaughlin, Joshua R. Gid
dings, of our own State, and John Q.
Adams, and Theodore Frelinghuysen, Of
other States, who are all known TO be emf.
nent for their intelligence, good moral char
acter and great private worth can vote for
Mr.. Clay, that it should at once put to si-
lencc the objections urged by lying scoun-
drel like Samuel Medory, and those who
pander ior the appedtes of a few in this
community
We only wish our friends to remember
that this same Samuel Medary, to say moth
ing of verdictof $1,000, obtained against
him by a Jury of his own county, for gross
Iy Iibeling neighbor, is the same man
who published the petticoat SANDER on
General Harrison, in 1910.
We hope our friends will not be so weak
as to let the lies of the Polk party, on our
candidates, enable them to escape the true
issues. Ali the abuse of Henry Clay, is
nothing compared with that given to the
hmehted Harrison, in 1910, by Medary,
and his satellites. Recoect, they charged
the General with co0ardice, with not being
at the battle Of the Thames, and with Sc
ducing his neighbor's daughter. And for
charge made by Mcdaly in his paper, of
an indecent affair with tho General and
Mrs, Schenck, one of the SONS Of the old
lady came u considerable distance for the
purpose of chastising said Modoryj which
he did eGectualIy and would have cut his
ears of, only for the interpostion Of the
Ebystanders.
| We hope the whigswill pay no heed to
the further ISLANDERS on Mr.. Clay, Make
the Polk men tell what they will do for the
country, if they get the power, Hold them
fast to the true issues.
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