The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-06-14
PRENTICEIANA.
From the Louisville Journal


the face, and yet they likely to support can
ddate for the Vice Presidency, whe, while in
Congress- always went all lengths for all sorts of
protective tariffs, and was actually the author Of
that abominabe bill to recharter the Bank of the
United States v hich General Jackson vetoed -!
And the party, that has such a candidate for
the Vice Presidency, actually faunts into the
face of insulted Heaven the motto "measures
aud not men"
Our opponents are entirely welcome to call us
tho coons" hereafter. Who can doubt the is
sue of fight between The coonS and The pokes
When do the pokes have their first rally in
this city! We would go farther to sec it than TO
see pigeon-roost.
Mr., C. J. Ingcrsoll, who proclaims that if he
had lived during the Revolutionary war; he would
have been tory, ought to give warm support
to Mr.. Polk. We are informed that some of Pok's
ancestors, residents Of North Carolina, were to-
ries of the most vllainous kind.
bystander, who was witness OF the insult
offered by Mr.. Wise to Mr.. Polk in the rotunda
of the House of Representatives, says that it made
his I" blood boil in his veins" But there was no
sign of boiling in Mr.. Folks veins. The villain
Gus fluid that crculates through his cowardly
frame is not blood at all, but mere pike juice.
What sorry flock of owls and buzzards and
carrion-crows was the Locofoco Baltimore Cot-
vention to elect "fy np-the-creek" for their
leader
Some people say there is nothing in name.
but we say no man of the name of Jenny Polk
can ever be President of these United States.
The editor of the Detroit Free Press asks,
"Strike we for York or Lancaster 7" The truth
is, sir, you must strike for neither the one nor
IL Dbl, ,,,bo
suited had never the courage to strike for himself
The Philadelphia Spirit Of the Times, abiding
to the nomination of Mr.. Polk, calls upon the
Wings 10 "stand from under" 1t is certainly
no more than prudent to stand from under when
there's poke flying over.
1t is decidedly our opinion, that any Locofoco,
who is willing to take James K. Polk instead OF
Martin Van Buren,, would feel 10 retching of the
stomach if lean "fy-up-the-creek' were served
TO him for dinner instead of fat turkey.
We have before now seen boys, who wished
TO appear resolute, undertake to swallow salts or
aloes or jalap as if they loved it. They gener-
ally made out to get the dose down, but there was
always a sort of twitching about the muscles OF
the mouth aud nose, that showed an almost ire
sistible inclination to vomit just such witch
ing we see in the faces of the Locofocos when
they would seem to swallow, palatable dose,
the nominations of Polk and Dallas.
With Folks overwhelming defeat in Tennes-
see, in the late gubernatorlal election, commenced
the downfall of the Locofoco party. Did the con-
vention at Baltimore, which nominated Mr.. Polk
think that he, who commenced the reverses of
their party last August, should bear all the honors
of its calamnous end next November?
Throughout the whole of Monday, more than
three fourths of the ocofocos Of this city utterly
refused to believe that James K. Polk had been
nominated for the Presidency. They swore that
the story was ga id Wing lie." And now we
wonder what proportion of them will be whipped
into the support OF nomination which they deem
ed too absurd and proposterous to be reality,
A QUESTION OF VERAcITY.-Benjamin Butler,
that last crust divder," solemnly assured the
Baltimore Convention that the State of New York
would 20 for Mr. Clay unless Mr.. Van Buren,
was nominated. After Van was thrown over
board, the same pious gentleman pledged himself
to the Convention that New York would give
10000 majority for Polk Albany Journal.
"AssUMPT1oN OF STATE DEBTs."-Locofocosm
has affected the utmost horror of every thing like
an assumption of State debts." So anxious has
been the Globe Richmond Enquirer, Albany Ar
gus, &c, to manifest their opposition to this poll
cy, that they have for four years been arguing a
/" felgned ISSUE But, however unwilling to al |
low the General Government to assist Indiana
and Illinois, Blair, Richie, Croswel, &c, go for
The assumption Of The TEXAS debt Without kno,o-
ing or inquiring its amount These leaders of
the Locooco party refuse to extend a helping
hand to our sister States whose Indebtedness
grew out Of too anxious effort to develop their
resources by opening channels of communication |
with the Atlantic States, but readily take ground
in favor Of assuming untold millions Of Gebt Gre
ated By Icran aduenturers And this is genu-
inc Locofocoism. These are the instincts of
profgacy. Such men 60 for or against every |
great measure, not with reference to their bear
ing upon the public welfare, but with view to
their own selfish, sordid interests.-Ibid.
GREAT LocoFoco BREAKDOWN The Loco |
focos, such of them as approves Of Van Buren's de-
feat, and of the nomination of Polk and Dallas, |
held ratification meeting in front OF the Court
House, in Rochester, NJ Y, on Saturday after
noon. For "Cuunty Mass Meeting" it was |