Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-08-10
From the Boston Morning Post
CALUMNIEs REFUTED----GOv. POLK
AND THE PENSIONERS.

From the Boston Morning Post
CALUMNIEs REFUTED----GOv. POLK
AND THE PENSIONERS.
The federal editors have coined base ISLANDERS
relative to the votes of James Polk, touch
ing compensation to Revolutionary soldiers and
their widows. The editor the Ohio Statesman
has taken the trouble to procure extracts from
the journal ofthe House of Representatives, show
ing the ialsity of the federal charges. The evi-
dence which the editor of the Statesman has col
lected is official and we here subioin it -
In House Of Representatives Thursday, April
81, 1929
The house proceeded to the consideration of
the bill for relief of surviving officers of the
ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION. A motion
was then made by Mr.. Mitchell of Tennessee
that the further consideration off the said bill be
postponed until the first Monday in July next
And the question thereupon being put, it was
decided in the negative--yeas 10, nays l2i
JAMES X POLK voted with the Nays to sus.
tain this bill
LSee House Journal, first session, 18th Con.
gress, page i6s.
In House of Representatives, Monday, May, |
1926
On motion to amend the above mentioned bill
so as to provide for the ",cdo,cs Of o6cers and
soldiers rvho fell and Med in the Revolutionary
War" JAMES X POLK voted in the a6fraa-
tire.-Ibid, page 597.
In House of Representatives, Tuesday, May2
1926.
Several leading federalists, whose names are
given, voted to lay the above bill on the Ia.
ble-JAMES X. POLK voted against it.-lbid,
page sos
In House of Representatives, Tuesday, Jan
l6, 1927.
The bill for the relief of the surviving officers
of the ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION being
under consideration, John Woods, of the Ohio
delegation, moved to lay it on the table JAMES
X POLK voted against it.
On the same day motion was made to post
pone the consideration ofthe bill until the Sd of
March, which was to defeat it. JAMES K.
POLK voted against it,
ISee House Journal, second session, 10Th con.
gress, page lj6--S
In House of Representatives, Wednesday,
February 2j, 30.
The question being on the passage ofa bill to
amend "An act to provide for certain persons en-
gagged in the land and naval service of the United
States in the REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
JAMES X. POLK voted in favor of this bill
See House Journal, second session, 2Oth con.
grcss page 3l7.l
In House of Representatives, Saturday, Feb
ruary, 2s, 1929.
The question being ordering to a third read.
ing bill to compensate to Susan Decatur widow
of Capt. STEPHEN DECATUR, JAMES K POLK
voted in the affirmative Ibid page 359
But later, viz. in 1892, JAMES X. POLK sue
ceeded in getting the law passed, a liberal and
just law, the under which the old soldiers
now receive their just reward.
In House of Representatives, Tuesday, Nav
/, 1882
On motion to grant pensions TO those who de.
tendea our frontiers IN The Mdian ,caS l776 up
to the treaty of Greenville, in 1898, JAMES X
POLK voted in the qfirmotire
ISee House Journal, FIRST session o2d congress,
page 67s.l
In House of Representatives, Thursday, May
81, 1882.
The question being on ordering TO third rea-
ding the bill from the Senate, supplementary to
the act for the RELIEF OF CERTAIN SURvI-
WING OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE
REVOLUTION, JAMES X. POLK voted in the
affirmative Ibid, page 19s
In House of representatives, Thursday, May,
81, 1882.
JAMES X. POLK voted for the previous ques-
ton on the passage of the last mentioned bill
Ibid, page $50.
In connection with the above votes the editor
Of the Statesman gives the names of several fe-
deralts who voted in noppositon TO Col, Polk, and
against the interest of the revolutionary soldiers,
one of whom is Mordeca Barlely, present whig