The Whig standard., 1844-10-26
W ASHIN TON.
SATURDAY EVENING, OCT'R 26, 1874:
LET THE SOUTH AWAKE!

AS the great contest for the Presidency draws
to close, it becomes more and more apparent
that the Locofocos will scruple at no species Of
fraud and falsehood in order to secure success.
They have but principle, the spoils of Office,
to bind their discordant party together and it
would betray amazing simplicity in the Wings to
look for fairness from such opponents. We have
already had occasion to expose the infamous de-
vices and impostures Of Locofocoism, time after
time, until our readers have ceased to be sur
prised at the most preposterous and wicked case
that may happen.
1t was dernicr resort of this character which
the Locofocos exhibited in their coalition with the
candidate of the Abolitionists, Brney. Setting
out with the nomination of a man who was de-
clared to be "Southorn to the backbone" the
advocate Of annexation, as means OF extending
and perpetuatng slavery. nothing short OF despe-
ration could have induced them to form coali-
ton, in the eleventh hour, with the champion of
abolitionism. But the deed has been done. The
friends Of Mr.. Polk, in the free States, have en-
tered into formal bargain with Birney-have
nominated him for the Legislature of Michigan
he has acknowledged the compliment, and will
serve il elected. In order to cement this strange
bargain between parties which had been deemed
antipodes in principle and feeling, the Abolition
ists, in convention, ayow their readiness to see
Texas annexed, as they will be thereby enabled
to extend their emancipation measures over the
whole continent where slavery exists. Distin-
gushed leaders Of the Locofocos in the North
not to be behind the Abolitonists in the way of
concession, have all along advocated annexation
~ sure, if not necessary, means OF abolshlng
slavery. We have heretofore published the ire
fragable proof of this coalition. 1t has been es.
tabshed, in the proceedings Of the Convention
which nominated Birney, by his own repeated
letters to the newspapers, and by the confession
of the Locofoco presses and politicians in the
Northern States. And to show how acceptable
is this bargain to the Locofocos, we may advert
to the approbatory language Of the Madisonian of
this city, in its direct appeal to the Abolitionists
This bargain cannot have been entered into by
the Chief of the Abolitonists without consider
alton. The Aboltionists in their Convention at
Utica cannot have acquiesced in the policy of
annexation without an understanding with the
Locofocos-and that they have acquesced in that
measure we have the testimony of the New York
Herald, Locofoco paper, whose account OF the
matter we copied some days ago from the Angus
ia (Maine) Age, another Locofoco paper What
then, have the Locofocos conceded to the Aboli-
tionists7 What have they promised them and
their leader! These are grave questions, and
every Southern man should ponder them we'll be-
fore going to the polls Let no calumny against
Mr.. Clay-no new-aedged story charging him
with Abolitionism, move you. Mr.. Clay has re-
peatedly, in speech and writing, declared that the
schemes OF the Abolitionists are unconstitutional
and imprac,icable--he he has invariably maintained
the identical ground of Washington, Madison,
and Jefferson, that while he believes slavery to
be an evil, it is an evil for which no remedy is
provided by the Constitution; the whole subject
being within the jurisdiction of the States where
it exists
As specimen of the enthusiasm with which
Mr. Birney has been received into the Locofoco
ranks, we make the following extract from the
Philadelphia Spirit of the Times Of the 18th inst
"We perceive that ]. G. Birney, the Abolition
or Liberty candidate, has OPENLY AVOWED
HIS PREFERENCE FOR MR.. POLK OVER
MR. CLAY, at which the Federal Wing papers
seem EXCEEDING wrathy. But is it not natural
Is not the Democratic party opposed, as mass
to human slavery! Is there true Democrat in
Pennsylvania who is not opposed to the traffic in
human flesh and blood! Are not the PRINCI-
PIES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF
THAT PECULIAR CHARACTER WHICH
RECOGNIZES "ALL MEN" AS "CREATED
FREE AND EQUAL" and which, looking with
an eye of sorrow on an institution imposed upon
Us by Great Britain herself, would fan free from
their horrid manacles all who are born in the
image of their Maker, and rid this land Of liberty
Of the last vestige Of despotisml Is there man
ef honest feelings who would not rejoice to see
our country freed from this incubus upon her hu-