Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1844-07-19
TO THE WINGS OF INDIANA.
WING CENTRAL &C MITT f F.,
Committee Room, indianapolis,
June 2s, 1874.


liticai manGiyre Of opponents which has resulted IN
the prosiration, and open reputation of Mr. Van Buren,
and his prospects forever AID the ascendancy in that party
Of the Calhoun free trade dynasty We then took The po
.ou that i, unmportant to US who their candidate
might be- 80 long as their aud blightng
doctrines the recollection of tho people. We
Sill maintain the opinion. Oar opponents By cast
ing Mr. Van Buren, have tac'y admitted, that
they had hopes Of success with him their candidate,
have vanlj supposed that by changing their
candidate and hoisting the TYLER flag of immediate
of Texas. they could make the people forget
that they the party that had med the
condemned measures Of the administration that had been
signally ertiirown by the people in 1910.
Previous to the late democratic convention a, Baltimore,
had heard the Of Mr.. Van Buren, Col. Benton
John c. Calhoun, Cen. Cas-, Col Johnson Com Stewart
and M Buchanan, gentlemen had rendered
try service spoken of for the Presidency. But vino
had dreamed Of the of james Polk, the twice
defeated candidate for Governor by people of Tenne
see who knew him best9 The of the nomination
received by the leaders with increduous silence. while
honss, followers Of the party nnoceny inquired "Who
is James X. Polk!' We, too, ncreduious. We
could believe il possible that such nomination had
been made. We had Col Polk through ths Journals
of Congress- aud recently through the Press adj
Of the British, Calhoun, free trade doctrines We
had his concurrence in opinion with the British
ses, tariff OF 1912 which rcplen.hed
haused treasury, and impaired life and animation TO the
paraiZed industry should DO reduced
brought down the standard which the Wings found
the tariff in 1871. leaving annual deficit the treasury
the ordinary expenses of the Government of
SS,O0000O, the balance Of trade running Sl0000,0O0
annually. against U.S. specie shipped pay the differ
ence treasury empty, industry paralizedno
kot Tor produce, and cre, nation destroyed at
home and abroad. while bankruptcy and disgrace pervaded
We had Col Polk, the Invetera,s
my great Cumberland Road voting every
against all appropriations for either its constucton
servation. We had his against the grants of
lands aid in the construction Of canals We
had noticed his opposition the great Delaware beakwa
protect commerce We had seen his
the poor coffee, free, and when
he supporting bill duco the ta,i. being
much revenue collected In word we had witnessed his
Incorporating hostility every identified with,
and cherished by the ton, well Indiana. We say
had all this had ,he leaders of the party oppo
sod Was them that should have been
surprised we'll they that all the distinguished
have named should have been asde make way for
the ton of James X. Polk? But stranger still,
it the leaders of the party opposed with
Governor o. the State their head who COMPOUNDED
s.for party purposes foushng Poke stalks and huz
zaing for 'Pok aud Dallas" We know that their alle
glance party strong leave them the
their Judgments especially hen controlled by the love
Of office and and therefore may expect them 10
sustain Col Polk with all their energies regardless Of his
hostility all the cherished interests of State but how
succeed nonesf
ing portion of their party into his support TO be
They appear have abandoned oil their former
and rely upon the Texas question alone aid them
These who the clamorous advocates of imme
date alton, same, highly approved of the
letter of Mr.. Van Buren, against it, When it was suppo
sed tina, he would be candidate, and who adopted the
following resolutions:
Resolutions of the Central Democratic Club of
Indiana polls, Indiana.
,,o rio Climb of ndi
ana pos Saturday evening, May lltl. the following
resolutions motion of Mr.. Heddefy, UNANIMOUSLY
adopted
Resolved That fully the positions taken by
Mr. Van Buren, Col Benton, and Col. r. NJ Johnson, i'll
,hs letters the subject of the annexation OF
ashat III particular we regard me letter OF Mr. van
Buren, eminenty s,aesmanke and patriotic and that
general and sentiments must be approved of by
prudent and thinking citizen OF this Republic
Resolved, That our confidence in Mr. VAN BC as
candidate tho Presidency in opposition
I" MI Clay, continues unaoaed-thas we oee'e MN 70
be the choice OF majority OF the Democracy OF me
United States and that If nominated, he VIII be triumph
nutly elected by the people.
Resolved, Tina, give much color to the
from Washington that few individuals prominent
y engaged in the 'uediafe annexation of Texas, have
view the ultimate of the Union, and the for
Of ''Sou,,en Confederaey,-h none but trail
tors 10 the best ,nteret Of mankind could participate IN
such project and that zee c'H resist IT'S cosntndt'on a
til death.
They deny the power of this Government undo. the
protect industry and yet they
that power protect Texas against Mex
co They deny power aid the suffering States
by the distribution of the proceeds of The public ans while
claim the power, and insist the policy of
ing Texas assuming her immense debt to DO paid by this
embarrassed people, making UNJUST with Mexico,
aud perhaps with England extending slavery, aud arnsh-
the national honor and for what throw sub TO the
whale, to withdraw the public mind their odius sub
treasury, standing prodigal expenditures, ant,ar
other blightins sgnaly by
people in lS4O But succeed, and no, only
will all their destructive Immediately adop,e
but Calhoun dynasty will ultimately triumph
counel. and this Government, become Southern, and
National Republican then disoluon with all ho,-
nd consequences. may follow.
Facts to be Remembered.
That JAMES X. POLK when III Congress vo,ed on
every occasion against the grants lands aid the