The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1844-06-15
laboring classes of our country.

and in the latter defeated by the largest
vote ever polled by the American people
deem it their duty to say to their Demo
cratic friends Throughout, the State orPenn-
sylvanla, that they cannot support James
h. Polk at the approaching Presidential
election, To be held in this State on the
first day of November, 1914.
Resolved, That is the opinion of this
meeting, Col. Polk cannot carry the cleo
toral vote of the State of Pennsylvania
and that his friends be Immediately re-
quested to Withdraw his name from the
present Presidential campaign, unless they
prefer defeat to that of victory.
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AT large and enthusiastic meeting oil
the Wings of this town, held in the Clay
Hall on Saturday evening last, number
olsplrted addresses were delivered and the
following Resolutions presented by f. A
Ellis, Esq. were unanimously passed
Whereas, in the opinion of the mem
bers OF this Club, the approaching Presi-
DENTAL Election is a contest in which is
involved not only the success or defeat OF
the candidates nominated, not merely the
temporary questions which divide poli,i-
cal parties, often of but little serious i'm
portance-but the most momenious con-
slderallons of public policy, both as re-
CARDS our internal or domestic relations.
and our intercourse with foreign nations
the best interests, the permanent vel
are OF the people-upon the issue OF
which contest, must in a great measure
depend. the stability & future continuance,
OF the union Of the states and our repub-
Ican institutions:
lst. ReSolred, That in view of the i'm
poriance OF this contest, we hold it to be
the duty, the imperative duty, of every
citizen who lays claim TO the honorable
and patriotic title Of an American " hig,
to stir up the spirit that is within him, to
lay aside every weight and the apathy
which too frequently besels us, and pre-
pare to fight, resolulely and with deter
mlna,lon to succeed, the battle which is
before us; looking 10 Henry Clay our pa
'rotIc and glorious leader, as the great
personIficallon of the PRINCIPLES of our
party, in and by whose election, we hope
not only 10 purify the government from
the stain and pollution of Locofoco Ty-
lerlsm; but to reeslaLlish upon perma-
Eent and settled basis, those leading mca-
sures of public policy, which have more
than once elevated our country from a
state of depression and bankruptcy to AN
envable position among the nations of the
earth.
End, Reso1rcd, That in the selection
of heodore Frelinghuysen of New Jer-
sey as their candidate for the Vice Presi-
dency man whom it is said even Amos
Kendall dare not SANDER, the wings of the
union i'll convention assembled, have not
only given ample testimony of the high
consideration in which they hold elevated
moral north and then our ardent attach
ment to law order and religion; but have
gwen us man, upon whom Should il
please almighty God again to alllict u.s.
the mantle of Henry Clay may fall with
entire salcty:-One who understands the
true principles Of the constitution" and
who has the ability and iirmness to ''carry
them our" and from whom no treachcry
need be apprehended.
Bird. Resolrcd, That in the nominations
for President and Vice President by the
convention ofLoco(ocos lately assembled
at Baltimore, we discover an entire and
nglorious abandonment of the grounds,
upon which they have again and again
proclaimed to the world the approaching
contest should be conducted. And tina,
in their rejection of Martin Van Buren,,
and the selection of another candidate,
with an attempt to get up new issues be-
fore the people; they have themselves, af-
fixed the stigma of lalseEo God upon their
oft repeated declarations; '.that the wing
"victory of 1910 was the result of hum
"bug, log cabin and hard cider mumnerics
"and not the sober and deliberate action
"ol the people - that Mr. Van Buren, and
"hls administration was net fairly tried
sand condemned; that he was cheated ont
sol his election, and that the people should
she again called upon, in their sober sen
''ses to decide the same issues"
4th. Rcsolred, Thata although we should
have been gra,lied, to have had another
opportunity Of canvassing the professions
OF MIR. Van Buren,, and his peculiar claims
to the support of his fellow-ciizens; we
find in the proceedings and result of the
said convention, great cause for re oicing,
not only because they have selected a
candidate against whom succ ,ss to Henry
Clay will be inevitable; but also because
they serve TO demonstrate to the world,
the utter shalowness of their claim to the
title of democracy, by exhibiting with
what deliberate shamlessness, when it suits
their own purposes, they can, and will
repudiate its leading principles, the ma
jority ofnumbers and the will CT the PEG.
pie.
9Th. Resolved, That although the loco