Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1844-09-21

From tho Syracuse N. - Young Hickory.
JAMES (. POLK. OF go
Reasons s0hy he should be supported By
all true friends of la,c, order, mo-
Ia. ra!ify. and democracy.
He is a man of irrcproachable moral
character, and contrasts in that respect
with the wing candidate. ~
He is not loaded down with the guilt of
murder, meditated Or accomplished, like
the wing candidate.
No widow and orphans weep the loss
of a husband and father, slain under his
counsels, as in the case of Cllley and the
whig candidate,
The gaming table has not seen him rob-
bing his infatuated or half-intoxicated fel-
bowman of bis money or his property, as
it has the whig candidate.
The brothel has never resounded with
the noise of his proaigate mirth and OBJ
scene Jest, as in the case of the wing can
didate.
He is not chargeable with the crimes OF
violating the constitution and his oath, by
acting in legislative body, with perfect
consciousness that he had not the constitu-
tional qualifications, as did the wing cam
dldate in the Senate of the United States.
He has not violated constitutions and
oaths of Office, by attempting to kill mem
bers of the legislative bodies for words
spoken in debate, as in the case of II.
Marshall and John Randolph, as did the
wing candidate.
He has not been the first to provoke
the violation of law to suppress duel
ing. voted for by himself, like the wing
candidate.
He has not, like Henry Clay. been put
under bends to prevent his headlong pas
sions rushing him into the penitentiary
under law passed with the aid Of his OWE
vote.
He has not, like Henry Clay, abused
the frontier settlers as "a lawless rabble, y
no better than thieves, pirates, and robbers
denying them the privilege Of buying will
derness lands which they have, by hare
work, made ''to blossom as the rose,'
while willing to aid profiigate debtors il
wiping out all their debts by a bankrup
law.
He has not, like Henry Clay, refused
to the poor Irishman or German, or othe
emigrants from the Old World, the priv
lege of making lot Of waste land valuable
by his labor, and buying it at governmen
price; nor, like the same profigate states
man, would he permit foreign lords t.
purchase all the bank and corporation
stocks in the country, and become the own
ers of a national bank, to control the valu
, of property and the wages of labor-t
keep the moneys Of the treasury, corrup
public men, and govern the government
He has none of the naughty contemP
for the laboring millions, which would in
t duce him, like Henry Clay, to sink tn
white working man below the negr
= slaves.
= He has not, like Henry Clay, when il
o structed by his constituents 10 give vot
i for President, or for the repeal or pas
u sage of law, set himself up as their ma:
9 ter, haughuEy answered L ,ciM ,,ot,' an
l. insulted them with imputations of 'cruelt
$ and humanity for making the reques
He has not, like Henry Clay, gotten u
- a scheme to destroy prominent rival
it refused to make himself publicly respons
is BILE for matters which he was privately il
10 culcating far and wide to his injury-bee
II denounced and de6ed by him as an il
" triguer, who dared not put his name
id imputed ISLANDERS, which he was not tt
;! honorable to propagate; and then with
., view to his personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, ru:
j. into his arms, as Mr.. Clay did into tho
x of Mr.. Adams, and make common eau
of with him against old friends, and in su
ne port of principles he had repudiated al
g, denounced.
n- MI. Polk was the steadfast friend
at General Jackson and the measures Of |
he administration, while Mr.. Clay was /
a. bitter and unrelenting enemy.
h. From the Dedham (Mass.) Democrat.
art 0Ur Candidate for President