Holly Springs gazette., 1844-08-24


party place upon The efficacy o. the Que man
qoarsr. 1t is not because he lsIames X.
Polk, hut because be is Gen. JACKsoN's
janis K Polk tbatth freemen ofthisi land
are TO make lin their next President 1t
is bv The magical incarnation OF Jacksonlsm
that this supple willow has been transform
I'd into stubborn Young Hickory" and
by keeping him in the back ground alto
sether, his adherents hope TO divert public
attention hom the ludicIousness of his pre-
tensions.
And is it true sir. as this party seem to
suppose, that The people ofthis Government
are incapable OF discrimination, aud have
no will of their owns That they are vii.
ling for patty purposes or to CRAFTY the vii.
of one man TO drag down the office of Chief
Magistrate from its lofty elevation, and
bring il within the reach of rabble of gree
DIV aspiranls. fourth rate politicians, who
will start up with hungry appetite from ev-
cry county of every State. thick and clamo
rous as the frogs of Eevpt2 If it be so,
then indeed is public virtue gone, and we
are no longer free But has it come to this?
Are we IN fact these superservicable, crlng-
ing slaves2
SIS this the land our Fathers loved
The freedom which they fought TO win
Is this the soil they trod upon,
And these the graves they Slumber IN!
Are we the sons. by whom are borne
The mantles which the dead have worn
And shall we crouch above their graves
Will craven soul and fettered lip.
Yoked in with marked and branded slaves,
And tremble at the tyrantS whip2
By their charging souls which burst
The bands and letters round them set,
By that free pilgrim spirit, nuTst
Within our inmost bosomS yet;
By all above, around below,
Be ours, the indignant answer-NOl
Proud and gallant Tennesseeans need
not ask you if this Indignant answer is
upon YO4r tongues. Once and again have
YOU already rebuked the bastard imputation.
Once and again have you nobly dared ito
beard the lion in his den, the Douglass in
his hall.n, Aye sir, and the response which
will come up in thunder tones from the slur-
DIV freemen Of this land in November. is al
ready ringing in my eafs-- EVERY
Man IN THIS NATION MUST STAND OR
FALL UPON HIS OWN MERITS
Take this banner then, sir, and go forth
to the battle under the guidance OF those
great champions of the whig cause whose
names arc blazoned on its folds. Yours Is
the cause of philanthropy, OF human enter
prize and rational freedom, and sir | be-
lieve the daV is not distant when the great
measures of policy for which the whig par.
ty is now contenting will be hailed with &C,
clamations and received with almost undi-
vided unanimity from one extremity OF our
conntry TO the other | believe so, because
| entertain the conscientious conviction that
they are essential to the public good, and
are founded in immutable truth and thou gh
the progress of ruth may be retarded 1t can.
not be arrested: though trodden down, it
can never, never be trodden out
''Truth crushd 10 earth will rise again,
TIL eternal years OF God are hers
But error. wounded, writheS with PAIN,
And dies amid her worshippers u
Sir, I should be more than half an infdei
and diStrus an overruing Providence, could
[ believe that this giant nation was to be
much longer cursed and crippled by the e.
vii genius of loco-foco misrule. We were
intended to be a great people, and we have
all the means within ourselves to render US
as prosperous and happy as we are phylsl
caly great. L trust IN God that you may
live, sir, that | may live, that we may all
I've to witness the final triumph and consu-
nation ofthe whig policy. We shall then
| have lived to behold our own much inju
red Mississippi, regenerated, redeemed from
the consuming blight of Reputation and
once more sitting" like him of old from
whom a similar spirit had been expelled
"clothed and IN her right mind.' We shall
/ have lived to see our common country I'll
up the perfect measure of her glory-to be
hold the sublime anticipation of Milton;
noble and pu!ssant nation, rousing hersel
like strong man after sleep and shaking
her invincibe locks" From East to Yves
from North to South, there shall then b
borne to our ears the busy hum of her full
developed industry. her hig hways and tho
roughfares shall be crowded with the gen
erous rewards of labor,-her hills and va
leys shall gladden. with the cheerful voice
of the free
To falter in such a cause would be
crime We should be false to ourselves an
traitors TO posterity. Nay, SIT, we dare nt
do it, lest the spirits OF our Grand dslres shoul
f rise up from the ground to curse US
, Again then | say, take this banner an
: bear it worthily Remember Tippahl Il
member the Ides of November Quit you
selves like men Press onward, onward
. eStrike till the last armed foe expires,
Strike for your altars and your fires,
= Strike for the green graves ofyour sires
r God and your Native Landi'
/ THE VOICE OF A PATRIOT.
Look at Henry Clay the opposing ca