Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1844-10-18

well-earned character and reputation before
the people. Crittende1i and the notorious
Graves, from The neighborhood OF the
''embodiment Of whiggery," have been
sent over to Tennessee to help Bell. Fos-
ter, Jarnagin, and the rest of their leaders,
to prevent the election of this same James
X. Polk.
ALI their efforts are vain; their SANDER
Gus misrepresentation are harmless. The
real people the great masses-have risen
in their might, and the march of the De-
mocracy is onward.
Since the harmonious nomination of ST.
las Wright for governor of New York, of
Skunk for governor Of Pennsylvania, and
of Thompson for governor of New Jersey,
they see the resistless current of democra-
cy sweeping over those States; and driven
almost to despair, are struggling with al
most frantic rage TO avert the fate which
they see awaits them in November.
A party with desperate prospects will
resort to desperate means. They are mis-
representing every act of Governor Folks
public life. They take garbled and in
complete passages from this speech and
that report, and suppress the balance; they
give this vote and suppress all other votes
in the same connection; and in this way
present to the public the most palpable
falsehoods, and hope to impose them on a
confding public for truth. A full illustra-
ton Of this course of political warfare is to
be found in the article of nine or ten COL
un,ns in the Nashville Wing of the 9Th.
That article is but sample of many 9TH
ers of the kind, which we have seen re-
Gently.
Tennesseeans!-whig as we'll as demo-
crats-will you not rise in your majesty
and stand by your brethren Of the Old Do
minion-of the Keystone and Empire
States-of the democracy Of the whole
Union. in placing your own citizen in the
first office. not only of this country, but OF
the world!
To furnish President of the United
States is a most distinguished honor 10 any
State. But five States in this Union, (du-
ring more than fifty years. have ever fur
nished President of the United States.-
4 The democracy of the t,ce'aty-sic STATES,
assembled in council, voluntarily offer this
/, distinguished honor second time to Ten.
nessee. What Tennesseean does not feel
proud that he is a Tennesseean, when he
reflects, that out of all the distinguished
l. M Of III, ,f
who did not seek or expect it, has been Sc
lected as the candidate of the whole Un-
ion!
] Will Tennessee reject the honor which
has been offered to her, by refusing TO ra-
tiiy, by her vote in November, the nomi,
nations which have been made! We are
satisfied, from all the signs around US, she
} will not. We know she will not. The
pure republican principles of her people
forbid it. Her own future glory as State
forbids it. Virginia-noble Virginia, is
now looked to as the mother of Presidents.
Whenever her sons emigrate, they proud.
lly point back TO the land of their birth, and
claim the glory oftheir native State as their
own. Lei Tennessee take her stand by
the side of Virginia.; and let her sons, too,
when in future time they may chance to
be in distant climes, point back to the glo-
ry of Tennessee, the cherished home Of
their birth. We have rot remaining
doubt, but that James X. Polk will be cho-
sen President Of the United States in No
vember next; without the vote of Tennes-
see; bu, as Tennesseeans, we have pride
that Tennessee should aid by her vote in
communicating this grert event. We have
not doubt she will, do so. And when
the election shall be over, and James K.
Polk be placed in the Presidential Chair
we trust all our federal adversaries will by
that time have learned aOho this James K.
i Polk is. 81, > ...- -.. Il. -..-