The North-Carolinian., 1844-07-20


te- prominent politicians.
'p,1 MoRE CHAHoEs.-We say nothing for
:. lREese9tf SAYS :,lhe Mobile. .Registes. e.
3y6rs>U TO Usin the in
terror OF this State. The wings Of our citv
will see for themselves, in the list Of officers
Of the Democratic Association of this coun-
ty, the names of four gentlemen. Col. T.
McGran, Maj Jos. Moore, and Messrs u.
Chandler and J. w. Lesesne, who were
warm Harrison men in l84O-the first
named an officer in their CIub-and the last
two, conspicuous orators and champions Of
their party.
Judge Levi Platt, of Plattsburg, Clinton
county, New York, has published letter in
the Clinton County Whig, copied into the
Albany Argus, that he, &c in conjunction with
about two hundred thousand other citizens of
the United States" has left the whiy party.
"ANoTHER.-Jas. F. Owens, ESQ, clerk
of the United States Court at Springfield, in
this State, has abandoned the whis cause be-
cause he can't stand it any longer"- Chicago
Democrat.
"GLoRioUs.- have the names Of no
less than thirteen persons who left the whig
ranks on Saturday last, aud Joined The demo-
cratic par,y."-.Ner albany Democrat.
MORE RENuScA Dayton
TO- Empire, of the llth inst. contains lei
ters from John Links, Esq, and John G.,
Cote, both wings in lS4O. and gentlemen
well known in that country, distinctly re-
nouncing whIssery and proclai,nng their pre-
ferences for Polk and Dallas.
The Detroit (Mich. Free Press Of, the 10Th
inst. contains the .renunciation Of whiggery
by Minot L Lane, Esq, OF Romeo Macomb
county. Mr. l.. was formerly whig member
of the Michigan Legislature, and was the
whie candidate for the State Senate in 1877.
He declares his determination to support Polk
and Dallas at The approaching election.
The New Haven (ct.) Register, states on
"ndoubtoj authority, that the Hon. Peter
Bierce, of Cornwall, in Li,cbfied county, a
talented and influential e. n,Ieman, and one
ofthe whig Presidential Electors four years
ago, Is out against Clay, and in favor Of Polk
and Dallas!
The Register also has the folio wing:
owe have Just learned that Hon. james G.
Lommis, Mayor Of the city of Bridegroom,
(Which office he has held for The last four or
five years,) has also abandoned The Clay
Cause and will 90 for Polk and Dallas!
AND YET ANorHER.-DanieI T.. Parsons,
Esq, OF Sharon, a talented speaker in the
whIg cause In tho last campaign, has also
abandoned the whig camp, and enlisted under
the broad banner of democracy and equal
lights. lie made an eloquent address at tho
mass meeting III Sharon on tho 4th inst. OH
er prominent changes are known to u<, but
we do not feel authorized yet to give their
names 10 the public. We caution our friends
out of the State against putting Connecticut
down for Clay She goes for Polk aud Dali
las"
CHANGES IN BALTIMoRE.-We Yesterday
c"nversed with gentleman, who for the past
three years has been a whig, and who will now
support Polk aud DaIas. Changes are GO
lug on in our community every day. With
III the last month, three young lawyers have
deserted the wings and followed the footsteps
Of the two very distinguished legal gentlemen
who, short time since, renounced whiggery.
Two talented aud respectable physicians have
also come out ftoan the coon ranks and wo
believe, that the changes which have taken
place IN our city, subsequent to the nomina-
tons OF Polk and Dallas, will amount 10 hum
dreds.-Bal. Republican.
RENUNcArIoN.-D. j. McCord, ESQ,
formerly President Of the Bra Dch of the Bank
Of the State Of S. Carolina at Columbia, and
in 1910 jealous Harrison man, has recently
defined his position, and cut loose from the
whig Cheraw Gazette
Jno. G. Haswell, who was announced in
the National Intelligencer as having left the
democratic party, publishes q letter in the
Globe, saying that it was an entire mistake
Mr. Clay Is not for protective tariff, say
his friends in the south, as witness this
"The fact that Ms Clay is more of a free
trade man (advocate, as be is, of reasonable
tarif1,) than Mr. Van Buren,, il becomioz
generally known 10 the people Of the South"
Wing.
We deny that Mr. Clay, or the wings Of
Georgia, whose candidate he is, seek for the
establishment Of a protective tariff, but adyo-
cate the principles Of the compromise act"
Yet his friends in the north support him on
the very ground that he is for protection. And
at the south, who 60 for Clay. right wrong,
confidently assert that he will get New York and
Pennsylvania because be is for 4 high tara: