New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-08-23
Letter from Joseph S. Lcake of Miss.

Letter from Joseph S. Lcake of Miss.
Joseph S. Leake, late Bank Commissioner OF
Mississippi, and now holding an important Land
Agency uuder tie Government Of that State,
has addressed the following letter to Loco
Foco organ at Jackson:
To the Editor Of The Dollar Democrat
Dear SIR: vi all the unlocked for events, the
result al the mi.caIled D.mocrat,c Convention,
which lately assembled in Baltimore. is The most
antoniShlug. | say miScJiLed fur The reason that,
tins Convection Did vloia;c, first, the great R.
publican principle that tire m4jonTg shall govern;
ID tt L,,ge Bain5cr violated TIC hnuwn and
isiriy express uishes o, an Ovcrn he!tnlng ma
Iru,y pi the Drmocatic party; aud th:s con.
s,fe' the most unva.nished, STARK naked act OF
treqchery that | ever heard oi. THIS Ease act
9"as iuraSanwn, ny taat m1"d!fe issued by our
Members IN Congress, upon the eve OF the Con-
ven'Ion; and the autroJs of tnis ipprudent pro
ductor resort tn the most pueriie pretext 20 us-
uiy The act ut fTeachcry wncn they Intended To
perpetrate-they have raised new creed IN De-
mncracv, to which every Thing else must bow,
that The immediate arnexa,ipn of Texas em
bidies The who e p'nclples Ut Democracy, when
trey well know TIA, lrou STATE Conventlon lbs
,aiue test souglt 10 be made, and The subject
tins All, These silly ,rcksters attempt To Justify
their lreachefy by resolution passed at the
texas ncetlng held III jackson after the adjourn
mrnt OF the State Convention, when it is believed
that majority OF th.t meeting were Wings and
spectators in Texas land and Scrip
The Democratic party at this time are in the
hands of unprnclped office seekers and specu-
lators in Texas lands and Scrip, and we are
doomed to speedy dissolution for should Polk
DC elected, he must know but for these tricks;ers
he would never have been thought of, conse.
qucnty these vcrnin will fill all the Offices and
give tone to the Admlnstraton-indced you will
find that the tour gear Odds and the yearlings
and such Democrats as have never voted with
us. will be put in high places, and thus the De-
mocr.tc party will be scattered to the four Winds
for all Of our old leaders will be Disguised, AS in
truth they may well bc,-being prescribed in
der to CRAFTY few unprincipled trickstcrs, and
made TO play second fiddle TO mere tyro as it
were. Will any man, hereafter, have any in.
duccmcnt to faithfully battle in the cause of
Democracy No !! To be faithful and un.
wavering in Democracy, is but to secure to
yourself the contempt and hatred Of that pack Of
office hunters, who at different times are upon
both sides Of every great question, and give in
their adhesion to either of the parties in expccta
ton of office. The defeat OF Mr.. Van Buren,,
in the Baltimore Convention is the severest blow
TIC true Democratic party has ever received; for
one of It's long tried and most faithful servants
and opponents has been inundated, not upon the
altar Of his countrys good but to CRAFTY an I'M
priuciplcd faction impcllcd by tricksters, Office
hunters and apeculators. Just twenty years
ago Il portion Of these trickscrs were at the same
dirty work, sowing the seeds of personal hos
4 no nc nd
who, though protested Republicans, were indjG
crent between jackson and Adams. The De.
mocratic party are dissolved, virtually scattered
to the elements Of distraction, and Folk Is not
the man to rally them. Disgust--decp disgust
pervades the breast Of every old Democrat.
Folks election will be verse than defeat, for in
that event the ycartingS and four ycar oidS
will be installed into office, and the Administra-
ton will be under their Influence, and in the
name of Democracy they viii give us g death
blow. VINO ere they who are lii extacies at
Folks nomination These very yearl'ngS. four
year 0ldS and these most excellent Democrats
VINO have never voted with us,-these accept ali
offer from either party such men are in the
third hearenS not because they like Polk much,
but they hate Van Buren, more. The most
NOR living part of this whole matter is, that
taosa who have hecn,-and in truth are yot,-tbe
bitter foes of true Democracy now as it were
the leaders of the Democretc partv Again-it
is Il well known tact that Mr.. alias believes
that Congress have the Constitutional night to
charter bank. Now Should Mr Polk he elected
and d,c,-night we not be trapped III Dallas as
the Wings were in Tyler? But enough Of tins
d-nabic affair. | will wipe my hands OF the
whole OF it, and leave the yearng, four year
ODDS, and the spectators TO fight their own bat,
ties, for will rot by any act OF mine, assist III
consum ,aling 50 base al act OF treachsry
Yuu,s, Jos. S. LEAKE.