New-York daily tribune., 1844-08-06
r-.n,.I POLK, Again.

H., NJ SAUNDERS has been down In Wes-s
,.rr c.r,,;n. raaking speech in defence of the
Revolutionary Whiggery of Ezekiel Polk. In
,h;s speech he embodsss all the evidence he can
.,ks no on his side of the question. He does not
o,etend that E. P. was signer Of the Mecken-
buyg Declaration of Independence,-so that, we
understand, is given up. His witnesses prove
what every body knew before that Polk appeared
to be Wing at the outset, had Commlslon on
the right side and saw some service in the !" hug
causc-just as Mr.. Alexander testified Some VI
the witnesses-od men of eighty or ninety
swearing about events that happened IN a stirring
and eventful time sixty-odd years ago-'es'iiy
that they never heard that Ezekiel Polk turned
Tory. This is very probable There arc a great
aany things that only a few men know whlie ten
times as many don't know-but they are true'
oeve-,be,ess. There is not word IN all this
testimony which conflicts with the testimony o,
,boee old veterans who aid know that Ezekiei
Polk was a Tory, and was denounced as such-
s;na,,,, Cen. Saunders closes with this c!encher;
Statement of George Alexander concerning the
life and character of the late Col. Ezeklei folH'
Gnrnerly of Mecklenburg county, North Carolina
during tue 'S' "FasohA csEssT s.;sG 3 Mis- $50
Isus ACQUAINTED tn Col Ezekiel Polk frGm the time he
d m Ts n cer se IN the south Ran
gs1 t91 wS ess nm
ed campaign und dispersed the tories f At ssd the
%se G% Mr ae PSS tS Ss Polk could
he brought with safety not having recovered rom MS %
rem0yeI 10 hecklenhurG county norm Caioina. @ n,
,ta
nenced with him being an intimate one cou
ty lie then fared in aecklenburs county. and accuuA-
'ed pCpey overrun the country 1885, and 10
Cboroe after i;atess defeat there were no IeGuai or
fd lid e aSd Inc ois eGuny G his property
from Distribution together with Others & t0OG a tbo
5SS so S Polk his properly If from rnron GS
wa oeisGni i E4 e Po s, %ss eosns he Yaf
He en from there Pennsylvania and 5euned IN @ n,
s he tory sa6 nsssa ARby b wss ned It to be-
He stood high among af soR Iifn, AdEXaNgER siSeIRaS
That tells the story. When we want case
ruined, we shall insist on having Saunders under
take its defence To any man who knows what
taking Protection from the British implied, and
what sort OF people resorted to it, we have not
word more to offer. And If there is any man who
don't see why Ezekiel Polk left that region about
The time Cornwallis did it, and came clear away
tn PENNSYLVANIA, it is because he 1oon't see It,
How the Farmers are taxed by Protec-
tive Tariff.
Daily we meet the assertion IN the Loco-foco
papers that the present Tariff causes the Farmers
to pay more for what they buy than they did under
lower duties. Time and again have we retuted
this by irresistible documentary evidence but the
falsehood is steadily persisted in, and deliberate
fraud is sresorted to TO sustain it. Instead OF max
ing any general exhibit of the prices under the
present and lower Tariff respectively, they con-
fine themselves to few descriptions OF Cloths
which have been carried UP by an advance IN the
raw material, and instead of comparing pnces
under this with those under lower Tariff, they
take the prices of 1S43 to contrast with those ol
1874, both under the present Tariff! We have
repeatedly exposed this fraud, but they still per
sist in it. We say again that fair exhibit of the
prices of all the articles which farmer buys will
show they are twenty per cent lower than they
were in l94O and at least ten per cent lower
than in ls4l. Here is Table of Prices made
up BY the Rochester Democrat from official re-
ports to Congress: