The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-07-10
Mr.. poLK's ToRYrsM.


an article few days ago from the Charlotte
(N. CO. Journal giving the particulars of the re-
evolutionary services of Mr.. Folks grandfather
from which it appears that those services con
sisted in plotting Lord Cornpallis through III
county Of Wecklenbmg-in a word, that MI
Folks grandfather was Tory, though not of tn
most honorable kind. He Joined the British.
sought Their protection, and was only restraine
by cowardice from fighting their battles. A
least, we have not heard of his fighting agains
his country, though serving the enemy. \
would be credtable to him if his friends coulI
prove that he had raised his arm against his couIl
try; for to be TORY is bad enough but to !.
a sneaking, cowardly TORY is unspeakably mea
have shown a manly spirit at least, but 10 use h
local knowledge of by-ways and neighborhood,
for the mean and treacherous purpose of betrayl
ing the land that gave him birth, evinces til
lowest depth Of infamy
The Pennsylvania Telegraph copies the sam
article from the Charlotte Journal, and accom-
panes it with the following stirring comment,
Wings, read it to the old dim-sighted, but warm
hearted soldier of the Revolution, and hear HOY
he responds to it.
There is that in the above extract which
throughout the length and breadth of our I'D
rious Union, should make every heart in whicI
burns spark OF patriotism turn from the Loco
foco nominee for the Presidency with abhorrencI
and utter loathng
The GRANDSON OF A TORY filing til
place of Washington, the Adamses, Jetlersoa
Madison, Monroe, Jackson and Harrison!
A man in whose veins there crcuates Nc
ONE DROP OF AUGHT SAVE TORY BLOOll
Chief Magistrate of a nation whose free exi
tence was purchased by the blood, wounds aI
imprisonments Of the W higs of '76!
Forbid it justice forbid it genius of our cou
try-forbid it Almighty power
Old men Of the Revolution we whose gro
hairs are already futtering to the breath OF IL
dead, but who still stand amongst poslerily Il
living witnesses of the times that tried men3
sonls-to you--to you we turn. You fought Ill
British at Bunker Hill, at Bennington, and
Saratoga-at Trenton and Monmoulh--at Car
den, at Brandywine, and at Yorktown! Y1
bore the pangs Of hunger, the peltngs of The II
storm, i'll clad, and at times Almost naked
Your barred feet, on the frozen ground of winte
often tracked with crimson tide your march
the battle field, when Washington led to victor
You suffered, perhaps, in the dread prison-shie
of New York all the writings Of fever and di
ease, with famine for your nurse, and BIRTHS.
and tory contumely and insult your only sympl
thy-while thousands Of your compatriots sa
into the arms of death for relief. Above yo}
heads at the midnight hour, when, with yoW
family wrapped in slumber, perhaps tory tord
lighted the lurid fame in your dwelling, ans
houseess and homeless, the morning sun four
you in your deep distress calling for vengean
on the oppressor, and death to his unnatul
ally!
Stand up, then, and answer, venerable men
Did ye thus fight and bleed and suffer, that
nation which your mighty struggles brought in +
existence-Whose foundations you laid upon t
bones of ten thousand martyrs TO freedom, al
whose walls your own blood aided to cement
should in your old age, outrage history, heap
suit on you, trampe on the memory Of the d
| ceased patriots whom the grave has closed ovt
by rewarding one of your fell enemies, a TORY
British tory in the elevation to the first station
the Republic, of one of his immediate descen
ants, of his grandson, who is the bone of his 10
bone, the flesh of his tory fesh and the blood
his tory blood In word, did you fight, that
descendants of TORIES might enjoy and sit in t
high places of the land?
No-NEvER-must be your united respons
in the trumpet tones with which you were wo
to peal forth the slogan cry Of Liberty or Dealt
when charging upon the British and tory foe
the days of rs, yet its g still, small voice. "
thrill the hearts of the American people, a
cause them to say in thunder tones at the ball
boxes, "Away with James X. Polk-we want
GRANDSON of BRITISH TORY for our President
And you, descendants of the Patriots of d
Revolution-you pride yourselves, doubtle:
upon your patriotic ancestry 1t is an homo
and commendable prde,-not the despcab
pride of fanced nobility based upon some robb I
chicftain of an early age,
Whose thievsh blood
Has crept through scoundrels since the food
not the rotten pride which makes for itself ten
porary consequence by standing upon piles
gold But that honest and glorious pride in
battles fought, in the victories won, in the han
ships suffered, in the difficulties overcome, in
deaths encountered, in the wounds received, az
in the fortunes sacrificed, by the men whose
triotic blood now courses freely and wildly
your veins.
But "wo unto pride, for it shall have ia