The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1844-10-11
From the Nashville Union.
@WHO is JAMES X. POLKW
THE FEDERALisTs ALARMED.

lNO SUOllCi w 90 uiiiSo iNs YIN NAO.-'
inc ted as the democratic candidate Tor
the presidency, than the federal papers
and leaders throughout the Union,
with their accustomed arrogance, cried
out. sWho is James X. Polk?" and at-
fected to treat his pretensionS lightly,
and said that the idea of his having the
least chance to be elected was rldicu-
lous. 1t was predicted that they would
find out who he was in November, and
the prediction is being verified. All
their movements prove that they are,
in truth greatly alarmed; all their
newspapers, great and small = all their
great and small bodies, are labouring
necessarily to stay the current OF pop
ular sentiments, which they cannot fail
to see is running rapidly against them,
and sweeping James X. Polk into the
presidential office. They see and fear
the result of the contest. and are al
most desperate.
They have ceased to cry out, with
the naughty arrogance inseparable from
federalism "who is James X. Polk2
They have found out who he is. All
their papers are filled with long and
labored articles to prevent his election.
The National lntclligencer, at Wash
ington.-the leading organ of federal
ism is now constantly dlscourslng
about this unknown James Is. Polk.
AS a sample of their intimate acqualn-
tance with him, in that paper OF the
7th instant, is labored article of be-
tween five and six columns, devoted
to review of his claims and quallllca-
ticns for the Presidency. In the Nash
vile Wing of the l7lh inst, is an aru-
Gle of between nine and ten columns
devoted to James X. Polk.
Webster. Seward, John Quincy
Adams, Slade, and the whole federal
hive at north and east, have found out
"who James X. Polk is" and that he
is to be the next President of the I.
States, unless they can SANDER han
out of his well earned character and
reputation before the people. Crit
tenden and the notorious Graves, from
the neighborhood of the ''embodment
of whlggery," have been sent over to
Tennessee to hep Bell, Foster, Jarna'
gin and the rest Of their leaders, to
prevent the election OF this same James
X. Folk.
All their efforts are vain; their Sian
dcrous Misrepresentation are harmless
The real people the great masses
have risen in their might, aud the marcI
of the democracy is onward.
Since the harmonious nomination Q
Silas Wright fer Governor of Ne'
York, Of Skunk for Governor of Penn
sylvania, and of Thompson for Gov
ernor of New Jersey, they see the re
sistless current of Democracy sWeey
ing over those States; and driven u
most to despair, are struggling with a
most frantic rage to avert the fat
which they see awaits them IN Noven
Der.
A party with desperate prospec'
will resort to desperate means. The
are misrepresenting every act o.! Coz
ernor PoIk's public life. They tax
garbled and incomplete passages troI
this speech and that report, and SUI
press the balance, they give this vo
ard suppress all other votes in the sam
connection; and tnis way present
the public the most palpabIe laIsohooc
and hope to impose them on comic
ing public for truth. a full lIIustratic
OF this course of political warfare is
be found in the article Of nine or te
columns in the Nashville Whig of tt
18th. That article is but a sample
many others OF the kind, which we ha,
seen recently.
Tennesseeans!-whigs as well ;
democrats-wil you not rise in yol
majesty and stand by your brethfe
of the old DomInlon--ot the keystol
and Empire states-ol the democrlc
of the whole Uuion, in placing yol
own citizen in the first office, not on
of this country but Of the world!
To furnish president is 4 most d!
tinguished honor to any stale. Bl
five states in this Union, during MOI
than fifty years. have ever lurnlshe
President ofthe United States. I'll
democracy Of the tSenty-six States a
sembled in council, voluntarily ollC
this distinguished honor a second tim
TO Tennessee. What Tennesseea
does not feel proud that he is a Ter
nesseean, when he reflects, that out
all the distinguished men otlhe Unlo
citizen of Tennessee, who did NJ
seek or expect it, has been selected /
the candidate Of the whole Union?
Will Tennessee reject the homo
which has been offered to her. by n
fusing to ratify, by her vote in Noven
ber, the unanimous nomination
which have been made! We are sa