The Arkansas banner., 1844-07-10
l, FROM TENNESSEE {.
,,n sh,,iile -(Tenn. ] Union

bp democracy oi il''!iD' :" oN'
 lt.u;lIess hands at ridieule, and pour
 pnnneasured abuse. Let them go
 si aan % 10 call him "coward,'' ? ''pol-
 e,riihe like, and hold him subject to
 ,.rbe rich mans scorn,
 The 1teI proud mans contqmely."
 o,.anassee. KNOW him. We know
 s ,.ae 10 the interests of fthe people;
 .s.,s oo r@ duty as freeman and patriot;
 .,Gablefo his manly flrmness through
 h;c nresses may declare that he has
 Vui7 nlsims to the Presidency than many
 aa;nent men of the democratic re-
 V nartv: the whig speakers may aver
 i are a thousand men in Tennessee
 for the Presidency. We will not
 r;,b them on these two points. We
 .S ' Noman can claim the Presidency.
 % inc democracy affect 10 believe that
 oa1eose nanin the country qualified
 Presidency. The office was created nan. no class of men, no family. It
 .Js by the people for the people. And
 srtake to say that there is nota states 1 bis country who is more emphatically
 psonle. with the people, and for the
 tbdo AYES K. POLK. At one period,
 always elected to Congress without
 inn. he has been in public life ever fe became a man, with the exception kr few years, and never has held an of- l was not conferred by the votes of the 1 He has been uniform and uwaver- {bis devotion to the cause of the demo- <Losts of this country, who have recent 1 their delegates to National Conven- 1 d selected him as their gallant stan (arer through the great political cam Fof the present year. They are not ] for king, for prince, for anheir to Ee or for a mere man, against thetr les. as are many of the whig leaders Rroass to be in favor of annexation )- $e fighting FOR THEIR STANDARD, FOR \ PRINCIPLES, for spreading FAR HYDE TIRE BLESSINGS s OF HBLIC4.NTS.M
 R democratic hosts have taken an emi- 6tnen from their own ranks; a plain, I energetic, and able champion, who Sn to high position in the country Enows what it Is to encounter all the Eps of lie; from the capacity of a mill ' cotton-ginner, in the valley of Duck up to the more weighty resPonsibill- Eolving upon the Governor of one of tatest States of this Union. They have In nall the walks of life; and whether fOmfeld, in the speakers chair of Con- |pr in the gubernatorial chair of Ten l they have seen him ever the same honest, straight forward republican |of his humble calling in private life, 'ver dazzled by the blandishments of of powef Nor do they think he would fe acceptable 10 them than he now Is, Eere the '.descendant of noile lord of d." instead of being able to boast, as ymay, of having had for a grandfather handed Carolina bldcksmith, who, in ys of the Revolution, led his neighbors against his country's ene- ernor Polk is not the man to Seek, with i It importantly, all office of this magni- He has never oktruded upon the public to it; but we venture to say man is capable of more lively gfati- his coantrymen for the high consider Fhich the nomination evinces. Nev- 's,if We know his sentiments, and hav- his neighbor for years, we must, ne- ', know some of them, he wall, if notbe oyer-anxious to serve a second as is supposed, in the opin- 're advanced, that there are always tzens who are equally well qualified high station.
 hem rail at his humble calling in early they please let them sneeringly de- at he had better be cracking corn i'll sec than running for the Presidency; pretend that ''foreign-rSpe Sperience" is sable. Away with nonsense! The lac hosts do not think his qualifca- that elevated station would be at all ed, or even increased, by a foreign e like that enjoyed by the "embodi- vhig principles 3 with the privilege flng brag among the potentates of the 'ne hundred dollars a game" They
 American heart, American feelings, T manners; and at this all-important particular, they want an AMERICAN !! They want sucha man as JAMES K, who has never been tinctured with lcal influences; and we tell those constantly conniving at the British 'ns towards Texas and Oregon, that and growing people, now amount lumber to nearly twenty millions, U TO MAKE HIM PRESIDENT ? UNITED STATES next Novem- lark t
 lays Ashland organ may ridioule the Ion as sa dish of pork and sdllad." not have made a more decided hit sand well directed efforts. Tennes- who produce more of the means for pork than the citizens of any other U , Know how to appreciate this com- ,s atrect from Mir. Clay. The active lilgent "corncrackers'' of Tennessee .e up to ''my fork of Ashland," next ' , a {! dish of our homely fare of ssPork .aa' 1. as he has never yet beheld. Let |, out for it ''about killing time." ! ne grave National Intelligencer, too, seml-oflicial of the British Govern 'ay attempt to slur with the denomina-
 iouNG HICKORY D we thank Mir. n' the title Is an excellent one 1t