Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-07-26
From Kendalrs Expositor.
JAMES X. POLK.

From Kendalps Expositor.
JAMES X. POLK.
Reasons schy he should BE supported 5y al tru.
friends Of Lao, Order, Morality, and Demoru
cy.
He is man Of irreproachable moral charac-
ter, and contrasts in that respect with the
Wing candidate.
He is not loaded down with the guilt Of
murder, meditated or accomplished like the
Wing candidate.
| No widow and orphans weep the loss Of
husband and father slain under his counsels.
as in The case Of Cilley and the Wing oandi.
date.
The gaming table has not seen him robbinp
his infatuated or half-intoxicated fellow-m an Of
his money OF his property, as it has the Wing
| candidate.
The brother has never resounded with the
noise Of his profigate mirth and obscene jest,
as 10 the case Of the Wing candidate.
an hs snaSssas s S ea a; Ct sd z
in Legislative body, with perfect concious-
ness that he had not constitutional qualfca-
tions, as did the Wing candidate in the Sen.
ate Of the United States.
He has not violated constitutions and oaths
of office. BY attempting to kill members of his
legislative bodies for words spoken in debate
las in the case Of H. Marshall and John
Randolph and the Wing candidate.
He has not, like Henry Clay, been put un.
der bounds to prevent his head!ong passions
rushing him into the Penitentiary, under a law
passed with the aid of his own vote.
He has not like Henry Clay abused the
frontier settlers as ga lawless rabble," no
better than thieves, pirates and robbers deny
ing them the privilege of buying wilderness
lands. which they have by hara work made
"to blossom as the rose," while willing to
aid proAigate debtors in wiping out all their
debts by bankrupt law.
He has not, like Henry Clay, refused to the
poor lrishman or German or other emigrant
from the old world, the privilege of making
lot of waste land valuable by his labor, and
buying it at Government price; nor, like the
same ploAigate statesman, would he permit
fereign lords and bankers 10 purchase all the
banks and corporation stocks in the country,
and become the owners of a National Bank, to
control the value of property and the wages Of
labor-to keep the moneys of the Treasury,
corrupt public men, and govern the Govern
ment.
He has none Of that naughty contempt for
the laboring millions, which would induce him
like Henry Clay, to rank the white working
man below the negro slave.
He has not, like Henry Clay, when instruc-
ted by his constituents to give vote for Pres
iden., or for tho ropooI or passagc Of lw, set
himself up as their master, haughtly answer
ed 81 will mott and insulted them imputations
of "cruelty and humanity" for making re-
quest.
He has not, like Mr.. Clay gotten up a
scheme to destroy prominent riv&a-refused
to make himself publicly responsible for mat
tiers which he was privately intoxicating far
and wide to his in]ury-been denounced and
defined by him as an intriguer who dared net
put his name to imputed ISLANDERS, which he
was not too honorable to propagate; and then,
with view to his personal aggrandizement,
rush into his arms, as Mr.. Adams, and make
common cause with him against old friends,
and in support of principles he had repudiated
and denounced.
'a' uvRsJk vas the steadfast friend Of Gene
.aauoo; while Mr.. Clay was Re. h n,s Aom,ols-
fe'WeVt hiinls ia 1881, Mr.. cray as Senator,
in close alliance with Nicholas Biddle and his
corrupt Bank, was pouring out torrents Of foul
denunciation upon the head of the great war
rior and statesman, who was battling to put
down the British institution which he consld-
cred more dangerous to the liberties OF his
country than the army which he encountered
at New Orleans--Mr. Polk, as chairman OF
the Committee of Ways and Means, in the
House Of Representatives. and was. through
an able report and protracted discussions, sus-
tanning the honest and devoted chief,ain in his
bold and decisive measures to PROSTATE that
monster of iniquity.