The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1845-01-09
ENGLISH OPINIONS
ON THE ELECTION OF MIR. POLK.
Wilmer & Smiths Times says:

fore noon on the Odd, having made the pas
sage in a little less than fourteen days; it be
ing the shortest passage she has made this
season. She carried out the news of the
probable election of Mr.. Polk. The event
of course excited surprise throughout Eu
rope, so far as an interest was taken in the
election. We subjoin some of the
ofsome of the principal journals upon it
They are deserving of attention, not mere
ly as a matter of curiosity, but for much
more important reasons. The following are
the remarks of the London Times in an
nouncing the intelligence:
The nomination of the Presidential cleo.
tors has Just been completed, and it appears
to leave no doubt as TO the triumph of the
Democratic party, and of their candidate, MIR.
Polk. The surprise, and, we must add, the
apprehension and regret, which this event
will produce in Europe, are increased by the
fact that it is the great State of New York,
Pennsylvania, and Virginia, which have turn
ed the scale. Far from exercising that mod
GRAZING power, and, if we may so speak of
any thing in America, that Conservative in
huence which mightseem to belong TO their
position, their wealth their mercantile inter
ests, and their exemption from Slavery, Penn
s~ylvania has 10 this instance obeyed the
same influences, which have already con
nected her name with bankruptcy and an
archy, and New York has followed her ex-
ample.
OF Mr.. Polk we know nothing, %exceptthat
he has achieved a triumph over the most "a
BILE and respected man in The Union, though
he was scarcely more known in that Union
afew menlhs ago than he now isin Europe.
He has not been chosen for his past services,
or his political experience, or for civil elo-
quence, or for military fame; for these quail
tiles would doubtless long ago have brought
him within our notice if he had possessed them
or any of them. But the less of personal
greatness or influence he could boast of,
the better was he fitted to answer the expec-
tations of his adherents. Whatever he may
turn out to be hereafter, we can only Judge
ofhim at present as the delegate or lnstru-
ment of the passions by which he has been
thus strongly raised into this conspicuous po-
sition. AS such then, we must remark with
no ordinary concern, that with the single ex-
ception of the Tariff question, on which he
is pledged TO a more liberal commercial poll
cy than his opponent, his election TO this i'm
portant office is the triumph over everything
that is best in the United States of Anne RIGA.
1t is a victory gained by the South over the
north-by the slave States over the free
by the repudiaiing S.ates over the honest
F. Ones-by the plrlislns of the annexation oil
Texas over lis opponents-by the adventu-
rous and INSCRIPTIONS democracy of the
new States, and the foreign population in
those States, over The more austere and dig
nifed Republicanism of new England.
No one in Europe has failed to observe
the rapid decline Of ihe United States in pub
lie morality and in public estimation in their
policy and i'll their principles as a natIon,and
in all that renders 4 people permanently
strong and prosperous, during the last few
wears, and more especially during the acct
dental administration of Mr.. Tyler. The
death of Gen. Harrison was indeed in more
ways than one a national, und more than na-
tionaI, calamity; but we had not ceased to en-
terrain the hope that the party which brought
him into office four years ago, would now
: be strong enough to carry MIR. Clay's cleo
ton. Ii appears that the evil has already
gone too far. BY pandering to the passions
of the populace, Mr.. Tyler has not only lei
loose, but instigated the worst tendencies OF
democracy. To his treaty and Texas, which
drove Mr.. Van Buren, from the field, Mr.. p.
NAV be said to owe his election. Until that
question was brought forward, the name oil
Polk was unknown except at Almack's. The
Wing candidate has persisted in the attempt
10 stem the fierce current of instructed popu
lar excitement. The Wing party have been
beaten, when every thing depended on the
possibility ofrestoring moderation and probl
ty to the Government ofthe country by their
influence; and, it is scarcely TOO much to say
that Texas has already given a President tC
the Union. If Mr.. Polk adheres to the pied
qes under which The electors are likely &c
raise HIM TO the chair, he is pledged to
foreign war. The grounds on which Gen
Jackson and his friends have given their sup
port 10 Mr.. Polk are before the world; anC
we have already combatted their argu ment:
and their assumptions. They amour to the
strongest expressions of hostility against the
supposed influence and design of Great BFi
tain on the North American continent: anC
- either the means they have used to gam the
popular suffrages are as insincere as the.
are false, or they hold that the acquisition o
Texas, by arms, if necessary, Is The first du
tv of the President of the United States
They can hardly escape from the dllemm'
in which they stand between excessive rash
ness and excessive deceit; but we canno
expect that they will have the energy or the
power, any more than MIR. Tyler has hal
Them, TO resist or control the popular excite
ment which has brought them into office.
1t has been observed by the most judici
Gus observer of the institutions ofthe UnlteC