Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1845-04-18

'AoiAS ~Ao" Cu greater Oh NOItIS
payers. The wing journals, conscious of the
charge OF tauds which their corrupt means would
subject them to, raised the cry of ''ad dog" and
charged the democracy with double and fraudulent
voting, while subsequent exposures showed that
the increased vote over the tax list was greater in
federal counties than democratic counties. The
November elections came Of and they showed
still greater increase, and the increase greatest in
the federal counties, notwithstanding the increase
of population is greatest in the new counties which
are democratic. That there should be all increas-
ed vote over the tax list is natural to suppose
However it may be intended that the tax list shall
run with the number of voters, such will not be
the fact The tax of which l am speaking is call
ed poll-tax. Persons over 60 years of age pay
no poll-tax, nor those under twenty-one. Young
men becoming of age between the-tifne 0fSthe tax
list return and the next election, permitted to
vote before they are registered. Persons register
ed as taxpayers can vote in congressional and
presidential elections in any county in the state,
and many poor persons not put on the tax-re-
glster list. So repeat that the tax list is no crl-
terion for the number Of voters, and we can only
judge of the effects of the corrupt means which
were used by the wings in Georgia, by the increas-
ed federal vote in those federal counties where an
increased vote was least expected. From Georgia
pass to Tennessee. When the nomination of
Colonel Polk was announced, federalism, hyeha-
like, was quick on the scent. But his moral char
acter repealed the beast His private reputation
was too pure, too unsullied to be smitten or even
touched by the sirocco breath of SANDER. But he
was not known. "Who aUns he ? aUh0 1caS this
little man called James X. Polk, d,cay do,U7a IN
TENNESSEE ?" was the question; was in the mouth
of every whig, from the great 'embodimenf' him
self, down to the smallest wing snap in the land.
They have found out who James X. Polk is; and
they displayed an ignorance and stupidity great
er than that of Balaam's ass, by asking the ques-
ton. James K. Polk had held the highest office
in the gift of his state both representative and ex
ecutive and had for many years held a seat in the
popular branch of our national legislature; part
of which time he was chairman of the Committee
of Ways and Means, the most responsible of all
others, with his name pretiXed to every financial
report made by that committee for the time he ser
we'd. part of the time he presided over the de-
berations of the House of Representatives with an
ability and dignity which did credit to him, cred
it to the body who placed him there, and honor te
the American nation. All that time his name
was appended to every law that passed Congress
Notwithstanding all this, the question in the mouth
of every wing was, "Who is this little man calico
James K. Polk, aaVay dorcr IN Tennessee ?"-
Such question was the result of hypocrisy ant
deception, worthy of corrupt party, or the result
of an ignorance and stupidity worthy of the jack
ass.
Those who ask the question can take which hor
of the dilemma they please. The journals wer
ransacked to find some vote that Col Polk ha
given, out of which political capital could be made
None could be found, except that he voted agains
appropriating money out of the national treasur,
to purchase wood for the poor people of George
town. True, he gave that vote, because he sail
at the time, such vote for such an appropriation
would be violation of his OATH and the constitu
ton he had taken oath to support. At the time
he proposed that every member of the House shout
give one days wages out of MS own pocket to tn
poor of Georgetown. But little capital could
made out of that vote pre- judicial to Col. Polk
f Next, charge was made that he voted against tn
present pension law; the journals were produces
e which showed his vote to be for the pension Law
The Journal was printed in all the democratic p
} pers, and read from every stump and stand frol
: which democrat spoke; and yet, with rockies
f ness that defed truth and the solemn record,
C was asserted to the last that Colonel Polk voted
ganst the pension law. What is such party NJ
capable of doing! After failing to find anythin
against eithe. the moral or political character
. COL Polk, real fictitious, that could be used SUI
d cessfuly against him, like the vilest beast of a
II
T. father was held up as having been tory in II
s. revolution: but the history of his father, as we'll
the recollection of some still living, proved him tc
!, young to have either been tory or patriot in t!
n revolution-too young to have taken any part
j, the revolution. But the hyena propensity led the
to tear from the grave the body Of his grandfathe
4, and he, they swore, tory; but the charact
/ Of Ezekiel Polk, and the part he took in the rev
luton with the patriots is matte: of record, and
II few of his old compcers still live to attest the tru
y of the record
al Ezekiel Polk was one of the first movers in 4
revolution; one of the first to light the beacon
rebellion. He was the first mover in the Nor
Carolina convention that formed and adopted
4 declaration Of indeF one year before t
ID national declaration of independence. He was
C. active and powerful agent in the revolution ar
te as reward for his successes and patriotism,
is legislature of North Carolina elected him color
H. of the county in which he lived and the mag
e. trates of the county appointed him sheriff.
RS these things proved by the records, and att
le ted by men who still live, in whose recolecti
n they are yet fresh hat notwithstanding all tt
y, there were base hired minions TO yep in derisi
I'd "Zeke POLK" travelled through part of II
"a nessee a short time before the election, and |
re not think was half an hour without hearing So
Ia federal spaniel yelp "Zcke POLK"
One talsehood more, and have done with T,
if nessee. It we'll know that part of the plan
Dr. iectoneering III the late canvass was to attack
- abuse-th prominentfriends and supporters of c
he Polk with the intent to weaken or destroy Ii
to influence. Under this arrangement General ia
by son came in for large share of abuse The fa
to hood which am about to relate involved Gene
,se Jackson Jas. c. Jones, governor of Tennessee
and a minister of tho uoSDel and standard bari
Of Of the holy cross (if violent politician and
oh taller and pedler of federal falsehoods can be n
nd ored with that nance by the name of brownie
er- General Jackson is a member of the Pre-byterl
m. church Governor Jones is a member OF the sa
oh church. Brownlow, to show the .bitrary and
ge v verbeaing disposition Of General Jackson sta
3b- nnbclv tba, Cen. Jackson ordered the minister
I'll. his church to turn a woman (naming herr GU
nd tho chnrch. The minister replied that he CO.