The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-02-12
lth. Citizens on foot.
llh. HoIsemen, &c.

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... 5,h. Horsemen, &c. ..#
Signal guns were fred for the moving Of the
PROCESSION, which escorted Mr.. Polk TO the
,teamer MAI. A committee Of twenty five
accompanied him to Cincinnati.
We gave sketch of the proceedings at Gin
cnna,i in Yesterdays paper.
Nv lasl nights mail, we received the
Wheeling Argus, which informs US that the
President elect reached that place on Monday
evening (not Sunday as the Globe states at 6
O'Clock. He wa. accompanied by Mrs. Polk. J. X.
Walker This Private Secretary J. c. Harris,
Eso Ar &c. His receptioniat Wheeling was
co,d., and commeodable. being conducted with
me .,rcte,t prooriety. bur AZ the same time dis
pensioo with the boisterous and eriraysqant
and sometimes ridiculous tuu,ulrs. which have
characterized other receptions. Mr.. Polk is not
The man 10 desire 10 be ,eoyshipped, and no ex
cess of aarterv will ever turn him aside from
Nj. lofty nurposes. deliberately resolved upon
Hi, lodgings were taken at the Virginia Hotel
where h. received and reciprocaled the greet
inc. of his f,ilo,,- III rens. without distinction
If Marty mill I O'Clock. p. M. when he de-
n.,,.d IN rho stage for Washington, Pennsylya-
nj, escorted nv a large bodv Of citizens to the
STAT. line
MIR. Polk renamed at Washington, Pennsyl-
vania nil Tuesdav Yesterday morning. Ii is
probable he reached Uniontown last night. aud
no doubt will arrive al Cumberland, Maryland,
this evening. He may be looked for in this city
To-day the votes of the Electoral Colleges
were counted in Congress, and the result will
be, we suppose, officially announced by the
committee on Friday.
No one who has remarked, can fail to admire
the progress of events, us relates to the Pres-
dent elect, ever since his nomination at Balti-
more.
His nomination was III. salvation of the
Republican party. Had not an Overrul-
ing Providence suggested his name TO the
Convention, discord and disruption would
have trans ired, and the principles of the Fede-
raj party would, in all probability, have pre-
vailed in the Government for long series
of wears. Ii also administered most powerful |
rebuke 10 such aspirants, as are ever striving,
by direct means, as well as by indrection, TO
seize the prize for they saw it awarded to
pure and upright individual who had never
sought it, never aspred to it, never pledged the
patronage of the Government, in the event of
his success. to any leading intriguers upon
whom he relied for assistance. 1t was voun,a-
riIy bestowed upou him, UNEXPECTEDLY conferred,
as a free Offering, without even a desire being
EXPRESSED for him 10 recapilulate his principles
and views to the People. The nation had kno wn
Colonel Folks principles, had known his purity
of character, his firmness of mind, and this was
sufficient. No trammels were fastened upon
him by office-seek king demagoeues, and the only
guarantee they desired, that he would correctly
administer the Government, was found in his
past life, and not offered anew by him to SUI.
the occasion. .... . .
There was a crash of party machinery, a
crush of all mere clique organizations, and the
Republican party having resolved itself into its
original elements, recommended its career b,
placing in It's lead an honest, capable, and
unassuming patriot and statesman, worthy in
every way to succeed the illustrious Chief Ma
gistra,es of the good old Republican school,
Such was the glorious REVOLUTION at Balti.
more; and although certain cliques in this city