Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1845-01-17
After the Election.

NOW LIldL LnS UIII vi HoS NANA o" ~
on the carlow that the rage of the great
political contest which has been sweeping
over the country has, in great measure,
subsidized, let us see what the people ofoth-
er lands think of the manner i'll which that
great political battle has been decided
Our readers cannot but remember how vo-
cilerousIy and necessarily the Federal press
throughout the whole length and breadth
of the country labored to create the impress
sion that England was in the field against
Mr.. Clay-that British Gold was pouring
into the country to be used against the
Federal party. Now the Wings, at least
the intelligent portion of them, k'leW that
this was all stuff-that it was mean and
unworthy attempt 10 create political capt.
tai at the expense of truth and fair dealing.
When they put forth this gross and foul
" RooRBACK" to the world, they were we'll
aware that the feelings, the wishes and the
hopes of the aristocracy of England-not
only of England, but of all Europe-were
deeply enlisted on behalf of lis kindred
principles, as Swallowed forth in the late
modern Wing party. But their game was
desperate, and they played it with cor
responding reckIessness. For some days
past, we have been reading in our exchange
papers, the "opinons Of the English press
on the Election of Mr.. Polk" We perus-
ed them with deep interest, ant wish
that the limits ofthe ''Journal' could ena-
ble us to spread them before our readers at
length. Below, however, we give an ex-
tract from the IS London Iimes," which
, may be taken as fair sample of the whole:
From the London Times
I OF Mr.. Polk we know nothing, except that
he has achieved a triumph over the most able
and respectable man in the Union. although
he was scarcely more known in that Union a
few months ago, than he now is IN Europe.
He has not been chosen for his past services,
or his political experience, or Tor civil elo-
ounce, or for military fame; for thesequaI!ties
would doubtless long ago have brought him
within orr notice, if he had possessed them or
any of them. But the less of personal great
ness or influence he could boast of, the better
was he fitted to answer the expectations OF
his adherents. Whatever he may turn out to
be hereafter, we can only judge of him at pre-
sent as the delegate or instrument of the pas
sions by which he has been thus strangely
raised into this conspicuous position. As
such, then, we must remark with no ordinary
concern, that with the single exception of the
tariff question, OH which he is pledged to {
? more liberal commercial policy than his oppo
nent, his election to this important Office is tht
triumph of every thing that is worst over ev
| tbof; is hoe in n
: America. 1t is victory gained by the soutt
over the north,-by the slave States over the
freely the partisans of the annexation @
Texas over its opponents-by the adventurou!
and INSCRIPTIONS democracy ofthe new States
and the foreign population in those States
, over the more austere and dignifed Republi
: cansn of New England.
: Surely the man who pcnned that para
: graph must have been reading the eboli:lon
: of coon oratory, published during the cam
n paign that is just at an end. The "ISmes
: is one of the abIest journals in Europe
r and it is the organ oGthe arstocracy of Eng
: Iand-the sworn champion and defende
, of 'fegitimacy." The tone oGthe extract
r our readers will perceive, is very simila
D to that of the aristocratic organs on this sid
e of the Atlantic. cit is triumph of ever
e thing that is worst over every thing that
: best in the United States of America,
II says the tory journal of England. HOY
S similar to the language now found in tn
f mouths of its arstocratic brethren, tn
$ Federal lordings OF the new World. Yes
e the peculiar classes, the 'pecular decen
It cy," both here and in England, know an
: feel that the elevation of Mr.. Polk and tn
: triumph of the people, has put an extir
Y guisher upon their long cherished hopes c
Y establishing in Republican America, a
:, artificial aristocracy, similar to that whc
;. is at once the oppression and disgrace c
D the European monarches.
Annexation in Texas
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