The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-26
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE
[From our regular correspondent.l

PHILADELPHIA, August 90, l845.
There is matter for eloquent and emphatic com.
mentary in the results of the August elections
The policy Of Colonel Polk, as already made known
or foreshadowed, has not only been sustained by
the increased majorities of Indiana and Alabama
but by the voices Of the two leading States of Ten
nessee and North Carolina, both Of which pro-
nounced against him in 1874. Ii is still a subject
offresh recollection, doubtless, how in August, l64l
the elections in most of these States were full of
demnation and scorn of the whg administration
which came in on the previous 4th of March. The
contrast is most profitable one, and proves two
things most conclusively-that the present Execu-
tive does not owe his triumph to mere claniorous
hurra and that the policy of the administration is
destined to make it one Of the most popular and
effective in our history. The result in Tennessee
is the most significant. 1t is the sentence of politi-
cal death upon band of political desperadoes, who
have made that gallant State speak language and
support opinions, unworthy of her early fame, and
ofthe us,rious man who is now sleeping in death
upon her bosom. Of him they were tile most heart
less and inveterate foes-poisoning his repose when
he had retired from the cares Of brilliant and we'll
spent life, by attacks as shameless, and much more
cruel than those directed against him in the actual
contest. OF Col. Polk they were still more violent
enemies, and followed him with degree of unnat-
ural ferocty. When he was nominated by the
democratic national convention on the 9th of May,
1874, they could not conceal their chagrn and Mr..
Clay HIMSELF acting under the same feelings, took
an unworthy occasion ofridculing his antagonist as
one whom it was impossible not TO defeat. The
bearing of the republican candidate was, however,
so digni6ed and prudent, and compared so favora-
bly, with the cacoefhes oguendi ef scbend of his OPP
ponent that il utterly disarmed the rancor and the
reckessness of his foes. II is true the Tennessee
wing leaders enjoyed a transient and malignant tri
umph in the result of the election in that State las
November, and hattered themselves with having
achieved wondrous victory in gaining State fol
Clay by one hundred and thirteen votes, which had
given Harrison a majority of thirteen thousand
But they we're doomed to future disappointment
of which they had never dreamed in all their philos
ophy. When the wheels of the new administration
were set in motion, and their policy and measures
proclaimed, the people of the Presidents own State
acting with those Of their sister commonwealth North
Carolina the home OF his fathers calmly reconsderet
their decree of last November, and with all the so
lemnity and effect Of the "sober second thought
pronounced the verdict in favor Of the administers
ton Of James X. Polk Truly, slime at last makes
all things event. and John Bell, Ephraim Foster
ex-governor Jones, W. B. Le,ois, and their confeder
ates have sadly realized the truth Of the expression
'that curses, like young chickens, always com,
home TO roost" repeatm my congratulations again
upon result so full Of important significance an,
so valuable in all the aspects in which il can b.
viewed
A few days ago, in company with two or thrc
friends paid visit TO the lovely village Of Bristol
in Bucks county, distant hour and hslf's steam
boat ride from Philadelphia. While there, hear
that native American meeting was in operation il
the vicinity; and so, never having been present a
such performance, we srolled away TO beautiful