Mobile register and journal., 1845-05-19

Our exchange papers. among the whig press of f this Stnte bring every lew days reprints of the pas sages from the Mercury at Charleston, to which we
 lately made reference, in connexion with the rostiop also assumed bv he Tusca Ioosa State Journal and Flag, that MT. Polk owes his nomination and elec-
 iion to the opponents of Mr. Van Buren, and that ii,
 preferrIng for office friends of Mr. Van Buren, he is n be reproached with ngratitude 10 his best friends
 The references in ihe Mercury were 10 Bancroft and Morton oi Massachusetts, and Shields of Alabama
 The Tuscaloosa paper confined it's anmadversions 10 MT. Shields Both, however, seem to assume ,ba, the nomination Mir. Polk was the work of the an- ti-Van Buren democrats of the Baltimore conyen tion; and the Mercury made it an exnress ground of complaint against the appointment of the three me
 amed-that they fought for Van Buren in the con. vPntioa "after the battle was lost-and that in bes- towing his confidence upon ihem MT. Polk manifests disposition to ''punish his own supporters" and "reward his opponents" The Journal and Flag more 'ndisinct'y, but perfectly iniegibiy, declared that
 certain public in this State, known for hIs ex. treme devotion 10 another candidate and his violen, opposition 10 Mir. Van Barren, was with "hs rriendsn better eniilled 10 the confidence of the admins,ra non tha Mr. Shields. The grounds of this assum e' rrefe' ence are the ssme without doubt as those more broadly avowed by the other writer, and the open proclamation of this sort of hostility comes To us every few days. quoted and sometimes recorn- mended 10 special intention in our exchanges. In the defence oI our friends and especially of our per- sonal fI lend and late representative, MT. Shields who so faithfully obeved rhe will of his State in the Baltimore convention, and being defeated of his and their first choice was among the first in taking the stand for Polk, which resulted so harmoninusly and success siuliy, We feel bound again, without entering
 u'y into tie History of all the al Bali-
 more, to repeat the assertion that all attempts p'es"nt the nomination of Mir. Polk asia triumph over me r'ends of Mir. Van Buren, CT made by the '"hu'nces which were then united against him, are utterly lnco slstent with the facts A correct anay- ais of the history of that convention will shew that the opponents of MT. Van Bureu concentrated upsr fen Cass that in all their struggles through every o'Iio'ing mp 10 mat upon which the name of Mr. Polk first introduced, the struggle for the nom n't"H ws between Van Buren and Cass JJp ,o ,he eight ballong all the original friend, of Cal. hnun ant Cass and most of those of Buchanan. tried their utmost strength to make Gen Cass the cand. date of tl'e democratic party. Every vote from th. State, but That uf Nr. Shields, for Genera tasS On every ballot mp 10 the eighth. It on the eighth ballotmg that ,he name of Mr. Polk was first
 '"ght hei"re he conscnion, and then by the friends of Mir Van B1ceD, .A a cAmlid,te whom they would srelrr 1nh insist npoa against Gen. Cass the csndi- daie of all the anii-Van Buren men.
 No1 only was tie name of Mr. PoIK linen hroucbt II f,,t tIa
 saw hat ihe combinations against hun were Too @'roos |" be resisted. bnt he very niividuals who 're n iw charged, IS "opponents" of Polk becau,