Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-14


Col. HORACE M. Polk, SENATOR
ELECT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
FRoM THE COUNTIES OF HARDRMAS
AND MADIsoN.-Col. Horace NJ. Polk,
Senator-elect, to the General Assem-
bly, of Tennessee, from the district
composed of the counties of Madison
and Hardeman, was born in Sumpter
District, South Carolina, and remov-
ed with his father, Capt. Thomas In
dependence Polk, to Fayette county,
Tennessee, in the year 1887. He des-
cended from that distinguished fami-
" of Folks of Mecklenburg county,
North Carolina, being a great-grand-
son of Gen. Thomas Polk, a promi-
nent and leading actor in the bold
declaration of independence from the
British crown, which was made and
published in the town of Charlotte, on
the Goth day of May, 1775, more than
a year before the publication Of The
Declaration of Independence. penned
by Thomas jefferson, and which was
the knell of British rule in the colo
MES Col. Polk resided in the family
of his relative, Gen. Lucious j. Polk,
Of Maury County, while attending
school, preparatory to his entrance in
to College. He entered the Univer-
sity Of North Carolina, in 1889, and
was graduated in 1941. He married
in Bolivar, Tennessee, where he loca-
ted, studied law and was licensed TO
practice, but never entered the prac-
tice, as he preferred the life of far
mer. In the year 1850, he emlgrated
to the State of Louisiana, where he
resided eighteen years. He was
member of the Legislature of that
State for several years. He was also
elected a member of the Convention
of the State, called in 1860, to consid-
er the propriety of its withdrawal
from the Union. Col. Polk took po-
sition against separate State action,
and favored cooperation of all the
slave States. uniting to demand their
rights, and acting within the Union;
arguing that this demand would be
complied with, and war averted, as
the States were then aboat equally
numerically; besides he did
not think that President Lincoln
would precipitate the fifteen free
States, upon the slave-holding States.
He insisted that the action of a feto
States only, would simply provoke an
by the Federal Government,
to use force, or in other words, to in
augurate war. AS large majority of
the convention voted down resolu-
tons looking to cooperation, he an
nounced his determination TO abide
by, and defend the action of his State,
his Judgment condemned
that action, as unwise, and ruinous to
the welfare of the people.
In 1867 Col. Polk returned to Ten
nessee, and again made his home, a.
mong his old friends aud relatives, in
county; and has been since
there, leading quiet life, on his plan
tation, near Bolivar. In the largely
attended convention, in this city, on
the LIST day of September, he received
ON the first ballot, the almost uuani-
nous nomination of the Democratic
party, as a candidate for Senator, and
was elected without opposition. Col.
Polk will bring to the diseh arge of
his duties, considerable experience in
intellectual qualities, of
high order, thorough cultivation, and
III honest desire and determination to
serve his constituents and his State
and honestly; and we feel
in saying that the people
Of this Senatorial District will have as
fearless and able representative in
the upper house of the General As
sembly, as any district in the State.