t si s *"*" watcbman .. . . per j-ear.t • payable in advance bat if not paid in advance two dollars in i fifty ■ vpveh . -• e first and 25 cts ',;,, ,...,,. |, 8u i onri orders chnrged o , li ral deduc tion ar i iti ~' i:iuj we ca r ol 1 n a watc 11 w a n salisbury september 26 1848 whig plati b_i • r \ 22 l !-. dear sir m in :• due to not to my frien - '' ■'■'■ ol ::-' '" y attention name as n candi ■ date i ing at in i many of mj en my berty to m -• i wish that ■ 7 i idly do so i have no priv ate ; tj pro ; tos rve but my country i have been verj ler and my ;■.'. bee -' ■ '. ery question interests r country or their ] i always re sponded to ■ - ns i confess while i have great cardinal principles which ntly fa to givi delea i thai inions j would nol mhled , mi i \ iii**ii : bul crude li upon mailers oi po lo day and •■■■ rong lo-ni • not the brsi ■■ ( ine d i in m •.• iem i will pro i bowe r now . to your in first—i reiterate what i havi aid i am a w'tii it elect i i wo . : pre sidenl of a puny i \. ivor to nol indi ■ n '• ni of party ation 1 should li tet the i_r vernmeni untrami second — the veto power the by the ution to tli ■■> intetpos : hi eto is a high consei pinion -'..■ . i ne ver !"• ■ . i of the constitution or m and waul ol considera lion bf congr indeed i have thought thai for ma il 9 pa 7 ih know n opin . iesi !' the i *\- in undue and in m iou ; influence . e i lepartn i in for tins cause i have t i i ■ u tt 1 1 1 our vasin dan ger of ■■• from its theory the ol the individual w ho has happened to j the executive chair ought nol to control lhe cc • tion of * ongress upon questions ol domestic policy : nor - lo be intei pi ed w here quest ia power have been settli 1 by tin various departments of government a ced in by the third — upon lhe suhjeel of lhe tariff lhe currency the improvera int ol our great highways rivers lakes and harbors the will of ihe people as expressed through iheir representatives in congress ought to be respected and ' carried out by the executive fourth — the m in war i sincerely rejoice al ospeel of pi ai i m . fe i a - been devoted to in yet 1 look upon war at . cumstances as a national calai : dif com patible with the national honor th - of our government as well as iu true policy are opposed to " ihe bubju » ition of other . ibermenl of other countries b conquest in the language of the greal w ish n i n why sin ul ! we quit our own lo in tin mexican n ar onr na tional honor has been vindicated ; and ig terms j ut peace we may . . . i mag naiiiin ■■ these are my op nions on lhe ul ects referred lo by , you and an . « i itten or verbal i from any source d ular from what . ■ i and untrue 1 do not know tha i rite upon the sub i no schemes in people eonl . ; ie ihey oughl nol lo rave me ffi iges ii ihey do m ow me \\. :. me v hi n i d i are i shall be content irmui ainsi such in^h au /. taylor to capt j s ali offici i 117 pi 7i ' me r tv //• ' ij i tins si j . (>. general tavlor the following letter has been prepared by gen taylor to correct any misconception which might possibly be produced by the recent pub lication of extracts from his private correspond ence and the appearance over his signature of replies to single and detached questions relative to his position before the public the loiter is ' a connected narrative of lhe series of circum stances which resulted in lis becoming a can didate it presents in i compact form all the milters bearing upon lhe subject and exhibits * tien taylor in his proper character — true to himself lo his friends and to his country east pascagocla sept 4 ,, sir on the 23d day oi m iy i ist 1 addressed rd to various . lest my fellow citizens might sled by the man nents in re em which appeared in the ■ . ij and ware circulated throughout the v 1 now ed and misun to my oi to ihe country ai large as toclaim :■ of my rela ig presidential i ipon seve chhave iv lhal 1 oc is parties in !; the people ire towards !:.' whig party i - ' ili.i strued in connection wiih whai i i iplain of tendered to m igeraenl > ! mine ; 1 1 wi th n in ■ ito the ; ib ic pr ss bui rivi n fron snd separated from a - y facts and . nstancea which are in so . they an as ■ . - though they were pos s i address you tins letter to furreet the injustice that has been done me and the pub lic to the extent that i am an object ol int b tins illiberal pro > ss i shall not wear ' ev ry c'de ! with the ti 51 head of the • the rio grande 1 was whigs and 1 who hi t i to the to inj | i ; i i was a \\ ; w ii y j suci had . . during "^ late j ■ al elections . ,. 0f j . under thevai . af n given to the mdidate presented to th a rmulary of political principles was equivolent i of in i n ron • a enmity to -. r to haz j foe effect of such relationship towards any of the ■ b under my command v lien u hom of an cnenn bruner & james ) „.. , „ . , ( " h * ' ijeck i po.v all your editors or rraprtetors \ rciees r ■ | new series gen'l harrison v volume v number 21 salisbury n c thursday september 28 1848 common to us au it would bave been unjust in itself and it was repugnant to my feelings as i was to my du ty i wanted unify in the army and forbore any act that might sow the seeils of distrust and discord in its ranks i have nol my letters written at the time before me bul they are all of one import aud in conformity with the views herein expresed meanwhile i was solicited by my personal friends and by strangers by whigs and democrats to consent to become a candidate i was nominated by the people in primary assemblies — by whigs democrats and natives i.i separate and mixed meetings i resisted ihem all and continued to do so till led to believe that my oppo sition was a suming lhe aspect ofa defiance ofthe pop ular wishes i yielded only when it looked like pre sumption to resist longer and t ven then i should not bave done so had not the nomination been presented to me in a form unlikely to awaken acrimony or reproduce lhe bitterness ol feeling which attends popular elections j siy it in sincerity and truth lhat a part of the induce ' ment to my consenl was the hope that by gointr into the canvass i would be conducted with candor if not with kindness 1 has been no fault of mine tbat this antici pation has proved a vain one alter 1 permitted myself to be announced for the pre sidency under the circumstances above noticed ac cepted nomination after nomination in the spirit in which they were tendered they were made irrespective of : parties and so acknowledged no one who joined in those nominations could have been deceived as io my po litical views from the beginning till now i have de clared my ■ i to be a v big on all proper occasions — with this distinct avowal published to the world 1 did nol think lhat i had a right to repel nominations from polilical opp ments any more than i had a right to refuse the vote ot a democrat at the poll ; and i proclaimed it abroad lhal i sh iuld not reject the proffered support of any body of my fellow-citizens this was my position when iu november last i returned tothe uniied states long before either ofthe great divisionsof the people had held a national convention and when it was thought douhilul it cue oi them would bold any matters s'ood in this attitude till spring when there were so many statements in circulation concerning my views upon questions of national policy ihat i felt con strained to correct the errors into which the public mind was falling by a more explicit enunciation of principles which i did in my letter to you in april last that let ( ter and the facts which i have detailed as briefly as a ! proper understanding of ihem would permit developed i my whole position in relation to the presidency at the j time the democratic convention met in may anil com posed their ticket to suit ihem this they had a right i to do the national whig convention met in june ! and selected me as their candidate i accepted the nomination with gratitude and with pride i was proud of the confidence of such a body of men representing a constituency as the whig party of the united | states a manifestation the more grateful because it was i not cumbered with exactions incompatible with the dig ! nity of the presidential oflice ami the responsibilities of its incumbent to the whole people of the nation and j 1 may add lhat these emotions were increased by asso | dating my name with that ol the distinguished citizen of new york whose acknowledged abilities and sound conservative opinions might have justly entitled them to the first place on the ticket the convention adopted me as it found me — a whig [ — d eided but not ultra in my opinions ; and 1 would be without excuse if i were to shifi the relationships which subsisted at ihe time they took me wiih the declara ; lion of principles i had published to the world and 1 would be without defence if i were to say or do anything , to impair the force of lhat declaration 1 have said lhal i would accept a nomination from | i lemocrats ; bul in so doing 1 would not abate one jot or ; tittle of my opinions as written down such a nomina tion as indicating a coincides i opinion on the part of those making ii should not be regarded with disfavor by those who ihink with me ; as a complimenl personal to myself it should nol be expected lhat i would repulse | them with insult 1 shall not modify my views to entice them to my side ; i shall not reject their aid when they join my friends voluntarily i have said 1 was not a party candidate nor am i in ; lhat straightened and sectarian sense which would pre i vent my being the president ofthe whole people in case ' ot my election i did not regard myself as one before i the convention met and that body did not seek to make j me different from what 1 was they did nor fetter me down to a series of pledges which were to be an iron , rule of action in all and in despite of all the coatingen ■ eies that iiiiiiht arise in the course of tiie presidential ! term 1 am not engaged lo lay violent bands indiscrim ' inately upon public officers good or bad who may differ l in opinion wiih me i am not expected to force con gress by the coercion ofthe veto to pass laws to suit me ■ or pass none this is what i mean by not being a par ty candidate and i understand this is good whig doc ■ trine — i would not be a partizan president and hence should nol be a party candidate in the sense lhat would make one this is ihe sum and substance of my mean j ing ami this is the purport of the facts and circumstan i ces attending my nomination when considered in their connection with and dependence upon one another 1 refer all persons who are anxious on the subject to i tins statement for the proper understanding of my posi tion towards the presidency and tiie people il it is not inti lligible 1 cannot make it so and shall cease to at ! tempt it in taking leave ol the subject i have only to add thai my two letters to you embrace all the topics 1 design to speak of pending this canvass if i am elected i shall ! do all thai an honest zeal may effect to cement the bonds of our union and establish lhe happiness ot my country ' men upon an enduring basis z taylor to capt 1 s allis in coriyix upon taylor at a meeting of some two thousand of the sovereign people held in green county ohio on the 30th ultimo after a sound speech from hon john woods in favor of the whig can didates fur the highest offices in ihe genera government mr senator corwin tom cor win as the people fondly rail him look lhe stand after some preliminary remarks he said lhat he found but one whig candidate in the field for lhe presidency and believing whig principles lu be necessary for the pros | perily of the countrv ho should be recreant to lhal country if ho deserted those principles now for the sake of men is len taylor a whig ? cries of yes loud and long with a feu faint noes i ana glad lo hear those hasty noes 1 am here to testily : listen to me live minutes and then say no if you can what are whig principles 1 are the tariff the currency internal improvements — are such questions of policy which are mutable aud liable to change wiih changing circumstances of the country — correct to-day and inexpedient to-morrow per haps—are ihese the principles ofthe patty these form the policy of the whigs ; but the principles upon which that party are founded are older than all these whig principles did not originate with gen tavlor no look hack for centuries and across the water and you will find lhat john hampden was the first whig and laid down his life in defence of their principles it was opposition to the one-man power the king wanted his ship money but john hampden and the whigs said he should act have it until voted by parliament this was the principle brought across the water by the pilgrims ; and our fathers in t6 declared that because lhe king withheld his consent from laws wholesome and necessary they as whigs would no longer consent to be govern ed by him what is en taylor's position upon ihis question — this whig principle ? is he no a whig 1 does he not say that the peo ple b their representatives must make the laws and he if elected will execute them ? what do the whigs want ofa president ? i suppose you want a president ? i suppose you want a president to act under the constitution ; to re ! commend to congress measures he may deem necessary to recommend appointments to office j and to stop there letting lhe law-making pow er created by the constitution do its duly wiihin ! the boundaries marked out by that instrument i fs this so well this is the position occupied by general taylor like you my brother whigs i wanted to know when gen taylor j became the candidate his opinion ; i wanted not his pledges ; i wanted to know his opinions \ upon vetoes ; for while the people rule our constitution and our government are safe j against corruption money and power ; not even the powers of darkness can overthrow them we have his opinions — we may thank lhe democrats for that their published false hoods drew them out — and those opinions arc such as the whigs have entertained from lhe lime of hampden till ihe present day but says some brother whig gen taylor is no ; politician — he never made any stump speeches ! ' xo : but he is equal to every emergency where ; ver placed ; and the plain honest-headed old soldier will not be found wanting in judgment 1 even in the while house where he takes up his residence on the 5th of tnext march a candid opinion the following from the pen of the editor of the union in may 1s46 before gen taylor ! was thought of for the presidency will show \ the real opinion of father ritchie and how ] utile reliance is to be placed upon efforts from the same quarter to disparage the old hero ! " the pen worthy of the sword — nothing can be more happy appropriate modest yet ! dignified than the despatches from gen tay lor they are worthy of the man and of the ! occasion which has called them forth w'e ! thoroughly agree with the compliment that the j xew orleans courier pays to the general order i of gen taylor " giving thanks to his iroops i for their bravery and good conduct •' the american reader will remark with pride and pleasure the striking contrast it ex j hibits to the bold tedious extravagant vain ■ glorious productions of lhe mexican general ; the neatness of the style is admirable — not a j word too much or in the wron place — all in fine keeping with the energy and decision with | which his military operations are conducted j semi weekly union of may 30 1916 southern democrats read read " my god ! if england wants texas let her i have it ; we don't thus spake lewis cass j in 1814 to c k green who testifies to the fact when the question of annexation was first , mooted " i am in favor of leaving to the people the , indians mulaltoes negroes and abolitionists ; ofthe mexican territory for instance where j slavery is and has always been prohibited ofj any territory which may be hereafter acquired j the right to regulate it for themselves — gen j cass in his nicholson lellcr monstrous doc i trine this ! ask mr venable if it isn't " i am no slaveholder i nev 1 erhave been i never shall \ be i deprecate its existence in principle and pray for its abolition kvery where lewis cass pamphlet on the right of search « gen'l cass is a better free soil max than martin van bu j ren cleaveland ohio plaiudealer the organ of lhe ohio democracy and whose ed j itor has eat slept and drank with lewis cass j often indeed the editor thinks that he knows mr cass and his opinions a leetle " belter iban any man living " up cass is all thing unto all mon an j abolitionist at heart and false to the south — so say the hon mr yancy of alabama a democrat and a member ofthe baltimore dem ocratic convention that nominated cass—yan cy knows him i solemnly swear that i believe that lewis cass secretary of war was engaged in spec ulating in the public lands whilst secretary of war that he made exorbitant al lowances to fovorites — paid one for services never performed — another after he had full knowledge that the favorite forged his qf i ficial signature ; and permitted commissions un der him to be antedated henry a wise a democrat upon oath before an investigating committee of the house of representatives which democratic committee thereupon drop ped lhe witness like a hot potato and pushed the investigation no farther as to the said cass but thomas hart benton ! come into court iou know lewis cass '* like a book give us your opinion ofthe man : mr ihnlon then to be brief " he cass has persevered in error — he converts into design what was in the beginning a mis take ! we are now to have war as far as the senator and his party can make it upon elesign and without pretext instead of admitting the error the senator from michigan gen cass for himself and his fiiends persevered in it ; and thus what was a mistake in the beginning be comes a design a design to have war with great britain without daring to name the pretext this day has been the most humiliating of my senatorial life i have felt lor the american senate when i have seen a senator in error and endeavoring to keep the people in error even at the risk of war by endeavoring to do away the plain woids of a treaty — by garbling and mutilating scraps of speeches of another senator — when the greal peace was one of peace and iionok nt the country in the presenceof which every selfish feeling should have steod abashed ar.d rebuked — from mr benton's speech in sen ale june 1846 the hearts ofthe people must be prepared for war that is the people must be taught to love war — leans cass war with england is inevitable."1 — cass speech for the whole of oregon or none ic?*1 should we acquire territory beyond the rio grande — and east ofthe rocky mountains — it is still more impossible lhat a majority of the people would consent to reestablish slavery they are themselves a colored population and among them the neoro does not belong so cially lo an inferior race beyond lhe rio ' grande slavery will nol pass — not only because it is forbidden by law but because lhe colored race preponderates in the ratio of ten to one ' over the whites and holding as they do the go j vernment and most of the offices in their pos ' session they will not permit the enslavement of any portion of the colored race caw letter ig nicholson 0 one word as to ihis last ' sentiment ;' i and what we wish to say is this : although cass was but a short lime ago the warm advocate of the wilmot proviso and then in anticipa ! tion of being a candidate for the presidency j wrote a letter to nicholson the same from i which we extract the above in which he says j with the manifest view of getting support in the south that he " believes his opinion is under going nol that it has undergone a change i in regard to the wilmot proviso and although j he has subsequent to this letter been noniina j ted for the presidency — accepted the nomiua j tion — and approved the " rope of sand " called i the democratic platform which disapproves ! of the wilmot proviso ; yet he never has said ■ and will not dare to say that his mind has j changed or that he is opposed to the wil mot proviso judge wood a democrat in be ' half cf a large gathering ofthe people cf ohio assembled to hear cass told him ihat it was \ rumored that he geu c was opposed to the wilmot proviso and internal improvements ' that the people had then assembled to hear him refute these slander and insisted ou his an i swer cass only reply was the noise and confusion is so great that i could not be heard this was soon after he had been nominated but grant that he would veto the proviso — the ! true secret to such a veto would be found in the above sentiment — to wit : there is no danger of slavery crossing the rio grande so long as j the people of that territory are left to regu ! late their own internal concerns — to say whether slavery shall or shall not exist — ! why ? cass tells you why the abolition l ists don't care about the " proviso " — don't care j if it is vetoed — so long as you agree with cass that the subject must be left to the decision ofi the colored race leave it to tho people of this mexican territory — as cass proposes — and the vilest abolitionists will thank yon — slave ry will never cross the rio grande — and abolitionists ask no more — miiioii chronicle ; gen taylor's second allison letter this document so manly in its tone so explicit in its declarations is already made the subject of misrepresentation it is curious to observe the malign ingenuity on the one hand and the unblushing ef frontery on the other by which the best and noblest sentiments are sometimes dis torted or falsified under the unhappy influ ence of party rancor the ollicial paper says of gen taylor's second letter to capt allison that it " op ens icilh the monstrous statement that while in me.xico he felt himself compell ed to conceal his political opinions for ft ar of alienttihgifromhim those gallant soldiers who had eagerly rushed forth and rallied under his banner to defend the rights and honor ef their country on the battle field let ihe reader observe this allegation there is no obscurity about it and if there were it is all removed by the reiter ation of the charge in the same column in which gen taylor is made to avow " that if during the war of his country he had spoken out his real political sentiments he must have encountered the indignant scorn even of his own troops.n in immediate connection with this ver sion or rather perversion of what gen taylor says we place the very thing that gen taylor does say speaking of the first presentation of his name as a candi date lor the presidency he remarks : i was then at the head of the amei ican army in the valley of the rio grande i was surrounded by whig and demo crats who had stood by trie in the trying hours of my life and whom it was my destiny to conduct through scenes of still greater trial my duty to that army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade my assuming a position of seeming hostility to any por ion of the brave men under my command — ali ol whom knew 1 was a whig in principle : for i made no concealment of my political sentiments or predilections such hail been the violence of party straggles daring our late presidential elec tions tbat the acceptance of a nomination : under the rigorous interpretations given to the obligatiods of a candidate presen ; ted to the public with a formulary of po litical principles was equivalent almost to a eeclaration of uncompromising enmi ty to all who did not subscribe to its ten ets i was unwilling to hazard the etfect of such relationship towards any ofthe soldiers under my command when in front of any enemy common to us all it would lave been unjust in itself and it was as ! repugnant to my own feelings as it was to myduty how plain nnd simple is this statement ! how just and elevated and patriotic are the sentiments it expresses ! yet this ve ry passage has been seized upon and made tho foundation of a calumny so monstrous that no subsequent restriction of it can do away with the foul injustice that now marks its utterance this miserable system of destraction which so often imparts a disgusting char acteristic to party contests as though men when they became partizans discov j ered some new code of truth and honor is so ill-suited to the calm temper ofthe public at this time that it may be remar ked upon and exposed with some proba bility of a salutary result it is no new thing to find gen taylor denounced in the columns of the union for statements and opinions wliich lhat paper has made and expressed for him not only without warrant from any declaration of his but with a most deliberate perversien of his real language and true meaning if the union would stop this practice it might be none the less efficient in promoting the cause of cass and butler — to say nothing of the cause of morality — i3alt araer the prospect in louisiana the distent reader may desire to know something of the progress of the good cause in the sugar state — we can as sure our friends that every thing looks bright and cheering so far as the city of new nrleans is concerned the strong est possible reasons exist for the belief that gen taylor will obtain an overwhel ming majority iti is 10 new orleans gave gen harrison 633 majority ; in 1844 she gave 414 to henrv clay — wedo not i think that under any possible contingen cy the majority for gen taylor will fall j below that of harrison in 1810 and we have well founded hopes that it will ex ceed it tbe locofocos concede us from i three to five hundred in the city ; the whigs claim two thousand it will be nearer the whig than the democratic estimate tbe city is a process of thorough organi zation and oor friends are mily aroused the cause of taylor and fillmore is mo ving steadily onward every day adds fresh converts to our ranks and if the ; canvass continues in the same spirit we have no hesitation in saying that new orleans will be the banner city of the un ion from the country cur advices are eqal ly gratify ins the contest in lhe interior of tho state is marked by great anima tion and excitement the leading cham pions of both sides have taken active parts in the canvass and are stumping it dili gently we have before us a mass ol letters embracing a correspondence from fully three fourths of the parishes the tone cf these letters is uniformly confident and cheering the enemy may boast and . brag as they please but we know lhat in almost every parish in louisiana the i whig ticket will poll a far heavier vote than that given in 1814 the north wes tern district which went dead againsl then will exhibit changes almost of them selves sufficiently numerous to ensure our i triumph we speak by the card and cannot possibly be deceived unless the opinions of the coolest and most clear head *! whi • in the state arc absolutely worthless that gross frauds will be at tempted by lscofocoism — that an organ ized effort will be made to swindle tay lor out ofthe vote for louisiana even as clay was swindled out of it four years a | fo we arc well aware dut the game cannot succeed wc are are forewarned and will be forewarned the friends of the whig cause may remain perfectly satisfied that the six electoral votes of louisiana will he cast for those noble and true hearted whigs zachary taylor and millard filllmore.-(n 0 bee a new •'. i:i l , > out ct bad ■'■ bts aii un dertaker in new york being unable tu collect some old debts alter calling and sending in vain took out his hearse and drove up to the dwelling of a creditor — much surprise was expressed by the fam ily who on hearing that the hearse would remain until the money was paid speedily handed over the cash lie repeated the operation with all his creditors and be ' lure night the debts were all paid this is the story the papers tell from the mobile kitertmrr keep it before the people there are a fevy facts ih*t we are inclined to aid in kbepuig mk*o tub pe ple among them an the following let d be remembered thnt the first opfici t recognition of the wilmot proviso was made by james k pi ik when he signed the orccon bill in direct violation nt his recent solemn promises and pledges o tbe south let it be remembered that general cass has repeatedly declared himself in favor of the wilmot proviso and only pretended to abandon it when he fonnd a plan by which the further extension of slavery could be prevented as effectually as by the wilmot proviso his opinions stand recorded in favor of tbe wilmot proviso and to this day not one word has he ever uttered in opposition to the prin ciple involved let it be remembered — that the legis lature of michigan which nominated cass for the presidency passed a series of wilmot proviso resolutions amended and interlined by himself to make them stron ger and more stringent and which he as a senator laid before the body wliich he was a member among thcin was the following : resoloed that whenever the govern ment ofthe united states shall acquire any territory by conquest cession or pur chase in which slavery shall not bi laic exist at the time of such conquest cession orpurcha.se it would be repugnat to the moral sense if this nation and a viol ttion of ihe clearest duhj of congress to permit tht institution of slavery in am form to be introduced therein let it be remembered — that in his pam phlet upon the right of search mr cass said : " we arc no slaveholder we ne ver have been we never shall be we deprecate its existence in principle and pray for iis abolition e veri/u/ten ." ij t il in re n mix ret — that no man can vote for wm o butler for vice president without voting for lewis cass the northern abolitionist for the high er oiiice of president locofoco pre1 1ct10n the union true to the brag policy a doptcd by the enquirer in 40 has already commenced to *• brag boast and bluster in regard to the presidential election as an evidence ot how little reliance is to be placed upon its calculation it is on ly necessary to refer fo the enquirer of september 22 10 which thus adverted to the election then pending — * mr van buren will certainly get the vote of new york and he must be electetl or liberty is in danger xew york is so certain for him that the man is almost considered a fool who doubts it we claim for mr van buren pennsylvania maryland georgia mississippi and for argument sake regard as doubtful maine xew york < hio tennessee xew jersey xorth carolina louisiana and michigan let the whigs bluster brag and boast as they may mr van buren is destined to be c lected gen harrison cannot be certain of more than 00 votes those therefore who in making up their belting book rely upon the repre sentations of the union may learn from the above what reliance is to be placed upon its predictions every one of the a bove states having voted for harrison hut say the locos the whigs miscalcu lated in 44 true they did ; how much why by less than half as many votes as are usually given in a virginia congress ionly district a diversion of 200.000 votes in the state of xew york from polk to clay or the mere absence of the texas oregon native abolition questions to say nothing of polk dallas and the ta riff ol"l*i would have turned the eleo tion in favor of clay — alex gaz ~" let us not only beat our oppo nents says mr 277,468 rn nn in the hired organ of the l!uh instant bul let ns carry every stall in the union foi limn if wiihin the possibility of human exer tion xow mr ritchie doer not mean to stimulate his friends to carry all these states for the whigs bat for gen cass and himself if they should all be car ried for'ihe whigs mr ritchie would lose his hold on tin public treasury — he would be obliged to stand aside from the public crib this is the man who cannot correctly express even the hope that is up permost in his mind in intelligible lng lish and y t pretends to criticise the lan guage of general tavlob's despatches and to tell us that the veteran cannot write grammar wedo not know wbelhei mr ritchie will manage to carry all ho states for the whigs bat we think ik will carry all for them excepl two or three of the most insignificant — j^^rwery to no?ut cai id ina volunteers — we learn fiom the raleigh standard that maj wilder paymaster of lhe i states army having been directed to pay over to the discharged volunteers and to the heirs of deceased volunteers the three months extra pay allowed by the late act of congress will proceed to the western part of the slate in the course of a lew days volunteers and the heirs of do ceased volunteers are requested to bo prompt i;i meeting major wilder on his route in older lo receive their pay as his lay will be short at each place high i am m :-■■' n«er hon geo m dallas y.ee presidentof the united states presided over a very large democratic ratification meeting iu philadelphia on wednesday is not the fact ofthe vice president of the united states presiding over a party meeting another evidence of pro-ass this is one ep made and ihere is out one more — to see the president himself descending tothe party arena bait sun