THANK heaven, Mr. Polk is no military chieftain! He has never fought a battle (not even a duel). He has never taken a frigate. He has never even killed an Indian. There is none of that sort of clap-trap about his

name.

Thank heaven, too, that there is no peculiar eminent' popularity' attaching to him, of a character personal to himself, and distinct from his simple position as the representative of the general principles and policy of the party whose candidate he is. He has not been for years a recognized head of a great school of opinion, or leader of a powerful interest, sectional or otherwise-in a position to create for him a trained array of special friends and partizans individually connected with himself, to whose exertions his nomination might be due, and to whose partial or interested friendship might be ascribable much of the present public agitation in his behalf. There is nothing either of this about him.

Thank heaven, too, that the Texas question has not turned out as it was prophesied by those more fanatic friends of the annexation, whose minds became at one time so filled with that one idea to the exclusion of almost every other. It has not swept the southern and south-western country, as with a besom of revolution, according to the expectations and promises so sanguinely entertained and so liberally made at Washington and Baltimore in the month of May. Neither in North Carolina nor Louisiana does it appear to have operated as any influential ele

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ment in the contest of parties. Missouri it has added but little if any strength to the diversified interests which undertook a crusade against Col. Benton's ascendency in that State. While in the other States of that region, though we have been splendidly triumphant in them, yet our gains have certainly not exceeded, if they have equalled, those which we have had to exult over in the opposite extremity of the Union, where no one pretends to claim any particular zeal of popularity for Texas or annexation. No-the Whigs are not able, and will not be able, to escape from the just inferences derivable from the great Democratic triumph in the present contest by ascribing it to the extraneous accident of the Texas question. Indeed, though the Democracy is everywhere, in a general sense, decidedly favorable to annexation, and the speediest possible annexation, yet are we satisfied that it adds but little if any strength which would not have already been our own without it. At the South, though Texas may afford a good occasion and excuse to thousands for abandoning the Whig party and joining that of Democracy and Equal Laws and Equal Rights, it is, we think, but little operative as an effective cause. the North, while a few are warmly in favor of annexation, the great mass have simply no objection to it; some are positively opposed,-and might indeed have afforded a ground for some uneasiness, had not Mr. Clay set all right again on that point by his memorable third letter on the subject. Texas,

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