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AS this Is The ffih day Yof tho reign OF
Polk. our readers might naturally
expect something new, but We aEve moth.
ing to tell them, and only repeat the hu;
initiating fact, that this great and otherwise
prosperous people is under the rule o. q
man under mediocrity in every re-
quisi.e capacity for the oflics, he ills


Hal one Of the distinguished men OF the
Iocofoco party succeeded in obtaining the
Office Of chief mag gisfrate.we shouldthough
disappointed. rest better satisfied but un
der existing circumstances. every patrIol


must deploro the dcgeneracy OF the pubic
mind. through which all merit and ability
IS sacrificed. for the gra iFeatlon oil the
soitit Of misruIe and mob5cracy. Did the
.neering locofoco, who points Us 10 the de
feat Of Henry Cay by James K. Po.k. ba
look into his own ranks, and see the dis
tincuished men there defeated BY this self
same cypher, any of whom would have
been defeated by Mr.. Clay, If not wholly
lost to shame. his cheeks would be mantled
with crimson blush, and if single spark
of patriotism still dwelIed in his breast, he
would never own, but with shame and pen
itence, that in the maddening fury of party
contest, he voted for man without merit
and without ability. and own That man Of
dignity, merit and ability could not have
been made the nucleus TO which all the he
terogeneous material of the land would
concentrate.


Atthe present period it is particularly to
be regretted that the Presidential Chair is
so poorly filed. The cabinet. we fear.
will be of the same material. Our foreign
relations are such, that age, expel ience,
prudence, frmness, intelligence and politi-
cal honesty, should characterize the Presi-
dent aud his cabinet, if hope 10 maintain
cur national character, untarnished by acts
of fraud, violence and imprudence and
who can hope for anything from the press
ent head ofthe locofoco party. but what
demagogues ADVISE as tending 10 the furth-
erance Of party interest.


We predict that little Jimmy will see as
much trouble in the four years of his ad
ministration, as his grandfather did during
the revolution that he will retire from Of
fee with about as much credit Ia him self
as John Tyler, and with infinitely less
good impressed on The Country and her in
stilutions, which mark the exit of The
prince of traitors.