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OPINIONS OF THE ENGLISH PRESS UPON

 PRESIDENT POLK'S INAUGURAL AND

 That the doctrines of republicanism are re- affirmed and reinstated by the election of Nr. Polk to the presidency, we now have con elusive testimony from the tone of the British monarchial press, in it's comments upon the inaugural.

 When MT. Jefferson was inaugurated in March, 1901, he delivered that beautiful ad- dress which has since become so celebrated and so popular, and in which he compressed the essential principles of free government, with clear refualon of the opposite doc trines, and statement of the measures best calculated to secure republican admnistra- ton. The address, too, meant what it said, for the principles advanced in it were subse- quently reduced to practice, and thorough system matured and applied for repubHcaai4- ing the government For this course, Mir. Jefferson received the sneers and anathemas of all the tory presses at home and abroad, and no greater assurance was derived from any quarter by the friends of liberty that the monarchial tendencies of the government had been checked, and the ship of state put upon the republican tack, than this abuse of the President and his message by the English tory press.

 President Polk has now earned the same enviable distinction with his countrymen as did MT. Jefferson, and in somewhat similar circumstances Under the elder Adams, the British politicians had seen rapid reabsorp- ton of our government by their own, and a direct retracing of the steps that had led to our national independence. The election of MT. Jefferson reversed all this, and hence he was peculiarly the object of their censure.

 In lS40, they took deep interest in the election of General Harrison, and they rejoiced in his success as a triumph of their own.- With Mr. Webster at the head of the cabinet, they felt that they had an efficient represent tative to direct our national councils; and they 1 looked to Mr. Clay's advent to the presidency. which they had been taught to believe was certain, as full guaranty that anti-republican measures and tendencies would become the fixed policy of the country. Through the administration of General Harrison, England had secured all she asked in the treaty on the northeastern boundary; and under Mir. Clay she felt assured of an unmolested appropria- ton to herself of Texas and Oregon, and an uninterrupted infusion of her hypocrltlcal abo- lition policy, 10 undermine our institutions. and disband the Union of the States.

 The election of Mir. Polk, and the manly American doctrines of his first state paper have dispelled this illusion; and hence the English tory newspapers seek to dlsburden their disappointment and vexatlon by pouring out the small vials of their criticism upon the new President and his inaugural. These cen sures of the British press are of course reeop- jed and reproduced by the federal presses III the United States, and thus the old alliance between the foreign and domestic enemies o democracy is reorganized and united agans the democratic administration of Mr. Polk destined, however, to the same defeat tha has followed all previous like coalitions

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