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Anti Slavery Bugle
New Lisbon, Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio
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A 1847 Washington dispatch criticizes President James K. Polk's administration for involving the U.S. in war, squandering funds, disrupting finances, and facing internal party rifts over taxation, military offices, and slavery in new territories, amid threats of cabinet and Union dissolution.
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Who is James K. Polk? The Polk party have now got the vessel of State upon the breakers, before they have sailed one half of the voyage. They have placed our country in the dreadful situation which we predicted they would. They have involved us in war, squandered the public money, run in debt, disturbed and broken down our safe system of finance, and are now preparing to criminate and recriminate each other, and thus to weaken the bonds of the Union by creating Northern and Southern sections of the same great party.
There are dreadful threats made to-night. The refusal to tax tea and coffee, and to create the office of Field Marshall, with the exhibition made by Preston King, in favor of Excluding Slavery from all the new territory, has thrown discord and division into their ranks. There is talk of dissolutions of the Cabinet and of the Union. Whether it will go further than threats we shall see.
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Jan. 5, 1847 Midnight
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Criticism of President Polk's administration for leading the country into war, debt, financial disruption, and internal party divisions over issues like taxing tea and coffee, creating a Field Marshall office, and excluding slavery from new territories, with threats of cabinet dissolution and Union breakup.