The Caledonian

MR. POLK'S PROBABLE COURSE.

The Nashville Union, (Mr Polk's organ,) affords some hints as to Mr Polk's course, in an article published since the election. We extract the following:

'We rejoice in the result, again, because we see in it a willingness on the part of the people to submit the existing system of tariff taxation to such modification as may be agreed upon by their own representatives in Congress. They have, by this election, proclaimed their attachment to an economical government—to such taxation as will incidentally give protection to all the great interests of the country. They have placed in the Executive chair a man who does not close the door against the wise deliberations of Congress on this vital subject.

We rejoice in the result, because in it we see a prospect opened up for the annexation of our sister Republic of Texas to our Union.'

Mr Polk's organ therefore regards the result of the election as proof of the willingness of the people to open the Tariff question anew in Congress; and declares, impliedly, that Mr Polk will not thwart the will of Congress. In other words: the result of the election is the signal for war upon the tariff in Congress, and in that war Mr Polk stands ready to second his party. Freemen of the fourth district—ye locos especially who are in favor the tariff—be warned! If once the Tariff question is opened in a locofoco Congress, it will surely be left worse than it now is.—McKay's bill, and the report of the locofoco committee of Ways and Means, are answerable proofs of this position. What then remains but to endeavor to hold the Tariff of 1842 as it is, until a Congress friendly to Protection shall have been elected? We are confident that this is the only safe course. And you, freemen of the fourth, can do much towards preserving that Tariff. Give your verdict for it by electing Mr Chandler, who is for that Tariff, over Mr Dillingham, who avowedly is against it. Let the locofoco Congress understand that you will not sustain them in a war upon the Tariff. A few such hints as this will save the Tariff; such hints did save it in the last Congress.—Watchman.