The Charlotte Journal

THE SINCERITY OF PRESIDENT POLK.

The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot narrates the following facts. If they be correctly stated no one will accuse the writer of too much harshness towards the prominent actors in the discreditable scene described:

"I once thought that John Tyler was the very meanest and poorest apology for a President that ever did, or could arrive at so exalted an appointment. But I am of that opinion no longer. (He was bad enough, 'goodness knows.) I learn that a gentleman is now in this city, who was the editor of a leading Tyler paper some two or three years ago, in one of the Atlantic cities, and afterwards received a handsome appointment through the Secretary of the Treasury—that, while holding this appointment, last year, he went through the West, with Gov. Cass, Mr. Rantoul, and others, on an extensive electioneering tour, making speeches for Polk and Dallas, and spending his salary freely—that he visited Mr. Polk in Tennessee, by whom he was distinctly and positively assured that Mr. Tyler's friends who supported the 'Democratic' nominations, were his friends, and should he be elected, he would most assuredly so consider them, and in regard to the filling of offices, would know no distinction between them and the other members of the 'Democratic' party—that satisfied with and gratified at these assurances, the locomotive Tyler office holder aforesaid went on his way rejoicing and electioneering; that last winter he came on here and he was by Mr. Tyler, nominated as Charge de Affaires to Naples: that Mr. Tyler, after having a talk with William H. Polk, who desired a mission to Naples prevailed upon him to let him withdraw his nomination and substitute that of Mr. Polk as a matter of policy, by which he, on account of his magnanimity in waiving his nomination, would profit, as well as Mr. Tyler's friends in general—that after this, and after the new Administration was installed, W. H. Polk was his friend and partook of his hospitality, and James K. Polk and Robert J. Walker, assured him that he might remain to his home and retain the office he still held until a better one abroad would be conferred on him: that he went home with a joyous heart, congratulating himself and his family upon the brilliant prospects in the future, but had scarcely arrived when the dismissal from the office he then held, by Mr. Secretary Walker, overtook him, and that, from that time to this, he has lain upon his oars, to see how, in what manner, and when, Mr. President Polk will require the very clever act which he did in behalf of the functionary's brother, the present Charge de Affaires to Naples: The gentleman has already seen it is presumed, how Mr. President Polk is fulfilling the promises which he so earnestly made to the Tyler men and Conservatives while he was Mr. Candidate Polk."