Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-11-26

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Adams ticket-Francis Granger "a
Alexander Coffin, Jr. IS
Alexander Sheldon rs
Richard Townley IS
Some misspelf, and scattering.
" So the fnur Crawford Electors were de :
clared duly chosen.
"The result of to-day's ballot shows what
| could:and ought TO have been done, in regard to
our whole electoral vote. II is well ascertain
I'd that the Two persons, who yesterday voted
blank ballots, to day voted the Crawford tick
ct. Had they done 50 yesterday, the triumph
here would have been complete, and IFS inilu
ence else. here probably decisive. But it is
useless to fatigue you with jeremiads now
the thing is done, and cannot be ret ieved. As
! it is, our eleven votes will tell"
f.Nat. Int.
So il appears, from the letter from our at
,entive and oh!iging correspondent at Albany,
that the Electoral vote of the Stale of New
York. for the Presidency. is to stand TINS
For J hn Quincy Adams, ss
For William II. Crawford, II
The decision, which confirmed the 25.votes
to MIR. Adams, appears to us to have been
equally contrary TO reason and to precedent.
We are somewhat apprehensive that it was
made under dread of that uproar and cIainoI
from the galleries which has become re-
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Legislature is thus permitted to be insuied
with IMMUNITY. Being made, let not the deci-
sion be disturbed. We are known to prefer
iIr Crawford for the Presidency, but we
| would rather even witness the defeat Of his
high claims, than see our Government shaken
TO IFS foundation by such contest as would
be occasoned by opening before Congress the
question which has been, in our opinion, so
erroneotisy decided in the Legislature Of the
State of New York. We hope to he BELIEF ed
when we declare, that our opinion ON The Irga
lily OF this decision is not at all Influenced by
the effect of that decision on the President al
Election, important as it may be.
| Upon The result of the contest in New York.
we forbear TO m oraIze, though surely never
was an occurrence more abundant of instruc-
ton. Never was the old proverb, that Fear
betrays like Treason" more fully verified than
IN the consequence of that dread Of RESPONSE
blty which induced two or three gentlemen
at Albany to withhold the expression of their
sentiments, which the subsequent event has
proved to have been favorable 10 the candi-
date to whose injury their votes operated
Had they voted at first as they did at last, Mr..
Crawford would have received the whole
electoral vote OF the State of New York
A few general observations, on the prospsct
before Us, are deferred TO our next. no.
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\ WASHINGTON, November S9.-THings rs
they are.-Tbe Information now before US
lenables us TO assure our readers, first, that the
result which we have so rssacI deprecated,
In r~EardAs the election Of President, will oc.
cur, viz :-tbat the election will devoIye on the
House OF Representatives and that Mr.. A
dams, Mr.. Crawford, and General jackson,
WIZ be the !nree gentlemen presented as cam
didates Tor the sufirages Of that body. This
IS the state OF things which, tho hoping for
different result there has been, for some
time past, reason to apprehend. The next
'n'nB estnbished, by our present information,
is, that, in numerical order. Mr.. Crawford
will not be first, hut third. ON the Gst If can
didates to the House of REPRESENTATIVE
This we had certainly not anticipated nor
could u nave 50 happened but for an act OF
'ndiscretion on the part of one or two ndi-
vioas's, nnexampled 10 the history of our GO
sern'nen's, or perhaps Of the world. We al
iuoe' VI course, TO the conduct Of those mem
Ders OF The Legislature Of New York, who
pisrepresented their own sentiments, by play
'ng Win their votes under an impression IA
correct one, in our opinion, though otherwise
dec'ded) that their conduct, 10 giving blank
ballots, could, at worst, only have the effect 10
lead 10 second trial by ballot. Their con-
ui'ion Tor their error was sufficiently express
eu ny Their votes on the last ballot which es-
tabhshed the fact that Mr.. Crawford would
nave bad the whole vote had the election been
legally conducted The moral influence Of
tbis vote, as II may bear upon Mr.. Crawford's
prospects in The House of Representatives, is
precisely the same, under the circumstances,
as u the whole thirty -six votes of New York
had been given 10 his favor.
In North Carolina too, we think it prebe-