Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1827-06-08

Poslou. nat ~ The votes OF those States had
'ecn gwen accoreing To that will when the roaI con
lest lay between Gen. jackson and Mr. Adams as the
spirit of The Constitution dictates the former wou,
have been elected President ote u. States instead Of
the Iater:--
Sd position. THAT, therefore, the will of mniority
the States, as well as of the people of the Union has
becn Defeated
4th position. "That the President having thus oh
tanned the Chief Magstracy, rewarded his principal as
sis,ant in defeating the voice Of the nation By the high
st Office in his gift and has since employed the pat
ronage Of nment for the furtherance of his person.
al views, and 10 secure his re-elcction:-
5th. position ''That, bei,res election by the House
OF Representatives MI Adams approved OF amend
men of the Constitutions, order 10 take The power
of choosing the President from that body, and to give
directly the people, for tie purpose OF preventing in
future not only all corruption, but all suspicion of
ruptton:-
9Th position. "Bu, tl.at ince bis success with the
House Of Representatives, in defeating, the will of =
majority OF the people and OF the States he has not
only disappointed the friends of The purity of cur govern
men'. By declining to recommend that amendment, to
the adoption of Congress but his friends in that body,
when it was brought forward without his recommenda
tion opposed and defeated it.n
INC gc"cr.i object of the address is to show tra,
Mr.. Adams elected against the will oe the neore
by the House of Representatives; the particular object
TO show that this was effected through the corruption
Mr. Clay and Mr.. Adams.
In relation 10 the hrs that Mr.. Adams was eleote,
against the i'll of the people, the address states in the
FIRST place. that hIr. Adams had but 81 electoral votes
while Gen. Jackson had 90. The fact is unden,abe.
but is still, not entitled weight Every State is
entitled TO elcctor for every Representative in Con
gross, and for each Senator. The two electors
who represent Senator'S, do represent suy norton
the i'coplo. While therefore, the 81 electoral votes
obtained by MIR. Adams in New York 1--WE exclude
two TO make our reasoning apparently represented one
million eight thousand souls the is electoral votes
obtained by Cen jackson in Indiana Illinois, Alabama
and Mississippi, instead of 672, o00 represent only
$4,000 souls. Those four States, with eight Repre-
senatiyes in Congress- have also eight Senators who
are also represented by many electors Let us for
the sake of calculation, discard the Senatorial electors
representing portion of the people, obtained by Gen
jackson, and his number of electoral votes will be
! reduced talking one from Maryland where he got :
votes, or more than two thirds) to 60. Deduct from
MIR. Adams poll fourteen votes, for the same cause
and hs number of electoral will be reduced TO
TO- The difference between them, after this rccpro-
cal deduction will be ten electoral votes out of e64
Is this difference sufficient to sustain the peremptory
assertion that Er. Adams elected against the will
OF the people,
E! But sgain--Ur. Crawford obtained l1 electoral
votes, and hir Clay 81. Are these votes representing
than three millions of souls not entitled to be
taken into the calculation between Mr.. adams and
Gen' Jackson Let US suppose that the Constitution
instead OF directing the election be made by the
House OF Representatives, where the electoral colleges
had a'ie directed to be returned to the people again.
but restricting their choice the two highest Candi
da'es. The address for another purpose has applied
this very test and its authors therefore object
our using IT. What would have been the vote al Ma,
time between Adams and Jackson in those States
Cd w.
address the uerrogatory, the party spirit but
TO the honest and unbiased Judgment of Mr. Virri;
hIsxcy, and the whole Union. How would Virginia,
Nh Crawford out of the way have voted between Mr.
Adams and Gen. Jacksou, had the election been sent
back, after the failure make it, in the primary assem-
6les Ifa single intelligent and respectable gentleman
be fonnd who will say that Virginia did not ut that
time, prefer Mr.. Adams to Gen. .Jackson-did not
greatly prefer hfand rvently deprecac the election
OF The latter the MOS; dreadful of evils after disso,
luton, we will instantly give up the question. But,
such an individual be found who would say it
upon his oofr dire. Every who remembers the
fall and winter of lGe4, remembers the anxious sol;c
iude felt and acknowledged by the frieads of Mr.
Crawford throughout Virginia, to exclude Cen Jack
son from succeeding. There was at that day not a
single exception that knew OF, land we knew The
I Va
Craw ford in this State There was none in Richmond
we confidently believe none in the electoral College
of the State, and not than one or two, in the
oafe Representation in Congress. Ar. Tyler, at that
time IN the House OF Delegates, has recently declared
nnequivocaIy, that Virginia then preferred Mr.. Adams
to Gen. Jackson. The Richmond Enquirer admits his
correctness in This respect, nor has any within
knowledge displayed so much erontery ignorance
as to deny 1t. Who Virginia nop prefers, by what
political and dsIDgenuous craft her citizens have been
brought to believe the charges Of corruption against
The Administration, and depart from their former sincere
alarm at the prospect of Gen. Jackson's success, is
not now the question. All that assert is and we
assert and Pove that only to expose the sopbisry Of
the Maryland Address under review, is that bad he