Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1828-05-10
CHARLOTTESVILLE.
SATURDAY. MA Y 10.

Caiculoai0nS.-In our former remarks on this
subject, we took the vote of 1924, the basis OF
our computation, and assuming that Gen. jackson
and Mr. Adams will each obtain the vote which
nc did at the last election, and distributing be-
tween them the votes of Mr.. Crawford and MIR.
Clay, in manner which cannot be objected to by
the friends of Mr.. Adams at least THAT is, giving
to MIR. Adams the entire vote OF Mr., Clay and that
part of Mr.. Crawford's which has friends claim for
him, and to Gen. Jackson, the remainder of Mr..
Crawiords's, we have seen that Gen. Jackson, up
on these principles favorable all must they adj
init they for his competitor, will receive 1877
yotcs--six more than will be necessary to elect
him, and thirteen more than Mr.. Adams
Our opponents however will not be satisfied
with this estimate; they affect TO believe that
revolution in public sentiment placing their can
didate on much higher ground than he formerly
occupied has taken place since the last election
Effects can only be produced by adequate causes,
and we should be glad to be informed, to what
cause this boosted revolution is to be attributed.
Is it to the belief entertained by half the nation
that Mr.. Adams is indebted for his office rather
to his skill in intrigue and the plancy of his prn-
ciples than to bis merit and popularity that
he is endeavoring to retain it by the same means
by which ne acquired it; at to the conviction
of" two thirds of the remaining half" that from
the nfrmity of his temper the heterodoxy of his
principles, and the effectiveness of his Judgment,
he is grossly incompetent to discharge its dutesl
These causes, we admit, may well have operated
on the public mind but that they have done SO
bencficially for MIR. Adams, it will require even
more of ingenuity than his partizans possess, sat-
istactoIily to establish. The truth is all the
changes have been uniavorable to him For a
while, the arful and nsdious exercise of his pat
ronagc-the jealous exertons of his adherents to
sustain him and themselves-and the keen and
systematic Misrepresentation Of Gen. Jackson, in
which very many Of them INDUCED, were SO far
eitcctua to render the issue of the contest I'M
certain. But the intelligence of the people, as in
the end twill always do, has detected the object
ot the efforts made to conciliate and deceive them;
the tricks and manuvres, which for time were
played off with success, by the ministerial party,
have now lost their effect,-and the period is per-
haps not far distant when their prominent contri-
Vers will be remembered only to be execrated
Oar adversaries however insist in despite of ev.
cry demonstration to the contrary that their cause
progresses most prosperously, and that present
signs. II not the former vote, show that it will be
triumphant. Let us see if their seeming conf
dcnoc be well founded.
There are several states whose entire votes are
no longer the subject of controversy, but are con
coded by the friends of each candidate to the 9TH
err We believe that scarcely man can be found sc
blinded by party spirit, as to doubt that the four.
teen following states will vote have set them
down