Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-11-09

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give majorites a large the highest estimates 81
lew, Mr. Throop is elected Governor.
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w e'oe.oh III inns State is now and With if
ana tne Tears ofthe respective political par
ties We announced some weeks previous to tho
election that we should look the result of tb. ON
contest as an evidence of the political feel
ing OF Ohio' We poised the State on that balance.
II Gen Lucas were elected we Welded her To nh,
jackson party-but If Gen. Macarthur were the
successful candidate, should claim her for M.
Clay In our darkest hour, during the last winter
we SUI. nad hopes that the industrious, the intelligent
ana the deliberate people of this State would a, last
retrsce their steps and return to the path of repub
can simplicity OF measures, which they had before
'roaden' and from whence they momenlarily led
away by enthusiasm, representation g. false sanse
OF injured rights But we had no hope that the rev
oluon would have been-so decisive and complete. q
the change so thorough.-We announce the facts
1eneral Macarthur, the Clay candidate for Cover
nor, is elected oy majority of something less than
5000 votes. Eight out of fourteen members of Con-
gress are Clay nen.-And we have a majority in the
Legislature, IN JOINT ballet of four certain and per-
maps eight Last year, the jackson majority in the
Senate wasTen, this year the parties are Balanced
IL to H. Last year. in the House of REPRESENTATIVES
the Jackson majority was four, this year the CLAW
majority Is four. Last year tleir majority in ;o;nt
ballot was ourteen this year the table is turned and
our majority Is four In the present Congress there
are eight Jacksonans, and six Clay men. In the next
Congress, we shall have eight and they six members
four OF whom the firm friends of Internal imnrove
ments and the American System.
vi the thirty SIX Senators in this State nineteen
were elected this fall; eighteen whose term had ev
red aud one to MI a vacancy. Twelve of the nine
u eiected are Clay mon, and seven Jacksonians
OF whom, Mr.. Miller of Cincinnati was ORIGINAL
iy brouhgt forward by the Clay party and bv them
supported; and another succeeded on an independent
ticket against the regular caucus candidate Sx of
The twelve districts, now represented by Clay men.
were last year represented by Jacksunans One OF
the districts now represented by jackson man. was
last year represented by Clay land would have
been so representative year but for division among
| oar own party In running candidates\ of the
seventeen sitting Senators, whose terms did not ex
! pre, eleven for Jackson, and six for CIav-Ha.
wing then only one half the Senate on whom the nm
''r opinion could operate change. is it not a great
'F"luton IN public opinion, and triumph OF princi-
pie, that we have been able balance their majority
and reduce their strength to equality? Could the
influence of popular feeling have reached all the Sem
ate, we may confidently that we should have
had majority of eight IN that body. We are not
however without hopes, that the expression of popu
lar OPINION in the election OF Clay members to the
house OF representatives. will have proper inu-
ence on those gentlemen in the Senate, who repre-.
sent those districts in-which this change has SO com
pletely manifested itself.
| Ohio the last State in the west who IN Lar
election has spoken hs will at the polls and tho frs.
in population and representation says to her sisters
OF the north, the centre and the south. eve were
for General Jackson, but we are now AGAINST him
We have tried his administration and his measures
and we have found them wanting We had homes
they have been disappointed We had promises
they are broken We had pledges-they are not
remembered" In nothing has the administrator
been consistent but in changing the incumbents in
Office and leveling the character of the nation 70
that OF secret tribunal of rewards and punishments
Ahd as Is not our object to support men, but
sures we do, therefore, earnestly invoke our fellow
citizens of other states, to aid us in turnnr this
iaithiess Administrations out of place, and TO sustain
the great cause for which we have molly contend
II IN ri nOfnt1
her to that domestic and foreign policy which bas
distinguished her from the administration of Wash
ng on, TO The accession of the present incumbent to
the Presidency; and not TO add to the danger of an
uhSettled Polcy IN all the relations of our country
by withdrawal of the means Of the general govern
rnent from the objects of National Improvement--a
of the prot ection of the general govern
rnent from American Manufactures and Tndustry-a
withdrawal OF the protection of the general govern
nent from the deenceless Indians, and the breach OF
| federal treaties made with thenl--and dangerous
tram OF reasoning subverslve of the adjudication of
the Supreme Cont of the United States the destruc
ton OF the Bank Of the United States with I,egis
Iatye enactments and executive decisions Ohio
now calls upon the American States by the glorious
example which she has thus shown them, to support
the Union and the great principles, moral and pot-
CAL upon which it's perpetuity, its honor and it's pub
! lie character is Funded.
The effect Of the election in this state on the Pre-
sldenilal contest of 1882, will be as decisive as it
VIII be disastrous to the hopes the prospefitv and
INC success of General Jackson 1t so esteem
ed by his friends throughout the Union, and it was
therefore looked to with the most intense anxIety
General M'Arthur is extensively known throughout
this State, and the United States, as the warm per-
sonal and political friend of Mr.. Clay. He was a
member Of Congress when Mr.. Adams was elected
President by that body, and gave him his warm and
cordial support. With these facts before them the
people of Ohio have elected him their Governor and
have thus publicly sanctioned the act of this eminent
citizen, and certified through him their preference of
the great American Statesman, for whom their votes
wi De cast in 1882 for the highest Office within their
gut Let the combination turn and twist the victory
which we have thus gained they may, 1t will still
finally resolve itself into his that s'Polignac must
retire, and the family of the Bourbons to regn
During the recent contest in the city of Boston
appears that charge was ma De against Mr.
Webster ofhavIno entered into q Coalition with Mr.