Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-11-23

amount aud that b commissions. and C,inu heir To-
the killed and n,isssing, he has amused rrcat for
tuuc.
Thu Legislature of North Carolina. convened Al,
Raleigh last Monday. In the Senate, David +.
Caldwell was chosen Speaker: in the House vi
Delegates, Charles Fisher chosen Speaker, and
Charles Manley, Clerk. The mcssngeof Gov. Ow.
en- is very good State paper, chiefly devoted to tho
domestic concerns of the S'a,c literary insi,u-
tons. banks, and Internal Improvement. lie deems
the arf Of 1923 not only unwisc, but unconstitu
,ionaI. and demanding tho solemn protest OF he Lie
gi,latmrc. He oxtos the nagnunimous forbcarapce
of North Carolina under her snpposed) burdens and
leaves the reader To contrast her with that
neighboring sister We find no fault with til. mes.
sage. except the assumption that North Ca rona
has erievous burhcns to bear. An intcrcs,n scs-
SION is anticipated.
Tho votes for Governor in New York, instead of
100 600 (a< stately were ubout 24o. 200 A ma
ior:ty of oooo (Which Throop obtsncil in this ag-
gregate is relatively but n small majority. On tho
rc'ui' of he late election, the Jou nal Of mmercc
observes:
turns which mostly eiiicial that Enos T. Throop,
the present acting Governor of this State has been
80
over Francis Granger. We unable vet state
with accuracy the precise number of votes which
have been pocd throughout the State, but from the
best estimate have been able Ia make, il will not
>rxceed 2io,0on. Al the Gubernatorial election in
1925 the wholc number S76 S83. In the Yves.
tern section OF the State. TIL aggregate number viii not
greatly from. the result in 1885, the First and
Third Senate Districts, comprising the counties around
Albany and this city, there were 1855 votes polcd
in 1925, above the number now given.
The most important changes have been in the coun.
ties Of Albany, Rensselaer,, Montgomery, Columbia
Oneida and Wcstchester. These counties, here nforc
have n,arccd to the ballet boxes, with heavy
Ties agans, she followers of ST. tammany Now tor
the frs, ,irnr they have leaped the fence and ,nncd
their political opponents almost They
have given ThrooP ma jori;y of 1885, maknC diff
ference of about 1886, since 1923.
! 1t will not he maintained, pre- sumo, that the
votes given for Governor in the Eastern and Southern
sections OF the State fair criterion form an
curate Judgment of the of the people respect
ing national affairs al Washington. Indeed the
variance between the aggregate OF ihe given To-
Gov and those given for members of Congress clearly
proves that ii cannot NE considered. The votes :v.
for Congrssare. urdueston ,blv more ndi.
cation at tin state ~ the public mind upon ect
We have taken great pains to arrive at a correct
conclusion in this raitcr, from calculation based
official reurns in nearly all the following counties we
find that the ma critics for the Jackson candidates for
Congress less by about 10000 votes than the ma
joriy which Throop has received I'm the same coun-
ties So that If the merhers of Congress had he n
chosen by general ticket, in all probability not
single Jacksonian would have had the hoor of sitting
N Congress from this State for the next two years.