Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-08-25


the State our friends had comparatively but little
anxiety that tho members of the old Compression
al delegation should DO defeated. The citizens of
this State, beyond almost every othor people, be-
come attached to their public servants; and, mas
much as como of the jackson candidates pledged
themselves to obey tho intruGtions of their tnme-
date constituents in the next Presidential
election should devolve on the House of Rsprcscn
tatives, there wac nothing like powerful and or
gained effort TO remove them. In tho choice OF
delegates TO the State Legislature, the was
widely different. The honorable events of the
last winter at Frankfort have remained fresh and
vivid in tho recolections of the whole community.
An attempt there made and kept up for weeks,
to appoint u S. Senator. Both parties became
exasperated, and charges of bribery and corrup-
ton were made publicly and boldly. Finally, the
session terminated without a choice, each party
expressing determination to reter the question
back again to9he People to be decided by them
in the Legislative elections of the present Year.
The most earnest and impassioseG appeals were
consequently made the one part, to the
friends of General jackson, and on the other to
those of Mr. Clay; and confident anticipations
| were INDUCED, that every man would use his best
excytions hch have overy reason to think, have
been realized TO their fullest extent. The choice
of Delegates to Frankfort has tested the strength
of parties; and the appointment OF U. 5 Senator
noxt winter will shew, that tho death struggle OF
| the friends of the Administration in Kentucky is
past We have vanqushed and borne them down
upon the very ground where they challenged US to
meet them in pitched battle, and ours Is now the
mastery forever.
| If tho glory ola victory is in proportion TO tn,
number and magnitude of tho obstacles overcome
then, indeed, late triumph here is one of the
most splendid achievements of tho age. If the
| People of the U. States could and know one
half the that have been used for crushing the
Cay party in Kentucky-used not only by the ad
hcronts of Jackson in the State, but by Jackson
himself and his office holders at the Seat of Gov
ernment-the great wonder would be that we have
not been ground to powder. We do not believe
that the science of corruption was ever brought to
such perfection in any age or in any country il
has been in this State within the last six months.
During the week of the election more than TWEEN
ty electisnesring documents were handed JUS by
| our country friends bearing the frank of member
of the Presidents Cabinet; not a mail, as we car
prove, came from Washington without bringing
bushels of those periodicals and phamphlets, tc
the exclusion of almost every thing else every vii
lage and cottage in tho State literally filled
with them; money was supplied to oppononts
| go prodigalfy, that, they might have paved the
streets with it, Clerks in the Departments of Gov
eminent and other United States officers were here
distributing stipends in all quarters, and maturing
plans of operation. Some of these men, are
| ready to show by the testimony of hundreds, hae
| the effrontery to go the State, making dis
tribution of political publications with their owr
hands:-and yet, while all this extended machinery
was IN operation. and producing, may be sup
posed, the most powerful effect, friends were
scare able to communicate to each, other the
most ordinary items o: intelligence. The Pos,
| Office was shut aginst them; official ban wal
lad upon their correspondence; and such doc.
! i,Inents were deemed essential for the informa
ton of the people in most instan
ces,. either detained till the time of theil
! usefulness had gone by, cent fa
estray mover TO reach their place of destination
Thus there nothing but fitful, and broken, ant
momentary CLEANS of light impaired to the people
to dispel the thick and Palpa5lo shadow of abomi
nation castover them by corrupt and iniquitou
Government.
So far As Kentucky is concerned, the friends c
Mr. CLAY throughout the country have longer
the slightest occasion for apprehension. The State
has now triunlphed over influence against which
AZ we religiously believe, other community ev
er had to struggle; and, In the Autumn of 1892, n,
human power car prevent her from marching up
with undivided strength to the support of her owl
| great statesman and patriot.