Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-08-24
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TcoMMuNIcATED.

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To the Editor of the .alsrandria Gazette.
SIR-Havins both seen and heard very un-
founded conclusions, from the late Loudonn poll
for Congress, beg leave to add one to the facts
already cited to manifest how erroneous these
conclusions are. II is, indeed, very singular that,
v all the comparisons instituted between the pri-
or and late vote Of that county, the effect Of the
very recent extension Of the right of suffrage
should have been disregarded. The largest vote
ever takenn Loudoun, prior to the late Conven-
ton, didn6t exceed $50. In the very contested
sIectioa, y Nhich Mr., Mercer was elevated to
his present ktion in Congress, about $50 votes
were poiled, Of which MI. Mason obtained ra-
Their more than third; the majority Of Mr.. Mer-
Ger 10 the whole district was about $50, while he
lost in Prince William a majority Of I27. On
the late occasion, his loss in that county was a
majority Of 26l out of AZ votes; yet he beat his
opponent, candidate from this county, by GAG
votes in the district.
In the late Loudoun election, he obtained 9SS
votes out of 1349, being cons~ erably more than
two-thirds, and larger proportion OF the entire
vote than he ever had IN any former contest
The correction Of the polls, since the election,
has augmented this ratio, by reducing MERGERS
and Gihspn's polls-the one by 43, the other by
al votes--making MERGERS sS5, and Gibson's
$40, and giving to Mercer majority in the coun-
~ of SIS good votes out of 1855.
The result of this election, therefore, affords
no proof Of either of the conclusions sought to be
drawn from it--that the election in Loudoun was
made county question. or that Jacksonism has
gained in LoudOun. The truth is, that the last
- sersihiy on the decline throughout this Con-
gressional District, as the vote for Bail in Fair
tax, and tor Mercer in Prince William, conclu-
sively demonstrates. The vote OF Col. Gibson
surpassed, by at least 20, his own and the expec.
tations of his friends in Loudoun.
A SUBSCRIBER.
The violence Of the party press, in some parts
of our country at the present'day, has never been
exceeded Wishing.to give our readers an idea
Of it, We quote from an article il the Louisville
Advertiser, on the late election in Kentucky
the language which it applies to two leading ed-
tors Of journals friendly to Mr.. CLAY:
"-is SILLY, Insignificant creature, who
usually displays the character Of viper after
the spirit of that reptile many have been forcbly
Infused into him by those who control his actions
- naturally yindictive, and as contempt
lille and mendacious as he is vindctive. --
~ generally considered harmless. because he is
in tne habit of saying only what he is prompted
60 saw. - is known to be Infamous, and
therefore no man regards what he does say. BY
these tcorihies the Administration has been Charg-
ed, in their papers Of the 10th and 12th instauts,
with having made corrupt eforts to Influence or
control the recent elections in Kentucky"
The administration, it seems, has been charg-
ed by these editors with having used all the
measures in its power to influence the Kentucky
election; and the reply to this charge opens with
this hatch of personalities. Is that the way to
vindicate the Administrations Is truth thus to
be made manifest, OF falsehood proveds
What we wished to call attention to in this
same article in the Advertiser, however, is the
admission, that ssto counterfeit these efforts, |
..ICirculars of the Members Of the last Con.
s.gress to their constituents, and the libels
(which had been published against the Post
- Master General, about sixteen thousand copies
Z" of an extra Public Advertiser were distributed
in the State previous to the election" These
/" libels' against the Post Master General were
neither more nor less than the accounts Of public
proceedings before the Senate of the U. States
which appeared in the newspapers. The mat.
ter thus published and distributed throughout the
State, to counterfeit these - libels" was made
up Of tissue of misrepresentation and Islander
of Mr.. Al. BRADLEY and Senators HOLMES and
CLAYTON, but especially Of the former, who, all
difident and retiring as he is, has been obliged
to turn upon his assaiiants and repel their as
saults upon his good name, the precioss jewel
which is the price Of his 40 years Of unremltting
labor for the Public. Yes, and Of these really
.trocious libels sirfeen thousand extra copies
mere distributed in the State of Kentucky alone,
about one to every four or five voters on the I