Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-11-21
THE NEW YORK ELECTIONS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE.

proof that the cause Of Jacksonism is indeed at
low ebb, it is the continued vauntings which
we have heard from the affiliated presses in re-
lation to the New York elections. Has Jack
sonism, then, sunk so low that it is content with
holding ITS opn? Are its fortunes so desperate,
that the circumstance of its not having met with
total defeat every i1here is the subject Of gratu
lation and triumph? For MY part, if it needed
any more conciusire proof to show to me the
forlorn and hopeless condition of the late dom-
nant party in this country, that proof is furnish
ed by the conduct of the organs of that party in
regard to the elections which have Just men,
toned.
And what great triumph is this which is the
theme of their unbounded applause? What, in
TRUTH has Jacksonism accomplished in New
York; Why, forsooth, it has not been beaten!-
This constitutes the "summuns bonum." For,
although it may have succeeded, as grant it
has succeeded, by large majority, yet this is
only what it has diOays done; and the mere iso
lated fact that it has achieved victory, const-
tutes no Just criterion whereby to determine
whether those elections furnish 10 them suita
bic subject for felicitation and triumph Has
The cause progressed? has its strength increased?
and, if so, hop much! Do the results demon
strate that popular opinion is flowing to, instead
of ebbing from, that cause2 A response TO
these queries would sford clearer insight in
to the subject. Let facts answer The Wings
have gained, and consequently their opponents
have lost, one member. That gain is trifle-a
mere drop in the ocean;-but still it may be in
structive as TO the real state of the affair Fea-
theirs can designate the direction of the wind,
and any gain, however small, on either the one
or the other side, might be regarded as some
thing of prognoStc of the course to be taken
by the current of popular sentiment. But al
lowing, for argument sake, that Whiggism has
not gained, still it must be conceded that 1t
has not ost;-and the whole upshot Of the affair,
then, is, that every thing in New York remains
in stutu guo."-But remember that it remains
thus in New York alone. And this is the boast
ed triumph of Jacksonsm? If the outworkS Of
a castle have been stormed, and the beleaguer
ed garrison has been driven to the last citadel,
as well might they shout peans of victory be-
there is still one spot not taken by the enc
my, as for that party TO congratulate itself be-
cause New York is still their own.
New York is overwhelmingly, if you will;
but still she is only one of twenty four-a sim
gle member of a great confederacy: and were
she to be regarded as UNNECESSARILY the supe-
ror of any other one, singiy, apprehend that
none would venture to assert that she is supe-
rior to the rest collectively; and, unfortunately
for her, she has arrayed herself, in the present
struggle, against a combination of States, which
her gigantic strength will never be able to over
whem and subdue. The huge CULVER was
bound hand and foot by the illiputians-and,
IL,
federacy WILL by concert and unanimity of &C
ton, neutralize the energies of the great New
York.
Its well for the sinking cause Of Jacksonism
to make as much as it can OF New ork.-lt
is the plank in the shipwreck, and drowning
wretches will cling to any support in their last
and diving struggle. That mariner would in
deed suffer from his folly who should regard
but one part Of the heavens for his observations
on the weather The politician who is anxious
to trim his canvass to favoring gales should moi
confine the scope of his vision to New York
alone. or most egregiously will he be deceived.
Let him glance his eye in different directions all
around him, and be will see that there are other
quarters of the horizon which portend that New
York is not to give the color to our sky, but
that the days of her rule have passed away, and
are now numbered with the things which have
been ard are not.
Yes. let Jacksonism console itself as it may,
and as il can, by the tidngs from New York.
The Wings have numbered their forces, and
feel no whit discouraged by the enumeration
They have been marshalled; and
" Their swords are mllion-their bosoms
are one"
Other elections have been held than those in
New York;-other battles have been fought
other victors have been crowned-and W hlg-
gism can boast of as many laurels as those who
are arrdyeu against III. cS, uSPtte " 4Ne"
York, the people have pronounced the doom Of
the Political Juggler," and the Star of the
"Albany Regency" is fast paling before the
lustre of dawn as glorious as ever Shone Ill
upon the darkness Of benighted country
Who has not heard the voices of hope which
cheer on the Wings from every other section OF
the Union With few exceptions, the States
south of MaSon's and DiXon's line have bid Us
:; God speed" The "Great Vest has not
proved recreant to her trust, and has been
faithful sentinel on the watch-tower OF Liberty
New England, we know, stands firm and last
as her beds Of granite. Why, then, should we
despond because of New York? Our assurances
of victory are too strong to permit us TO de-
spair because we have not been victorious ere
ry ,rhere. Let us then, not permit single
nerve To relax a single effort to lntermt, In the
noble cause of liberty and law in which We are
enlisted; but let us rally our men for each sue
cessive charge, in the same undaunted manner,
and crv them on as cheerily to the onset as we
have ever done in the days OF our recent TIL
umphs MAH"o'
TCcMMUNIcATED
rr>JDrp ANCE SOCIETIES.