Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-11-08
ELECTION RETURNS.

ELECTION RETURNS.
Peaasglcania.-Th: Senate has " hg
majority OFFS; the House an Administration
5 naaieyity of ls; leaving the administration
majority, onjoint ballot, 7.
OHo.-Whig majority in the Senate 4;
in the House s; on Join ballot u.
Tenacsses.-Hhe Legislature Of this
Ssa,e has elected Ephraim Il. Foster TO the
!. United States Senate in the room Of Felix
Grundy, whose term Of service viii expire
in March 1889. Thevo.e stool for Foster
G5; for Gen. Carroll 33.
Georgia.-This Safe has elected Mr..
Gilmer, the opposition candidate, for Coy
enor, over Governor Schley; but a majority
of both branches Of the Legislature, chosen
at the same time, is for the Administration.
Mr.. King, Of this State, has resigned lis
seat in the L. S. Senate. The reason
assigned by himis is that some of his friends
are dissatisfied with the course which re
has pursued in the Senate during the late
extra session. The following is part of a
sletter addressed by him to the Georgia
Conslitutionalist, announcing his determine.
Zion, aud the reasons fori::
"In what have 'srecenIy takena stand ;
iia opposition to the great principles ofathe
democratic party? Isit my opposition 10
3st.,e self wiled follies Of the Executive,
adopted and perseyered in agains, the almost
unanimous resistance of the legislative au
,hori.y of all parties? The act WHICH /
most CONDEMNED was opposed in the body
! OF which lam a member, by a unanimous
vote with the exception of one. Il he! 20
support in the cabinet before it was adopted,
4kand was afterwards, on trial. condemned
by the people; and again condemned with
great unanimity by the whole legislative
authority. What schange" is there nero?
i, with, my other democratic friends, resisted
,his measure from the beginning; and step
by step, foretold most Of the misehleyous
consequences tia; would flow fron.lt. By
unnecessarily and unnaturally embarrassing
s,he European money market andsmanuiac-
Z lures, it Struck down the exports of: or
Southern plauters 80 10 70. PR cent; l.
did this as plain!y as TIC sun affords nea;
-sni i'oni-In scr<..lo. t.. all the other ms
chiels ii Produced. With taS ea 4a.
resting upoa my mind, II . tag l-d!d not t'
: s; ;oin some Others in appiauding this Exccu
live triumph over the legislative authority;
OF obst auiously estimate the glorl2s O.
Executive violence BY the misery and nus
chiefm produced. 1 did not know that "ihe
great principles of the democratic party
sTeoniircd me to do this; or to consider one
man l the party. and another man the g9r,
ernmeat. Nor didi know that my coHs,I,
stuents an r required me to lick the hand THAI
had plundered them--and applaud the very
measures that know to have taken from
Their mouths the bread. which ih=ir hones'
Industry had earned.
i'll have akenthe great principles OF
the party in this particular 1t is obvious ,ha; ma
. am not a fit represea awe for It. 4 shall
therefore return home. in few weeks an1
surrender trust, you say canno: hono:a-
sbly hold. have from our friends many
.wrl,en evidences, that theysstiil consIdel
democracu TO mean the viAof the people
But il is enough for me TO know, sir. thai
some of my friends are dissatisfied: aud
wish It understood, that shall not embar'
srass them by being candidate for re eiec
ton. By,ae kindness ofmy friends, came
into Office without trouble to myself ln,ent
20 90 ou, without trouble to them