The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1838-10-24
POLITICAL.
From the Globe
PROFLlGACY OF SOME OF THE OPpO.
SlTION PRESS AND ITS PARTISANS


SlTION PRESS AND ITS PARTIsaNS
BESIDES the cases of Maine and Mar
land, II now falls to our lot to show the NJ
curacy Of the democratic estimates. and
correct sundry misrepresentation of n
opposition press IN respect to the election
IN PennsylvnnIa, New Jersey, aud Obi,
Al Tie same time we congratulate the ,ie
mocracy 0f the country on the scrupulou
regard to truth aud probabilities which !uy
generally characterized the statements an
predictions of our friends in relation 10 o
these elections. While some Of thos
friends made estimates as high ns twely
thousand majority for Governor of Pennsyl
'nnia, other made them at only ten nu,
eiGht, while the opposition boasled Of Oh
tlin0s twenty thousand for R;tner. an,
actually circulated every where detailed es
tItna:es for fourtecn thousand. We hny,
one OF those exaggerated estimates now be
t'rc us, and far calling it incorrect, III,
democratic papers were denounced as pro-
figatcs aud deccycrs by the pany claim
Ing all the decency, talents, and morals.
One of our papers then observed: II
wH be pleasant 10 refer to ii [the estimate
giving Rituer over fourteen thousand mn.
Joriiy after the election. Reader, preserae
This papCr, and you wW hereafter kno,c
phot credit TO gioe to federal caicuiations."
Yes, we should think that the homes,
mrn who have been deluded into the feder-
nj ranks 10y similar misrcpresen nta,ious on
various subjects, would, after such frequent,
detection of their falsehoods. or at the best,
nf their ignorance and folly, leave them in
body.
Thus they were made to believe that
Westmoreland would give Porter only 900
majority, when it gave him nctunlly 2,2IG
that Armestrong would give hut $50, when
it actually give ,25l; and that Berks
would give only 400, when it gave over
1000, difference of moro than 2 600 in n
single county, and IA difference, probably
of21,OOO in the whole State, from that es-
innate On the contrary, some of the dem.
ocratc estimates will not differ thousand
votes from the real result in an agrrcp ate OF
over 2O0, 900 votes in the Siate.-Eyen af
ter The Inspectors elections, which looked
like the handwriting on the wall to the fed.
eraliSts, they still tried to make their fol-
lowers believe they should succeed by large
mnJorites; and the National Jutclligenccr
had The effrontery To boast of the favorable
aspect Of those elections, and now insists
deinsiyeiy that Portor's majority will be
only about 1,oOO; and the honest Masonic
UhIted States Gazette still insisted. after
The Inspectors election, that the Antima
sonic candidate for Governor ourht 10 be
elected, and that they considered "he
stcCtI0n NJ Mr.. Rtner as certain as ouy 6,- !
tire eUcRt could be-" Indeed, after several
a. the returns came in, the veracious NJ. Nj. !
N"ah proclaimed Glorious news from
Penn'syfconia-Me Keystone safe" and
seat forth his bank bought civilizations at il
over The whole Union.
The same course was pursued IN New
YORK city, baltimore, Philndelphin, and
washington, 10y the Bidlle press, ms to New
Jersey, as well as PENNSYLVANIA and in
every tavern, roading-room and steamboat,
you were met by captions of articles and |
h'ndolils' such as 900 guns for New Jer'
say. Harrah for the Jersey Rt gimeat,
Gf'ry CROUCH for the Jersey Blues, Clio
''0"s Wh,g triumph IN Jersey, and ul such
specIoiS, but false dciusious. If New Jer- |
sey has not sent the whole democratic
ucSrt To Congress, the opposition mniority |
mas been reduced to less than n hundred.
lhe same story amy be told Of the ceder-
~ predictions and statements before the G..
ieciion' as to Ohio. The Cincinnati Wing
exci"ined, We shall gire the tories a ter
rtbfe dressing in this State in October. |
Old Joe Vance toiH be elected Gorernor by !
MAJORITY Of ten or t,ostoe thousand" In
the result, it will probably appear that he
Is beaten by half tha, majority, or that
federal mistake has been mnde of fifteen
thousand
The returns from the giant of the mighty
west have come in so quick and so over
~helInIns Tor the cause of democracy on
the heei ot Pennsylvania, that the opposi,-
ION are crushed with them as by an ovnan-
che. You hardly now hear n whisper from
mem concerning Ohio, except the feeble
cry from Mr.. Gales, that she is safe, when
che has been lost to the federaists by thou
sands; and even Georgia, where they pre-
tended 10 have obtained great gains, and
over which loud shouts Of JOY were raised,
they since seem disposed to admit has gain
ed nothing incc the last election of Gov
erhor. and she has probnhly elected part Of
the Administration ticket. Their exulta-
uoh was so great some fears were entcr-
tanned at first lest the fedcralis:s would n
gam disgrace themselves at the capitol by
another riotous caIi,humpian celebra,,pn,
under the lead Of their great gambling cap.
tam. Will the sober-mnded and uprigh, |
any longer coniide in the profgate presses
A"u leaders, who are guilty of these re-
peated mIssfatemen,s, and blundersi Or
WI they consign them to that want of con.
.bdence which befel those banking insti,u-
tions IN 1897, in whose service mos, Of
these editors and presses have been such