The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-12-17
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THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.

IL is with pleasure That we announce to our rea-
ders the result OF the deliberations of the National
Convention assembled at Harrisburgh--the nom
nation Of that patriot and brave soldier Gen. WILL
LIAM HENRY HARRISON, as candidate for
the Presidency, and of JOHN TYLER, for the Vice
Presidency. We cannot better express our feel
ings at this result than by adopting the language Of
the Boston Atlas Most heartily do we congratu
late our friends through the country upon this
most suspicious result. We congratulate them that
we have now u candidate upon whom we can all
unite-ono who will heal all discussions, and re-
store to us and country former political
prosperity one who is in every sense Of the word
an honest and upright man and above all, one who
can and will be elected.
General Harrison is the only who, in the
present posture Of affairs unite every section of
the Uniou, and therefore the only one who could
have been nominated with the same chance of sue
His public services, his military success and
more than all, his well known and sterling inegri.
~, have endeared him the great mass of the peo
pie throughout the whole country. Although he
has never been the choice of the politicians and
the party leaders, vet the very moment that his
name presented to the people for their suffra-
& es, his claims received by them with an en-
lhusiasm wholly unexampled, as well as unexpGc
ed.
That he is lavorile every section of the
country can be easily shown. Almost every State
in the Union has at time or another declared
its attachment to his venerated name Even where
preference may have been shown TO a local can =
didate, the Farmer of North Bend has ever been
their second choice. The enthusiasm which the
Western States manifested in his cause at the last
Presidential election, is of too recent occurrence
and too well known, TO require to be dwelt upon
at length. Ohio and Indiana, from being among
the strongest Administration States in the Union,
gave him overwh emng and surprising majorites
Kentucky honored him with her hearty support
and even Pennsy lvana, with it's Jackson majority
of twenty thousand, was all but revoiuiionized.-
Connecticut, instead of throwing her usual Jack
votes, where organised opposition W as
made, and would, had any exertions been made,
have given him her vote.
Rhode Island, which, in the previous election
had thrown a Jackson majority of nearly u thou
sand well nigh carried, and only gave the lean
plurality of $50 votes. Vermont and Delaware
gave him majority larger than any ever before
given to any candidate. New Jersey, to the sur
prise of every one, wholly revolulionized; and
in Maryland his majority was 36O0-larger than
any before obtained by any party the State,
In fine, every where examples of the strong hold
which General Harrison has upon the affections of
the people made manifest and the result
without exception, disappointed the expectations
Of all parties, and defed all previous calculations
| That Gen Harrison can be triumphantly elected
can be easily shown. He cannot in any case fail
to receive, at the very least, 144 electoral votes
Thus he will be sure to obtain he votes of those
States which gave him their support, without any
expectations of choosing him, in 1886.
The number of their votes is 70. Add to these
| Massachusetts,, ID
| Rhode Island,
| Michigan.
Connecticut, 8
| New York, ~
| Besides these, the chances are altogether in IA.