Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1839-05-30
CHEERING PROSPECTS IN NEW YORK

CHEERING PROSPECTS, IN NEW YORK,
Our attention was arrested by the foregoing cap
uoh 10 the leading editorial in the Richmond En-
qnirer OF Friday last. Thinks :. 10 -mysell" what
does this porcnd! Why are the Enquirc,'s ewes
directed to New York, at moment when all 10
anxelIes are or should be concentrated upon Vlr.
g'nla Does 1t anticipate (or al least lcaD de
feat at home, that it looks abroad for consolation in
the imaginary 'iumphs OF 1910! Bu, commenc-
cd 'he persua Of the long and abored arcle-and il
we were surprised al It's head, we were doubly SO at
It's body. The Enquirer says:
e have met with two crtizens Of the State Of
Ne" \ ofk, in The course OF the last week They
a'"ef essentially IN pollllos-one being hig and
lle oiher a trend OF the Admiuistratiun-but ihe,
agree IN one important joiut. Both are oon6drui
'hat al The next Pie>identIal election, Nh Van Blu
ren VIII carry The vote oIlhe State"
Aud upon tins shghl foundation does the Enqui-
Ter build the feeble lab,ic OF its hopes Two pen-
temcn, OF OF psIng politics. informed the editor hat
IN 1910. New York will vote for Van Buren,; and
as II Mty had Looked through some magic glass; by
which the events of the future were fully disclosed
the Enquirer makes the ~elkin ing with notes OF
n'nihPh. Does not the Enquirer remember the
ca'"S'top c OF the milk maid, WHO, with her pall
upon he, head, not only counted he, gains, but ac-
'ualy purchased the 6nety with which she intended
TO 6edech her person-bul upon giving er he ad toss
as II she were already nounced and lnrbclow ed /"
Tie mix was He'd and all her anlicrpaons blasted
But the Enquirer may learn isdom without travel
ling beyond II own columns. Ia the same paper winch
contains these sangulne specuIaiIons about the vote
OF New 1olk, is a letter rom Buckingham written
on the 2l>t, snly two days before the election, in
winch the writer was " clearly OF opinion" that the
Democrats would be elected but tic evening Of the
Esd told hInI different tale. And # one gentle
single county, 90 miles square and w,,in two
days Of lis occurrence, surely The opinions Of two
gentlemen," TO he of The great State of New
York. stretching from the seaboard to the lakes and
occurring eighteen months hence, very little be
relied upon.
he Enquirer, ii is true, annexes extract from
the Albany Argus chinnicling great gains 10 the Ad
mlnlsraon party in the late town elections" But
it is very well known that in the choice of these local
officers the vote generally exceedingly thin uni
iofmly so. except in the larger towns and cities
IN which the local authorities WELD extensive patron
age. But The New York Wing papers tell that
these "town elections leave the parties where
they stood last year" For example, the general
result FOR supervisors throughout the State, is us
follows; In ISIS Wing $50, Loco Loco 3o5 in
1880 Wing 449, Loco Foco 394-Whig majority
81 in both years.
For one, we have fears as TO the vote Of New
York in $40. At all events we do not intend TO DIS
tess ourselves about it, IN anticipation. Sufficient
for the day will be the good or the evil thereof Il is
mpUss be, indeed. furesee the events of the next
twelve months, or TO estimate their influence. Mr..
Van Buren, aud his party may throw another sum
ersei before that time FOR augh know to the
contrary. They may be then as hostile to The Sub
Treasury, for example, as they in 1884 and
denounce ii "Whig Federal measure" again
and who tell that it will again bee an ar
tic e of the Democratic Republican State Rights"
creed To support National Bank Stranger things
have happened: and philosophy as well expert
ence teaches US that what has once occurred is al
least within the range Of possibility. 1t is therefore
idle TO indulge in speculatons the result of the
elections in 1870 when we have no certain means Of
knowing but thar we shall have new tests before the
people then, rendering it necessary that gentlemen
shall again "deiine their positions
"SOFT SAWDER."-.Sdm Slick.
The Enquirer has lost ITS holy horror of coaAtions
1t invokes the leading Nuiers by uame,to abandon
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