Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-11-13
(From he L,nie kers Ga:ette.l

I Tue ELFCTI0Ns-IHp FCsuT OF Tue f"ctHt tpCITOrIs
in this State be of qualification TO tic De-
nlocracy Of the country. Under many disadvantages
our party has again triumphed, and rlorousy triumph
cd-hus il is and thus il ever will be, where The people
are 10 themselves Our opponents lett no stone
unturnrd 10 dc.ra, the tried servants Of the public, but
they have most sgnallv failed Judge Cross is elected
by majority, equal if not greater, than that OF lsaS
when he was opposed by Alr. Cummlns. AT that time
the State was fairly canvassed BY both candidates; this
wear owing to the III health of Judge c. he unable TO
his fcowczens and give an account OF his stew
ardsp, to and reinte the many charges which
the Wing journals of the State preferred against him
His opponent too Col. Fowler, has been closely en-
gagged for six months canvassing The State, and we
have no doubt has canvassed il aby yet in the face OF
all these things, the people have sustained Judge
Cross and again returned him TO the councils of the
nation, with the emphatic decision of "Well done,
thou good and faithful servant
Our returns, too, show that the Legislature is Demo
cratic by large majority, although in some of our old
Democratic counties we have been disappointed; yet,
knowing do, that the question there turned upon
local causes, believe that when the existing causes
crasc The prcludces Will vanish and the people return
10 their frs; lovc-thc love Of Democratic principles.
| This election look upon true forcrnnncr OF
what we can and will do in November, when the acts
IF Martin Van Buren, and Richard NJ Johnson will be
placed at the bar Of public opinion, opposed BY Gen.
Harrison and Mr.. Tyler The people will again be
called upon TO decide upon the merits Of tried public
scrvanls-whether they sustain those who have carried
our sacred Constitution - written, who have been
The friends Of the South and Of the Union; or whe-
Their they viii sustain the no30ry party ard their
dida,es, the head Of whom Harrison is, far VIC
can find Oh; without any fixed principles: who IS Ill
things to all men--,o-day the friend of the South
and tomorrow the friend Of Northern Aboliiionisn;
now, opposed to the Tariff, and in favor Of il;
nj this place opposed 70 Bank, and al another in IA
vor of il, and whose friends c!econcer for him only
upon the groand that he drinks hard cider and
4 h I - AL L..
gull the real log cabin boys The log cabin is the
home of the frontier ctizen and the frontier States
have spoken-Missouri, Illinois, and lastly own
Arkansas and the log cabin boys of these States have
said at the ballotbox, will not be humhugged I'VE
cannot be scducod from our love Of Republican Demo
cracy- vote for principle, md moi for men,
| The reelection OF Judge Cross 10 Congress, IS GER
tain by Qrom present appearancesl majority Of from
1000 TO $500 votes. The relative strength Of parties
| in the Legislature will III oar opinion be as follows
In the Senate, IL Democrats, & Wings: in the Lower
House II Democrats, 10 - Wings st.iug clear De-
mocratic majority on olnt ballot of -.
| HARD CIDER ExrHrsIAsu.-There were two or three
Of the palpahle OF perjury committed in this
city Friday last, by the Wings, that we ever heard
Of One fellow sworc lie hand a canal boat,
when the way bill Of the boat proved that he had taken
passage al Cleveland for Portsmouth. Another will
undergo judicial investigation, we presume and test
the Pententiary qualities ola lying, perjured "sraight-
out ilarrisonian.
We hear of another case in Truro, Of boy, who
actually resides in Jefferson Verify Wing fathers
rcapng the effects Of hard cider
ABorIrIoSIsM-FsRoIc, ALL have been an Adolf
ZIONIST since Il years OF age says General IIar-
rison Southern Whiggery takes the dose and swallows
I it,
al believe it violation of the spirit of the Cons,tu-
ton 10 discuss Abolition in the free Saies' SAYS Ge-
neral Harrison The Northern Aboli;ionists swallow
the dose, and almost 10 man, vote for Harrison and
Tyler.
The truth is nothing has done more good after VIC
discovered that Harrison would get the Electoral
of Ohio than to the Abclitionsts almost 10 man
for Harrison and Tyler, in preference to Birney
and Earle. Now, shall see both used up in the
melcc.-Colnmbas TO- Statesman, Oct. 3.
The ELECTION FRIDAY LAsT.-We give below
what had received when this pa per went 10
press. They the mojorities merely; but far
we can learn the turnout was not so great generally
the 18th. The Wings, though flushed with VIC
tory, and not being well watched as on the 18th
against casting illegal votes thousands of which they
undoubtedly polled, taking his region of country as
sample, scarcely UP 10 their vote for Governor
The Democrats III some counties, and in some town.
ships in counties where there has been Democratic
loss, rallied most maafully. Holmes and Mercer
have increased their majorties since the l3 and de-
the lasting gratitude of the Democracy of The
State. But the turnout Of the Democrats on the 3Uth
in many places, not general it ought to have
been, but the whole friends deserve everlasting
gratitude for the noble fight they have made for the
preservation of their dear bought principles which
though defeated and trampled down for the moment
by fraud lying and speclous promises Of better times