The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1840-05-09

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Of the United States, the sixty
fourth. M. VAN BUREN.
BY the President:
JOHN FoRsYTn, Secretary Of State.
From the Charleston Mercury Of the 4ih inst.
VIRGINIA.
From a comparison Of the returns in
the Globe The Richmond Compiler and the
Petersburg Statesman, by yesterdays
mail, it appears that there have been cleo
ted to the House of Delegates n wings,
40 Democrats and independent-M:.
BAYLEY Of Accomack. There is also one
tic in Frederick according to the whig pa
pers, though the Richmond Enquirer pub
fishes return, giving majority of two
votes to the Democrat. The Wings have
so FAR gained 3 members of the House, and
probably 2 Of the Senate, thus securing
majority on joint ballot. The only diff
ference however between the Legislature
elect and the late Legislature, will be that
the whig party will be consolidated, where
as in the former body there were a mum.
ber of men who would vote for nobody
but RIvEs, and number of others who
could not be persuaded to vote for the "lit.
lie Expunger. Still the wings had con-
siderable ma jority in the late Legislature,
and the Democrats had considerable ma
jority of the popular vote. 1t is far from
decided that the same is not true this year.
The majorilies may be larger with one par
ty than the other.
There is another consideration. In the
elections for the Legislature, the posses.
SIGN of freehold in any district gives the
right to vote. A single voter therefore,
by owning the requisite freehold in twenty
different. districts, may vote twenty times
if he can ride to so many different polls.
In the presidential election it is not so.
There are also local questions that in many
cases absorb general politics, and contri-
butte still further to weaken any general
Inference from the result. How true this
is, and how important to take il into con-
sideration, may be judged from The fol.
lowing facts. In April 1882, the Wings
elected a majority of "a in the House of
Delegates, and confidently counted upon
the vote. Of Virginia for CLAY. In the
Presidential election six months after
JACKSON had majority Of t1Do thousand
potes. So little docs the general result Of
the popular voice depend on the COM
plexion cf the Legislature.
Something, also-nay, much, is to be
attributed to the parties. in reference 10
federal measures. TO ouo one public mea-
sure are the Wings of Virginia committed,
except perhaps, the distribution Of the
public lands among the States, and the
recent defaIcation in the Bank OF Virginia,
may have strengthened the general desire
to mend their finances by other means than
taxation. They feel somewhat poorer than
before. But in other respects the Wings,
by steadfaslly adhering to the mum policy
uf Gen. Harrison's "Committee Of three"
have escaped the odium which in the "Old
Dominion" will ever attach 10 the general
principles and undonbted designs of the
Wing party. The Harrison men, like
their candidate, answer no questions, COM
nit themselves to no measures, except
measures of hard cider, and profess nothing
ont opposition. Where is the question of
a National Bank, which even Gen. THoMP.
SON, in giving in his adhesion TO HARRI-
SON, deems il necessary tn advocate, and
which is urged on subtly but steadily in
most of the leading Wing papers of the
Union? Where is the question Of the Ia.
riff, which tie Wing papers of New Eng
land assure us, will be restored by the elec-
ton Of HARRISON! The Wings of Vir-
ginia have not heard of these questions.
They are according to their own account
of themselves, aparty who are opposed
to the "present Distress" and in favor of
making the people of the United States
all rich and happy. They confess to no
party design, but a general and anxious
disposition to set all thing right, and &C.
cordingly "every man who is in trouble,
and every man who is in debt" looks to
them.
On the other hand it is well known that
the Republicans of Virginia have been
divided in regard to the most important
measure Of the Administralion-the 1nde-
pendent Treasury. The opposition of
Mr.. RIvEs TO that measure, while he was
still supposed to be a friend of the Admins
tration. and the half measure advocated BY