Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-11-10
THE GREAT QUESTION.

Iateresting a. the great political controversy
ias ,een, while the several states were giving
sa,l onitions, in their local elections, Of what
would be their separate decisions in the great
bs Genital trial, It il now eclipssd by the in
taa importance Of this contest actually com
menced and for progressed. Nineteen Of the 26
States have held their Presidential elections and
! RE, ocably given their sovereign voices either
for or against those measures which propose 10
relieve the public distress by legslating for the
People rather than for the party, BY destroying
the bulwsrks and defences Of that corrupt and
revolutionising faction which has long had s iron
hooi upon the necks Of submissive and too for.
bearing populace; viz. New Hampshire, Connec-
,icut, Virginia, Louisiana, Alabama, Kentucky.
Indiana, illinois, Missouri, Maine, Georgia. Ohio,
New York, New Jersey, Mississippi, Michigan,
Arkansas, Massachusetts, and syivania. -
Two more vote to-day, Vermont and Delaware,
making, up to this date % States, leaving only
4 others to hold their elections, viz. South and
North Carolinas, Tennessee and Rhode Island
These States unitedly have As electoral votes;--
the entire vote 10 294. Ofthe states yet TO elect,
we expect 10 obtain three, Ri de Island, Ten
nessee and North Carolina, giving "a Wing to II
Van Buren, votes.
So, then, in all probability, the question is
settled, and the only matter now 10 TO OBJ
tain information hop they have settled it. Who
lives thu, does not feel the utmost an xiety to o.
certain the result? Until we obtain the Official
returns, we have no other means of antic ipatnp
| the result than the comparative votes for State
officers, and 10 what extent these elections may
serve As criterion by which 10 estimate, each
party will Of course be its own judge. But W,
justly complain Of the intentional and persever
ing unfairness Of the Van Buren, press In maxim,
estimates from these premises. They appear L
be determined 70 lose no State Of their fornle
reckoning, let the facts Of their election be q
they may; and the more doubtful the justice o
their claim, the more vehemently unrelentingl
and uncompromisingly do they maintain it. State
who have experienced an entire political revolu
ton, giving large majorites for the Wings wher
they had previously been in the minority By thou
sands, are either claimed for the sdminisiratio
beyond the possibility Of doubt, or else the fac
In relation TO them 10 Piasterod over with vague
ambiguous remarks, rendering IL as indefinite q
possible. II is impossible for US 10 conceive VIII
any individual, in any capsci,y whatever, sbou:
act on such principle a. this. To disguise {
suppress known uslh. os TO TELL an absolu'
falsebooc, IN order to influences eaksfs into an el
sosssas bslssf in = matter where the truth wi
Inevitably be knswa. 10 a folly which in n
vssy nature Of things mus, speedily bring its ow
punishment in = total loss OF confidence in d
verse,y and respsc' Tor the character Of the ind
vidasl who does IL.
A. the returns from the States viii now
, rapidly coming IN, and as every man, woman a.
child has al intsrss, in ob,siains eesreef iaform
ton. and 80 Will do you no possible good 10 !
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