Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1840-08-21
THE AUGUST ELECTIONS.
The PEOPLE TRIUMPHANT AND
THE SPOlLS PARTY PUT TO

THE SPOlLS PARTY PUT TO
THE ROUTE!
We publish the numerous returns from
kentucky, Indiana and Alabama of the most
decisive complexion. The Administration
Of Martin Van Buren, is down beyond the
hope of recovery. We are assured that the
voice Of these States is the voice of the whole
West, and that as loud as is now the roar of
tho young Lien of the West, his roar in
November will be far more terrific. The
moral effect of these splendid results must
be immense throughout the Union. Scarcely
State is now left the Administration, and
it is by no means impossible that at the fall
election, not one will be found in its traces.
W. do not suggest this as oar calculation, but
state it as the conjecture of many shrewd OBJ
servers. A singular fact is ascertaincd by
these elections, that the Wings namely out
run all their own calculations They were
extremely dillident Of the result in Louisiana.
They thought it not impossible that Howard
would be elected in Indiana, owing to his
personal popularity, and the confident tone
of the Locos, led them to dstrust even the
preliminary result in Kentucky! On the
other hand the Administration Presses UNI
scrupulously claimed (for cGecO Indiana,
Louisiana, North Carolina and Alabama to
be their own. The modesty of the Wings
and the Dragging of the Locos will receive
each, its appropriate reward Bclshazzar's
warning to this corrupt, mischievous, mad
and Infatuated Administration, is now writ
ten legibly upon the wall. Down it will 90,
to the joy Of this People, and even of thou
sands whom party attachments and the pride
Of a mistaken seHSe of consistency, keep lin
ked to its fortucs--to The serious regret only
of the oflicc-holdcrs who arc rioting, and of
the office seekers who hope to riot, in the
"Spoils" of misrulcd People: No mortal
power can save it, and the bcncvolcncc of
all heavenly powers will enlist them in be-
half of people struggling to throw off the
yoke ofrulcrs who have ground them into
dust and ashes In time to come, the poll
ticans who have sustained this odious Spells
Dynasty, and sought TO rivct the letters upon
free people, will be held in such estimation
as Patriots now hold Hartford Convention
traitors. Their allectation and cant of De-
mocracy, their humbugs, their foul-mouthed
abuse and atrocious ISLANDERS, their support
of misrulc and corruption, will rccoil in re-
tributivc Justice on their heads.
From Kentucky we have enough to show Wing
msiority hardly less than FIFTEEN THOUSAND,
and Legislature overwhelmingly Wing
Indiana is now nearly complete showing Harri-
son majority larger by thousands than the triumphan,
vote the gallant Hooscr State gave i'll 1886.
In Missouri st. Louis county has given w hg ma
orty of upwards Of 500 and chosen the entire Lcgls
lative ticket.
In North Carolina, the returns still show net gair
in the Legislature that of 1888, when we had
large majority Joint ballot and gain in the popular
the glbernatoral election of 1886, when thu
Wing majority was rising OF 1OUO.
The revolution of ALABAMA will prove the scvcres
blow that the administration has yet sustained Mr.
CMHouS's asccndancy in this state has been sccont
only to the supremacy he has maintained in SouTi
CARoLSA. II his influence should have failed to say
II for Mr. VAS BuREN it will be an awful omen for tn
coalition. In vain will il have been, in a moment o
-slarred ambition, that Mr.. CALuouS and the ''chi
Various PIcKENs allied themselves with the mos
''proiligatc and corrupt wretches that ever crawlc
into power" If ALABAMA has clectcda WING Legs
laiure, we shall be persuaded that Mr.. VAN BrRE,
will not carry single Southern State with the cxccp
lion Of South Carolina.
KENTUCKY.