The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1840-05-20
From the n Y. Erg Pos,

express ihsi they wall succred IN the sp-
proae hing ~lrci,"n of President. The uues-
ii"n 1. r"sIiy answered. Il is nIusys thus.
The whis party have DECIDED talent for
entertaining nbsnrd expectations. Ourr,a-
ders cannot have forgotten, tha, two mr.
three year. ago, The rusn"r was regularly
go, up 10y the wings, J,l.. hrfare every .es.
sion al Congress, and firmly believed
by them, Z" that Mr.. Van Buren,. in b,, nov,
nrss"ae, WAS roming oUt Ia favcr of - ma
iional bank. This expectation wa. r~gu-
l4rly disappointed by ~ message in which
rh. President stood s,ifly tn the yirws he
had ALREADY DECLARED; yet jus, brfofe he
opening of every srssi"n of Congress tho
rum"r was revived again, and US confident
ly believed by the wings as ever.
Lest any Of nur readers should he in the
slightest drpree misi.d by the confidence
with which the friends Of Harrison bo.s, os
'hr'r 'flumphs yet to come, we propose in
this article To- analyze the grounds of their
! expectation and sre TO what they amount.
! One Of The reasons why The antidemo-
cratic parry expect tn, succrrd is The en-
thu.iasm Of ihsir assemblies, the loudness
"f their burrnhs, and the length cf their
procr .sions. If noise aud boastiry would
elect II president, Harrison will b- elected
beyond nll question, buI something more is
necessary. There are msny ~h" g" to the
Harrison meetings, but there Is an iin-
'nrnss ly greater number who stay ai bnm-,
aud whose vuIrs must eventually decide ihs
elec'i"n. Any party not altogether con-
trmt'hle IN p"iut of numbers, can get up, if
proper pains be taken, large meetings. par
ticui"rly wheI Il is und-rslood that some
Distinguished man, whom people have q
curiosily to hear, " i'll address the assembly.
or when II is given out that there is To be "A
display Of pagentry, or that the meeting is
to he in any respect a froEc. Give them
lnlle drink when they nre assembled, and
you will have them noisy enough aud en-.
thusinsiic enough they will brcom..
So full of vaIor that they spi,e the air.
For breathing in their faces
they will rend the welkin with their huzzas,
and conquer their opponents in nn,icipa-
JtIon duZrn times over.
All this the wings have done they have
made their meetings public displays of pa
gean,ry they have drummed up auditors
Iby advertising that eminent speakers of their
side we're to hold forth they have fudded
each other with hard cider and stronger
liquors. But wha, does all this prove p
" Ill wing vote count the more because
iihe n'nu who Is about 10 give it has hnd
debauch at ta,ecn? Because he has
been made To sse double, is that ~ reason
why the Judges of election should allow h,rn
u double vote!
\ The whig Journals boast that they had
procession lately Of twenty Thousand men
IN tho citv Of R.ltin,nr. ,,,i,,,I,,, . l.ro,
number of delegates tn the win. conven-
tinn from all parts Of the United States
" this proves amy Thing, it oniy proves thar
Harrison will get twenty thousand votes 10
ln the United State but We mus, be allow
ed to say that twenty thousand votes will
y" bat very lille way towards elcc.iaE :
MIN.
Another reason for believing that Harri.
son will he elected is, that travellers in The
western aud other states find y mnioriiy os
his friends III sleam hnnts, rail road cars,
stage conches, aud the bar rooms of t.verns
] N"w 1t is well known that in these places
the democratic party is always mud has al
ways been IN the minority. II General
jackson when n candidate for the Presidpr-
cy could have been beaten bv vpies taken
on board nf steam boats, aud in bar rooms,
he would have heen beaten to n mummy
and If Mr.. Van Bnrsn's election had de-
pended upon his oblainir a majority among
that class OF people who travel most, he
would never have been President. A con-
siderable portion of this class are specula-
tors, projectors, lobby members of legisla-
inres, pe"ple who live by their wits, agents
and officers Of corporations, md of these
the greater part nre Of course wings. The
democrats are on their farms, or in their
shops, or quietly ininhing their business
whatever II he; and when the proper time
arrives they make their appearance, and
carry the election by sweeping n,n,ori,e, in
those very paris uf the country shrrc tho
passengers in a stage coach could find no.
body bm, wings.
a paper now before MS, tie Ohio States
man, printed at Colu un,bns, in no,icin. the
summaries of steamboat votes," published
by the whig pri"'s, gives, MS an offset, a
summary Of votes taken on the occasinns in
which, the farmers of Ohio assemble To as
sist each other in raising log cabins, not the
play things called Harrison log cabins, bu.
the rude and humble dwellings, uf the hardy
settlers and their families. We quote from
the Ohio print:
"W We give below summary OF leg cabin
raising votes statement of winch was made on
the ground al each OF the raiSings named, and
Which ve and in papers nov before US:
Dem. Feds.
AT b. CARROTS raising in Fairfield
county 80
Benj. Drums do. do 81
In Fransn township, Warren co. Is
At Mr.. DiSney's Knox co. 81
At Mr. Evalrs do; Is
(snd one old whis on the fence.l
l55 II
Showing more than Hine democrats to one fsser
al hard cider whig. This IS sign worth re-
eording snd comes very near the true stat, Of