Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1841-11-22
THE GENERAL RESULT.


The following judicious remarks on the disas-
trous results of the elections, are from the N. Y.
Tribune:
We do not waste much space on the details OF
our state election. 1t is needless. We have al
ready announced the loss of the Assembly by an
overwhelming majority. The Senate may or may
not have gone with it, but in tornado like this it
is wise to apprehend the worst Atall events, the
Wing cause in this state is temporarily PROSTATE.
Fifty thousand Wing voters have refused or neg
leccd to vote, while not more than twenty thou
sand of opponents have done likewise. The con-
sequence is the loss of the state by fifteen or TWEEN
~ thousand
There are many causes of this reverse, though
no reasons crit. The policy aud measures of the
Wing party are still identified with the best inter
ests of the couiilry and their defeat, however
temporary, must prove disastrous to those inter-
esis. The people still believe with us that the
restoration OF sound and uniform practical cur
rency, the due protection and encouragement OF
American industry, the vigorous though judicous
prosecution OF internal improvement, are essen
tal to their welfare and true progress. On these
grounds substantially The people confded to us
the administration Of the government.
Our defeat nov implies no radical change OF
opinion on their part but The intorposltion OF un.
ioreseen obstacles to the attainment OF those great
national blessings. Many who voted with ny to
elect Harrison, Tyler, and Wing Congress, have
now refused to vote because pnrt of the vital
measures which they expected to follow the Wing
triumph have not been pressed to successful is
sue. Many accuse MIR. Tyler of irehchery to his
party, and refuse to vote from indignation at his
course. Some on the other tack have grown cold,
from feeling that the President has been harshly
treated by the great mass OF the Wings And
there Is still another class, not inconslderabe in
numbers, whose patriotic aspirations to serve
their country in some easy, well-pnid station, have
not found u response from the appointing power,
and they have severaly cursed politics aud the in
gratitude of republics, and resolved never again to
nnge in the suiic till they have found candidates
and leaders giled with an omnisclehcc to discern
their transcendent merits and claims. All these
adverse influences have proved for the moment
too much for us. One state gave way, then All
Others the panic became contagious, aud re-
sisess that even New York has sunk under it
we trust only for brief season. Such is the his
tory OF our reyerses.
We ioreboded much of this when our ears
were first stunned with the sad tdngs of Gen.
Harrlsons death. The fall of the General is too
often followed by the rout of the army ; and this
was not dissiInilar case. 1t could not he expec-
ted that John Tyler or any other man should re-
tain Pennsylvania and Maine while local and
sectional questions must every where interposc 10
diminish ii not destroy the great majortles given
to General Harrison. If MIR. Ty Ter and the Wing
| majority in Congress had in every respect done
the best that enlightened patriotism could prompt
III angelic wisdom had guided all their steps and
ruled every heart-the death OF our elected head,
aud the anarchy OF opinion, the loosenng of ties
consequent thereon, would probably have nvol.
we'd us in temporary disaster.
And yet the disagreement between Congress
aud the President on the currency question, has
Increased immensely The i'll effects Of other and
earlier calamlties. 1t was the fact that the Presi-
dent differed from Congress on single, though vi
tai measure it was not the censor ous and uncha-
rtable spirit which dictated The first veo-in its
| payable design TO aggravate rather than reverse
| the differences therein demonstrated that the
poison lurked. Its hostility was very naturally,
though perhaps not wisely, hurled back to Cou
gress and from that moment was exhibited the
spectacle of a divided house lettering to its fall.
| We speak frankly of these matters, and shall
pursue the subject in similar spirit We feel that
the wounds received by the Wing cause are not
irremedlal but they require probing. not plaster
ing. The approaching reassembliDg of Congress,
must bring about cordial and thorough recon-
Citation between the President and the higs or
personal and thorough separation. 1t is abund-
anty evident that cannot go as " q are.
But no the Wing will be discouraged by the
clouds that now surround us. I'VE have seen
darker days than this'-oLe of them was that on
which noble band of patriots and statesmen
met in tlarrsburgh to nominate Wing cundid :
ate for President, in December 1889. Then, as
now, defeat after defeat had parayzed many
arms, aud filled feeble heats with despair. Yet
the proper means were taken for arousng the
Wing spirit, and how magical the change
VIII ch few months exhibited? So may it be u
gain.