The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-05-05
NTHE LATE ELECTIONS. D

the Presidential struggle of 1910 by an over
whemng majority of electoral votes, nor was
the popular suffrage less distinct and unequvo-
cal in its character Why was this? Much
has been said about the unpopulaIity ofMr. Van
Buren, personally, and unquestionaby the coun-
try did neither desire standing army, nor a
Sub Treasury but the true cause Of his defeat
is to be found in the fac, that Harrison and Ty-
Ter opposed him, both ant-Bank Republicans
Mr.. Tyler, original Jackson man, and Gen.
Harrison, a moderate man in every thing
around whom the State Rights men of the
North, West, and South, and the Jacksonian
''Straightouts" in all parts of the Union might
rally with perfect consistency. In truth, the
cause Of the Wing success is involved in the ra-
tional decision of the Harrisburg Convention,
which body of assembled Delegates from all
parts of the country, consulting upon the state
OF the Union and the best means of attaining
success in one great issue before the People, de-
cided on passing Mr.. Clay over, and on the no
minaton of General Harrison for President,
and John Tyler, of Virginia, for Vice President,
certainly at that day the strongest ticket which
could have been agreed on What position do
these men occupy in respect to the decision of
the Harrisburg Convention, who have claimed
all the Offices of the Government for the parti-
sans of Mr.. Clay, and who seem determined,
by Caucus movements in Congress, and
through the establishment of Clay clubs in the
large cities of ''the larger" States, 10 pack Mr..
Clay, others consenting or not, upon the Wing
party as the candidate for their Presidency in
1874. Do they not express an equal contempt
for the honest and patriotic conclusion to which
that Convention came, upon deliberate consi-
deration of all Of the circumstances of the case,
as they do for the opinions of all those original
Harrison and Tyler men who may be now in
lhe country? How do they know that if the Peo-
pie were to gointo Convention again, as they did
in 40, that free and unbiased majority would
not be, as then, opposed TO the nomination Of Mr..
Clay, to trusting the success of their cause upon
the euer unsuccessful issue ofhis name? Is this
not reasonable? What is there existing in the
political history of the country to render the
probability or certainty of such a verdict
questionable? Is that party who would be OPP
posed to Mr.. Clay less wealthy or numerous?
Has Mr.. Clay trenched himself on any new
measure? On the contrary, does not he and
his partisans vocferously claim an unwavering
consistency of purpose and policy for him2 Is
he not now as precisely National or Fed eral in
his doctrines as ever? and in addition to his old
positions, are they not now, especially upon the
question of the Bank, more unpopular than ever?
Yet his peculiar friends say that he must be
put up as an idol of political worship, and that
every man must dof his cap and kneel to the
| LAD
there are many Tells in the land, who will not
worship the bloody crown of Geser Every
Jetfersonian Republican, every original Harrison
and Tyler man, every State-rights man, every
Democrat, has the hand and the heart Of Will
liam Tell, and they will resist the lettering of
their minds and wills, as the peasant hero Of
} Switzerland did an attempt to Cypress the lib
erty of his person. The People have spoken
condemnation of the factous course of the par
} tisan Clay men, in voice of thunder. Its in
,, dgnant peal is even now rumbng through the
valleys and mountains of Virginia. Wherever
} there has been an election for State or city
, officers. there has been signal defeat Of the
} hopes Of the effigy-burners, of those who sub
, scrbed to the capital 'sAlexandrian echo" of
! the Manifesto Club Address.
Let us exa mine into this matter little
) Harrison and Tyler carried the State of New
. York by 5000 majority. The late elections
of State officers show an entire destruction of
that triumphant majority. Scene 1st act lst,
enter Mr.. Clay.-Harrison and Tyler carried
the State of Maine by handsome majority
, that State has been lost to the Wings by some
. 1000 majority. Scene I'd, act LIST, enter Mr..
Clay.-Harrison and Tyler carried the State Of
Indiana by some $4,000 majorty--it has lately
gone against the Wings by a large VOTE the Legis
] lature showing change Of some IS or 100 votes
in that body. Scene Sd, act 1st, enter Mr.. Clay.
Harrison and Tyler carried the State of Ohio
, by $4,000 majority. This State has gone
against the Wings. Scene 18th, act 1st, enter
Mr.. Clay, Harrison and Tyler carried the
States of Michigan and Georgia, and Mary
land, and the Legislature of the State Of Vir-
gnia, and Mr.. Tyler in this latter obtained
majority of the popular suffrage for Vice Presi-
dent, yet they have all deserted the cause of the
Wings, Eve speak of efigy Whigism.) Scene
5th, act LIST, enter MIR. Clay-Are not these
things portentous? Is it possible that warn
ing voice, equal almost in solemnity and force,
to a voice from the tomb itself, will be disre-
garded-its admonitions cont emned?
Let US go little further into particulars, items
of elections.
We succeeded in Brooklyn, New York, in
electng Wing Mayor last year by 700 ma
jorty, this year the borough is lost by $50
votes. Last year the Mayor for New Orleans
succeeded by very large vote in his e,ecton,
| and the Harrison and TYLER majority annroXi-