Litchfield enquirer., 1844-09-26
THE IMPORTANCE OF A SINGLE VOTE.

The Cincinnati Atlas publishes the following in. stances of the importance of single vote:
 One vote in the city ofNew York returned re. publican member to the Assembly, which made a majority in the Legislature of that State for Thom- as Jefferson, and gave hin the vote of New York, without which he could not have been elected- The whole policy of the United States during the Jefferson and Madison administration, period of sixteen years, hung on oAe vote. ..,... One vote elected Marcus Morton Governor of Massachusetts in an aeguegate popular vote ofnear ly 100000. ., s .. -.
 One vote elected William Allen in the Chilli cothe district to Congress in 1884, and one vote subsequently, made hil U. S. Senator for years afterwards. -'-. ............,
 One vote elected Nr. White to Congress from Vermont, in 1922, and member was also chosen l in 1924 by single yoe, in a canvass where about 5000 were boiled. -,
 The following case of the kind is still more re- markable: - In 1880, Dan Stone of this city, was candidate for the State Legislature. Walking up Main street on the morning of theelection, he overlook an &C., quaintance going to tl polls, who intended to vote the opposite ticket. tone solicited his vote, sWe are old friends" said he. ' and know you will show friend that max of kindness.'' Party spirit was then comparativdV quiet The voter replied, care if do.'' That vte elected Stone, and gave majority of one in Ae Legislature, which made 1 Thomas Ewing U. SISenator. MT. Ewings vote on the question of confirming the appointment of Martin Van Buren as Minister Plenipotentary to Great Britain, enablel the Vice President to give | the casting vote agaiB it, and recalled Mr. Van Bnren home. That eall made Mr. Van Buren first Vice President. d then President, and de- termined the general Cicy of the country for four years. One vote accoiplished all thh
 One vote sent James {. Faren to the Legislature. and made him subsequently Senator, and may pos sibly result in sending him as Congressional Rep resentative from the HNilton county district, Remember the impotance of a single vte.
 I At Whg ConventSR recently held at Cleve- land. (Ohio,. Cassius N Clay addressed the assem- bly in an eloquent spech-the following extract from which is well wdhy the attention of poiti.
 cal abolitionists: .a.,ra
 "Hase the third pity the power b defeat tie
 annexation of slave territory, equal n size to fol
 ty States like our owa: Have they power to defeaA the Annexation---D -Denocratic- c-SlaveV--Anti- Ia. riff party! No one Iresumes to makesach an as-
 sertion Tfthey hade the power. let IS use them. 1.-the thirdpa hWe not the power. ve are bound
 by every obligatioHof duty, principle sad humani-
 ty, to use the Whi party and defeat thir mad pro- jects. 1 do not diAvee with the thirdparty upon
 their one. gveatestef g,'eat P,'nesPses. But, H give mi vote to the third pfty at this
 crisis the only obilct is to defeat the aection by
 the people-which would be to throw tie election into tie House of Representatives. whic would be to elect Polk and Dallas, and amer TeaAs to the United States-nos by treaty. Stf 6y 9najO,ity
 vOse Of hke too braaches and Me trsietAn of tSe
 President. IN DEF1ANcE or THE CONSTITUTION.
 Every vote, then, which is thrown for the third
 party, at this crisis, is thrown for Pix ald Dallas and the annexation of Texas. Inee(giye no more reasons for voting 'once more' for alayelolder.- Such anotAer crisis can never comeI
 A writer in the New Bedford lercuFy states that some of the followers. of Faith Miller have taken new start of lates and thtseveral of the deluded believers in that vicinitJha actually gwen up every temporal concern, await for the day m which our earth Is to be buHd up. Some I of these men haye families, and th4aEo aQleriuAr lfdm khsS vttkg HaeestC baJiukl < : -,.