Hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1843-1845, 1844-11-21
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The Event.

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The Event.
The mail Of Tuesday evening brought
returns from New York, which placed
the result. beyond any reasonable scru-
pie Of belief; James Knox Polk is the
President elect.
We are beaten in one Of the strong
holds of our might; thirty-six electors,
voted for by population who had eve.
nv conceivable motive under Heaven,
to have given their sufirages to Henry
Clay. are delegated to throw their
overpowering influence to a candidate
with principles the an.ipodes OF their
own. Such is the felo de Sc of the
act, that even now, we have doubts,
striving against the believing spirit. in
to which we are compelled to settle.
The disaster, astounding as it is, has
its teachings Of philosophy. One week
ago, buoyan. with anticipated victory
confidence predicated upon the sober
calculations Of causes and their effects.
and now, with the same apparent ten
denotes in full influence, looking with
dismay at the routed phalanx Of our
strength. Hereafter, let him who would
beguile his leisure by pointing at the
horoscope of the future, fall back upon
the slden dreams of astrology, or ifhe
would deal with the living present seek
to realize the golden visions Of alchemy.
and he can hardly feed upon more
substantial vaper than the prognostica
tons of political forecast; sowed in
seeming truth. and reaped in most pal.
pable error.
Nor is ourdefeat without its consola-
lions. The strife has been most gallant
" maintained; if like Francis LIST, after
the battle Of Pavia, we are obliged to
confess every thing lost but honor-we
have been true to our noble chief, and
true to our own selves. With US is
the glory, and with them the gain; in
the gloom Of our adverse fortune, like
the 6rst Cesar, we gather our mantle
about US and lie down with the decent
dignity Of mind temperate in prosper
ity and sustained in adversely by
proud consciousness of duty we'll done.
Last Friday was day marked with
"black stone," in the wing calendar.
Up 10 that time the starry conjuncsions
had been favorable 10 the Kentucky
Statesman, but on this day the
"Airy tongues.
That syllable mems Names"
And mems majorities, began TO whis-
per vague rumors Of an overwhelming
disaster in New York. Polk stock
1--WE beg pardon for the pun) came up
like John Laws famous bank shares.
The faint hearted wings hauled down
the Union Jack and hove too, but the
more determined clewed up the braces
and set every stitch of canvass from
bowsprit to mizzen mast, and resolved
to 60 down with standing rigging
Saturday the sky grew blacker; the
New Haven brought news of terrible
rout in Tennessee. Sunday morning
the cloud peeled up and we saw a patch
Of blue sky; thus things continued un.
til Tuesday evening, when the news
from New York came like a thunder.
gust bearing spices Of Arabian sweet.
ness to the locos,bu, creeping into whig
nostrils with the suffoca,ing s.ile of a
sirocco. "Such is the fate of man."
Yesterday the work of renovation
commenced; lots Of loco focos were pu.
riied and pat in clean broad cloth by
the wing "lame ducks" Boots, too, |
were out in beautiful display--in fac,
an article Of this sort, worth from five
TO seven dollars is not to be found in
frss hands. such has been the demand.
we ourselves shall be compelled to
keep some half a dozen hungry Polka,s
IN poultry for the best par, of the win
ter.
There has not been time within
the "memory Of the oldest nhabi,an,.
when the locos were 90 well broad. |
nlnAha al knAiol e.