Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1844-11-22
The Election.

IL Is with 1eehngS oil the most profound
regret and'keen modification that we are
compelled to announce to our readers the
defeat Of the Whi6 candidates for the Pre-,
stdency and Vice Presidency of the United
States, A result 10 unlocked for, and at
the same time SO undeserved, is.calcuIated
at once to induce the belief thats portion
Fof our people have given way 10 some po,
pular dehsion, or that there has been foul
play. Henry CLAY, the impress Of whose
mighty genius is stamped upon all the
great Leading measures Of the country for
the last thirty-fve years, to be beaten by
James X. Polk, who had nothing to re-
fcommend him of any kind whatever,
We cannot very well see into the black
spots in'Ihe other parts Of the country, sur
rounded as we are by the blaze of glory
with which Ohio covered herself in the
late elections New York, weare infornr-
ed, went for Polk, Dallas, and Texas, by
some four or FIVE thousand majority. The
vote FOR Birney is said TO he upwards Of
twenty-five thousand. If the ohe!third
part Of those Wings who abandoned Henry
Clay and wentover to Birney, Polk, Dal-
las, and Texas, had maintained their for
mer position in the Wing line, Henry Clay
would have received The vote Of N. York
the same may be said of Indiana. If
one halfof the Wings in those two States
who were ted into the Eocofoco trap by
Birney and the other friends of the slave
power, 1--WE mean those who directly and
fndifectly support that power) had voted
for Mr.. Clay, he would have been the
President. Our OPPONENTS are rejoicing
over the result. What have the "Democra-
cy" to expect from the Administration Of
Mr.. Polk! We don'tmean thdt portion
who go for the spoils, but .he mass, the
farmers, mechanics, and luborers. Those
who are in favor of it can get British Free
Trade to their hearts content. Those op-
posed to n Protective Tariff may have a
chance to get the present Tariff repealed,
modified, or cut down to the revenue
stahdatd.
Those opposedto the distribution Of TIE
proceeds ofthe sales of the public lands
may now have chance to be burdened
with State taxes for want of said pro-
ceeds,
Those In favor Of an extension Of the
slave power have chance to Be fully gra-
tilted.
Those who wish Texas annexed to This
country with her twenty to thirty million
debt, can now have chance to get Ne
groes, Camanche Indians and all. We
have not time atptesent to 60 into details
we will hereafter say something about
the result. Butwe will now say "Let tlie
administration be Judged by iis measures. u
We think the party that elected Polk will
carry into power with them the elements
of their own destruction. He cannot play
Protection to Pennsylvania and Free Trade
to South Carolina both at the sSnie TIME
and avoid detection.
Our friends may rely upon one thing,
and that is, no man or set ofuen can even
administer 'the Government for any length
Of time wilhouta resort to Wing prnci.
pies and Whis measures we mean those
old measures adopted by our ioreiather'
when the Government was first set in mo
ton; those measures must prevail soone
or later. We have no confidence in th,
new order of things, and we ask the Wing
OF Carroll county to keep up their organi
cation; and not be led off by "Native Am
ericanisn, Abolitionism. or any other iE1',