New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-11-11


KENTUCKY, Judging from the few returns we
have seen, has given Mr.. Clay large majority
INDIANA has also gone for him, there seems
hardly room to doubt, by respectable majority.
Our Defeat in New.York.
Early in the campaign, when it seemed to US
impossible that the Van Buren, men of this State
could be rallied to the unanimous and hearty sup
port of James H Polk, in view of the clrcum-
stances of his nomination-when 1t seemed TO
us impossible that avowed and strenuous anti
Texas and Protective Tariff men should be
brought to support an avowed Annexationst and
notorious Free Trader. we estimated that MIR.
Clay would carry New York by 10000. At
later period, when we found that the party drill
was stronger than we had deemed it, we esti-
mated the majority for MIR. Clay at l0,0OO, and
this we believed he would most assuredly get,
down to the State Election in Pennsylvania, the
course of the Natives and Wings, and the defeat Of
Markle. These things made against US, yet We
still believed and stated to friends, in reply to
private letters Of inquiry, that we must triumph
in New.York. Yet we are beaten-but how
l. BY the throwing away of some $4,000 votes
--nine. tenths of them Wing on all questions OF
National Policy-on the Birney ticket. We did
believe that at least half these would finally vote
20 as to prevent the Annexation Of Texas Yet
The false representations of Birney, Leavtt d. Co.
that Clay ,Das as much for Annexation as Polk,
ond more likely to effect IL, &c. &c. have car.
risd oil these votes obliquely in favor of Annexa-
non, War, and eternal Slavery.
2. The Naturalzed Citizens have all been
carried for Polk by appeals to their Religious and
old-world feelings and prejudices. They have
been told that they would be deprived of their
Political Rights and reduced to vassalage in the
event Of Mr.. Clays election, and this, with still
moro monstsous bugbears, has driven from US
those who were formerly with us. In one little
town in Tioga Co. nineteen voters of Irish birth
and Catholic faith who had voted Wing for years
turned against us only the day before Election.
Z. In every county there were some such. In Buff
falo alone, there have been fourteen hundred nat
uralized since 1910. OF this class 1--WE have in
other times had one.f fourth or one.fifth with us
now they went in solid column against us cut
ting down the majority in Erie county from
Three Thousand to Eighteen Hundred. Mon
roe and Niagara counties exhibit similar results
90 do Albany and Cayuga. Our Wing strong
holds where there are few Adopted Citizens have
not fallen of, except under the influence OF Alb
clifton. But not merely is the Naturalized Vote
against us, but it many thousands stronger than
it would have been but for the Philadelphia Riots
and the Catholic dread Of Nativism. All our
Courts that could Naturaize were crowded with
applicants for citizenship for weeks before cleo
ton, and voters were turned out at some of them
with astonishing celebrity. We hear that some OF
the Judges have been employed for days since the
election in signing the afhdavits, &c, which they
appear on the record as having executed before the
Election
8. But even this would not have awaited to
defeat us but for an overwhelming Illegal Vote,
beyond any precedent. Thousands of Irishmen
employed ON the Canada Public Works came
over here to help their brethren In the contest
they understood it, for Foreigners rights, and
did help them most effectuaily. The Alien (unna.
turalized) population OF our own and other Cities
gave large vote, generally offering atlsast one
ballot each, and many of them more than one.
From the statements of those who know, but who
could make public what they know only at the
hazard of their lives. we infer that not less than
Three Thousand votes for Polk were cast IN our
City alone by men who were not citizens of the
United States. Right gladly would we risk our
life on this, that thorough sitting of the Polls,
90 an TO throw out every Illegal vote cast in the
State. would give its Thirty.six Electors Vote
to Clay and Frelinghuysen. But this cannot be
had, and South Carolina dynasty is by the foul
ca deception and most atrocous fraud, fastened
MA .hs American People for foqr years to come.
Bitterly viii this be rued by many who cannot
vet allow themselves to get sober joy at the con.
summation.