Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-11-21
VIEWS OF THE NEW YORK PRESS ON THE
RESULT OF THE NEW YORK ELECTIONS.
From the New York American.

VIEWS OF THE NEW YORK PRESS ON THE
RESULT OF THE NEW YORK ELECTIONS.
From the New York American.
There are some considerations connected with
the scenes through which We have lust passed
that we desire to present TO our readers. while
the events which suggest them are vet fresh in
the minds OF all.
Foremost among these is the con,ras, of the
manner in which the contest has been conducted.
On the side of the Wings there has been an en-
're aostnence from personalities in respect of the
candidates-their public acts only have been can
vassed, their private habits and tastes have not
been dragged into the columns of newspapers
ihef mgoings and their outgoings, travels abroad
or doings and sayings at home have not been
watched and chronicled by dirty pumps and spies
and party scavengers; the gossip of malice or its
sheer inventions have been rejected from the
wing armory as entirely beneath the dignity Of
their cause and the laws Of honorable warfare.
Far otherwise has it been with our opponents
They have spared neither the hearth-s,one. around
which gather the family and friends of our cand-
Nates, nor the altar at which they worship, but,
violating alike the sanctity Of the one and the
other, they have endeavored to present both MIR.
clay and Mr.. Frelnghuysen under the most o.
dious aspects to the coun,ry-,he one as a proiane
p.Sh'gate' me other as a sancimonious hypocri,e.
When reverend clergymen, called from their re-
airement to bear witness TO the character of their
transformers have spoken the Truth mildly and
calmly, they have been assaulted with all the
herceness OF Jacobinism, and made to suffer, SO
lar as purity can suffer from calamny, the penal
neighbor."
another marked distinction has been in the u
inform and frank statement in all parts of the
country OF the issues upon which the Wings
went to the people, and the studied Justification
according to tho degree Of latitude, by their op
Poneh's, Oh the issues which they maintained.
90 no hos ound
Ci par'cularzlng all these differences. Ii is suf
hcent Tor the proof 10 cite the of the Tariff
ana ieNas. In the South Mr.. Polk was support
cd as lie was nominated, for his opposition TO
protection, and for his pledge in favor of imme-
diate annexation In Pennsy lvania, in New Jer-
sey, and in New York the Polk banner was in
scrlbed with proteciion-and the great tariff State
of Pennsylvania was lied into his support upon
that ground.
SO of Texas, The Evening Pos, here denied
that ieXas annexation was one Of the issues
showing the while that it alone made Mr. Polk
and Mr.. Dallas the candidates of it's party; and
mus the men OF tender conscience about slavery,
VINO credit that most dishonest paper, and those
10 whom an open violation of the national faith
would be distastefnl, found, in this denial an ex-
cuse Tor supporting Mr.. Polk, with all his COM
mitments for slavery and Texas.
Another remarkable and hideous feature in this
CITY particularly was the organization of brute
iorce TO everawe elections The fact of such a
S'No -" '"O i1ihPuc CluD DelnT taken INTO the
pay. and employed 10 do the biddings of party
protesting respect for the intelligence of the peo
pie and regard for the elective franchise is Of it.
sell one that imparts to the struggle just past
new and fatal tendency.
The REsuLT.-New York has gone for Polk
and Dallas, Wright and Gardner-free trade,
slavery, and war.
Inc abolition vote, virtually cast in favor of
slavery, and Of war for slavery, will be large.-
Inc result has proved that the Irish of the Sixth
ward were not far out of the way in the banner
'hey carried: ".Rn,ericans shanI rule us.'
finaiiy-and this is topic to W hich, when the
iuii returns are in, we shall have occasion to re-
tnrn-fhe President Of the United States Of Q,neri-
en- mas been chosen ty Foreigners natmohzed for
me occasion. Men, ignorant of our laws, of our
institutions, of our public men-having no stake
or interest in the country--no portion in its past.
giories-no tie nor feeling of kith OF lin-and
WIG nave received fheir naturaiza,o2 papers
within the fast six months--have decided the
choice of Mr.. Polk, and Thus have determined the
PoIicJ OF the country for years--it NAV be for
all time!
from this fact will the American Republican
parry derive such strength and permaneney as
dency.
From the Tribune.
Honor THE True There never was better