The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-11-21
sPEcULATIoNs UPON THE LATE
ELECTIONS.

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Our exchanges are filed With speculGdons
upon the causes of the unfortunate result Of
the Presidential election, and its still more
disastrous probable consequences. We sub
Join several extracts from the leading jour
nails of the day, which we hope will be read
and considered.
From the New York Tribune.1
HoNoR THE TRuE.-There never was a better
fought battle than that of the Wings of our State
at the recent election. The poll is enormous.
and such as gould not have been made unless
e,ery nerve had been strained by both parties.
enemies Of Henry Clay of the man, his Princi-I
pl es. and the great measures of national bene-
6cence with which his name and fame are IN
seuerably biendcd-and no other man living has
90 many and such friends; and no oihe. has SO
many or such deadly adversaries. His friends
are defeated, but most foully. Blackened by SLAM
ders as his character has been, we could have
surely triumphed over these. There ia ae6ie
tribute 10 the man implied in the fact. that while
our great leader has been DETAINED as no other
man was ever defamed-Eas been constantly
held I'D to the people as o debauchee, gambler,
blasphemer. virtual muraeTers &C., HE All
MOST EvERY WHERE RUNS AT THE
HEAD OF HIS TICKETl Yes, traduced as
HENRY CLAY has been through the canvas. he
has polled not only the votes given to the other
I Wing candidates, but many more. As many
rs two Thousand l~ocofocos have broken overshe
party lines, and voted for dENRY CLAY, while
hundred of others, now that the fierce spirit OF
/ the contest is over, have been heard 40 express
openly their admiration OF Mr.. CLAY. their sym.
/ patty (which be il not the man to need) Tor his
Il misfortune, aud their alarm in y,sv OF the tu-
ture which their victory lays open TO view. In
L a ~, 1911 -1a ska ohsanR Of III afr
7 pursuit; now they stand casing in awe on the
tho majesty Of the victim-hunted down, but
unsubdued. and in death still turning on his
dis.royers the calm. proud gaze of q conqueror
Their common remark IL feel sorry Tor Mr.. CLAY,
will only excite a smile from hims but II rs hoa-
orable 10 them. What wonder that bitter burn
ling tears have been wrenched from stern man
hood by this national calamity.
II Mr.. CLAY 10 defeaied-lot the principles o.
u Mr., Clay, nor even the man fairly. He falls
sacrifice to a eonjunstion of adverse influence
i, such as meyer before combined against an
" man.
III 1. He 10 beaten by the most extensive frauds
on the elective franchise ever practiced in thu
world. Here in our city they were more enor
nous than they can have been elsewhsre,thoug
they were not confined to this locality. A
around Us were men who never before voted ie
a Wing candidate. who resolved TO vote and di
vote for Mr.. CLAY. There can be few h1g
among us who do not know several such instan
4 ces within their acquaintance. Then the INA
tiyes', question brought two or three thousan
to our stand ard who never before voted tor aWhBi
a We k qow that their were very many mechaI
!. lea and artisans (not sNa,iyesA who voted ts
Or Mr.. CLAY on the Tariff question, who were ne
er before Wings. And yet our official return
- show a majority in this city of sixteen hundfe
1t against Mr.. CLAY and thirty. i've hundred again
Mr.. FILLMORE, although Gen. HARRiscN (und
. registry law) was beaten less than one lhousar
Ms in our city. No sane man can doubt that I
every change here from Harrison 10 Polk the
TO were at least ten changes from Van Buren,
Clay, And yet Van Bnfen's majority is near
doubled against Clay while the poll (s full
l840 as could bel is increased twelve thousan'
j Cor nearly a fourth. These facts combine
& several Iiiosusshds 81 falss votes cast against
-. enough probably. to reverse the State. v
believe that in the State Gncluding those iileg
or iy naturalized. there were at least ten thousai
illegal votes against Mr.. Clay, and not two tho
~ sand for him. by these he is beaten.
9, He is beaten by a concentration and i
crease of nasuraiizsd vote to resist Native A mt
icanism, The Native" movements, though {
I'm iginally Locofoco, obtained more eountenan
and sympathy from the Wings than from the
al ~cofocos. The difference was magnified and di
,t. torted BY the arts OF INSCRIPTIONS demagogn
and neatly all the naturalizcd yote-almoss qai
lT. all that OF the Catholic-was thrown against nj
nd probably Eve thousand turned against ,
while as many more were naturaized tor II
he election expressly to resist Na.igism. Our ga
on this ground was local and light; our loss W
UNIVERSAL and heavy. We foresaw this, b
of could not prevent it. g.
J. Abolition has done it's worst with Us.
is was not merely The vote Of the Abolitionis's ia
hi hurt us-,heir desperate effects were felt in :
flaming Mr.. Clay and confusing the public mi
err with regard to Texas, Their assurance ma
I'd thousands believe that Clay was as much .
nsxationist as Polk. That finished US.
he 4. The horrible news poured in upon us frc
Pennsylvania-the last Time just in season
spread like a pail over the State on the day |
er- tore and day of election-was hard to bear
!, under. Our tried veterans did il nobly-ma
NC redoubied their ex eriions in consequence-b
ed the timed lost heart, the stourest felt that Q
case was critical, and the mercenary ,skulk
over to our opponents. We believe the .Nati,
vote for Clay in our city was reduced at least
thousand by the Pennsvlyania news.
from the New York Courier and Enquirer
If the country is given over to Locofocois
as we suppose now there can be little doubt
is. how hard a case il is with such of our galls
Wing brethren rs have nobly struggled tor v
tory, and gained Il against the most desper'
efotts that ever marked q political campail
and amidst more discouragements and more 8
lister influences. more treachery OF trends q
more fraud and unfairness of foes than ever
fore threw their embarraasments in the way
victory. How bitterly must our friends in O.
n~ecticut and Rhode Island, New Jersey, Ma
ing land and Ohio, feel in seeing the fruits OF tn
=; glorious triumph snatched from them. and v
/, ~ tory neutralized aud rendered useless by &C
ect fell swoop'' ia New York aud what will g
/, unwonted poIgnance TO their notification, Z
d shameful and most disastrous result has b.
9Th brought about by men protesting friendship
the same objects for which our brethren hi
IN been contending. In Pennsylvania the to
in men have gone against them on the one ha
while the Wing Aboiitionists of New Y,
LO- have zone againss Them ON the other. By