The Arkansas banner., 1844-10-16
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 POLITICAL PROSPECT Is NOT 1sta.
 i few "reminiscences Of the stirring times of IG+9 show widely different state of things then from what there is now All through thi# m8Hh of August the whjgs were fall ol she confidence of victory, and every election return served only to increase thcjf cead- dence Now hcreturns from the same states are anything bai suspicious to Henry Ciay's prospects, while to the democrat who calmly reasons upon them, lhey indicate the most glorious results in Noyembar. There has been change in public dpinion since I8I0 as gratifying to the friends Of republican goF4 cFnuent. as il is honorable 10 the intelligence of tae people Let Us fake as an indication of he popular vote, the election of North Carolina; Tbls state in lSA0 gave the Whig governor a majority of over 5000, and in November, the whig president majority Of oier l2,000. The whig majority for goveg- nor may. now come up o 5000. In no elec- tion have the. democrats lost ground since 1o40, but in every state they have gained largely. Now suppose the democratic gain in the following states to be, proportionably as large as il has been in North Carolina. viz. New ' ork. New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Mis- sissippi, Louisiana, Tennesse. Ohio. Indiana. Michigan, all which states voted for Harrison. and what chance is there that Clay will re- ceiye the vote oi one of these states The indications of the popular votes are clearly that l844 is not l840. But contrast this indication of the setting of the current more wly-tahjHg faciS and not suppositions iol guide. RecoIlcct that in August, lSl0. Whele the democrats succeeded in carving a slate, as they did Illinois, Missouri, and Alabama, i was by diminished maiorties. SO diminished that the whigs claimed their gains ID these s@tes as triumph, and in some of tjem the democracy barely escaped losing ther Legislative majority. But now these states are going for the democracy by large, Haet overwhelming majoriies-yea, in some ai them the Whigs do uOl venture on q sepa- fata candidate, but rely on democratic digi- slons Again: ia August, 1910, where the Whigs carried slates, they made no half-Wav work of their business. In North Carolina. Kentucky, and Indiana they swept the coast clear. In Louisiana, where returns did not gstfill i'll until August, the popular vote was over two thousand in their favor. Now. far different k the result. In the only two states thay carry, they lose thousands of votes, and their majority is handsomely overcome in Indiana and Louisiana! These are signs most cheering to democrats. They are proofs that lSl4 IS aot I8d0.
 In all the recent elections that contest has4 been q severe one; that parsonage so much hafped on by the Whigs of l84I. General Apathy. has not made his appearance this fall. E. Even n Missouri, where the contestIs rather between !" liards," or friends of Col. Benton, and Soits" his enemies, inc whigs are as vgllaRt and. as the legislative returns show, as cunning as foxes. Fhey are siding with the minority, defeating the regular candidate, and then claiming the victory! Even there lbe voters are out Manifestations ia \ orth ] Carolina, Indiana, and Kentucky, have been regular battles. Wherever the democrats. mye-met their old federal oppo- aeals hand 10 hand, the latter have suffered |