New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-11-09

coun.ered opponents who insisted that the qoeF-
ton Of Protection was no. in Issue between the
two parties. and that il was Silas Wright who
mad secured The passage Of the present iaf'n'
Every where it was claimed that our opponents
were Ear Protection if rot exactly for this farm )
often that they would 80: disturb the present
Tarif Ye shall see what they Will DO
Honor the True!
There never was better fought battle IMAM
ti,at Of the Wings Of our State at me tecsii'
Election. The poll is enormous, end sacn Is
coud M. have been made unless every nerve nad
been strained BIZ both parties. The struggle was
between the frien6s and the enemies OF HENRY
ClAY-of the Man, his Principles, and The greas
Measures of National benefcence with which his
name and fame arc irscparably blenced-and 10
other man living has 50 many and such fnends;
no other has so many or such deadly adversarles
Ills friends are defeated, but most foully. Black
ened by ISLANDERS as his character has been, we
could have surely triumphed over these. There
is a noble tribute TO the Man implied IN the tact
that, while our great Leader has been deamed as
stan,ly held up to the People as debauchee'
gambler, blasphemer, virtual murderer, &c. &C.
HE ALMOST EVERY WHERE RUNS AT THE HEAD OF
HIS TICKET! Yes, traduced as Henry Clay has
been through the canvass, he has poiled not only
the votes given to the other Wing candidates,
but many more, AS many as Two Thousand
Loco. Focos have broken over the party lines,
and voted for Henry Clay, while hundreds Of
Others now that the fierce spirit Of the contest ls
over, have been heard to express openly their ad-
miration for Mr.. Clay, their sympathy (Which he
is not the man to NEEDY for his misfortune, and
their alarm in view of the Future which their
victory lays open to view. In the hot chase they
needed not The object of their pursuit; now they
stand gazing in awe on the majesty OF the NC
tim-hunted down, but unsubdued and in death
still turning on his destroyers the calm, proud
gaze Of conqueror. Their common remark
Il feel sorry for Mr.. Clay" will only excite
smile from him, but it is honorable to them
What wonder that bitter, burning tears have been
wrenched from the eyes of sternest Manhood by
this National calamity
Mr.. Clay is deieated-not the Principles Of
Mr.. Clay, nor even the Man fairly. He falls a
sacrifice TO conjunction of adverse Influences
such as never before combined against any man.
|. He is beaten by the most extensive frauds
On the Elective Franchise ever practiced in the
world Here in our City they were more enor-
nous than they can have been elsewhere, though
they were not confined to this locality. All
around us were men who never before voted for
Wing candidate, but who resolved TO vote, and
did vote, for MIR. Clay. There can be few Wings
among us who do not know several such instan.
ces within their acquaintance. Then the Native
question brought some two or three thousand to our
standard who never before voted for Wing.
We know that there were very many mechanics
and artisans mot Natives y who voted for Mr..
Clay on the Tariff question, who were never be-
fore Wings. And yet our Official Returns show
majority in this City of Sixteen Hundred
against Mr. Clay and Thirty FIVE Hundred against
Mr.. Fillmore, although Gen. Harrison (under a
Registry Law was beaten less than One Thou.
sand in our City. No sane man can doubt that
for every change here from Harrison to Polk
there were at least ten changes from Van Buren,
to Clay. And yet Van Buren's majority is nearly
doubled against Clay while the poll (es full In
1910 rs could oe) is increased Twelve Thousand,
(or nearly fourth) These facts combine to
show that by Illegal and Double Voters there
were several thousands Of false votes cast against
us-enough, probably, to reverse the State We
believe that in the State, Including those illegally
Naturalzed,) there were at least Ten thousand
Illegal votes against Mr. Clay and not Two
Thousand for him. By these ne is beaten.
.. He is beaten by concentration and in
crease of the Naturslized vote to resist Native
Americenism. The Native movement, though
originally Loco Foco, obtained more countenance
and sympathy from Wings than from Loco
Foccs. The difference was magnied and dis.
torted by the arts Of INSCRIPTIONS demagogues,
and nearly all the Naturalized vote-almost quite
all that of the Cathelic-was thrown against
him-probably Five Thousand turned from us,
while as many more were nsturalized for this
Election expressly to resist Nativism. Our gain
on this ground was local and light; our loss was
universal and heavy. We foresaw this, but
could not prevent it.
3. Abolition has done its worst with u.s. 1t is
easy TO say, Pennsylvania has done within Sc.
ven Thousand OF as we'll as in 1910. If New
York had not done worse, the State would have
been saved All. but the Liberty vote of
Pennsylvania is some Three or Four Thousand;
that of New York is some Ten to Fifteen Thou.
sanp-possibly Twenty Thousand-nino-tenths
of it taken from the Wings. 1t was not merely
the vote of the Abolitionists that hart us-their
desperate effects were felt in defamipg Mr.. Clay
and confusing the public mind with regard to
Texas. Their assurance made thousands believe
that Clay was as much an Annexationist as Polk.
That finished US.
4. The horrible news poured in upon us from
Pennsylvania-;he last time just in season to
spread like pail over the State on the day be-