The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-11-28
THE SECOND ABDUCTION PLOT.
We take the following extraordinary article
from the last Richmond Wing:

from the last Richmond Wing:
NEW YORK AND HER VOTE!
We need not disguise that of which every circle is
full-.NsU York has the Presidency in her hands.
Substract the vote of New York from Polk, and he
is minus with the of South Carolina three
Give it to Clay and he is elected by a majority of
three-l4l electoral votes: Give it to Martin Yam
Buren, and the effect is, that neither Clay Polk
have majority OF the whole electoral vote, and that
Clay, Polk, and Van Buren,, under the Constitution,
come before the House, the three Candidates lie.
turned by order of the Constitution.
Suppose these three were to come before the
House-what would be the consequence This GER
tainy-Ais beyond all doubt. Every Wing and every
Wing State wouid vote for Mr.. Van Buren, and be
would be elected at the first VOTE and what is more
his election would give as much as sincere, as gene
rail- and as rational and patriotic pleasure any
OF the kind that ever occurred TO our country.
There are such speculatons aAoat, with how much
or how little point and force, do not know, MOI
have We the means Of knowing
But all see THESE FACTS! That Mr. Van Blu.
was trcked of the nomination last Nav that
he actually received in the Baltimore Convention a
majority Of the whole OF that body that this decls
violently thrust aside by the arbitrary and anti.
republican rule OF tnohrds-hat if left 10 The People
and their Representatives, Mr.. Van Buren, would
have got 1t that It was IN violation of every Demo.
cratic Canon taken out of the hands Of the People,
and place in that Of Texas Spectators; and that
thc consequence was, tudt MT an DuTtn was drop
ped because he was opposed TO Texas and Polk nom.
mated, in whose favor not one 10 the United
States had previously declared.
New York was nsued and driven at the point of
the bayonet, in that Convention. New York has
1t now in her power TO redress her own wrongs then
inflicted, and those Of Martin Van Buren,!
The question is, has she moral righi now to do so
The In that is thai the unif.d paori. Of Nov
York, Democrat and Whig prefer Mr.. Van Buren,
infinitely to Polk The electors are but the repre-
senatves Of the people They are not only at hber-
t, but bound to vote for whom the people, their con-
stituens, prefer Out of the 450, 900 voters of New
York, at least 1000 would prefer Mr.. Van Buren,
to Polk
Van Buren's election noW under the circumstan-
ces, would be scarcely less than providential. 1t
would unite, harmonic and moderate parties, more
than any other event in the whole chapter Of acct
dents.
We copy the above article entire, that the
Democracy may see the temptations which the
Wing Satan of Richmond offer to the New
York Electors-a majority of whom are Teras
men, and would rather die than fail TO cast their
votes for the man designated by the votes of
their party
No President made in the manner indicated
would dare to take his seat-dare is the word
But is II not strange that the Wing papers
should still hope TO see Mr.. Polk deieated-and
by such means2