The New York herald., 1844-09-25
POSITION OF THE WHiG PARTY
IN NEW YORK,
I BY THE WHIG JOURNALS.
It's Dangers---Awfll Power of
the Abolitionists---Fright of
the Whigs----Plucking up
Courage.


week, we have answered till we are weary Of it
the letters OF distant friends, inquirng How is it
in New. York The Locos seem IN wonderful
spirits since the nomination OF Wright, and say
privately your honest opinion" &c. Those which
favor with this last touch Of delicate fattery we
lay under this table Our private opinions do not
differ in honesty from our public ones and II one
may not be trusted the other certainly cannot be.
But these letters indicate very general anxiety
abroad on the subject OF the vote Of New York,
and some little Difference to our own opiniOn.-
We shall therefore give it, for the benefit of our
readers. We will state the facts on which 1t 10
based.
Gen Harrison received the Electoral Vote Of
in some 100000 votes. Now we do know Of hun
dreds who voted for Van Buren, then who will vote
tor Mr.. Clay now; we know of no changes the
other way Of at all equal amount. We have lost
slightly in two or three countes-say Fulton, JEFF
ferson, st. Lawrence, and Clinton, (where we
were helped by the Patriot efiervescence in '40;)
but we have asspredly gained in this city, in Kings
i Rockland, Westchester, Steuben and Livingston
do not show better result for the Wings than that
OF lS4O; while we know no county save those we
have mentioned in which there has been any per-
ceptble loss 10 our side. The intermediate elec-
tIOns have gone against us, simply because the
vote OF the State has not nearly been called out
since lS40 The opposite party never before nor
since poed 80 many votes as then.
The only chance, then, OF our losing the State is
by the increase Of the Third Party or Abolition
vote But for this, Mr.. Clay would have, as we es
State THIS was 2,8OS IN l840, 1858 in 1872, and
10 45O in IS43 Should Il increase like ratio this
gear, and nsainiy be draWn, as heretofore, from the
,chig RANKS, 1t might cndanger the triumph Of the
Uhigs But, in the first place, we sure it can
not so increase; and IN the next place we know II
this year draws its recruits in good part from the
| ranks OF our opponents. This is no guess-woik
| The movements in different parts Of this State es
tablish it. In Chsutauque Co, Judge F. T. Foote,
| always before one of the strongest Van Buren men
Blrney ticket. A well informed Loco Foco neigh
Dor assures that his efforts will tell. So in Ro
chester, where Messrs. ]. d. Husbands, Geo. w.
Pratt, and number who have hitherto been ardent
and most efficient Van Buren, men, are now as ac-
| tive for Birney. In Madison, the open secession
| from the Van Buren ranks to Birney Of men
always and still the bitterest adversaries of the
bly,, followed by several others who have filled re-
sponsbe stations in the gift of that party In short,
| the $ Liberty party" organization IN the State,
which has always before borne wholly against the
Wings, and would have done this time II Mr.. Van
Buren had been re-nomlnated, will this year take
| votes from our opponents as well as from us--to
what extent we cannot say, but at any rate consi-
derably. II we had their Texas load TO carry, we
| should get no votes at all.
At one time, we believed most OF those Aboh-
tionIsiR. who are wings IN nn,ioral politics, wc1u
vote with US this time to prevent the nnexatlon OF
Texas, giving Mr.. Clay very large majority. Al
! present, it seems as though the shameful perver-
sions and garbling of Mr. Clay's Alabama le.teI,
would repel good part OF them from doing SO
mainly in the hands OF bitter, deadly enemies OF
| the WINGS and especially of Mr.. Clay, who mean
| to defeat us if they can. Many of them will
steathily vote the Polk ticket if they do it in
no other way. But there are great many who
vote abolition solely because they detest and abhor
slavery, and they are strongly averse, on every
ground, to the annexation OF Texas to this coun-
/ Try 80 long as Mexico shall be at war with, or
slavery exist therein. These will vote with US
still, ii they can be made to see and understand
the truth that the election of Polk ensures the sue
cess of annexation, while the triumph OF the wings
in the election Of Mi. Clay will as surely prevent
annexation long as Mexico shall persist in claim
ing that Territory, or respef table portion OF our
| own states object to the union. We believe they
| will yet be made to this, in spite OF the despe
rate efforts Of the third party leaders, and that
| those who heartily prefer the ascendency OF the
wings to that OF the locofocos, on Texas aud other
grounds, will yet vote with u.s. II they 90, Mr
| Clay will have large majority.
such is cur deliberate conviction. We may be mis-
taken, and others have but our sources Of
ed the iud snsnt Of discreet, wsinfo formed men IL
the several Counties. In this CT we know there can
e S so h ss Wsr. T e
TO prevent q. whatever cost We are quito aware that
the aspect OF ths canvass here will be very much
frightened darkened by the result ct the October
Elsctions whioh all looking with suoh tnxeus
interest Shouts Pennsylvania declare Tor us the play
Should the higs carry three Of the Ave states
tasn voting -Marylanf Georgia. New Jersey, Pennsyl
| vania aed Shio-(we don't count Arkansas) we shall
consider ew York safe enough. But shond be liz.
sp, oints as crusIly as in 1883 when aryisnd. ohio
asd Pennsy went against and Now Jersey was
tied and left in spue New York, US shes, will stcrny
Hnd proudly roll ba the tide Of srule, ind relumlne
with gadness and confident hope the countenancss o.
the Wings throughout the Un,en ehe has resolved that
henry lay shall be next President, and will not be
swerved from her purpose.
BRITISH FuNps--THE HEnALD.-It strikes us that
hody shamefully misusing and squandering the money
which the British Manufacturers have contributed to pro-
pagae Free ba N % In ana e
doubtful dspuabe than the TACT Of their existence
It is based inference that they would like to
our Tariff broken down-which every body knows
but the unguarded statesnent of British journals
months ago. when their meetings held, their money
subscribed and the and destination simply stated
as matters of ordinary news. Now, when the Albany
Argus attempts to counterva this by nerrng that the
British manufacturers entertain great aversion to
nexing Texas our Republication &c. it babbles idly We
State Debts in England but not to the Msnufacture
the British might very well object to our taking Texas
Tariff here Texas would buy twice as many British
goods il annexed to US as If independent; five times as
many II Mexican province Manufacturers look TO
markets, not to dominion.
That British money is literally dispensed here in
aid OF the iocofoco cause cannot doubt We don't
compainof those who contribute ii they locking
their ends. II is not possible that the money pro-
fusey employ Cd BY our opponents a hod,ns many
putting up polep &C. can have been raised among polti
cians-thsy poor No party ever before expend
ed so much money In our opponents
obviously aisbursing here and in New Jersey Let US
see what II can do for them
This is not the rs time that British money has been
used here to disseminate Free Trade doctrines Two
three years ago. large and expensive double Herald was
got out TO what professed TO be the testimony
taken before Mr.. Joseph Hume's Committee OF Parla
ment the effect Of Protective Duties That testmo
nv was nearly all given by Traders and strong
ly on that side; the Herald edition grossly
gnrbled and that part Of II which favored protection was
len out This in public document was grossly unfair
Through this campaign the Herald IL notoriousy di
recty conessedy under the pay and management Of the
Polk Free Traders They make II say just what they
please day that Clays chance pretty good 20 that
the next they may announce that something new has
turned up which almost the success OF Polk II
Is thus that by bold lying Mr. Clay said in the Herald
to be much for Annexation as Folk and pledged TO
bring about, in the face OF Mr. Clays ewn repeated
uniform declarations that he never consent to the An