Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-11-21

at least ten thousand illegal votes agans. Mr..
Ciay and not two thousand for him. BY these
he is beaten
u. lie Is beaten by concentration and increase
oil The naturalized vote TO resist native American.
ism. The "Naive" movement, though ORIGINAL.
ly iocofoco, obtained more countenance and SYM.
patty from Wings than from Locofocos. The
dinerence was magnihed and distorted by the arts
OIL unscrupulous denagogues, and nearly al, The
naturalized vole--almost quite all thai of the
Cathollc, was thrown against him-prrobablv
hVe thousand turned from us, while as many more
Were na;uraized for this election expressly to re-
siSt natlv'sln. Our gain OH this ground was local
anu w ,'S"'' on! loss was universal and heavy
we ioresaw this, but could not proven, it.
D. Abolition has done its worst with us. II is
easy 10 say, "Pennsylvania has done within sew
en- thousand OF as well as in 1910. Il New York
had not done worse, the State would have been
saved. All! but the "Liberty" vote of Penn
syiVania is some three or four thousand; that of
New FORK is some ten to fifteen thousand, posi-
oy twenty thousand-nine .tenths of il taken
from the Wings. 1t was not merely the vote of
the Abolitionsts that hurt us-,heir desperate eff.
lotts were felt in deiamng Mr.. Clay and confu-
sing the public mind with regard to Texas. Their
assurance made thousands believe that CLAW was
as much an Annexationist as Polk. That finish.
| ed us.
But we commenced to say word Of the Wings
/ W" SouhNSo WIZ nave enVldDly ulSttnOulSll-
ed themselves in this contest. Rensselaer, Kings,
ana Dutchess divide the honors. The two for
mer have largely increased their Wing maior-
lies, while the latter for Van Buren, in 1910, no.
o'y declared for Clay. Washington, Saratoga,
and Schenectady nearly held their extraordinary
Wing majorities Of 1910, while Montgomery
Westminster, Rockand, Suffolk, and Sullivan
have reduced the Loco. In all these and mos,
other counties there many Wings who have
done nothing, and scarcely thought of any thing,
aside from the great contest for months. Cour-
age, true hearts! we shall yet see and acknowl-
edge that all this labor has not been performed in
vain
at the same time that we publish this list
Ishowing that by possibility Mr.. Clay may yel
DO eiected,1 we must say, to satisfy our own con.
Victions OF right, that we have not hone left
How can we havc7 If Pennsylvania votes to
break down the Tariff, can We nationally expec,
georgia and Mississippi 10 sustain it1 If Maine
ana New ork vote TO adopt the public debt, the
war ana the slavery of Texas, can we expect Ten
nessee and Louisiana 10 in,erpose veto We
cannot. No, Wings! we are beaten in this con-
tes'--or rather, our candidate has been slandered
Gown by meager majoriies in this State and
pennsylvania. On all the main issues involved
IN me late tremendous contest, the People are
with us; but very small majority have been in
duced to vote for Polk or Birney by the most a.
'rocious talsehoods respecting Mr.. Clay's vote for
ADAMS, MS connexion with the Ciley duel, and
MS character and life generally. But desperately
d., DIS al Tie arts OF detraciion were piled by ma
lignlty, we could not have been beaten had not
our opponents played false with themselves and
the people on the Tariff and Texas questions.
winning the South by unqualified advocacy of
ffee rade and Annexation, while at the North
lhey shiIked both issues, confined themselves
mainly to attacks certain details of the present
iariii, and disavowed, by the nomination of ST.
las wright and con-commial on Texas, the issue
OF Immediate annexation. The nominal victory
OF our opponents, won by false pretences and
fraudulent voting, will yet prove their ruin In
the great contest from which we are emerging
mere nave been truths commended TO the general
understanding, impressions made on the moral
sense OF the American People, which will vet
Vihdicate themselves and discomfit our tme-sery-
ing adVersaries. Wings, look aloft!
MIR. Calhoun, it is well understood, is to con-
TIME Secretary of State under James K Polk.
ana is TO be the master-spirit OF the new Admin
ls'ra'ion: The whole-souled champions of ex-
as ana f.fee Trade are determined to have it well
Sn'efstohd that this victory is tbsfrs, and that
they are 10 reap the fruits of it,. All right. We
nave not heard that James G. Birney is also TO
nave place in the Cabinet, but he ought. He
ana MT. Calhoun have played admirably into
each others hands through the great struggle
calhoun nominating Polk, and Birney electing
MIN. Surely, seat in the Michigan Legislature
VIII be no adequate reward for Mr.. Birney's I'M
'iring and vitality necessary services to the COM
mon cause.-IriJune.
From the New York Express.