Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-11-21
From the N. Y. Tribune
Our defeat i'm New York.

hearty support of flames X Polk, in view of
the circumstances of his nomination. when il
seemed TO US impossible lha, avowed and SIREN
uous an,i-Texas and Protective Tariff men
should be brought 10 support an ayowed Annex
alionisi and notorious Free Trader, we esima-
ted ha, Mr.. Clay would carry New York by
10000. A, later period, when we found that
the party drill was stronger than we had deem
ed il, we estimated The majority for Mr.. Clay
at 10000, and this we believed be would most
assuredly get, down to the State Election in
Pennsylvania, the course of the Natives and
Wings, and the defeat Of Marke These
things made against US, ye, we still believed
and stated TO friends, IN reply TO private letters
of inquiry, ,ha. we nsus' triumph in New York.
Yet we are beaien-bui how!
l. By the throwing away Of some $4,000
vo,es-nine-ien,hs Of them Whig on all ques-
We did believe that at least half these weuld
finally vote SO as 10 prevent The Annexation OF
Texas. Yet the false representations Of Bir-
ney, Leavi,l & Go. tina, Clay traS as much for
Annexation as Polk and more likely to effect 1t,
&c. &c. have carried all these votes obliqsely
in favor OF Anne xalion, War, and eleraal Sla-
very
2. The Naiuralized Citizens have all been
carried for Polk by appeals TO their Religious
and oldworld feelings and prejudces. They
have been told aha, they would be deprived Of
their Political Rights and reduced TO vassalage
in the event Of Mr.. Clsy's election, and This,
with still more monstrous bugbears, mas driven
from us those who were formerly with us. In
one little Town in Tioga Co. aiaeteen voters Of
Irish birth and Catholic faith who had voted
Wing for years turned against US only the day
before Election. In every county there were
some such In Buffalo alone, there have been
fourteen hundred na,uralized since lS40. OF
this class we have in other times had one-four,h
or one-6fh with US; now they went in solid
column against US, cutting down the majority IN
Erie county from Three thousand to Eighteen
Hundred Monroe and Niagara counties ex-
hibil similar results ; so DO Albany and Cayuga
Our Wing slrongholds where there are few
Adopted Citizens have not fallen off, except un-
der The influence Of Abolition But not merely
is the Na,uralized Vote agaias, US, but it is
many thousands stronger than it would have
been but for the Philadelphia Riots and The
Catholic dread Of Nativism. All our Courts
that could Naiuralize were crowded with ap-
plicants for citizenship for weeks before elec-
ton, and voters were turned out at some Of
them with astonishing celeri,y. We hear that
some of the judges have been employed for
days since the election in signing the afidasi's,
&c., which they appear on The record as bav-
ing executed before the Election.
8. Blu, even ,hi. would no, have availed TO
defeat us but for an overwhelming Illegal Vote,
beyond any precedent. Thousands Of Irish
men employed on the Canada Public Works
came over here 10 help their brethren in the
contest, as they understood IT, for Foreigners
rights, and did help them mos, efIeclually.-
The Alien (unnaturalized) population Of our
own and other Cities gave large vote. gener-
ally offering at least one ballo, each, and many
Of them more than one. From The statements
Of those who know, but who could make public
wha. they know only a, the hazard of their
lives. we infer that not less than Three Thous.
and voles for Polk were cast in our City alone
by men who were not citizens of the United
States. Righ. gladly would we risk our life
on this. ,ha. thorough sitting Of the Polls, SC
as to throw ou, every illegal vote cas-. in the
State, would give its Thiny-six Electors Vote
10 Clay and Freinghuysen But this cannot
be had, and South Carolina dynasty is by the
loules, deception and most a,rocious fraud fas
tened upon The American People for four year.
10 come. Bitterly will This be rued by many
who canDo, ye, alow themselves to gel sobe
for joy al the consumma,ion.
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The Result Of the Result.
/ Now that il is all but certain that Polk i,