The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1844-11-09

line las, night. New York decides the
contest. Neither candidate can lose her
SO electoral votes and be elected. The
suspense is most painful. Doubt, and
darkness that zoe feel hangs around the
result. in the Empire state. We will wall,
calm as philosopher until the French,
town line arrives a. half past z, The news
by which will be brough; 70 town by ex-
press IS in time for our paper.
o'clock-The Baltimore mail is i'll
Whiggies put on Grape. L has not been
as grea, coon season as we expected,
Who is this James K. Pcik2 has been Of.
ten asked very Significantly, and never
heretofore, answered very definitely by
the locolocos. We are very muth afraid
they will hereafter be able to answer i,
by bawing out, abe is President! OF the
United States"
From North Caroline, we have returns
by the Baltimore papers from Is counties,
in which the locofocos have gained 500
on The recent Governors election, VI hen
the Wings had the state by 1883. There
are, we believe, "a counties in the Safe
! Make the calculation and see if you can
stand tive hav'n, time. Now, Tyro. By
the Single Rule of Three: II in Is Polk
gains 500 wha, will he gain in "a. See
what that comes 10. Now give the locos
10 in each county for good measure and
see who gets the STATE.
Virginia has gone for Polk by from 3
to 5000.
Oh! a pain struck us-we think it is
the Tyler Grippe. aud we fear "Dr. Clay
cant cure it this fall"
| Who'll stake their pile on "Old Ken
( tuck,2
, III The Dinner IaJie-Done our din
| uer-rha's right, waiter, here's the ink
aud paper--take away this plute--moye
! that roast bec(--tha,'s the beef old Tip
promised us, bless his soul--lhere are Few
Tips since he lett us. Now if Polk is
elected wonder if he will give us "Roas!
beef" Let us see, what have the loeos
promised us-Texas or Disunion Well,
we'll wait patiently and see which they'll
giveus.
/ Now, our subscribers had better not
grumble about so poor paper this week
five catch any Of them at /! we'll be
saucy on their hands. Friends, for
while past we have given You little but
politics Upon that score we will now
rest while. The occasion for il has
gone by. We said during the campaign,
many hard things of The principles of the
ocofocos, because we believed them to
be wrong we believed their doctrines to
be highly detrimental to the best interests
of This coun'ry-we believe so still--we
have nothing TO take back. On the other
! hand we said much in favor of Mr.. CLAY,
and Of the principles the Nhig parry
We believed all we said, and have nothing
to take back on that score either, but Of
these ,hings-a long chapter hereafler.-
We have had the qualification TO see our
old county come out nobly for the Far.
mer Of Ashland, and our old State proudly
maintain her stand in me Wing line
tluzza for ole Cecil County, and for Mary
| Iand-'el the result be what il may
But back TO the idea. We say, sub
scrlbers, we have given you little else but
politics for time We now will give
you more Of variety--news and li,era-
lure, anec.!oie and song Wen talk about
things in doors and out doors--on The
farm, and in the work shop, SC. Sc.
But We mus, &c! ur from The table and
60 /" our office. Our whig friends are
going about the streets with faces terribly
elongated. Ours is long enough in all
conscience, in general way, so we shall
no, ste,ch if The news is bad. 'Sposc we
are lck'd,
"Trnth crushed TO errth shall rise again,
The eternal years of God arc hers"
but that was written by Bryant, and he's
a locofoco and we don't like TO quote from
q loco(oco about these times. Blu, 's7ose
we are Iiok'd we'll "pick our 1inls and
try it again" II may be our turn To have
the luck next time. We lick'd them like
blazes four years ago.
| We will leave an inch Of space open
for the news from New York tonight and