Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1844-04-23
TOWN. o.. TUESDAY APRIL %, 1874.


face Of al this, the foul bargain was com
pleted, just as Kremer had predicted =
The people were cheated out OF tbel
choice for Pfesideni and their will wa
disregarded, and Henry Clay received
the reward ofhIa base treschery.
At the Presidential election in 1874
Gen jackson received 80 electoral votes
Mr. Adams 81, MIR Crawford Al, and
Mr. Clay 81. Gen Jackson not having
majority OF all the electoral votes, The
election, Of President devolVed on the
house of representatives, and according
to the terms Of the constitution, the three
highest candidates could alone be voted
for. In an election of President, by
Congress, the vote is take by states, a
majority Of The delegation from state
casting the vote, and each state counting
one vote In the State OF Kentucky, the
vote Of which, through Mr. Clsy's ;ndu-
ence, was cast for Mr. Adams, that gem
tleman did not receive one single vote
at thePresidential election. The assaults
of Mr. Clay and his friends on Mr. Adams
had been so bitter and so odious bad they
made him, that his friends in Kehiucky,
ifindeed he had any did not eIen form
an electoral ticket. Gen Jackson and
Mr. Clay were alone voted fOl in that
State, and the loFmerfUn respectable
poll, although MI Clay received the lar>
gest vote. The entire vote OF Kentucky
was given, through Clay's influence, to
a man who did not receive one single
vote, not witbstanding the Legislature
Instructed Mr. Clay, and the other Repre-
sentatlVes in Congress from that State,
to vote for Gen Jackson!
Gen Jackson received majority Of the
popular vote in Illinois. When the elec
tion devolved on the houre Of Represen'
taiiyes. Mr. Clay procured Daniel p Cook,
the representative from tina, State, TO
cast the vote for Adams, and for which
services he was appointed to a secret
mission to Cuba, an office created ex-
pressly for him by Mr. Clay, and for which
he was we'll paid, out ola "secret SER
vice fund.-!
The vote Of the State OF Missouri, in
Congress, was also cast for Adams,
through Mr. Clay's inapence with John
Scott, the Representative from that
State, although at the Presidential elec
lion Gen jackson received more than
three votes TO one received BY Ad>
ans!
louisiana gavoa majority OF her elec.
toEal vote 10 Gen. Jackson. vet that State
also voted in Congress for Mr.. Adams.
At the Presidential election of 1924 in
Ohio, Gen. Jackson received nearly one 3
third more votes than Adams, aud YET
this State, through majority Other Rep
rssentslives in Congress, with MORpE
CAL BARTLEY al their head JoHN
SLOANE 10 the middle, and John C.
Wright at their tail, voted for Adams!
These five States, taken from the vote
Of Adams, would have left him but OneT
third Of the States, aAd If added TO those
given to Gen. Jackson, would have swell.
led the list Of States voting for the old
hero TO exactly one half of the States at
that time in heUniOn, and have rendered
his election certain, for the vote OfNOrth
Carolina-where Gen. Jackson received
the entire electoral vOle-was cast for
Crawford, and which would have gons
for Gen. Jackson in preference to MT.
Adams, who did not receive, at the poPuI
lar election, one single vote in the state.
Before he finishes his defence, we
would thank Judge Wright particularly
to notice, and explain away, il he cah,the
facts we have given In this article.
OFSince the above was in type, we
see that the Journal has rallied 10 the
assistance of Judge Wright, and in de-
fence Of the coalition. In our next, we
will notice the article, and show up its
lalsehoods. a