Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-11-14


ciple, for the first time introduced in mis- conn.
My under the elder Hickory, proclaiming that
d'uerence OF opinion was to DO punishcdfas
crime, threatens to be revived even with n fer
Ger intolerance. These, and even more, may be
'no disastrous consequences in store, unless a.
ve,'eo oy Kind Providence but fully to de-
veiop the prospect which is now opened for the
country, to survey the probable future by the
known past' and look Impending evil fully in the
race Is the task OF time and deliberation. 10
these We must defer il.
From the Washington Standard.
from present appearances the great State OF
New ork has gone, like Pennsy lvania and Vir-
gn.a, LOT POLK and Dallas, and The probability is
mat JANIS n. Polk succeeds to the Presidency
The Whigs, i, is true, may possibly have carried
Heotgi1 anu M'ssissiPpI--,hough the chances are
decidedly against such pro6ability-and thus
secured the election Of Mr.. Clay!
Our hopes ofssuch result we acknowledge 10
De faint indeed. We have been beaten in Penn
sy'vanla by foreign and grossly illegal votes.-
The people of that great tariff State, whose in,e
iests would have been watched over and protected
by Henry Clay, have been borne down md over.
run ny Foreigners, and the twenty electoral
! votes oil the Stale given 10 James h. Polk a free
trader and Texas annexationist!
we have been beaten in New York by foreign
ers and dboht'onists and the thirty-six electoral
votes OF that tariff and anti-annexa,ion State
nave by these and the fovlest species of illegal
voting, also been given 10 The free trader and an
nexauonist!
Thus has the candidate Of the Whiy party, the
nrst and greatest Statesman in America-he who
mas twice saved the country and is ''the nohlest
WORK OF God, an honest mana man endowed
with all the qualifications both of head and heart
10 make an eminent, an upright, and Just Chief
Magistrate OF this great Republican all proba-
bllity been defeated, and the creature of circum-
stance OF accident, General Jackson's man of
straw, oeen elected to the sea, once graced by
W ashngon, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe. Adams.
and Harrison! How humiliating!
Dut shall we, as FREEMEN, .'who know our
IiShts' and knowing, dare maintain them," aban-
don and give up the ship to the crew that as it
now seems, is about to take possession other, for
four years cruise? Never-no never!
| we are IN the right, and will stand by our arms
and our principles, and at least form m,son,Ty
which Will not only keep an ever-watchfu! eve
upon me works oil The MAJORITY, in the exercise
! oi lis iii-goten power, and thereby do much to-
wards preserving our glorious institutions, but be
ready TO rally In the next campaign with an ener-
! gy and power and might that will not fail 40
expel !he Coins and Vandals from Rome!
Look, brother Wings, at the noble conduct of
maryland, Ohio, New Jersey, Connecticut, and
Rhode Island In The supper. they have jus, given
10 HENRY CLAY! We confidently expect that
worm carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky. Louisia-
ma and Indiana have also proved equally worthy
-.
have an abiding faith in Georgia too-nor are we
without hopes of Mississippi. Certainly Della
ware. Fermont-never fa!terng, ever glorious
vermonl-and old Massachusetts will, even tho
the day be dark and gloomy, range themselves
under The banner Of "Clay, Liberty, and Union ="
Constitutional States! What Wing would not
rather be in such "law and order'' MINORITY
Than to triumph and revel, for four wears, in
Polk MAJORITY, foully and scandaluusly obtained
as 1t Will have been, should our ad versaries sue.
coed
What Wing does not rejoice that lie has given
MS support TO HENRY CLAY! The great Ken
lucky Statesman. ii he is defeated, will be dearer
imam ever to the hearts of the Wings every where
who have stood gallan,ly by him, and would have
tIiumphanuy elected him, but for the votes of the
a0ohhon'sfs and foreigners!
"Nore true joy MarcelIus exiled feels,
IMAM Cesar with Senate at his heeLs.''
Mr.. CLAY can now, if defeated, look on, with
his friends, and witness the heart-burnings
strl'es' and quarrels OF the different factions that
constitute the dominant party The friends of
Caihonn hghing Tor the succession, free trade,
ana Texas! The Benton, Van Buren,, and Bu-
chanan forces taking, and maintaining most obsti.
natey, exactly the reverse position! Cass and
ms friends In quandary as TO which side they
snail espouse, but sure IL be in the melee! w.
Ter and his "Guard'' making the most of their
'JTed faef' while ii lasts, and planning for flu
rious (out harmless) onset at whatever section of
me Pa'ty seems TO them TO predomInate and ILL
disposed to ''do justice to John TyIer'' by fulfil.
ling Certain nmde, Standing to give him the Lo-
coioco nomination for lS4S! Messrs. Bibb.
Nlcklitfe, and Nelson, Of not Calhoun, Will
kins and Mason,) sticking TO their places in the
ablnet, resolved Tot TO abdicale unless absolute
ly dismissed, while Amos Kendall, Andrew Ste
venson, William L. Marcy, Cave Johnson, &C.,
VIII be standing ready and grinning ghastly
smiles at them, If not absolutely eXclaiming,
"Get We gone we want your places !"
And what will General Jackson saw? Will
he consent that MIR. Calhoun, the man that he
once painted TO hang as high as Hannah for his
nullihcaiion sbali be ms pets Secretary of State?
believe 1t who may. ANDREW STEVENSON is the
man, as Thomas Ritchie knows.
Such party, composed of such materials, and
SHIELD together by the cohesive power of public
pIunder," may triumph for the hour, but their
success CANNOT, WILL NOT LAST.
Let every Wing. then. as he is conscious that
he has done his duty, resolve to continue in its
Performance, faithfully, in the GALLANT ARMY to
which he is voluntarily attached. with The cheer
ing nope that VICTORY WILL YET GROWN HIS EF-
FORTS. Let him NEVER DESPAIR OF THE
kEPO bLlC, but in going down, temporarily,
cry out TO every Wing, in the language Of the
immortal Lawrence, whose departing soul as
sored him that the GOOD CAUSE would triumph,
DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIPw
From the Richmond Wing.
Djent Of Mr.. Clay and election IF Mr.. PoK!
The result, so contrary to all human expecta-
ton and so revolting TO all sense of proprety, has
clothed this community in mourning. The badge
Is not worn on the hat or The left arm-t is not
exhibited IN vain forms. 1t is told in the counte-
naDces Of the people; in the gloom which over
spreads nearly every counteDance which is light
ed up by inielIig nee Our Rome mourns as old
Rome did, when the battle of Gamma was lost