Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1844-11-22
VIEWS OF THE NEW YORK PRESS
On the esuitoftbe ~. York Elections.
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
HoxoR TIE TRUE.-There never was a
better fought battle than thato the Wings
ssofour State at the recent election. The
poll is enormous, and sHch as could moi
have been made unless every nerve had
been strained by both parties The stfug'
gle was between the friends and the enc.
mics of HENRY CLAY=-of the man, his
principles, and the great measures Of ma
tional benefce with which his name and
lame are inseparsbly blended-and no 9TH
er man living has so many & such friends;
no other has so many or sEch ds'd'y ad-
-versafies. us friends, are i, ieatcd, but
most foulIy. Blackentd by sEnders as his
character llas been, we could have surely
triumphed over these. Thele is a noble
tribute to the man implied in the fact. that
while o,r great leader has been DETAINED
ms no other man was ever detamed--has
been constantly heId@up to the People as a
debauche, gambler, blasphehler, virtual
murderer, &C., HE ALMOST EVERY WHERE
RUNS AT THE HEAD OF HIS TICKET! Yes,
traduced as Henry Clay has been through
the canvass, be has pol,ed not only the
votes given to the other Wing candidates,
but many more. As many as two thou
sand Locoiocos have broken over the party
. lines, and voted for ~Ienry Clay, while
hundreds Of others, now that the fierce
spirit of the contest is over, have been
heard to express openly their adrhration
for Mr.. Clay, their sympathy (which lie is
not the man to NEEDY for his misfortune,
, and their alarm in vieW 6fthe future which
their victory lays open to view. In the
hot chase they needed not the object Of
their pursuit; now they stand gazing in
awe on the majesty Of the victiln-hunted
down, but unsGtdued, and in death still
turning on his destroyers the calm proud
gaze Of conqueror. Their common re-
mark, 81 feel sorry for Mr.. Clay" willonly
excite q smile from him, but it is honorable
to them. What wonder that bitter, burn
ing tears have been wrenched from the
ewes Of sternest manhood by this national
calamity? ,,
Mr.. Clay is defeated-not the principles
r. of Mr.. Clay, nor even the man fairly. He
falls sacrifice to a conjunction Of adverse
Influences such as never before combined
againstun man. ....
4. He is beaten by the most extensive
frauds on the elective franchise ever prac-
tised in the world. Here in our city they
were more enormous than they can Have
been elsewhere, though they were rot
confined to This locaEty, All around us
were men who never before voted for
Wing candidate, but who resolved to vote
and did vote for Mr.. Clay. There can be
few Wings among us who. do not know
several such instances Within their &C
ouaintnnce. Then the "Native" question
true eht some two or three thousand to our
sa1dsrd who never before voted for
WIZ. We know that there were very
many mechanics and artisans mot "Na-
tives") who voted for Mr.. Clay on the Ia
riff question, who were never before
Wings, And yet oGr oflic' al returns show
majority in this city of sixteen hundred
81 against Mr., Clay and thirty-fve hundred
against Mr.. Fillmore, although Gen. Elnr-
rison (under registry law) was bedten
less than one thousand in our city. No
sane man can doubt that for every change
here from Harrison 10 Polk there weIe at
least ten changes from Van Bhren to Clay
And vet Van Buren5 majority is nearly
doubled against Clay; while the poll las full
in 1910 as could be)-.is increased twelve
thousand, or nearly afourth. These facts
combine to show that by illegal and dou-
bIe voters there were several thousands oi
false votes cast against us-enough proba |
blv 10 reverse the State. We believe that
in the State Including those illegally ma
turalized) there were at least ten thousand
illegal votes against Mr.. Clay and not two
thousand Ter hna. BY these he rs bea.
ten.
2. He Is beaten by concentration and
increase of the natufalized vote to resist
native Americansm. The "Native" move
ment, though originally Locofoco, obtain
ed more countenance and symplthy from
Wings than from Locoocos. The differ !
ence was negniicd and distorted by the
arts of INSCRIPTIONS demagogues, and
nearly all the naturalized vote--alnrost
or quite all that ofthe Catholic, was thrown
against hiln--probably five thousand turn
ed from us, while as many more were ma
turaiizpd orahiB election expressly to re-
rist lrativcism. Our tainyon tiiis ground
was local and light; our loss was universal
and heavy. We foresaw this, but could
not prevent it.
3. Abolition has done its worst with U.S.
II is easy to say "Pennsylvania has done
within seven thousand OF as well as in
l84O. II New TofS had not done worse,
he State would have been saved" All!
but the Liberty" vote of Pennsylvania is
some three or four thousand; that Of New
York r. some ten to fifteen thousand, pos
sibly twenty thousand-nine-tenths Of It
taken from the Wings. 1t was not merely
the vote of the Aboitionsts that hurt us
their desperate efforts were felt in deiam-
ing Mr. Clay and confusing the public
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