The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1845-01-31

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about fifteen hundred. How comes It that
that couniy has given nearly two thousand
more votes than some with about the same
population
Ii is charged and believed by the Wings
that number of persons who had already
voted elsewhere we're run across the line
into tina, county and voted second time,
and thai similar fraud was prac'iced ia JEFF
ferson, an adjoining county. Our friends
believe that IN those two counties were
given some thirteen hundred illegal votes
in that way. That the State Of New York
gave Henry Clay majority Of her legal
votes cannot be doubted. Similar frauds
were practised in the State of Pennsylva-
MIA, with the like result, as could show If
| had time to 90 into the details. We lost
Louisiana in the same way. Al the pre-
cinci in the parish Of Plaquemines there
were given eleven hundred votes, being Sc
ven hundred more than were ever given
before at an election a vote larger, be-
lieve, than It's whole population AT The last
census, including women and children
This case is so extraordinary as 10 require
explanation. lf this excess of votes above
the usual amount were illegal, as | have
no doubt they were, their exclusion, to say
nothing of frauds committed elsewhere,
would have given Mr.. Clay the vote Of
that State. Even in Georgia we have
strong reason TO believe that we were de-
feaied by fraud. In that State, under
stand that voters under sixty years Of age
pay by law a poll-tax; all over That age
who possess property, are likewise obliged
TO pay tax so that the tax books kept
and returned would give all the voters ex.
cept the paupers above sixty. Taking
these books as q guide, there we're 1924
more votes than there appear to be voters.
But the census shows that the number Of
males above sixty is little more than
three per cent. of the population. Deduct
ing four per cent for these, there would
still remain 9,502 votes that cannot be ac-
counted for. Most of this excess occurs
in the Democratic counties.
The four States of New York, Pennsyl.
vania, Louisiana, and Georgia, give eighty
eight electoral votes. Added to Mr.. Clay's
vote of one hundred and five aud he would
have one bunlred and ninety.ihree votes,
while James X. Polk would be left with
only eighly-two. |, is not strange, there
fore, that our opponents should appear 50
moderate afer the victory. Ii is not
strange that they should not rejoice. No
wonder some of them seem astounded at
the result. Too many Of them know by
what means this result was achieved
Did Macbeth rejoice when he looked at the
crown and sceptre of the murdered Dun.
can They look to the past with pain, to
the future with dread.
This examination, Mr.. Speaker, brings
US irresistibly to the conclusion, not mere.
ly that the Wing measures of policy are
approved by vast majority of the people
Of the Union, but that, as a party, the
Wings are greatly the strongest in the
country. 81 strong are they that nothing
but a combination of all these adverse ia
fuences could have defeated US. Yes, sir
if any one of several OF Them had been
wanting, we should s;ii, .4s triulnphed,
and had the election been conducted as our
form of Government presuPposes, that is,
fairly and honorably Mr.. Clay's MAORI
" would have been overwhelming.
As [ have had occ aston, to alludc TO
John c. Calhoun. | take it upon myself to
say, that, looking at his course for more
than twelve wears, with the exception Of
few years after 1887, when he hoped from
his new connexion with the Democratic
par,y that he mi ght become President of
all the United States--l say, sir, that his
course, whether considered with reference
TO the tariff and notification, TO agitation
on the subject of abolition and slavery, or
10 his mode Of managing the Texas ques.
ton, Is precisely that which man OF or
binary sagacily would take who designed
TO affect dissolution Of the Union. And
that such is his object can only be denied
BIZ those who hold him insane. As II was
said that julius Cesar went forward So
berry and steadily TO the ruin Of the Re-
public, so has John c. Calhoun gone on
cooly and deliberately to break up the t.
Mon and substitute Southern Coulcdera.
CIV. If his being kept in office by Nc
Polk should have the effect of inducing
him to abandon those views, instead o.
using his official station and influence to
promote them, then for the sake o. the re,
pose of the country, should be pleased tc
see him retained. 1t is my opinion that he
will be distinguished from his present col
leagues in the Cabinet, ADD retained for {
time, ostensihly to finish pending negotia
tions. He will then. by intrigue, or i
may be by public opinion, be forced out
and will 90 into honorable exile at for
eigu Court; or retire, like Cincinnatus, L
his plough, or possibly come back to the
Senate to agitate. While he is IN Office
too, as many Of his peculiar followers vii
be supplied with offices as may be needed Il
seclre the support of the /" chivalry " tt
the administration.
The following is the splendid pcroratior
Of Mr. Cllngmau's Speech
| am here reminded, sir, that some o.
those gentlemen have expressed hopes thai
they will be able TO overrun and carry of
with them the old North State, and Learn
that great effort is to be made by the
combined energies Of the party for tina