Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-05-04
THE vlRGlNIA ELECrIN

lhe late election was generally aamctcri.
keo by unusual indifference with bob n,rties
In most oil the counties little oppo4ion wns
made ON either side, to candidates hos do.
ieat would have required extraoulirAy exer-
ions. But this election, quiet as il H. been.
affords very strong evidence that thdyVh,cs
nave galned ground. and that the dSainant
party u losing the confidence of the l.onlc.
wherever the contest has been wax The
wing candidates have been successful .trhus.
~ Charlotte, Williamsburg art Fair
fax, in oil of which the canvass wns losnIy
contested, we have gained. In Powha,n ws
have raised the majority TO forty-ive. L cr
as we have heard from, we have r,incd + an
firetre mcmbcrs;whilst we nave los, onlJovy
losing Que IN Fauquier because ola locallnes-
uon, aud another by the formation al the
new county oil Appomattox and the sitnoe
iuke~armness OF the Wings in pernit,in1Bo-
cock TO be elected in Buckingham by detdlt
30 strong are the indications OF Whig reacbn
even IN this dpdfheiic election. thai the n
quincr OF yesterday in summing up the resuIs
declares itself mot quite 80 s,nruiue of bc
State as before il received the lates, newt
We say that we indulge any serids
hope OF obtaining a Wing majority in Ne
House OF Delegates; the Senate is alreak
Democratic. But This we do hope, that 4,
Wings throughout the Commonwealth will 1
conVhncel by this election, OF what we haN
frequently declared, that it is in their powel
Whenever they choose. to gain the a~scendenc
in the Legislature. BY a most culnable dc
iault, we have probably lost the golden mo
ment OF sending a Wing TO the Senate. whcl
the term OF the Hon. WIN. s. Archer Shall
have expired. Let Us hereafter know tina, de
mocracy Is not invincible, and that il we hay,
VIII, we can find the way To make Virginia
what she oughtalways. by every consideration
oil interest, To have been, a Wing State.
Mr.. Polk has already deeply dissatisfied hi,
party throughout the Union. His unpamllel
ed weakness in attempting TO gain The who'll,
oi Oregon, by nothing more formidable thar
clustering words, will tc more strongly con.
den1ned By an upright.nation LA an open ant
avowed effort toiuvolve the country in an un
necessary war. The proposed destruction oI
the tariff OF 1872, tie measure TO which the
people OF many parts oil Virginia were begin,
ning TO look as the means of ensuring their
future prosperity, must still weaken their
confidence in the administration. That stale
expcdient of humbug. the SubTrcasury. can
not iaii TO produce disgust aud opposition.
The whole spectacle now presented at
Washington, of an Executive without person
al influence, whose only rule OF action is to
MAINTAIN The conference OF a DESCENDANT party,
viii convince tia people of the necessity of
placing, ia the Office OF President, none but a
man OF tned abilities and eminent virtues,
whose public services shall have entitled him
To The gratitude, aud whose exalted character
shall demand the respect, of public men and
private citizens.
We look 10 the future with the brightest
hope. confident that when the merits oi Mr..
PoiAs administration shall I've fairly and fully
canyassed, the Judgment of Virginia. aud the
whole Union, will BE- pronounced in tssignal
Tfmes.