Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1847-08-16

Meades majority in the District, 800. That such
,o. in that stro phold Of Locofocoism should be hail
ed by the Enquirer and its echoes as "crownlng tn
,nph" is the most induhitabe proof that Locofo-
ism is on its "last legs" in Virginia. Men are rarely
thankful for 'sma avors until they stand in need OF
them. In the fall of 1874, the majority of Mr.. Polk
over Mr.. Clay in the foregoing counties. was oo4 1t
is now only 36Oehowing clear gain to the Nhig par
IT, in that Dstric Of 524 votes Instead of gioryng
in result which uneqnivocally proclaims the de
Ginning popularity Of President Polk and which indicates
SO clearly the popular condemnation Of the policy Of his
Administration the friends Of that gentleman II seems 10
u.s. ought to find in it. in other equally instructive
sspns Of the tmes,' of deep and pungen humil
iation 1t is true, that, last Spring. Mr.. Boiling
brea,en in the District only II votes, by Gen. Drom-
gooe; but il is equally true, and the Loccs the first
eagerly proclaim the fact fer the purpose of showing
that that election not at all political test that the
General had rendered himself personally unacceptable
very large number of his political associates many of
whom refused to 60 to the polls, while not few Of
them actually voted for his opponent In the late cleo
ton, no such influence operated in avorof the Wing
candidate Mr.. Meade is gentleman not only fine tai
ents but like his opponent Of rreproachabie morals The
contest, like that Of 1914, and unlike that olast Spring,
exclusively political in its character and
nave mucn more gnt, ueIeioie, WAN our opponents,
oven though our candidate has been defeated by larger
majority than in the Spring, regard the result as
substantial triumph 1t shows that the people be-
ginning to discard those almost omnpotent party inu
by which they have been long hoodwinked and
that they determined to judge of the tree,
though it be of their planting by its fruit.
Nor is the election in the Petersburg District the on
Igor the most gratifying evidence Of the declining
strength Of the Administration which, culpabe as it is
for the evils it has actually brought upon the country
still more censurabe for the serious mschies
that would have been visited upon had not its purposes
been arrested by the wisdom and moderation of the Sen
a,e-for at this had Mr. Polk been permitted to
have his way the Oregon question, we should be at
war with g. Britain, as well as with Mexico,-and we
need not empt to depict the disastrous consequences
which, however bravey the difficulties of our position
might have been met, would have flowed from that
event. The pregnant fact that the Locofocco majority
of SEVENTY, in the House of Representatives. with
which Mr. Polk commenced his Administration, has
been already swept away by the indignant voice Of the
people, and that the first Monday of December next
WING HOUSE will assemble in Washington, is an
evidence Of the unpopuarity Of the measures of Mr.
Polk which cannot be gainsayed 1t is rebuke to the
President and his party VIII oh they must keeny feel,
and for which is impossible to account except upon the
assumption that the policy Of the administration is
demned by very large number oft those whose votes
armed it with the power it has mischievousy wiod
ed Never, indeed has an Administration rapidly lost
the confidence Of its original supporters and never sure
~ has one done more to forfeit that confidence