Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-11-24
TnR GREAT RESULT.

uE 1REhl hEaol LII
We have thrown iogethor The comments Of
several leading journals Of al parties on the re-
suit Of the Presidential Cunlesi. We think
they will Interest thoughtful readers.
From the Albany Atlas, Van Buren.)
THE DISRUPTION OF THE DEMOCRA.
Tic PARTY.
The New fUrk organ Of The slavery-Admin.
is'Fa1'on al Washington. procaims. coolly, this
morning the election Of Gen. TaN lor, by TN
overwhelming vote bath popular aud electoral.
But Il does not explain how the Administration
II Washington vas thus defeated aud rebuked
~ the persOu Of iIs chosen successor. ID Is as
silent about the dsembowling OF lhe Democracy
rs about the evisceraIion Of the Canal Bank.
When Mr.. Polk found himself. To his aston
ishment. and to thai Of the whole people. a, the
head Of the National Administration. he became
inflated with new ambition. lie recognized 10
the really great men who had hslped his elec.
ton, nniy rivals. He regarded Calhoun, Ben
ton, Wright. with Jealousy. The universal
sentiment which attributed to the latter aud the
powerful democracy Of New York, the cause OF
his election, he resented with The petiy vanity ol
spallry nature. lie framed his Administration
with yi,w 10 the prosIrauOn Of the New York
democracy aud its chieltain. lie inveigled the
representatives Of New York into support of his
measures by pledges that he unscrupulously
violated. He took TO his cabinet the bankrupt
dependents Of the moneyed arislocTacy, squan-
dered his patronage on the Conservative faction
sud the tile Of enemy 10 Sas Wright was O
warrant for an appointment. lie plunged the
country into war, aud into debt, thus increasing
tie patronage Of the Government beyond all
precedent.
This expenditure Of money and patronage
coupled with the 100000 Of Bank plunder, ol
his chief emissary here, though il broke down
the Democratic parry Of New York, did not
enure TO the direct benefit of the Presidential
Rspirsnt, but was finally turned over to the ac-
count Of his intended successor.
What has il profedl What have the disrup.
ion Of the Democratic party Of New York, the
overthrow and death Of Silus Wright the profit.
gate squanderlng Of Government patronage, the
pundsr Of the Canal Bank aud the conlrbu.
Uons exacted from others, the Hundred Millions
of Debt, the immense Standing Army oiiicered
by party dependents, the sectional test got up a.
gainsl the North, the prescription of faithful of.
fcers, the frauds of the Baltimore Convention
organ, amounted tol
Borne down by the weight of popular indig.
nation and the grayilaIion of its own prohigacy
the Administration has sunk into depths where
it finds death, and hopes for oblivion; butwhere
the retrieving hand OF Justice will bring up il.
remains for judgment.
New York, Pennsylvania, the Fast, the grow
ing West, and even the Sourh, have combined
10 cast it down. If perchance State like Ohio
seems 10 dissent from the unanimous Judgment
it owes the mercy to Inc disdan orlhose il mos
injured, the Freemen Of the North.
When the returns are fully in, we shall b.
enabled to see in detail the disastrous consequcn.
ces Of this first experiment to break down this
State, and to cast il ont Of the Democratic as.
sociaton. We mourn the rcsuIl-we have de.
proclated the inevitable cause, and resisted il
with all our power. Let the consequences be
on the heads Of those whose interest required
that this State should be outraged, whose insane
vanity led them to suppose that they could rely
ON the power Of money aud patronage and "do
without New York."