The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1848-07-21
HEAR THE WARNING!

Let the Democracy be awake to their duty
and best ineres; and let no body divide them
At this important and only preserving hour.
! 1t by division, you permit the Presidential
contest to go into the House of Representa-
tVes, although you may have large majori-
/ " OF the votes of the Union iu favor of your
candidate, through fraud aud deception, such
as was used in former occasion, you may be
defeated. Read tue following extract fiom a
speech of Hon. w. Allen, delivered at AL.
bany, N. York:
Mr. ALLEN said: Now mark, land / name
this In order to caution you in this present
contest, the constitution provides that if no
one of the candidates before the people shall
receive more than one-half of all the votes
given, the election then passes from the peo-
pie to the Honse of Representatives in Con-
sress. And whent goes there, the President
Is elected by states, and not by individuals.
For instance, each state gives one vote-no
more. Delaware, hltle Delaware, with a pop-
ulallon smaller perhaps, than this county
less, believe, than l0000O-gives one vote.
L.he great state of New York, with two and a
naf or three millions, gives but one vote.
l ou viii observe that the size of the state or
its population counts nothing when the eec-
ION OF President is lost to the people, and
transferred to the House of Represen atives,
each state giving but one vote. Sixeen votes
IN The next House of Representatives may
elect the President: and sixteen of The smallest
states may give those votes and elect the
President, although those states may contain
less than one-tweetleth part of the population
Of the Union. Such was the state of things
whdn the election went to the House in 1900,
n consequence OF no one of the candidates
getting majority of the whole nanber. The
House of Representatives was place for IN
trgue. There were two or three men who
had it in their power to make the President
rhe federal party had been be aten before the
people--Mr. Jefferson had beaten Mr. Adams
he running as President Burr had beaten
his competitor--he running as Vice President
on the Jefferson ticket BIT the election, as
| stated, in consequence ofthe mission in the
constitution, was lost 10 the people, aud went
to the House. What did the federalist party
do then! They had been fairly beaten before
The people, utterly repudated. They appeal
ed to Colonel Barr to allow them to make use
Of him, and to elect him by the House, al
though not man in America had voted for
him as President They sat day in and day
oat. Night in and night out did they traffic,
bargain, and intrigue, and manage to palm off
Burr upon the people, as their President and
o exclude Mr.. Jefferson although the people
rad voted for him, and no one man alive had
'oied for Col. Burr. They came within. one
nan of accomplishing their object; and had
hey accomplished it, the people Of the United
states would have been put either to the ne
essity of yielding to tho most damnable usur-
alton of the supreme executive power Of the
ountry, or resortipg, as the people Of France
ave most rghtfally resorted of late, to arms,
0 order TO redeem the constitution.