Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-11-02
Yam Buren,.
CIass.

Whole number of Elector voters, 290-necessary to
choice, 146.
Cass cannot possibly get the popular vote
and, according to this view, Ohio cannot give
it to Taylor, nor even Massachusetts added to
the list of states in his favor
The election must then 90 to the House OF
Representatives. Once there, new element
enters in, the struggle. There is but one con-
tngency by which Cass or Taylor can get six
teen States, and with less than that number they
are no better off than Van Buren, with three
States, or with only one. The question must
resolve tself-as the Elements which compose
it are attracted and repealed into one of North
and South On that line of division, the States
are evenly balanced and yet, in two of the
Southern States CTexas and Mssour) Van Blu.
rem is more acceptable than might be the cand
date of the Southland this apart from all views
of the succession.-But if this he not so-and
here | take it, rests the real trust of the Van
Buren, party-the question can only he decided
by coalition and compromise ("bargan and
corruption" as the people would term it) be-
tween the two opposing candidates. Let that
event come, say the free sellers, and "woe to the
vctors" The administration thus formed is
blasted in its strength from its birth and the par
ty Of opposition-.the free Sellers in the van
become omnipotent in determining the destnies
Of the country. The battle of 50 is won beyond
a doubt In that battle of 50, to which the Van
Buren, party look forward as the era of deliver
ance aud triumph, an element is to enter which
is not understood by the multitude but the op-
Grafton of which, the sagacious leaders of the
barnburners, looking into the "seeds Of time, y
have anticipated.
BY the certain and inevitable law of popula-
tlon-the calculation that leads to the result is
predlcaed on the successive census of the last
thirty years. The enumeration OF 1850 and the
distribution of representatives and presidential
electors, founded upon it, will give TO the free
Northern democratic states, including Ohio,
vote exceeding that of all the southern states and
all the old.iashioned whig states combined Here
is the secret of the confidence, the enthusiasm
and the apparent desperation of the Free Sellers
Here, also, is the secret speculation that moves
the profound mind of John C. Calhoun and hi
devoted followers, to demand that the New Mex
co- American states shall be attached to the
southern league by community of institutions
This is the enigma of the opposition to the Ore
gon bill last winter; and, to go back of the sur
render from 81 deg. 40 min. to 40 deg. 1t il
this that moves the Missourian in his pouderou
struggles Benton Calhoun and Van Buren, ar
studying the laws Of population and its mysti,
but powerful secrets, like Mathuses,) Will;
the wings are wasting their energies and throw
ing away the future in a suicidal and puerile con
test for cold lack and Old Whitley"
Viewed in this aspect, the Presidential contcs
is he struggle of great pOwers-a contest of dy
/, nasty against dynasty-in which Cass and Taylo
are the mere stool-pigeons of small hawking
party-the puppets of a present occasion-an
permanent domination and the future empire o
states, the secret stakes of the real parties to tn
game.