The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-12-21

The Richmond Enquirer gives the following result Of
the gubernaorial canvass SO far as ascertained
RESULT IN THE SrArE,-Beow give The entire vote
for governor far received which is as nearly correct
as we make it. II shows that Johnsons majory
is 7I2s; and eighteen counties yet to hear from
Dem vote. Wing vote,
Total vote in l2i counties 1868 i2,2il
42,2ll
Johnson's majority thus far TAPS
"Tho following Is Counties which m ay give about an
equal vote TO each party yet hear FROM wiz Boone,
Braxon, Cabel, Carroll Dodddge, Fayette GneT Gray
son, Lee, Logan, Mercer Nicholas, Prince William,
Raleigh Tyler WestnorelAnd, Writ, and Wyoming.
Thus far hear OF 80 democrats and Ii wings elected
to the senaeiour districts yet be hoard fomand SO
democrats and 81 wings elected the house eight
bes yet to hear from. Details will be given hereafter
Before the election, the leading wing prints of the Old
Dominion were, we believe. without exception, of the
opinion that the largely increased suffrage under the
constitution would enure powerfully to the aid OF the
whg party. Several plausible reasons, pertaining prin-
cpay to the organization OF the two parties in the State
were assigned the grounds OF this conviction The
ballot boxes have told quite another story They show
the democratic party and policy to be invincbly in the
ascendant in the State just the Of the
people have found opportunity TO express their sen,
ments at the polls. 1t may be reasonably expected
that Virginia, long renowned for her fidelity to the
democratic cause even under the restricted suffrage of her
former constitution, will in 1852 heap up such demo-
cratic majority shall make her the banner democratic
STATE of the Union.
There is another point of view in which this trum-
plant election Of Governor Johnson is not less gratifying
and suspicious of the future and harmony of the
democratic party Gov Johnsons power before the peo-
pie of Virginia lay great extent the fact that he was
known as tried democrat Of the old Jackson school,
he IN dpfaa
cations growing GU, of more recent events and issues,
which in other States have had power TO embaass
and distract the democracy His election therefore gives
assurance that the people OF Virginano doubt mainly
in view of the adoption Of the adjustment of such
by Congress-have determined now to plant them
selves, and unchangeably upon the old, time hon
ored democratic ground maintained long and 10 such
noble results by Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson.
Such determination, thus sgnally expressed, upon
the first full poll of her people, by the Oldest and
most influential southern Sate-to which the whole
South has habiually looked for encouragement. and
in than great emergency Tor guidance, in the
shaping OF wise and just southern policys political
event the importance of which cannot be easily over
stated 1t affords pregnant, proof that in view OF the
controversies through which the country has passed. and
of the settlement which they are, as we trust de6ni.
lively closed the people of Virginia look the restored
ascendency OF these ancient and welllr democratic
principles in the federal government forming the sole
and ample safeguard OF the constitutional rights Of all
sections OF the country, and OF the Union itself,
whether jeoparded by the ianacism of the North, the
ullraism OF the South The consolidating tendencies il.
herent in the wing construction Of federal system
OF these rights of the States and Of the cause of the
Union involved in them and essential to them Viz.
gnia has always approved herself foremost champion
and in this election she has rested her defence of that
sacred upon its only true and mpregnable ground