New-York daily tribune., 1851-07-31

penitentiary offense. The Emancipation
lists are naturally not in love with him after
this, and as they are found more among the
Wings than the Locos, he will poll far less
than the former strength of his party, with
out gaining anything from the other side.
And if. as onr most recent information leads
us to suppose, Cassius Clay receives 1000
to 5000 votes, it is highly probable that
Powell, the Opposition candidate, will De
elected by 4 plurality. This we should
deeply regret for many reasons, but still
we are somewhat used to seeing the Wing
party suffer from the progress of new ideas
and new measures. In lSi9 Crittenden
beat Powell by $500 majority.
In this State little is heard of the South
ern Rights or Secession movement which
cuts so great figure down little nearer
the EQUATOR, and all that is heard is natural
ly from the Loco FOco side. Mr.. Beverly l..
Clarke the Loco candidate in the Hid Con-
rressional District, and David Meriwether
in the VIIth both declare their sympathy with
the fiery and fire. eating portion of our glo-
rious Union. The last delegation from
Kentucky stood Wing to Opposition and
We suppose will not be changed much either
way though the prospect is not so brilliant as
we should like to see it. In the lst Dis
trict Linn Boyd, Opposition, will undoubt-
edly be elected In the lid, Jefferson Jen-
nings is the regular Whig candidate, and
Ben. T. Grey, Wing, is running agalnsth him
on his own hook, a procedure which Is not
well thought of BY the leading Wings of
tie District. We anticipate the election
of Mr.. Jennings, BY clean vote. In 1919
the District gave a Whig majority of
above 1000. In the Hid, Presley Ewing,
Wing, a strong man and true, Will beat
Clarke, Opposition, out ofsight. In the lVth,
W. T. Ward, Wing has no competitor. In
the Vth the Wings are sure of choosing
their candidate, Mr. Hill. In the With
there are two Wing candidates but no Loco.
In the With Humphrey Marshall, Whlg,
who is running for reelection, Is pretty
sure to be beaten by David Merlwether, for
the want of votes that have gone over to
the Emancipationists, who in this District
are numerous Marshall was chosen in '49
by only GA majority. and apart from
Emancipation, has since lost in populari-
tv, while Meriwether is personally liked.
1t looks queer for the special opponents
of Slavery to help in the election of pro-
slavery ultraist, but the political kaleido-
scope has shown strange combinations as
this. In the With we are glad to say
that Gen. Leslie Combs, one of the manli-
est and most generous men in manly and
generous Kentucky, is at last a candidate
on the Wing side. He ought to be cleo
ted though his straightforward character
and patriotic advocacy of popular interests
have made him influential personal enc
mics. He is opposed by John G. Brecken-
ridge, who is a very tough antagonist, but
We hope Combs will carry it. The Dis
trict was largely Whig at the last election.
In the lXth John c. Mason, Opp, is run
ming alone and in the Xth Richard II. Stan
ton, Opposition, will be reelected
In ARKANSAS Member of Congress is to
be chosen on the ith. John Preston is run
ming as Union Whig' candidate against
Robert W. Johnson, who sat in the last
House Johnson goes the whole figure for
Southern Rights, and will no doubt be
elected
IL ALABAMA, NORTH CAROLINA and Ten
NESsRE, the contest has little to do with the
old party questions; there the Wings have
generally merged themselves with the Union
party, or that which contends l. That
under the Constitution, and as a matter of
law, no State has a right to secede from the
Confederation; and 3 That there is now
no reason for dissolving the Union, vlo-
lently. The mass of the old Opposition, on
the other hand, have merged themselves
in the State Rights party, (though two or
three of them are on the Union tickets,)
whose doctrines range all along shore from
the abstract constitutional right of Seces-
sion to the immediate, yawnihg, inevitable
necessity for doing the thing regardless of
expense, and without postponement on ac-
count of the weather. Perhaps the bitter
est contest in these States is that against
Edward Stanly, in the With District of
North Carolina. All the resources of per-
sonal hostility and public prejudice are en-
ployed against him, but-though our good
wishes would be of little service-we earn