4 o ,^' 'J- V. ^ ; ^^% "^JP:^ .v^ ^s> V :^ . * " ^ - '^ . V ^<^ " ' ^> -^^0^ ^oV '/ A " . ^^-V. V ?.* ^^^ ^^^ °-y^W*~ '^^ ^^ ^^- ^^^ .c.^ 0^ »' •"- *> '^ V , ^^ ^#IC#^ "^-^^ ^* .^"^ % ^: o " o » -: .*■ ■^ .7* A r '^..^^ 0^ ^''''^ '- ^^ ^o 'Jt. < THE PRESIDENTIAL QiiESTION. There are yet many zealous friends of the great and good statesman of Ashland, who will not look on the Presidential question with anything like discretion. The recent success of the whigs of New- York seems with such to be an answer to all argument, and an excuse for all inconsistency ; and though Maryland, Ohio and Delaware have wavered in their allegiance, one triumph here is supposed to have placed all future contin- gencies out of the question. We personally prefer Henry Clay, and perhaps most of the leaders of our party prefer him; but the " democracy of numbers" has but lately come to our aid and without that, the zeal of partizans, and the support of mere intellect will avail our party nothing. The following remarks and tabular statement are taken from the Star, published in Philadelphia, and are addressed to all those politicians who yet retain the faculty of judging correctly and acting promptly. " We call attention to the Tabular Statement annexed. By reference to it, the vote of the difierent States in the Presiden- tiai contests of 1832 and 1836, can be ascertained. Nothing can evince more clearly Mr. Clay's utter want of availibility as a candidate. He received a regular national nomination. The party throughout the whole country, except in Pennsylvania and New-York, where Mr. Wirt was the candidate, and where he was beaten, had rallied on Mr. Clay, and yet he received 54 electoral votes less than Mr. Adams had in 1828, notwith- standing the bitter, violent prejudices in existence against Mr. Adams. General Harrison was destitute of the advantage of a nomination by a National Convention. It was the sjwntaneous movement of the People in his behalf, for of those who had been leaders, most opposed his nomination — but in order to retain their political ascendancy, they were forced to bow before the popular will, and lend him their assistance He was emphatic- J T^s-j ally the candidate of the people, and though brought out at the eleventh hour, he received his electoral votes by such ma- jorities in the States, that to it we may attribute the strong foot-hold of the opposition in the country. The Van Bu- ren vote of 1836 did not fall short of the Jackson vote of 1832; but on the contrary exceeded it by 64,000, and yet though Jackson had a majority of 123,936 popular votes, Mr. Van Buren received but 1,656 ! Gen. Jackson beat Mr. Clay, the candidate of the National Convention 379,000 votes. Mr. Van Buren beat Gen. Harrison, our eleventh hour candi- date 95,000 votes, and this with not a single vote cast for Har- rison in the Whig States of Massachusetts and Tennessee, which may now all be counted safely on for Harrison, then iriving their votes to Webster or White, as local candidates. We ask every Whig into whose hands this table falls, to give it a careful perusal, and we feel confident he will arise from it satisfied that General Harrison is the only man who can break down the dynasty at Washington. TABULAR STATEMENT Exhibiting the number of votes given at the Presidential Elec- tions of 1832 and 1836,-by which it appears that the popular vote of the Jackson or Van Buren party, increased between those periods but 64,090, wlicreas those of the Democratic Whi- party increased 186,370 votes! In 1822, Henry Clay rcceiwd 328,501, and 49 electoral votes. In 1830, General Harrison received .575,968 and 71 electoral votes. John Quincv Adams received the following votes in opposition to General Jackson, in 1828, which Mr. Clay lost:-Mame, New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey. Sixteen votes m New-York, and one vote in Maryland. General Harrison .01 the entire voles of Mar aland, Nerr Jersey, Vermont, Ohio, Ind Indiana, which, with the exception of five votes m Mary- land, all went in opposition to Mr. Clay. Rhode Island and Connecticut joined the Jackson party several years before the nomination of General Harrison. - en . . 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