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FELLOW Winos:—According to the 4, official returns" of the late Presidential election in Penn sylvania, the Whig canditates have been defeated by a majority of six thousand three hundred and eighty-two votes. If this were the result of a fair election, we should feel no disposition now to make any public expression either of dissatisfaction or regret in relation to it, but should quietly yield to the judgment of our fellow citizens, and await I with patience the end of their hazardous experi ment. Bat toe hare been cheated. The voice of the legal voters of our Commonwealth has been smothered in the ballot-box. And we consider it duo to our fellow citizens, and particularly to those who have struggled so zealously to secure the tri umph of Whig principles and American interests, to lay before them some evidence of the fraud, and expose the true character of the men who direct the mevements of the Locofoco party in Pennsyl vania. The excitement in the public mind during the I ratio of the increase rtf population! This of Presidential contest of 1340, was greater perhaps , course cannot ho accounted for by gains from the than had ever been known on a like occasion. All Whig party, the Whigs having themselves been the the influence and power of the General Govern- I gainers in the aggregate. A little further exami meat, administered and exerted through more than nation will show that the whole of the illegitimate a hundred thousand Mike holders, and extending increase in the vote, is not only 011 the Locofoco into every election district in the I.lllioo were i side, Out ie all in the ',calm; counties! The fol• brought to 'mar in favor of the re-election of Mr. Van lowing counties gave Whig majorities in 1840 ;wo Buren. And the downward course, which the annex their respective votes for President at both credit, business, and honor of the Nation had taken I elections : under his administration, made every \Vhig, and Harrison. V. B. Clay. Polk. Birney many who had never before been Whigs, feel and 1 Allegheny 7620 4573 8083 5740 435 Adams 2453 1628 2609 1891 6 act, as if each had a personal stake in the contest. Pennsylvania was regarded as the field on which I Bikelerrd 83914103 „ 1. 4 7 4 1 0 0 2 3 7;9 4 ' 7 2 2 ,9 17 8 2 8 570 5 the battle was to be decided, and not only the po- I Bucks 4705 4488 4867 551 27 litical power of our opponents, but a very large I Dirtier 2100 1804 2..47 2017 135 Tie I Chester 5643 4887 6070 5550 106 amount of money was staked on the issue. two-fold excitement doubled the energy of both I i C m u u ni , l i T i rland 3 2 1 4 790 2 f.6 18 95 30 , 9 5 7 3155 5 portico. No sentinel slept—no man was rib- 1 kk i wa i r t e ;031 133 7 5 3 ,0' 890 2401 1466 1 1 6 5 sent from his post at the best of the reveille. The Erie 2116 2061 36.1 2226 74 troops of our opponents were reviewed again and Franklin 3586 2527 3901 3203 0 , Huntingdon 38 1953 , 6 1 22 0 66 ‘4,00806 :5 0 again, and cheered on by veteran leaders. The} Indiana l l4B 7 80 went regelarlily through the daily drill, and were Lancaster 9079 5.172 10795 5943 21 subjected constantly to that rigorous discipline.' Lebanon ',359 1402 2636 1791 0 which " progressive Democracy" prescribes as one I Mercer 32 ; 46 2336 2940 2869 604 S u omeiset . ...501 7 , 65 2 060 , 1035 6 of its family regulations. In the opinion of Mr. I Dallas, expressed a short time before the election, I Washington sn 4.i11493 3 1 6 a 1 18 1 3 .te 8 7 7 88 2 3 1 , 7 7 6 3 5 ,9 18 0 . in a letter written to some of his pollitical friends in ---.-- -- —-- the South, twenty thousand would not cover the I Total, 73883 51280 77176 59553 2119 majority which Mr. Van Buren was to have in I 73889 77176 2119 Pennsylvania! The day of trial came, and both ! Vote in 1840 125169 parties were inn the field in their full strength. It I Vote in 1844 138848 .„...„- was conceded on all hands, that the full vote of the State was polled at that election. The increase of the popular vote, can never ex ceed the ratio of the increase of the population. It is more likely to be less, than greater, on account of the fact, that a large number of emigrants settle among us every year, who are never naturalized, and consequently are never admitted to the right of suffrage. The ratio of the increase of the popula tion of our State has varied but little since the year 1810. It dimini , hes about one half per cent. every 10 years. Front 1820 t 1840, the increase was 56.39 per cent.: and at the same rate the increase for four years from 1940 to 1944 would be 11.27 per cer.t. We take 11.27 per cent. to be the full increase. As- miming, what all parties have heretofore admitted to be true, that the full vote of the State was polled in 1840, it follows that the vote of 1844 should not exceed that of 1840, by more than 11.27 per cent. The official returns of the two elections, however, furnish us with a dilierent result. They are as follows Votes polled in 1840. Votes polled in 1844. Harrison, 144.019 Clay, 161,203 Van Buren, 143,676 Polk, 167,535 Birney, 343 Birney, 288,038 Total, 331,971 288,038 Total, Increase in four years, 43,833 which is equal to 15.21 per cent; being within a 'fraction of 4 per cent. beyond the ratio of the in crease of the population. This startling fact !cads to tho inquiry, where is the illigitimato increase to be found? Either party may increase its vote to any extent, by acces sions from the other; but so long as one keeps up fairly to the natural increase of 11.27 per cent. the other cannot honestly go beyond it. The Whigs have increased their vote 17.184, or 11.93 per cent., about two-thirds of one per cent. beyond the proper ratio: the whole of which surplus of two-thirds of one per cent. is fully accounted for by the large Democratic Native American vote given to Mr. Clay in the city and county of Philadelphia. This is susceptible of the clearest proof. rho population of the city and county increases in a much greater ratio than that of any other county is the state,— The increase horn 1820 to 1840 was 85.64 per cent., at which rate the increase for font years, from 1840 to 1844, would be 17.12 per cont. This fur nishes, according to our theory, the legitimate ratio of the increase of the vote in Philadelphia. The vole was as follows: Harrison, 17,844 Clay, 23,2,89 Van Buren, 18,077 Polk, 16,951 225 Total, 35,921 42,365 The increase in the Whig vote is 5445 The natural increase at 17.12 per cent, would he 3054 Increase beyond the natural ratio, 2391 The natural increase in the Locofoco vote at 17.12 per cent would be 3093 The actual increase is 773 Loss in the Leedom vote, Gain in the Whig voto beyond the natural ratio, Aggregate Whig gain since 1840, 4711 Loco Moo majority in 1840, 233 Whig majority by this rule, Actual Whig majority, Excess, 40 Thus in the city and county of Philadelphia the actual loss on the Locofoco side makes up, within 71 Votes, the entire Whig gain—and the sum of the Whig gain and the Locofoce loss, comes within forty votes of the Whig majority! A remarkable confirmation of the accuracy of our premises. But while the Vl higs have maintained their full strength throughout the State, the Locofacos have managed to increase their vote 23,859, being equal to 16.60 per cent., or 5.33 per cent. beyond the Increase 13679 The natural increase in this nob at 11.27 per cent, would be, 14,103 The actual increase is 13,679 Deficiency, The increase in the Locafoco vote is The natural increase at 11.27 per cent. would be Increase beyond the natural ratio, The natural increase in the Whig vote at 11:::7 per cent. would be The actual increase is Loss in Whig vote Gain in the Locoroco vote be. yond the natural ratio, 2,494 Abolition vote, (taken from the Whigs,) 2,119 Deficiency, The above counties are all that gave Whig majori ties, either in 18.10 or at the late election. And they furnish another striking proof of the truth of our position in regard to the increase of the vote.— They poll one hundred end thirty-eight thousand votes, and the increase since 1840 falls only four hundred and twenty-B,on short of the ratio of the increase of the population. These counties, to gether with Philadelphia, in which wo have seen that the rule holds good, comprise considerably more than one half of the entire vote of the State. 3,133 Let us now cross tho line, and enter the region of Locofocoism. The following are the counties which nourish "The poisonous, black, insinuating worm." liar. V. B. Clay. Palk. Abo. Armstrong 1260 1744 1453 1983 38 Berks 3582 7425 4000 8674 3 Bradford 2631 2844 3235 3568 63 Cambria 811 920 996 1123 2 Carbon 531 905 0 Centre 1447 2242 1860 2425 7 1 Clarion 648 1566 814 1683 7 Clearfield ..:99 912 544 874 0 Clinton 617 649 788 875 0 Columbia 1315 2829 1738 3370 1 Crawford 2112 2908 2636 3334 1391 Elk, [no .v co., part Nch n.) 101 128 9 Fayette 275 3035 2904 3429 35 Green 135 2010 1418 2354 1 Jefferson 476 592 591 731 Juniata 966 1043 1089 1260 Lehigh 2405 2451 2553 2811 Luzerne 2776 4119 2699 3950 2 Lycoming 1504 2181 2012 2629 1 M'Kean 263 276 340 419 Nlittlin 1226 1269 1518 1519 Monroe 345 1477 414 1806 1 Montgomery 4068 4869 4491 5596 49 Nothampton 2846 3838 2776 3870 0 Northumberland 1351 2187 1547 2446 7 Perry 1072 1970 1370 2321 0 Pike 135 524 151 769 0 180 363 240 554 BO Potter Schuylkill 1881 2184 2571 3404 3 Sumquehanns 1660 2023 1802 9897 93 Tioga 895 1721 1169 2193 23 Yenango 850 1275 966 1377 65 Warren 827 929 399 1149 17 Wayne 675 1188 899 1657 15 Weannondend 2778 4704 2672 4978 71 Wyoming, [now county] 814 899 13 York 8792 4382 4237 5071 1 Total, 52,286 74,299 60,738 89,131 792 52,280 00,738 792 120,585 150,061 126,585 Vote in 1840, do. 1844, Increase, The first fact which arrests the attention here fit that ese counties in 1840 polled only 1400 votes moat= the Whig counties. And while the vote in the Whig counties has been increased thirteen thousand six hundred and seventy-nine, that of the counties now given has been increased twenty-four thotaand and seventy-six ! Actual increase of vote, The natural increase at 11.27 pet cent. would he Excess of increase, Vide!' is equal to 7.75 per cent. ! Thettual increase in the Whig vote is 8,453 The nntural increase 0011.27 per cent. would he • 5,892 Increase beyond the natural ratio, The actual increase in the Locofoco vote is 14,832 The natural increase at 11.27 per cent. would be 8,373 Increase beyond the natural ratio, Here we are, in the very midst of the fraud! in the Whig counties, every thing is right. There is no excessive increase in the vote, and where the Loco feces gain beyond the legitimate ratio, the 11754 rote is rtinunisberl to the full extent of such gain. These facts prove, that where Whig Judges and Inspectors presided at the late Election, the purity of the ballot-box was preserved. Hut the moment we enter the Locofoco counties, we have in the first place a fraudulent excess of near ten thousand votes! We find the Whigs, increasing their vote 2,560 I beyond the natural ratio, and in the same counties the Locofocos increasing their vote 6,459, beyond the ratio! Who is chargeable with the fiend—for freed Id apparent! •If you will examine carefully the vote of tho counties in which the Whigs have mode their largest gains, you will fend that the Lo colones there possess and exercise absolute power. A party so completely buried in Locofocoism as the Whigs in that region, could have no chance at fraud, if they were disposed to resort to it.—All they can do, is to poll their hottest vote, and that is some times done in the midst of hisses and groans from their opponents. The surplus increase in their vote is reasonably accounted for, by changes and gains from the other party, which are known to have oc curred in large numbers. The fair increase in the Locofoco vote then, according to the rule which did not fail in the Whig counties, would be thus:— 125169 B;a3 5,779 2,494• Increase at 11.27 per cent. Deduct Whig gain beyond natural Increase, Deduct Abolition, do. do, 8,327 3,;87 5,040 Legitimate net increase by the rule 5,021 Increase according to the returns 1.1,832 Fraudulent excess 4,613 4,613 We pronounce this excess of near ten thousand votes to be fraudulent, because it can be accounted for in no other way. The rule that holds good when applied to considerably more than one half of the entire vote of the State, ought not to fail when applied to the rest. There can be no reason for it. It may be alleged, by way of explanation and argu ment, that among the Locofoco counties are va rious and extensive coal mines, iron mines and furnaces, and that the increased vote comes front them; but we answer that the mines and most of the furnaces were there and in operation, in 1840. If this answer be in sufficient, then we may set off against such counties, the Whig counties of Alle gheny, Huntingdon, Franklin, Chester, Lancaster, Union, Dauphin and Delaware, with their mines and furnaces, forges and factories of almost every kind, aftbrding as good cause for a largely increased vote as can be furnished by Schuylkill, Northamp ton, Carbon, Llama! and Columbia. There can be no reason why some of the very poorest coun -1 ties in the State, should increase their vote in twice or thrice the ratio of the most flourishing, the most favored in natural resources and most attractive to the immigrant. And yet, Pike, with its thin and stoney soil, covered with scrub oaks and briars, and Potter, an itupenetroole wilderness, no much so that its geological and mineral resources are to this day unknown, have each increased their vote in moie titan double the ratio of Philadelphia or Allegheny, wait all their manufactories and their new enter prizes daily springing up, and keeping up a constant demand for mechanics and laborers of every de scription! Is it by accident that the illegitimate increase in the vote of the State is all in the Locofoco counties, and all on the Locofoco side? Is it by accident that the increase in the Whig vote is the exact ratio of the increase of population, and that the Locofoco vote exceeds that ratio by almost ten thousand? Is it by accident that the Locofoco gain in the Whig counties is met by a corresponding loss in the Whig vote, and that a Whig gain in the Locofoco coun ties is answered by a still larger gain for the Loco• focos I The following circular which was issued at Harrisburg last winter, contains a few hints, :I ‘At may aid our fellow citizens in the solution of the problem : CIRCULAR LETTER Of a Committee appointed by the Democratic Menibers of the Legislature. We address you on behalf of the democratic members of the Senate and Routs, of Representa tives ; and we address you on a subject of vital interest to the mimeos of the demdcratic party in a content which is about to commence, of unexam pled importance. The Presidential and Guberna torial election takes place next fall: to rally our friends at the polls with spirit, energy and success requires time, labor skill and activity. Organiza tion, therefore, is the only guarantee against a signal defeat: organization, too, which shall reach every township in the Commonwealth, and enlist ilie hearty co-operation of every democrat. The prin ciples which are identified with the democratic party are surely worth preserving„ but it is for every friend of the party to decide for himself, whether the faith of his fathers shall be maintained in its purity, or be struck down forever by the triumph of Federalism in two consecutive elections. In the contest which is approaching, all the ingenuity which federal whiggery can put in motion will be resorted to; all the plans which a bed cause never fails to bring into the field, will be marshalled, drill ed, and armed with falsehoods for the occasion.— The democratic members, therefore, anxious to arouse their brethren throughout the .State to a sense of the danger which threatens their cause and their principlee, have determined to make nn effirrt to nave the party from defeat, secure its principles and rescue this good old Commonwealth from the inglorious position she took in the campaign of 1840. As a preliminary measure to the great con test in the fall, the Whigs have determined, if pos sible, to secure a large number of the Judges and Inspectors at the Spring 'election; if they are sue-1 cessful in this, you will. readily perceive the power ' which the opposition will Wield. It is distinctly understood that tho Whig party intend to senile an advantage in the manner we have indicated. It, therefore, become. the duty of every democrat to exert himself raid arouse his friends, and warn them of the danger which threatens his ward, borough or township, and thus secure a large turnout at the election for Judges nnd Inspectors. This done, we shall have the vantage ground, and an easy victo ry will be the result. The democratic members desire that you would communicate these facts to such of our political friends in your ward, borough or township, as will take an interest in adopting such measures as will uphold and sustain the party. It is not necessary to make an appeal to your pa triotism or love - of country to enter heartily into this measure : the bleeding condition of your country appeals with sufficient force toyour sympathies, and the prostrate condition of the democratic party in 1840, it is hoped, is a sufficient inducement to arouse every friend to exertion and action. 24,076 24,076 14,2G0 9,910 2,560 6,459 The contents of thts letter should be made known only to such of our friends as will keep their own counsel, and assist in organizing the party; and it is very desirable that itshould not appear in any newspaper, or be communicated to our political opponents. The most efficient organization can be made without noise or confusion. Wu desire to open a correspondence, with the active men in your county, and for that purpose you will please forward the names of such persons and their Post Mikes to the committee as you think will take a part in organizing the State. POST OFFICE WIIEN AT HONE. 6,373 2,560 792 3,352 3,352 9,811 EDWARD A. PENNIMAN, Philadelphia. 41 A. 1.. RO UM FORT, HENRY. W. SMITH, Reading, Berks county. JEFFERSON K. HECKMAN, Eastern, North fatopton County. JOHN B. STERIGERE, Norristown, Mururoa'. [cry county. JOSEPH BAILEY, Parkersville, Chester co. ASA DIMOCK, Montrose, Susquehanna co. OBED EDSON. Busse!burg, Warr., co. W. MERHYPIELD. Hyde Park, Luzerne co. DANIEL L. SHER W(SOD. Minimal Id Tioga co. ALEX. BRACKENRIDGE, Pittsburg, Allglieny [county. JAMES R. SNOWDEN, Franklin, Venango co. WILLIAM P. SILArPECK, Meadville, Craw [ford county. JOHN HILL, Ligonier, Weatmoreland co. JAMES MACMAN Bellefunt, Contract,. SOLOMON SIIINDEL, Gratz, Dauphin co. WILLIAM BIGLER, Clearfield, Clearfield co, SAMUEL N. BAlLY,Dillaburg, York co. Harrisburg, January 1844. P. 8. During the session of the Legislature the Committee will of course be addressed at Harris- burg. Yes! Keep your own counsel—don't let a Whig see our Circular—secure your Judges and Inspectors oorn WE SHALL HATE THE TANTA. GROUND, AN EAST TICTACT WILL BE THE RE AULT !" The Harrisbug mandate was obeyed.— The plot was successful. Votes were made to order, the State is made safe for Mr. Polk, and the farce is called the solemn verdict of the people! Prior to the gubernatorial election, it wee a com mon remark among the leading members of the Imcofoco party, that Mr. Clay was stronger in Pennsylvania, by ten thousand vote., than the Whig candidate for Governor. They resolved to make their great effort, therefore, at the October election, and carry their candidate by not less than ten thousand majority. On that majority, the "knowing ones" of their party, bet their money in large amounts, and with the utmost confidence.— But at this time no one anticipated a majority for Gen. Markle in the city and county of Philadelphia. co as. 1:5 CD' The Locoforom expected to maintain their aseen , theory there, and it was conceded to them by the Whigs, until within a few days of the election.— If we deduct from the Whig candidate the unlooked for majority of 5,955, which he received in the city and county of Philadelphia, Mr. Skunk's ma jority in the State would he ten thousand two hun dred andfour ; just enough to win the UM, and discourage the Whigs Inas any f art/ter efforts to carry the State fin. Mr. Clay! Mr. Shuttles actual majority, or rather, the majority given to Mtn by the "official returns," was 4,282. A.m. ming Mr. Clay to be ten thousand stronger than the Whig candidate for Governor, it became nec cessary, in order to make the State entirely safe for Mr. Polk, to increase the Locoforo vote some six or seven thousand. It teas accord.ney increasi ed seven thousand, one hundred and thirty two! Lucky—lucky accident ! That fraud has been practised to the extent that was necesaary, in the language of the Harrisburg Circular, to redeem Pennulvania from the in glorious position tuhtch she look in 1840," can scarcely de doubted by en intelligent citizen who will take the pains to examine the facts which are now furnished. Mr. CLAT has received Seventeen thousand one hundred and eighty-lbw. bola, more than were given to General 11.rrisort in 1840 andeight hundred more than Mr. Shawl receive ed in October last ; and yet, according to the of ficial returns, Mr. Polk has beaten him. by a ine , jority of Six thousand three hundred and thirty three ! We declare it as our firm belief, that such is not the true and honest result. Whatever the official returns may show to the contrary, it is our settl d conviction, that Joseph. Markle was f . 01.-ly , elected to the Gulernotorialchair in October. and that Henry Clay received a majority of the legal voles of this Commonwealth at the late election. In every stage of the contest, our opponents have acted meanly and dishonourably. 'Hwy have ac commodated the political prineitles of their can . didates to the prejudices of every .1.11• mile of territory in which voters are to be found. They have baptised M. Polk in the faith of every church in the Commonwealth, and Where churches are unpop ular. he is stiil an unregenerate sinner. While the sovreign State of South Carolina prepares for him a Free-trade Diploma, the "Democracy of Penn sylvania ' proclaim him a 'Para min. anal stand ready to commit their iron, their coal. tlieir agricul ture and their industry to his protection! They have alsailed the private character of Mr. Clay, with a malignant ferocity that has no parallel in political warfare. The noble Champion of Ameri can rights, whose name is written ih brilliant and 'living characters on every page o bur history for the poet forty years--the Orator and linesman of the ego, whose publlc life to without reproach— the honest, fearless old Whig of the school of Wash ington—they have charged with almost every crime registered in the Newgate Callender—they have applied to him, without ceasing, the vilest ep;thete that could be distilled from the fish markets of Billingsgate, and bare hung his effigy on their hickory poles; while 7'homt.a IV. Dorr,n convicted felon in the Penitentiary of Rhode-Island, has been held up by them as n staining Loam,' Cc has been formally invited to their festivals and con ventions, and has lately received a vela:vote nomi nation for the Presidency from the Hon. George M. Dallas ! They have won an election by dex terous swindling, but they hare tout their honor. Whigs of Pennsylvania! A few years ago, our party was twenty : live thousand votes in the mi nority ; now, we constitute a clear majority of the . qualified electors of the State. We are an army of one hundred and sixty-one thousand strong, and our opponents dare not meet us, ill a fair, manly struggle in an open field! We bare the tame name that was borne by Washington and the brave men whom he led through the battles of the Revolution; we represent the same principles, and are fighting in the same causes While we emulate their virtues, let tut imitate their example. Let us he firm, uni ted and resolved to fight on under the ample folds of the Whig banner, that has never yet been dis honored, and beneath which American interests have always found substantial and safe protection. The purity of the ballot-box must he restored— the wrong inflicted upon Henry Cloy, must be avenged ! CHARLES GIBBONS, JAMES TRAQUAIR, JACOB STRA'I"PAN,. ALEX. H. FREEMAN, SAMUEL W. WEER, JOHN H. WITHERS, Committco on Organization of the Nation! Clay Club. Philadelphia, Dec. 9th, 1854. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. "Cuffee, what do you think de mese useful of de plunets--de sun or de ninon ?'• Well, Sam bo, 1 link de moon orter take de lust rank in dui ar' tic•kler." " Wha, who, who. whit, why do you tink so, Cuffed'!" "Well, I tell you , boo. the shines by night when we want light, and do suci shines by day when we do not!' Well, Cute you is the greatest nigger 1 knose on—dot's a real How is your husband this morning. Mrs. &pins 1" Why, the doctor says as how if he lives till mornin,' he shall have some hopes of him; but if he don't live till mornM' he won't have no hopes of him !'" Dow, Jr. after demonstrating that wraith does not proem, itappine,P, soya : "A n.s a small house, a small farm. a small wile, u Mg dog, a farrow cow, two or three fat pigs, and nine el il. am, aught to be eatiefie4. If ke isle* be wet ean bee
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