Selections: Condition And Prospects Of The Democratic Party

It begins to bc manifest that tlie propects of Mr. Polk6 ndininistralion i;i regard lo pop lar support, are vcry far fiom beiiig joyou. There is no sucii oyerwbeJraing popularity in nnnexation, as the sofe measure, the "one idea" of our administralion, as somc have pretended to think. The Democratie tickets have been elecled in soine of the cities of New York, but in all cases by pluralily of votes, íc a majoriiy of the people against them. The Concord, í'AÍusp.j Freeman, a decidcd Democratie, Pollt-andTexai pnper, referring to the loss of the. Con necticut clection, and with it four niembers ol Congres?, tluis moralizes: ♦'Certnin it i?, that we have lost n every election thnt has laken place since the inanguration of Mr. Polk. Th 8 becomes serious, whr-.n we contémplate the probable effect of a cuntinuance of defeats on the cliaracter of ilio next United States Honso of Represenfntive?. The followiny tab.'e vvill eIiow hov porties sland in the House, eo far as e'tclions have been held:The rcmnining States vet 10 clioose, were represented in the last Congress by 52 Dcmocrats an.l 27 Whigs and if the same state of tliings couM te relied on, ihe president would have a working mnjority of about 40. Bul ihe Freeman admits thatthey naast calctilate on ]osing ut least a dozen memoere in the Stalcs of Virginia, Indiana, Norih Carolina, Kcntucky and Tennessee. The mnjority will then he only about twenty; and lino the Freeman Baye: 'We cannot depend tipon South Carolina any more tlian we can cotint upon the 6teadiness of the iind. Her .'eading press has at tacked tbc administraron with a good deal of Bcverity, and there are o'.lier indicalions thai her representatives will be arrayed ogainst the ruling powera." Jf South Carolina uniíes with the Whigs, or takes the dog in the manger positioD, the wheels will bet-flcctunlly b'ocked. Says the Freeman :''Florida will give tis one member, but hcither Texns nor lowa wil] be in tlie Uniun at the meeting of the next Congress,so that we can look for no assislance from ihcm. On Ihe whole, though the prospect is notutterly hopeless, it is very dismal. indeed, and one which we do not love to contémplale. It is very plain that we can do noïhing of any consequence in the House, for less than tweniy five is not a vrorkihg majiirity. The Texns question will te in n lean minority, as the friends of slavery will do nny thing to sreaken the "peculiar institutiop;" ond its eneniie.will be encouragcd by circumstances to batlle bravely ngainst it, in the hope of bringin a bout its utter extermiiiation." This is Ead, indeed - for those who have bragged so inuch, and bowed down eo low, on the slrcngth of tiie suppo'-ed popular will in favor of Texas, llow do you feel, gentlemen? How do you feel, that voted agninst Ihe annexation of Texns by treaty, and denounced Brown's resolutions as uncons".itu tional nnd diigraceful, and then voted to pui their praciical adoption, ae a proxy, into ihe hands of John Tylër, to be used at li ie discretion? Ycs, Tyler's discretiun! Remember, toe d'itfm vote for Tyler, as eomebody did.