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The Election

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Day
13
Month
November
Year
1847
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Public Domain
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We announced last week ihat llie election had resultcd nboul as usual. The Democratie mnjoritics for Govornor wil] fnot uji 5000 or C000. Every County, il issaid, has given a majority for Ransom, varying from 10 lo 000. The resuh on Senators is not cerlainly known, but the Whigs wül not have more tlian three, - In tho House, the Whigs have probably secured 2 in Hillsdale, 1 in Kalamazoo, 1 in St. Joseph, 1 in Barry, 1 in Eaton, 1 in Ingharn, 1 in Macomb, 1 in Lenawee, 1 n Berrien, 3 in Washtenaw - 13. Congress. - Sluart's mnjority will bc about 800. In tli is County, the Board of Canvassers determined that Messrs. Edwin Lavvrence, Grove Spencer, William Burnett, James Iungsley, and Lyman Carver,vere electerl Repiesentatives. The three first named are whig, the re.naining two democroLs. The Liberty vote in tiiis county was 268. In Wnynecounly, 108. We have no furtlier returns. We presume the whole oggregate vote in this Stnte will prove to be light. The Democrats we re so sure of electing their candidntes that tliey did not rally their full strength ; while the Whigs weresowell assured of the numérica! superiority of theiropponents that generally they did nol altempt to overeóme it. The Liberty party partook of the general lisllessness, and uwingto the want of an organization and of printed tickets in the new counties-, we do not e.pect returns of a niuoh ncreaaed vote. The elections of the last six j'ears seem to show, as far as continuad exprrience can show anylhing, that the Democrats in t hts slate have a elcar mnjority oer the Whigs vvhich canahvaysbe relied upon; and that tho Whigs, asnow organized, can have no hopes of carrying the State, by their own strer.gth, solong as the Democrats remain uniteJ. The Detroit Advertiser and its followers, do, indeed, teil a different story every year just befare election ; but it is well understood by the knowing ones of the pnrty. We merely mention these thingsas poliiical fucts. established by the experience of years. Being connected with neilher party, we can judge impartially : we have no predi'ections for the success of one or the oiher, so long as both are thoroughly and avowedlv proslavery. We liave nothing to gnin or lose by the success of either, unlil ts characler and principies of action be radically cliangrd. The Liberty Party must now be tlioroughly orginizeJ for llie campaign of 1848. We raust endeavor to concrntrale for Hale and King, the vote of evrev man in the State who s really and honestly an acting antislavery man, and bring it in at íhe grand inquisition for Liberty votes which will be had one year henee. ftj The Wilmot Proviso Democrats of this State, eommonlj' called ihe 'Barnburners,' (but styling thomselves the 'Radical Democracy,') held a large and nimated galheringat HerkimeronTuesday lasf, for the párpese of publicly repudiating the Syrncuse Hunker nominations, which they did very thoroiighly. There were some two or three ihousanrí persons presen', many of them from the enstern and western extremities of the State, and a host from the interior. Churchill C. Cambreleng of Suff.lk, formerly and for many years a Democratie Membor of Congress from the city ofNew York, presided in the meeting, which was addressed by the Hon. David YV ilmot of Penn., the ostensible author of the Proviso, and by Messrs. John Von Buren (Altorney Genera! of the SlnteJ C. C. Cambreleng, Mr. Davis, of Erie, Mr. Taylor, of tlie 'Cincinnati Signa],' an several oihers. The speeches of .Messrs. Cambreleng and Van Buren were very able, particularly the 'alter, which was strongly spiced with Anti Slavery sentiment - and ' the Democraey' shouted and cheered his assaults upnn the Slave Power, as ihough they had never voted Cor Polk nor approved of the Slavemongers' war, nor branded these same charges as falsehoods when made by the presses and speakers of the Liberty party ! But never mind : somfc good may come out of this demonstration, for all that. Prince John has evidently mastered the Anti Slavery alphabet, and will learn more perhaps by and by. II e is ahend of his Pa, already. We shouldn't particularly admire the ' VV ilmot Proviso' if we thoughtthe Hon. gentleman from Pennsylvania was a correct embodiment of the measure which bears his name. He plunged into all sorts of absurdities in his speech ; and ihough he was oppoicd to the extensión of slavpry, lie pledged liis party lo go down to the Soulli and shcd their blood, f need be, in caio of n servile insurrection nmoner llie ' humnn collie' on the

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