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New York Elections

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
January
Year
1848
Copyright
Public Domain
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For CO. Sbepard, for Lieut. Gov. ti,42Ö5 for Wm. Jay, Secretary of State, 8,518; fo1" Lewis Tappan, Comptroüer, Ï0,408:; Tor C. A. Wheaton, T reasure.-, 8,681 5 for Leonnrd Gibb', Attorney General, 10,365; for F.A. Utter,,Engineer and Surveyor, 7,629 ; for Canal Commissione's, C. M. Moore, 10,000, John Thomas 10,828. Noadiah Moore 8,583. For Inipectors of Prisons,Abijah Fitch 10,091, Cshin Cook 8,523, Peter Ruwe 8,411. The cause cf this difference in the number of votes is thus explained by the Liberty Press: "Col. Shepard s indebted for his increased vote over the heads of his brethren on the ticket to the Anti-Renters. - fn Delaware county he receiveii 2,021, and ia ahead of either nf the other candidates; and in Albany 950; and a smaller Anti-Rent vote in other couniies. - Messrs. Tappan, Gibbs, L. M. Moore, Thomas and Fitch, are nhead of Jay and other?, by being taken up and voted for by the Nationnl Reformers. Thpse Anti-Rent and National Reform votes are not howeverto be regarded as a permanent acquisition, since the men ol these jarties will vote lora proslavery VVhig r Democrat whenever such are in nomination favorable to their respective "une iHea." The vote fnr Wm. Jay is a fair representativo of the Liberty vote ofthestate as cast nt the late election." The diminished Liberty vote of the State generally is atiributed lo the disaffectiennnd opposition of the Leaguers. (ji3Ca.N$ius M. Chy, on his return fromthe Me.xican war, was received with great enthusiasm. A correspondent of the Tribune writes : "At 6 o'clock this morning, 13 rounds ffcnnnon were discharged, to announce that he wouU arrive (his afiernoon. Upon hi-i arrival, a great many rounds of cannon were discharged - he church bells were all rung - andan eloquent anc1 approprinte aJdress was deliveied, upon greeling him, by Capt. Jewett - to which (Jlay responded, with great self-possession, for ome twenty miutes. Among the s-entiments which he uttered, were - that he claimed no particular meril in anything which he had done to relieve his fellow-prisoners ; that, if he claimed nny meri in any of his hearings towards his country and his fellow-countrvmen, it was the eornest convictions of his heart that had ever prompted him to do his du.ty ; that, wherein he may have erred,MÜl -it was the r"sult of such convictions ; that his political views had not changed, und werewhat they hadalways been, &c. ,&c. The procession, escorled by the three rriilitary companies of the Fayette Legión, ■moved on to his residence, where he then inviled all to come, and bring, who choeeto do so, their mothers, daughters and eters, to his house to-night. Such was ihe enieusiasm, thnt the Marshal eoiúd do nothing for the order of processáon i bet they marched a solid phalnnx, for bundreds of yards in length, filling tbe whole breadth of the streets through wbieh they passed." It ís not two years since Cassius was in datiger of being murdered in his own house, by his follow citizens. What has nwde this mighty diflerence in their feelings! Then, he was battling for the tbolition of Slavery ; now, he has spent himoneyand risked his life to carry on war oiiginatedby the acts of Slavery Propagandists, and prosecuted to subserve iheir purposes. Had he continued his True American, as he begun it, no su ch honors would have awaited him, but inult, ignominy and scorn fro a his slaveholding neighbors; but the verdict of posterity, in all coming ages, would have eulogised him as one of the benefactors of his race. This reward Cassius undoubtedly desired ; but he had not the patience and cournge to toil for it through long years of obloquy and reproach. - He has his good things- his reward, during his life time, in the praise andshouts with which a rabble are ever ready to greet a military Chief. Pursuing his prenent course his name wilt only be registered with those of other héroes who have cursed their race by their exploits ; but it will never be insenbed with those of eminent noble-hearted and self-devoted men who gave their all for the benefit of mankind, nnd who wilh trerefore be refnembered with nffection nnd gratitude long after all wars and rumors of wars shall have ceased upon the earth.