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The States: Ohio

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
October
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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We Bavêjhot yot the exnct returns froti all ;nrts of tlïfè State; b'ut il seems t be eer tuin that 12 Deniocrnts and 9 VVhigs arp elected to Congress, and íha't the Whigs wil have a majority of five of six in tlic Iïousp nnd that the parties will be aboul even on joint bullot. We learn the following parüculnrs respecting the hibertv vole. In Trumbuil count it was 544 to 617. For King last year 45C. In Ashtabula, the vote fur Wade wns L67. The balance of the Liberty ticket receiveu 328 to 470 votes. King's vole last year, 453. - Whig mnjority last ycar in this county abou 1000. In Geauga, tlie average Liberty vote is 2S9- last year, 100. In Lalïe, it was a'oout tlie same aa last year. Cuyahoga gave for Wade, 226; for the balance of the Liberty ticket, 235 to 247. Last year, 185. The Liberty vote of Portage is 230; last year, 133 In Snmmit, it was from 138 to 195 - lust year, 137. In Medina, 192; last year, 157.- Erie, for Congress, 53; last year, 33. The whig majoriry on joint bulbt in the Legislature will be two. The Liberty vole in Hamilton County has increased to upwards of 5ü0, being 270 petcent in one year. From the returns already received, it is supposed the. Liberty vote of the State will be about eight or nine thousand.Mr. GiJdings has written a letter to the editor of the Liberty Ilerald, coruplaining of the injtistice of those Liberty papers which represent him as "pledged to Mr. Clay," as "sold to Henry Clay." fce. These charges he pronounces false and slanderous. Mr. G. èays: "The public have long been in possession ofmy views of Mr. C!ay, written by ïnyself nnd publishd to the world. These sentim?nls have been reiterated within the last twelve montus on more than twenty public occasions, at some of which I thinkyou have been present, I am not certain. Yet these men pereis c '.n their gross tnisrepresention of my views." As we are of the rmmber of those who have represented Mr. Giddings, as fiiendly to Mr. Clay's election, we must present our apology, and stand corrected. Our first impression to this effect was derived from an abstract of a speech of bis when canvassin"for the special election last year. In what paper this speech was originally published we do not rccollect; but we beÜeve it was pretty fnlly extracfed into the L.iberator. In this arücle, the writer makes Mr. G. to be interrupted in his speech by some one m the assembly, who asked him who was his can didate for the Presidency? Mr. Giddings promptly replied that Gen. Scotï was his fa vorite candidate: that Mr. Clay was a good man, but he preferred Gen. Scott. Since Uien, Mr. G. as we supposed, had been renomitiated by a Clay Whig Conventio, and was eupported and elected by a party who are unitedly determined to niake Mr. Clay Presi We have never heard Mr. G. speak personally, nor have we ever seen any written declarations of his whether he intended to support Mr. Clay or not. Ho wever, we hope men of all parties will now onderstand that Mr. G. regareis such a charge aa "Jalse and slanderovs." Let Whigs take notice! We subjoin the following extract from hiletter to the Liberty Herald, as showiñg his opinión of the Whig and Liberty parties. It will be seen his positions are by no means unquestionable; but we have no room for remarks at present. "If you intended by this paragraph to convey the idea to your readers ihat in my addresses at cither of those towns, or any where else, I have represented the whig party to be an anti slavery party, you have done me injustice. So far from doing that,-I parücularly cautioned my henrers against such impression. I presume the error nrose from my having saïd, thíit "members ef the whig party were doing far more to separate thf people of the free Slates from the moral guilt of fclavery and the slave trade, than the Liberty party were." T also said, that "the whig press was doing far more to extend a knowledge of the encroauhtrents upon our Constiuuional righlsomöng the people, than ihe Liberty press." I also gave it ae my opinión that "tlie whig party at no distant ilay would maintain our rights. and would vindícate the Constitution and relieve us from the expense and guiJt of slavery, tvbile our Liberty friends were busy in getting up their political party." I urged these points, but I never represented the whig party as now being an a7itisla very party party. On the contrary, I expressly stated that our rights had been negleeted and overlooked by the great rnass öf our public men; by those who belong both to rhe Whig and to the Liberty party, as well as the Democratie party. I also stated thni all that had been done in Congress lo cali up public attention to the maintainance of our rights n regard to slaven', und lo diffuse information among the people, and to arotise them to action, had been done by the wHigB; and there were now, probably, more than flve times as many persons among the whig party engaged in mointaining those righfs and urging others to maintain l'hem, thanlhere are among tha Liberly party."

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