The Hillsborough Recorder

LOOK ALOFT

The corruptionists, so lately trembling under the apprehension of impending justice, revived by the recent news from deluded and duped Pennsylvania, again raise their heads, and pour forth the song of triumph. They have gained, at the late election, one state, (Pennsylvania,) which they always claimed, by a less majority than they ever claimed, and, by the clamor which they raise to keep their spirits up, one would suppose they had carried the General Election, at which, in the next month, they may, as likely as not, lose the vote of that very state. On the other hand, they have lost, irrecoverably lost another great state, (Ohio) which, only but a short week ago, was positively, and unquestionably claimed by their highest authority, as certain for them.

We invoke the opponents of the present misrule, in every part of the country, to be firm, faithful, and fearless in the discharge of their duty as good citizens. Instead of looking down into the abyss beneath their feet, let them look aloft, with confidence in themselves, but a great deal more in the benevolence of a wise Providence. Hitherto, whilst they have not suffered themselves to be betrayed into a childish exultation by the almost ludicrous dismay of their opponents at their defeats, let them not be depressed by results such as those in Pennsylvania and N. Jersey, which were foreseen by most of the politicians who do not suffer their wishes to run away with their judgment.

With the proper resolution, and combined exertions, the defeat of the spoilsmen is demonstrably within the power of their opponents, with, or without, Pennsylvania, which state we are willing to allow to be doubtful. With this allowance, however, instead of wincing and fretting because we have not carried every doubtful state, let us again cast up our account of probabilities, judged by the elections as far as they have progressed, and be ruled by the demonstration of figures rather than by fears, the querulous utterance of which is calculated to unnerve the arms of our friends, and encourage the presumption of our antagonists.

How, then, now stands our account current of calculations, founded upon elections which have taken place this Fall? Here it is—

For Mr. Van Buren.

Illinois, Five.

Missouri, Four.

Arkansas, Three

Rhode Island, Four.

Maine, Ten.

New Jersey, Eight.

Pennsylvania Thirty

In all sixty-four.

Against Mr. Van Buren.
Louisiana,	Five.
Alabama,	Seven.
North Carolina,	Fifteen.
Kentucky,	Fifteen.
Indiana,	Nine.
Maryland,	Ten.
Vermont,	Seven.
Ohio,	Twenty one.

In all, Eighty nine.

So that, give the spoilsmen New Jersey and Pennsylvania—we should be very sorry to believe that they had bagged either the one or the other—and we still beat them twenty-five Electoral votes. And, as for the remaining ten states, the chances are at least equal in our favour. Look aloft, then, we say, and throw to the winds all vain regrets and needless apprehensions. Nat. Intelligencer.