Martinsburgh Gazette

PRESIDENTIAL.

New-York.-Gen. McClure, a Senator in the Legislature of New-York, has written a letter to the Editors of the N. Y. statesman, with a request that they publish it, assigning his reasons for voting against the electoral bill, and other concerns of the politics of N. York merely, the contents of which is uninteresting out of the state. That part which relates to the Presidential Election, we have copied below:

"I presume your correspondent alludes to the Presidential question, when he asserts that I have joined the Regency; on that subject, my sentiments are well known and I can assure you, gentlemen, that they neither have nor will undergo a change. I am proud to be styled by your correspondent the leader of the Clay party in this state, although I have never attempted to lead" or drive any person. Your correspondent may therefore rest assured, that the "Regency" wil never prevail on me to throw my vote into the scale of Wm. H.Crawford, nor do I believe that there is the remotest probability of Mr. Crawford's getting the vote of this state.

"For my own part, I disapprove the manner in which he has been brought before the people by a minority caucus which, in my view of the subject, is an act usurpation, and altogether antirepublican. I am also opposed to the anti-national policy which he always has. and I have reason to believe, he always will pursue. He is attached exclusively to the policy of the seaboard, which is what a certain member of Congress. from South Carolina, called "the United States proper," and which he exclaimed to be the country for 60 miles into the interior, parallel with the ocean. Mr. Clay's policy is more liberal, and his views of national policy exhibit him to the world as a most profound statesman.

"The bold and independent course with which his conduct has ever been marked, whether when contending for those great leading measures of national policy recently adopted, and which are alike calculated to promote the interest and add new lustre to the character of his own country, or when aiding the emancipation of the oppressed in other quarters of the world from tyranny and thraldom, proclaim in the most interesting language a mind that soars far beyond those grovelling notions which tie down some men to sectional limits, and who can know no other interest save what may happen to exist in certain sections of the Union-I have no hesitation in saying that if the choice of electors were given to the People, that Mr. Clay would get the vote of this state, and, as it is, I can assure you that I consider his chance of success equal at least to any other candidate. Be that as it may, I shall be the last man in the Union that will desert him. These are my sentiments, which I have signed, sealed, and delivered, with a request that you will give the same a place in your paper."

New Jersey.--This state, we have every reason to believe, will vote for Henry Clay. There is a powerful party in that state decidedly in favor of him. composed of the most respectable and influential men there.

Delaware.-William H. Crawford will get the vote of this state, tho' the friends of Mr. Adams claim it.

Pennsylvania.-Considerable oppugnancy is shown to "Old Hickory" in this state. In addition to the Crawford Ticket formed some short time since at Harrisburg, there is to be a meeting of delegates from different parts of the state, at Carlisle, of the friends of Henry Clay and of John Quincy Adams. We have some hopes of this state yet; she has been going awry for some years. It is now thought by some that Clay will be found by the freemen of that state, the best material to make a President of.

Maryland.--In all probability, this state will be for Mr. Adams.

Virginia.Meetings have lately been held in the counties of Nelson, Bedford, Hardy and Monongalia, by the friends of Mr. Adams, and have named electors. It will avail nothing. Mr. Crawford will get the vote of this state, unless the friends of Adams and Jackson unite with those of Mr. Clay; he being the second man in Virginia; west of the Blue Ridge, he is the first.

Anticipation.--Various calculations have been lately published of the result of the Presidential Election, which show rather the wishes than the judgment of the writers.--The Columbian Observer, for instance. a paper in Philadelphia, which is devoted to the cause of General Jackson, sans decency, sans taste. sans political principle, calculates that the General is to be "chosen hollow" by the Electoral Colleges- This estimate, as well as we recollect. does not allow Mr. Crawford one vote certain.

A N. Carolina Correspondent of the National Journal allows Gen. J. 86 votes (embracing N. Carolina, and Missouri) -Mr. Adams 63 (embracing all N. England, N. Jersey, Delaware, and 3 in Maryland)-Mr. Crawford 69-and Mr. Clay 39.-The N. Journal disputes this estimate and casts the lots so as to give Mr Adams a plurality of the votes.

A Correspondent in the last Aurora consulting the recent indication, as he says, makes out an estimate entirely new. He asserts three of the districts in Maine will vote for Mr. Crawford. as will R. Island-that S. Carolina will vote for Gen. J., Delaware for Crawford. Maryland 2 votes in J., 4 to C., and 5 to Adams; Jersey will vote for Mr. Clay. and N. York will divide her vote so as to give Crawford 24 and Clay 12-With these new lights he calculates- that Cr will receive 86 votes; Clay 66, (giving him Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana,Jersey and 12 of N. Y.;) Jackson 60--and Adams 49;- that A. being dropt, the vote in the H. of R. wil stand thus; for Crawford 12. Clay 8, Jackson4,--that, finally it will come to pass, that no election will be made, but that the reigns of government will be transferred to Mr. Calhoun, previously elected the V. President-and thus (says "no Wizard") "the stone that was rejected at first by the builder becomes at length the capital of the pillar."

We shall pretend to make no calculation ourselves--but a northern correspondent has furnished us with an estimate of his own-founded upon elements which he has collected with considerable care :

"Gen. Jackson is destroying Mr. Adams--he will leave A. beyond itim. and place his chance very low.-- give Mr. A. all N. England, except 4 in R. Island and3 in Maine -making with 6 in Maryland. his total. 58 votes ---Delaware is settled: tickets formed, and will go for Crawford.--Jersey is going for Jackson -S. Carolina will go for Jackson: and I think A. has no reasonable chance of getting one vote in the Southern or Western States. I give J.. Pennsylvania, N. Jersey, 2 in Maryland, Alabama, Mississippi, S. Carolina, and Tennessee making 68-I then give Mr. Clay, Ohio. Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Louisiana 46-and leave the balance 97 for Mr.Crawford. -Mr. A will come to the H. of R. too debilitated to do any thing. N. England will leave him." " They will vote for Jackson- and the friends of Clay will generally go for Crawford--Richmond Enq.

Anti-Caucus Convention.--The Convention at Charlottesville will take place some time in the month of September. To it the opposers of the Caucus Ticket look with anxiety, for upon the course it pursues, depends the success of Mr. Crawford in Virginia. A great principle is about to be established, and a momentous question is before the nation: Is the election of President and Vice President to be placed in the hands of Congress, or the People? this is the inquiry. We have not yet degenerated so far from the principles of our ancestors as to permit our rights to be taken forcibly away from us. Virginians will never suffer a cause to be given up for which her worthies fought and bled, without some opposition. Let the friends of Adams, Jackson and Clay unite; let them abandon their own personal predilections for the good of their country; let the anti-caucus convention appoint suitable electors, and Virginia will again prove that she is not shackled by intrigue, nor enthralled by corruption, and she will give her vote to the man who is alike distinguished for his abilities, his learning, and his virtues.-Alex. Gaz.

Mr. Gallatin.--We had long since foreseen that the Caucus party would get tired of Mr. Gallatin, as soon as the failure of their attempt upon Pennsylvania should be sufficiently evident; but still we thought he would be abandoned with decency. He ought to have been; and yet his bitterest enemies could not desire a more humiliating sarcasm than that contained in the following notice from the Maryland Gazette :

Thomas W. Hall, and Luke Tiernan, Esqrs are candidates as Electors of President and Vice President of the United States for the district composed of the city of Baltimore, Anne Arundel county, and part of Montgomery county. If elected, they will vote for William H. Crawford. as President, and any respectable Democrat, that may be deemed proper as Vice President

Any respectable Democrat! What!--make a tool of a man, and then, after he has acted his part with fidelity, and to the best of his ability, dismiss him with a contumelious jeer. Oh, it is too bad !~It is the ne plus ultra of ingratitude in exclusive republicans; and has no parallel in the blackest specimen of Punic Faith.-Ibid.

Ohio.This patriotic state remains firm and immovable. She will vote for Henry Clay.

Kentucky.-A meeting of Delegates of the third electoral district of that state, met at the town of Paris. on the 9th of August. They appointed five electors, who pledged themselves to vote for HENRY CLAY of Kentucky, as President. and NATHAN SANFORD of New-York, as Vice-President. The following is an extract from the address of the Delegation on the occasion:

"The Delegation cannot permit the present occasion to pass without communicating to their constituents the animating intelligence received from different portions of the Union, which evidences the increasing zeal abroad to promote the election of Mr.Clay. New Jersey, at first, by minor meetings, and recently by a numerous assemblage from three counties greatly influential in the politics of that state, has given an unequivocal proof of her preference for the favorite candidate of Kentucky. The state of Ohio continues to give, by every form in which public opinion can be expressed, the most decided demonstration of the concurrence of the people with the nomination made by the general assembly of that state. The great state of New York, attached on one side to New Jersey, and on the other to Ohio, feels all the sympathies with them which local connexion and similarity of interest usually inspire. The well-informed friends of Mr. Clay throughout that state are sanguine, that the public sentiment in favor of the National policy which has been so ably advocated by him will prevail, and give to the west weight which has so long held the Union in equipoise by the conjectural adjustments made of its influence by the partizans of the several candidates. Should this event occur, it will give a decided preponderance to Mr. Clay's interest in the Union, and extend his influence, by an unbroken chain, from the great commercial part of our country to the frontier of our western wilderness. The states of Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri remain unshaken in the sentiment which they first avowed on the subject of the Presidency. The state of Louisiana too, has by her late elections, it is now understood, increased the majority in favour of Mr. Clay. in her state Legislature, to which body the choice of Electors is confided.

"Independently of Mr. Clay's unborrowed strength, it is matter of congratulation to his friends, that several States which have declared in favor of his most prominent rivals, will transfer their interests to him, should circumstances withhold their particular favorite from being a candidate before the Electoral college, or from the competition in the House of Representatives. Should the selection devolve on the House of Representatives, a circumstance never to be desired. but which in the course of events, may occur, and should General Jackson be excluded from the contest in that body. we have the best reasons to believe that the delegates from Pennsylvania and Tennessee will confer the votes of those States on Mr. Clay; and recent indications in Virginia show, that she is not deaf to the sound of that eloquence, which, in vindicating the liberty of those struggling against the oppression of ancient domination, reminds her of her own Patrick Henry, and that the Orator who utters it, breathes the spirit of his native state. She cannot suppress the recollection of the powerful influence exerted to sustain her principles, on an occasion which seemed to threaten the dissolution of the National Compact, for a more recent opposition, growing out of difference of opinion, in relation to a National policy, involving pecuniary interests merely.--Nor will she fail to appreciate duly, that disinterested patriotism which would sacrifice all the selfish views which personal ambition could suggest, to considerations of policy. connected with the general welfare. She will find in the conduct of Mr. Clay, during the last session of Congress, a sufficient pledge, that as a statesman he can postpone all personal expectations, to his conceptions of the public good. and that he can make the easier sacrifice of sectional interests, to those general principles which combine in their results. the wealth, power, and glory of the Nation."

The Felicianian Asylum and the N. Orleans Gazette, say, it is probable that Mr. Clay will obtain the vote of Louisiana.