New Hampshire Statesman

VIRGINIA.

From the returns of votes for the Presidential election, which have been received from this State, it would seem, that not one-fourth of the freeholders have taken the trouble to go to the polls. We hear the question repeatedly asked, why is this apathy evinced in a State which took so prominent a part in the cause of the Caucus? The Richmond Enquirer and the Washington Intelligencer would make us believe, that it is owing to the confidence which the friends of Mr. Crawford entertain of his success. But it is manifest that this is not the fact. The true cause is, the utter indifference which the people of Virginia feel in the success of Mr. Crawford. He has been forced upon them, and they take him as children do a dose of salts. His character is not congenial with that of the highminded Virginians; and the support which he has obtained, small as it is, compared with the boastings of the Richmond Junta, through its mouthpiece, Mr. Ritchie, has resulted from the desire of the people not to divide the State, rather than from their respect for the character of the man. It is now certain, that if those who opposed Mr. Crawford, from principle, had united upon any other candidate, he would have been defeated by a large majority: and even as it is, it is by no means improbable that Mr. Adams will obtain the vote of the State. This event, indeed, will be certain, unless Mr. Crawford should obtain, what from present appearances there is no prospect of his obtaining, a majority of at least 2,000 votes in the counties on this side the mountains.—Richmond, it seems, which is the centre of the Central Committee, the home of the very organ of the anti-popular faction, gave him only a majority of 31 votes over Mr. Adams.