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Daily Richmond Whig
Richmond, Virginia
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In South Carolina, the election for U.S. Senator ended with Stephen D. Miller receiving 81 votes and defeating Judge Wm. Smith with 77 votes. The text criticizes the party for sacrificing Smith due to alleged Federalism, despite his long adherence to Jeffersonian principles.
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For Stephen D. Miller (now Governor) 81
Wm. Smith 77
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When it is remembered what Judge Smith's course in public life has been -- how long, and inflexibly, and without shadow of turning, he had adhered to the doctrines of the strictest school of construction -- and that he has now been deprived of his seat on the charge of Federalism -- rational and reflecting people, will find new cause for detesting and repudiating party and party spirit. If there is one man in the U. States, who more than any other, has been uniform in adherence to the principles of the Jefferson School of Politics, and gone nigher to give the evidence of martyrdom to their truth, that man we believe is Judge Smith. It is a curious reflection, and admonitory to politicians, that the party by whom Judge Smith is now sacrificed, and for alledged want of fidelity to State Rights, is the same party which sacrificed him once before (in 1824) for his devotion to those principles: For it is certain, that the present nullifyers are in the mass, the Calhoun and latitudinarian party of that period.
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South Carolina
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stephen d. miller received 81 votes and was elected; wm. smith received 77 votes and was defeated; scattering 1 vote.
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The election for a U.S. Senator terminated with Judge Smith defeated after adhering to strict construction doctrines and Jeffersonian principles, now charged with Federalism by the party that previously opposed him in 1824 for devotion to state rights; the current nullifyers are the Calhoun and latitudinarian party of that period.