New Hampshire Statesman And State Journal

PROSPECTS OF THE OPPOSITION.

We believe few will deny, that if the whole opposition can be united upon one candidate, that he would succeed. Let us make a dispassionate estimate of the States, which present indications satisfy us, that neither Van Buren or White can obtain. The whole number of electoral votes is 288—144 thereof, will make a majority. We put down no state as being opposed to both Van Buren and White, but such as is generally conceded to be beyond their reach, viz.—Massachusetts 14, Rhode Island 4, Vermont 7, New Jersey 8, Delaware 3, Maryland 10, Kentucky 15, Ohio 21, Indiana 9, South Carolina 11. Here are 102 certain votes belonging to the opposition, and which neither White nor Van Buren can get. Then there are Maine 10, Connecticut 8, Louisiana 5, Illinois 5—almost certain—which added to the others make 130 votes, only 14 less than are required to elect by the people. Now if White or Van Buren can get a single one of the other States, the vote of the highest of the two must be less than the vote for the Whig candidate. Superadded to this estimate, there are the States of Pennsylvania, New-York, Virginia and New-Hampshire, where the parties are so nearly balanced, as to render it quite doubtful as to who would obtain either of them. If there were tickets run for White, Van Buren, and the opposition candidate, (as there doubtless will be) in any one of the four states last named the success of the opposition candidate would be insured in such state. It is probable there will be three tickets in each of those states, which would most likely give them all to the opposition candidate.

Cincinnati Whig.