The Daily Madisonian

Extract from a letter from a distinguished politician in Ohio to a friend in this city, dated "Chillicothe, October 19, 1842."

"You will have heard, ere this, of our most glorious triumph. It is only important now to bear in mind the great issues which have been tried and settled by the People in this contest. The Whig press generally, and some few of the Democratic press, are already endeavoring to make the impression abroad that the questions thus decided by the People were anything but what they really were. Now, sir, I most positively assure you that the great leading questions before the People, from the beginning to the end of the contest, were founded upon the acts and principles of the National Administration. The vetoes of President Tyler and the general policy of his Administration—these were the questions discussed and sustained by the Democracy generally, and violently denounced and opposed by Mr. Clay and his party throughout. The resignation of the "Whig" members of the Legislature mixed itself, of course, with other issues, and influenced, to a certain extent, the conduct and declarations of the Clay faction. But the grand question was the policy and the honesty of the General Administration, and upon its general principles, and not upon the popularity of any one man, or set of men, has Democracy triumphed. Such, I know, to be the fact; and, as fact, it should be promulgated. And if measures not in accordance with the popular principles of the Administration are enforced, again will Democracy fall into an inglorious minority in Ohio.

One Democratic paper attributes the joyous result to the influence of Senator Allen's name and popularity. It is a most unjust ascription of praise. For neither his name, nor that of any dozen men, however distinguished, could have produced such a result. A much more glorious object, a much deeper feeling, roused the people, and called forth their irresistible energies. The principles of a Republican Administration, operating in beneficent measures, and the mad conduct of ultra Federalism provoked the contest and insured the victory."