Daily Richmond Whig

Maryland Elections.—The State elections have resulted in the triumph of the Jacksonians. The balance of power in the Legislature, heretofore possessed by the Anti-Jacksonians, is transferred to their adversaries. The welkin has rung with the groans of the Maryland Jacksonians, at the proscription, which in some instances, the State ascendancy of their rivals inflicted upon them. They have now an opportunity of testing to the world, their sincerity, when they complained of the violence of their opponents, and gently insinuated, how differently, and forbearing-ly, they would have exercised power. Ha! gentlemen—shall we be called upon to witness and applaud your magnanimity, or to observe your vengeance? Will you return good for evil, or will you have an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? Will your example in conduct, correspond with your professions in denouncing the measures of your opponents; or now that you have the power, will you discover how much more easy it is, to rail at a bad act, than to do a good one? We require not time to inform us, how you will answer these interrogatories by your conduct.

The defeat of the Anti-Jacksonians, seems by them, to have been unexpected, and we should rather infer, was so to the victors themselves. Unquenched zeal, which brought the entire force of the Jacksonians to the polls, and the despondency natural to recent defeat, which kept many of the opposite party at home, will account for the event. It is a peculiar and not an unadmirable feature of Jacksonism, that all inconveniences are embraced with pleasure, to advance its object. Its zeal is sleepless, unwearied and overpowering. Is this an effect of the consciousness of a good cause, or is it true as affirmed by philosophers of the mind, that error is defended with more vehemence than truth?

The Baltimore Patriot states the relative force of the parties in the House of Delegates at 40 and 40; the National Intelligencer gives the Jacksonians a small ascendency in that body. Which account is the true one, is not material, as in the Senate, they have an ascertained majority of five, and this is sufficient on joint ballot, to place the Administration of the State in their hands.

The exultation of the victors is fierce, coarse and unbounded. There are various proofs in the shape of letters, &c. before us, from Maryland, that the result might have been prevented, but this, instead of giving those who wished it prevented, any consolation, enhances defeat, by showing it to have been deserved. It is truly, very consolatory to a man whose carelessness has run his nose against a post, to be told that a little caution and a little trouble would have prevented the catastrophe.