The National Republican And Ohio Political Register

JACKSON AND CLAY.

Mr. Clay is out of the question. He cannot get the vote of one single state east of the mountains; and the west ought not to be, and will not be divided. The contest will be between Mr. Adams and General Jackson, and the people of the west will take up and support the latter, if they want a western president. They must view with joy, the decided stand taken east of the mountains in favor of General Jackson; and it may be looked upon as an almost certain event, that the people of Virginia will throw themselves in the same scale. They have every thing to gain by it. The future physical and political power of the Union will be concentrated between the Alleghany and the Rocky Mountains. The Atlantic states are at the summit of their political power, and they must soon be convinced that future strength can only be acquired by uniting with the west. It would be unwise in Virginia to effect a political severance between herself and Pennsylvania, and the western states. It would be the greatest folly to do so. Look upon the map of the Union, and the important position of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, will be seen and admitted by every friend to the confederation. Harmony and political connection between them and the western states, are necessary to preserve the union. It will obviate the dangers and destroy the effects of sectional jealousy and pride, and form the balance wheel of the nation. It is not the policy of Virginia to break with Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, and the Western states, for the sake of an union with New-England and New-York. This will be the case, if she shall take up Mr. Adams-and every consideration, as well state as national, urges the people of Virginia to take up and support General Jackson.

Mr. Clay and some of his friends, miscalculated the sentiments and wishes of the people of the United States. He has no chance--nay, not even a hope of being chosen president by the Electoral College. His plan and efforts have been directed to gain such a vote in that body as would defeat the election there, and thus transfer it to Congress. This is an event greatly dreaded by the people. They will never forget the conduct of Congress, in endeavoring to force AARON BURR on them, as their President, instead of Mr. Jefferson. No other example is necessary to convince the people of the danger, of suffering the election to go to Congress. Such an event would endanger the government of the Union. If the election shall go into Congress, the rights of the people will be trampled under foot-the elective franchise will be lost to them-and our republican institutions will be corrupted to the core. 'The very idea of such an event, is most abhorrent.

If the election be left to the people, it is certain that Gen. Jackson will be our next president; and they will be foolish indeed, and unfaithful to themselves and to posterity if they give up their sovereign power, in elections, and consent to be ruled by a faction. The people of Virginia, in various parts are rising up and asserting their rights in favor of Gen. Jackson-and we may expect shortly to see the whole of that Republican people of one opinion, and for the Hero of New-Orleans. In doing this, that state will return to the republican family; and re-establish her former relations and influence with Pennsylvania, Maryland, North and South Carolina, and the western States. The people respect Gen. Jackson, and he is certainly their candidate. But ambitious men-office hunters, and certain newspapers are dreadfully alarmed at the cry of Old Hickory.-Louisville Pub. Adv.