Vandalia Whig And Illinois Intelligencer

The great Vandalia Clay meeting has assembled, deliberated and resolved, and again dispersed—so the struggle is over. The proceedings will be found in another column.

Verily we had thought that the object of this meeting was to nominate, or rather to confirm nominations of electors previously made, who should be pledged to vote for Messrs. Clay and Sergeant. So thought the party, all, we have no doubt, but a few of the prime movers. Yet it seems that the true object was to make it an occasion for bestowing indiscriminate and fulsome praises upon their great favorite for his petulance and ungentlemanly conduct in the Senate, miscalled a defence of the "American System;" and at the same time to heap unmerited abuse upon Gen. Jackson and the measures of his administration, upon which the people have repeatedly put the seal of their approbation.

The resolutions adopted at the meeting, clearly show this, while all the speech making, we are informed, (we had not the pleasure of attending) of the several imitators of the Orator of the West, tended to the same end. But it will not do—their long series of resolves, replete with political wisdom, are sent out to a community prepared at all points to refute them, if in no other way, at least by their votes next November.

What gentlemen who get up and attend such meetings as the late small gatherings at Vandalia and some few other places, can promise themselves as the result of their efforts, it is difficult precisely to divine; their hope of success must be exceedingly small—scarcely susceptible of an estimate. That the vote of Illinois will be given to Gen. Jackson, no person doubts, nor will the resolves, meetings, speech-making and spouting of partisans effect any alteration in the result.