Martinsburg Gazette

Mr. Seaton, a highly respectable member of the Georgia delegation to Congress, being a candidate with all his brother colleagues for re-election, and being publicly called upon to declare how his vote would be given in the event of the election of President of the United States devolving on the House of Representatives, answered as follows:

"In the event contemplated in your inquiry of the election of next President devolving upon the House of Representatives, I shall consider it my duty to conform to the will of the people of the state as it may be expressed in the choice of electors in November next, and I shall vote for the candidate who receives the vote of the State, whether it be Mr. Van Buren or Judge White, not only on the first ballot, but so long as there is any prospect of his election. This I believe to be the intention of all the members of our representation, as several of us had a consultation on the subject before we left Washington, and all were of opinion that obedience to the will of our constituents was in this, as in other cases, a paramount duty, to which our personal predilections must yield."