Pawtucket Gazette And Chronicle

The Presidential Election.-Notwithstanding the defeat of General Scott, he has received the votes of an immense number of American citizens-a larger number than composes the population of some European Kingdoms. It is a beautiful illustration of the excellence of our form of government, and the working of our institutions, to see the perfect submission to and acquiescence in the will of the majority, by the minority. A civil revolution has been effected by the ballot-box alone, and the defeated think no more of rebelling or revolting, than they do of going to the moon. What would produce convulsions, riots, bloodshed, and misery, in the old world, is here just as much a matter of course, as the execution of a decree in Chancery, or the peaceable settlement of a suit at Common Law. The people have heard the argument, tried the case, and rendered their verdict, and there is an end of the matter.

On the 4th of March next, Franklin Pierce, without armies or guards, will appear in the Capitol, and be sworn in as President, and from that moment wield the power and patronage of the government, as far as his constitutional duties will permit, without a man in the wide Republic to object to his right. Who can fail to love such a country, and to glory in institutions that bring such a result? Political defeat loses all its sting, and American of all parties may rejoice that their nation is affording to the rest of the world an example, which will tend more to propagate republican principles, than intervention or acquisition. Obedience of law, is the great American doctrine. The termination of a Presidential election is an exemplification of this doctrine,-and, in this sense, it is an important event, apart from other circumstances which affects principles and measures. May the same great doctrine continue to be, in all matters touching our foreign and domestic relations, the cherished creed of the American people !-Alexandria Gazette.