Constitutional Whig

ILLINOIS.—We have a letter from a responsible source in Illinois, giving us an insight into the nature of the late contested Election for Governor of that State. It is rather too personal and minute for publication; not that its statements may not be implicitly confided in, but that they would introduce into our columns controversies of a length disproportionate to the importance of the subject. The pith of the contents of the letter is precisely expressed in the following brief statement, which we extract from an Illinois paper:—[Nat. Int.

From the Kaskaskia Democrat.

We look upon this election as a decided and glorious triumph of principle over corruption—one in which the strength of the republican party has been made manifest. The influence of the General Government, by means of their officers in this State, was brought to bear in a powerful degree against the people's successful candidate. All the new Land officers, whose appointments were procured through the misrepresentation of Mr. Kinney, at the expense of right, propriety, and justice, and to the great dissatisfaction of the people, were clamorous, busy, active and indefatigable in their exertions to elect him.

The result of the late contest is very interesting in other points of view, and in none more so than this, that it furnishes the strongest evidence of the sense of our people with regard to the proscriptive policy into which the President has been forced, and which has made our land pale. The punishment of worthy men for opinion's sake does not suit our people, and Reynolds took the field against it.

The great question of Internal Improvements, too, had a bearing in the election—the successful candidate being in favor of the power exercised by Congress to appropriate money for Internal Improvements, within the several States, and his opponent against it.