ALMANAC THE WHIG PARTY, BEATEN, NOT CONQUERED; OVERBORNE BY FRAUD, NOT VANQUISH "A sound National Currency, regulated by the will and "An adequate Revenue, with fair Protection to American Industry. "Just restraints on the Executive power, embracing a further restriction on the exercise of the Veto. "A faithful administration of the Public Domain, with an equitable distribution of the proceeds of sales of it among all the States. "An honest and economical administration of the General Government, leaving public officers perfect freedom of thought and of the right of suffrage; but with suitable restraints against improper interference in Elections. "An amendment of the Constitution, limiting the incumbent of the Presidential office to a single term. "These objects attained, I think we should cease to be afflicted with bad administrations of the Government. Reproduced by the AMERICAN, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHIC, Co. NY(-Osborne's Process-) TABLE OF CONTENTS. do. of Indians within the borders of the United States. Revenue and Expenditures of United States Government for 1844.. Calendars adapted to all States and Territories in the United States The Past and the Future, (Editorial).. Were the Whigs beaten by Fraud? (Editorial) Votes for Presidents and Vice Presidents from 1798 to 1844. Number of Presidential Electors from each State, and the manner in which the votes were cast in 1844. President and Cabinet Officers with their Salaries. Judges of Supreme Court and salaries........... United States Senators, 28th Congress.. .3-142 21-25 do. of Ministers and Consuls and Diplomatic Agents in different parts of the world.. .35-36 Navy List-Grade and Pay, Commanders, Surgeons, Lieutenants, Pursers, Chaplains, Engineers, &c.44-45 Vessels of War in United States Navy, names and number of guns Presidential Election Returns of all the States.... 53-62 POPULATION, REVENUE, EXPENDITURE, &C. CENSUS.-1840. POPULATION OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES. White persons included in the foregoing, who are deaf and dumb, under 14 years of age.. 66 of 14 over 25 and under 25 2,056 2,7002 blind.. 5.024 46 66 insane and idiots at the public charge.. 4.329 private charge.. 10,179 Total number of persons employed in mining.. 15,203 agriculture 3,717,756 commerce 117,575 2 manufactures and trade. 791,545 navigation of the ocean.. canals, lakes and rivers.. 56,025 33,067 65,2362 977 66 learned professions. Slaves and colored persons included in the foregoing, who are deaf and dumb. 1,892 66 insane and idiots at private charge, 2,093 833 20,797 549,693 Total number of pensioners for revolutionary or military services.. CENSUS OF INDIANS RESIDING WITHIN THE BORDERS OF THE U. STATES. REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE 15 THE PAST AND THE FUTURE. THE year 1844, just ended, has witnessed over to the opposite party; thousands were one of the most extraordinary Political contests Naturalized expressly to oppose Nativism, that ever occurred. So nice and equal a bal-and voted the Polk tickets mainly to that end; ance of parties, so universal and intense an in- thousands more, we have good reason to beterest, so desperate and protracted a struggle, lieve, voted that way without being naturalare entirely without parallel. The result, ized at all. Mr. Polk on this single question though showing a large preponderance of gained more than enough votes in the State of Electoral Votes for the victorious party, exhib-New-York to elect him. But all the losses sustained by the Whigs its no corresponding disparity of moral or numerical strength. James K. Polk is chosen through Fraudulent Voting, with the diverPresident by less than an absolute majority of sions from their ranks by Abolition and repugthe People's Votes. Allow him Fifty Thou- nance to Nativism, would have been unavailsand more than Clay, in a Vote of Three Mil-ing, had the People been permitted to know lions, and there are still to be considered the what were the main questions in difference Sixty-odd Thousand votes thrown away on between the two great parties, and so to dethe Birney or Abolition ticket-every one op-cide intelligently upon them. But this Locoposed to Polk's views on the Texas Question, Focoism resisted and prevented. It could and nine-tenths of them in favor of the Protec- not do otherwise and not be beaten. Theretion of Home Industry, and Whigs in every fore, while its public meetings, its speakers, thing but their Political hostility to Slavery. its journals, in the South, were open, bold and So that, while one party has secured the Of- ardent in their advocacy of the Immediate fices and the Executive power, there is a clear Annexation of Texas to this Country, regardpopular majority for the Principles and Mca-less of consequences, this question was widesures of its antagonist. ly declared at the North to be by no means But this is only an item. James K. Polk distinctly or decisively in issue. The Eveowes his election to the Birney or Liberty ning Post, the most respectable and influential Party. Had there been no such party, draw- Polk paper in this City, repudiated the issue ing its votes nine-tenths from the Whig ranks, and opposed Annexation. Silas Wright, who Mr. Olay would have received at least the had powerfully opposed the Texas Treaty in votes of New-York and Michigan, in addition the Senate, was made the Polk candidate for to those actually cast for him, giving him 146 Governor of New York, by which nomination votes to Polk's 129. To Birney and Co. there- the Van Buren anti-Texas men were drawn fore, is the Country indebted for the election into the support of Polk, New-York carried of Polk, and an Annexation, anti-Tariff ascen- for him, and his election secured. Thus while dency in the Federal Government. Texas gained for Polk the votes of Georgia Yet Abolition alone could not have made a and Louisiana, the game was so played as not sufficient diversion in favor of Loco-Focoism to lose him a single Northern vote. to defeat Mr. Clay. Native Americanism, or On the Tariff question the fraud planned the apprehension studiously inculcated by and perpetrated to prevent a clear popular Mr. Polk's partisans that the Whigs, if suc- verdict was still more glaring. In the first? cessful, would abolish or greatly restrict the place, a resolution, which might be interpreted? privilege of becoming citizens now accorded to mean any thing or nothing, was passed at to Immigrants from Foreign Countries, struck the Convention by which Polk and Dallas? us a hard blow. Thousands of Adopted Citi- were nominated. The Free Traders interzens, heretofore Whigs, were impelled to go preted it as declaring hostility to all Protective THE PAST AND THE FUTURE. Legislation. The Tariff men in the party re-jup to the Nation as a gambler, a profane garded it as meaning practically just nothing swearer, and a general profligate in morals at all. Thus both were satisfied. Coming and life, while those who had through twenty before the People, those of the Cotton States years supported and idolized Crawford and were assured that Mr. Polk was a genuine Jackson, each of whom had killed his man in Free Trader, and his votes and speeches in personal encounter, while Jackson had tried Congress and on the stump were cited to hard to kill the two Bentons without even the prove it. At the same time, Pennsylvania formalities of a combat, were horrified at Mr. and other Tariff States were assured that Polk Clay's bloodless and regretted duels! The was for moderate and reasonable Protection contest was widely represented as one beto Home Industry, and a letter from him to tween a dueling and an anti-dueling candidate, John K. Kane of Philadelphia (the only avow- and thousands were on this ground induced? al of principle he made for the public eye' to vote against their own views of National after his nomination) was produced to prove Policy and practical beneficence. If an unit. This letter was written after the pattern just seizure of foreign territory, resulting in of the Baltimore Resolution aforesaid, and, war and ten thousand deaths, shall be the rewhile it looked toward a Protective Tariff, sult of this squeamishness, on whom will rest was cautiously worded so as not to give um- the responsibility? brage to the Free Traders. Thus Georgia and Alabama supported Mr. Polk as the consistent, uncompromising enemy of the Protective Policy, while Pennsylvania and the extent of the verdict. Would that its consequences might extend no farther than their Wool-growing or Manufacturing sections of New-York and other Free States were assu-tended to decide against a Protective Tariff authors intended! The People have not inred that he was as favorable to Protection as nor in favor of the Annexation of Texas; and Mr. Clay! In Pittsburgh and vicinity, he yet both these are among the probable results was even commended as more favorable to of Polk's election. The Sub-Treasury proProtection than his great competitor! No exject, if there be any sincerity and consistency penditure of sophistry or falsehood was deemin the victors, must also be revived and pressed too great to cover this weak point of their ed upon the Country. Mr. Polk stands exline of defence. The success was such as ilpressly and publicly committed to it; his chief deserving often meets in the outset. The ap-advisers are Calhoun, Van Buren, Woodbury, prehensions of the Tariff section of the party &c. Pride of opinion and the taunts of the were entirely lulled to rest, and Mr. Polk received large majorities in nearly every Iron County of New-York, New-Jersey and Pennsylvania. Let us see the end before we conclude that such iniquity has prospered. But Calumny and Fraud have done their work, and Mr. Clay is defeated. That is the more reckless Destructives will probably compel 'the party,' however reluctantly, to mareh up to the line of its former professions. Those, therefore, who hope for a quiet, peaceful, conservative Administration, are doomed to And yet so palpable was the cheat prac-disappointment. Mr. Polk is not the man to ticed upon the Tariff section of Mr. Polk's rise superior to the circumstances by which supporters that it seemed hardly possible that he finds himself surrounded. He will submit it should succeed. No intelligent man could to be moulded and governed by them. He be deceived by it, and even the ignorant sus-must carry Proscription down to low water pected while they yielded to it. But the old mark, for the hungry pack behind him will prejudices, the old hatreds, the old slanders, have it so. He must press the Annexation of against Mr. Clay, were vehemently invoked, Texas, for those who forced his nomination at and new and grosser calumnies were invent- Baltimore regard this as the primary consid ed for the occasion, to be credited on the eration, and chose him for his known devotion strength of the old ones. Mr. Clay was held to their darling scheme. He must do his best |