Van Buren. Cass. NEW-YORK: Aggregate Vote for Congress. 21.Smith......6330 Hammond 2787) Walden ..6636 5.Briggs.....5627 Spencer..1476) Taylor..226,697 VanB..118,152 Cass..110,435 17. Alexander..6109 Nellis.....5564 Saminons 1264 The popular vote in U.S. 1844, was: Clay, 1,288- NEW-YORK Popular and Electoral Votes for President, 1848. XXXIst CONGRESS. Hort. 111 741 81 399 169 589 198 1145 234 9:4 Total..5601 793 $738 PRICE OF THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE REDUCED! PROSPECTUS FOR 1849. The election of TAYLOR and FILLMORE, with A YEAR of change and convulsion draws ra- tide of innovation threatens (in their eyes) to pidly to its close-a year destined to be mem- subvert and destroy. So, while resisting sternorable in the history of Europe and of America. ly the claim of portions of our people to arroIn this country it has witnessed the casting gate to themselves the designations "Repubdown of that delusive idol which made the lican" and "Democratic"-plainly implying that mantle of Democracy a cloak for the most those who dissent from their view of the current audacious crimes against Liberty and Humanity topics of party controversy are hostile to Re-against Freedom of Thought and of Action-publican Liberty-we shall none the less reveragainst out-speaking Integrity and fearless Man-ence and uphold those great principles of Demohood. Come what may in the future, we are cracy and Equal Rights which no abuse, no perjustified in believing that the power of a Name version to sordid, ignoble ends, can ever renover the Nation's impulses and fortunes-the der other than vital elements of Human Wellindolent credulity which empowered whatever being. was called Democratic' to pass triumphant and almost unquestioned-has passed away foreevr. the corresponding change in the Legislative New circumstances will doubtless evolve new Councils of the Nation, strikes a deadly blow at perils for the country; but the great peril of the ascendency of party names and catchblind adherence to Party-of government by the words, and at the despotism of Party itself.potency of words and names-has passed away Our course shall be found accordant with the forever. revolution thus effected. Hoping much from Europe, too, has experienced unwonted con- the New Administration which the People have vulsions; and the signal fires of Freedom, reli- decreed, we shall yield it a hearty supportso far ghted in February by the laborers of Paris, have as our judgment shall approve its acts; but swept over France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, should we find it in any respect unfaithful, we and been kindled, but only to be quenched, in shall not hesitate to expose and denounce its unhappy Ireland. They still blaze with cheering short-comings. We support men for the sake of brilliancy from the watch-towers of dauntless measures, not measures for the sake of men. Berlin; they gleam and flash, it may be with Of the cardinal features of Public Policy addying but surely with glorious radiance, from vocated by the Whigs, THE TRIBUNE has ever the battlements of heroic Vienna. Through- been an earnest advocate. Protection to Home out the length and breadth of Christendom there Labor, the comprehensive Improvement of Rivare indications, not to be mistaken, of the stern ers and Harbors, the abolition of the Harduprising of the long-abused People against the Money Sub-Treasury and a return thence to a tyrants who have so long oppressed and crush- more rational and beneficent system of Finance, ed them. Happy were it for all if the despots with such modification of our Public Land Sysand aristocrats so long gorged with the plunder tem as will secure a just diffusion of its benefits of unrewarded Toil would but seasonably to all sections of our Country, all generations realize that the old sorceries whereby Nations of our People-these we have ever heartily apwere lulled to sleep in wretchedness and proved, and shall still ardently commend. Yet chains have lost their power, and that Liberty our ideas of Public Policy are bounded by no and Justice are now demanded with a unan- narrow horizon of party, but embrace meaimity and earnestness which will not be over-sures which stretch beyond the purview of any ruled, trifled with, nor turned aside from its existing party.-The Right of Man to Labor, purpose. But the Few will not see what the and to Land whereon to Labor, a reasonable Many have learned of their rights and wrongs: limitation by statute of the Hours of daily Toil, wherefore blood will flow like water, and the preservation to each family of a Homestead misery and desolation darken the face of the exempt from the grasp of usurer or sheriffcivilized world. But this will not endure. To these and other measures of Universal Reform the tempest and the whirlwind must succeed will from time to time be explained and comthe calm and the sunshine: From the storm- mended through our columns, And, most imtossed, deluge-braving Ark of Freedom, the minent of all the preservation of the Territories Dove of Peace will soon be loosed, gladdening lately added by conquest to our already vast Earth with the promise of Prosperity and Country from the blasting tread of the slavePlenty. dealer and his gangs of human chattels will be In this season of conflict between antiquated pressed upon the understandings and conWrong and still older but long-denied Right, sciences of the American People with the urTHE TRIBUNE would fain fulfil the part of agency of apprehension and the zeal of intensest faithful chronicler, who ardently holds with the conviction. Right, yet regards with charitable allowance the -During the last year our arrangements for champions of the Wrong. For they who strug- Foreign Correspondence and for Editorial asgle against the resistless tide of Freedom and sistance have been considerably extended and Progress are not demons, are not consciously improved. We shall endeavor still farther to tyrants nor minions of tyranny, but in their perfect them. Certainly, no letters from Europe own conceptions upholders of Social Order and have proffered to their readers a clearer insight of Christian Faith, which this rushing, roaring into the causes and origin of the late astounding revolutions than ours have. The proceedings THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE of Congress will be reported expressly for our Is printed on a large double-medium sheet, columns by able correspondents, while the making eight pages of six columns each, and most important doings of the several State Le-contains the choicest matter of the Daily issue, gislatures will be fairly presented. 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