ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

280
CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1838
Abstracts 1714 - 1718
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS - State (Cont'd)
"It speaks in thunder tones to the experimenters at Washington, and
proclaims to the whole country that the commercial heart is sound, and
still sends forth a healthy life-current through all the ramifications
of the body politic.... Most nobly, most gloriously have the people
triumphed. " (3)
1714 - H&G Nov. 17:2/3 - "No news. - No mails from below since Wednesday
night. (Nov. 14) The COLUMBUS came up to-day, having left Buffalo on
We1nesday. (Nov. 14) She brings no news of importance. Some Canada rumor
hardly worth reporting. The Albany ARGUS places Seward's majority
for Governor as high as 13 or 14,000." 0)
1715 - H&G Nov. 21; ed: 2/3 - Delaware has gone over to the "Loco-Focos."
The Legislature is Whig.
"Governor Marcy will probably put the old Federal State in his breeches
pocket, as ballast for the Salt River trip." (3)
1716 - H&G Nov. 21; ed:2/3 - Everett has been elected Governor of Massachusetts
and the Senate of that state will have a large majority of Whigs;
they will also have an overwhelming majority in the House.
"Massachusetts - God Bless Her! - has again done her duty, and the
shout of Massachusetts Forever! goes up from the Whigs of the whole
Union. "
(13)
United States
1717 - H&G Jan. 29; ed: 2/2 - The contest now going on for seats in Congress,
between Messrs. Gholson and Claiborne, the members who were
elected during the special session by a party vote in the House, and
Prentiss and Word, elected by the people of Mississippi, bids fair to
show where the talent lies, if it does not justly determine the legal
right.
"The Sub-Treasury bi 11 requires support, and on many other quest ions
the votes of Messrs. Claiborne and Gholson are wanted: What then has
justice to do with the matter of their election?" (3)
1718 - H&G Feb. 9; ed:2/3 - The proceedings of a meeting of the Democratic
members of the Mississippi legislature, sustaining Messrs. Claiborne and
Gholson's claim to the seat which they occupy in Congress, were inserted
in the GLOBE some days since, accompanied by the expression of a wish that
their arrival might prove to be in time.
"If the distance from Washington to Jackson, the seat of government
in Mississippi, were not as great, or if the order for getting up this
meeting had been forwarded from headquarters at an earlier day, the
Locos of the Mississippi Legislature would undoubtedly have given their
response to the call for public opinion in better season." (2)