Excerpt from The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Vol. 5: Containing the Political and Literary Portions of the Numbers Published in January, February, March, April, May, and June, 1839 Without enumerating all the States whose elections afforded desi sive victories to the Administration, ifmaine, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, came round of their own accord (in the case of some of them entirely unexpectedly) to its support, under all the apparent disadvantages of its position, what was not to be expected from New York! The exulting anticipation of triumph was thus wrought so high, that it is not surprising that its disappointment created a sudden revulsion of feeling which caused the accents of doubt and alarm to be heard in some quarters, at the very time when the general issue ofall the elections exhibited one of the finest of party triumphs ever achieved within our history, and established, as before remarked, the ascendency of the present Democratic Ad ministration and policy, high on a ground of impregnable security which certainly a year ago we had not ventured to dream of so soon attaining. However, the very contrast of the exception in the case of New York will serve to bring out into bolder relief the peculiar causes to which alone it can be ascribed; and thus to strengthen the moral of political truth to be derived from it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.