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OURSELVES. In our last number, not anticipating the peculiar turn of the elections, which, while resulting in a majority of 13,000 for the Democratic lieutenant governor, should leave Governor Wright in a minority of 10,000, we confidently predicted his re-election before the appearance of another number. This has given rise to a rumor that the publication of the Review is suspended. The appearance of the present number will falsify that rumor, and this notice will explain its origin. We trust the "wish was not father to the thought," and assure our readers that the day is yet distant when we shall cease to labor in our vocation.

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THE elections show, in their results, the workings of those local causes and influences in relation to state politics, which remained dormant, so long as great national questions required the united and active support of all patriotic voters. It is but natural that those political aspirants who sustained so signal and overwhelming a defeat at the elections of 1844, when the people, en masse, declared for the maintenance of the national honor in the conduct of our foreign relations, against bank corruptions in the management of the federal finances, against manufacturing monopolies, and agricultural and commercial oppression in the administration of the customs, should seek consolation for their great overthrow in the temporary reverses that have overtaken their adversaries, and that the buoyancy of hope should raise illusive expectations on foundations too weak to sustain the weight of reason, or to endure the analysis of truth. It is not in the nature of things to suppose, but that great triumphs, and the consciousness of the oft-tried efficiency of imposing strength, should produce apathy in the many and dissensions among the few, resulting in reverses on such local questions as failed to rouse a general interest; but that minor questions decided, not by an accession of federal votes, but through the non-voting of

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those who placed a veto on federal pretensions in 1844, should be considered as a reversion of that decision, is rather unreasonable.

Such, however, is the deduction attempted to be drawn from the state elections by the great federal leaders; as if the adversaries of an army should determine its probable destination by the counter-marching of the companies in the formation of the regiments of which it is composed. The attempt to identify the multifarious interests of individual state politics with the line of policy marked out by the people of all the states, for the guidance of the federal government, betrays a conscious weakness, and a desire to attain indirectly that which cannot be reached by an open approach. In 1844, the three great questions, of annexation, the independent treasury, and the tariff, were clearly and directly submitted to the people of the whole Union. They returned a response in favor of the two former and against the last, in a manner too emphatic to be mistaken; and, as a consequence of their decision, an empire was added to the Union, the Treasury emancipated from bank domination, and odious anti-commercial taxes have been removed from the consumers of goods. These questions were settled definitively, and the line of policy they marked out is decisive of

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