This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ... decided man will vote, but one-third, often one-half, of our electors are not decided party men, and we never know how they will vote. If we knew how men would vote, we should have no contested elections." "The fact is, however," I have urged, "that the votes of a great many meji are known?" "Yes up doubl a correct ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ... decided man will vote, but one-third, often one-half, of our electors are not decided party men, and we never know how they will vote. If we knew how men would vote, we should have no contested elections." "The fact is, however," I have urged, "that the votes of a great many meji are known?" "Yes up doubl a correct conjecture may be made as to the way many men vote, but that is no reason why we should proclaim from the housetops how everybody votes." One gentleman said; "Sheep will be stolen, no matter how much care is taken to prevent the theft, but we are not therefore to pass a law to legalise it." "They give votes viva voce in Kentucky and Virginia," I said. "Kentucky and Virginia are slave states," was the reply. We arrived in the United States about the time when the Democrats nominated Cass for the presidentship, and on the day after we left Philadelphia the Whig convention met, and put Taylor in nomination. In the five weeks that have elapsed since the latter period we have travelled more than two thousand miles, and have scarcely heard the subject made one of discussion. In England we should have heard ten times as much of Villiers being proposed for South Lancashire, or of Cobden for the West Riding of Yorkshire. We have seen enough of it in the newspapers--more than we had any desire to read--but it would seem as if the public were disposed to leave the matter, for the present at least, in the hands of the newspaper editors, and the orators at ratification meetings. An English lady, a bold thinker, and a clever Writer, told us that the United States year was only one bitter contested election, from the first f January to the thirty-first of December. We have not yet seen that there...
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