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Estimated from reported majorities and votes.


BY inspecting this table it will be that in the
State elections of lS40, few months previous to
the Presidential election of that year, the whig ma
jority was As. .093 in the nineteen States. The
wing pleurality when we take into account the
abolition vote-then thrown for the first tlme-was
Al, ,443 over the democrats. At the Presidential
election In the same year we are presented IN the
same States with incre ased majority OF ", 600 In
the nineteen States without any abolition votes at
ALL This was an absolute majority Of the whole
In the whole States OF the Union at that time, is
well known that about las 900 votes were taken in
favor OF General Harrison over Mr.. Van Buren,


Now what are the facts Of the present year az
contrasted with those presented in lS40f most
singular state Of things, indeed, meets our view.
We are, 1t is true, presented with democratic
plurality over the whig party OF 81 ,Sl5 but have
the existence OF a new party In the same States at
those recent elections taking 37,045 votes thereby
placing the democratic party in a minority against
both the wings and abolltionsts of 6, ,233. Here is
seen the remarkable position OF the two parties
when contrasted with that occupied by them in
I840, and the singular Influences which have pro-
duced such strange result In the brief period OF
four years. Neither the Journal of Commuce-
nor the NesCs-nor the Tribune, presents an accu-

rate view of this position OF affairs. The Journal
Of Commerce bases its calculations and opinions on
comparison Of the Presidential election OF l840 with
the State elections of 1874, when it is well known,
with few exceptions, greatly increased vote is
generally taken in Presidential election over that
taken in a State election and that II is almos,
certain that very considerable increase will be
manifested in the coming Presidential election
over the vote taken in the recent State elections
We present, therefore, the two parties, according
to the recent results, in the position Of almost per
feet equallty-neither possesses superiority over
the other They almost equally matched
Neither have a majority. The only advantage
possessed by the Democratic party, arises from the
separation and organization Of the abolitonists in
he free States.


With this view Of past events, the next inquiry