strings: Before closing, permit us to add a few reflections on the present condition and future prospects of the Whig party. In almost ; all the States we have fallen into the minority, ånd despondency seems to prevail universally among us. Is there just cause for this? In 1840 we carried the nation by more than a hundred and forty thousand majority. Our opponents charged that we did it by fraudulent voting; but whatever they may have believed, we know the charge to be untrue. Where, now, is that mighty host? Have they gone over to the enemy? Let the results of the late elections answer. Every State which has fallen off from the Whig cause since 1840 has done so not by giving more Democratic votes than they did then, but by giving fewer Whig. Bouck, who was elected Democratic governor of New York last fall by more than 1 g,ooo majority, had not then as many votes as he had in 1840, when he was beaten by seven or eight thousand. And so has it been in all th e other States which have fallen away from ou r