Actual Democratic majority at the polls, in 1838,
Actual Democratic majority at the polls, in 1839,

Democratic gain, on this principle of calculation,

138

4,358

4,220

Second table.-The result, taking the majorities of 1838 as the data

in those counties where but one ticket was run.

Democratic majority at October, 1839,

2,252

Gain since 1838, on this principle of calculation, 2,114.

If the Whigs object to the actual results in those counties where two full party tickets were run, and contend that, in six of them, to wit, Essex, Sussex, Warren, Hunterdon, Atlantic, and Cape May, the majorities were so far undisputed, as that the utmost strength of their party was not brought out, we are willing to take the majorities of 1838 in those counties, claiming, on our part, a gain in these counties, since 1838, equal to our average gain in those counties where each party fought confidently for victory. Those counties were—

Passaic, where the Democratic gain is

.

148

126 . 70

* Majorities of 1838.

Thus it appears that the Democratic gain in the eleven strongly contested counties is 1,437. These counties give an aggregate vote of 37,522, and the actual gain exhibited is a little over four per cent. Allowing, therefore, a like average gain only in the six remaining counties, where it is alleged the contest was not such as to bring out the whole Whig strength, their aggregate vote being 19,413, at 4 per cent. will exhibit a gain of 776 votes, and the account will stand thus:

Now, by one of these three tests the Whigs must abide. We show, and our statements are taken from the official returns-1. That taking

Majorities of 1838.

the actual returns of all the counties in the State at the last October election, the Democratic party have a majority of 4,358 votes.-2. That taking the majorities in those counties where the Whigs run no regular opposition ticket, at what they were in 1838, the Democratic majority in the State is 2,252.-And 3. Giving them the full benefit of their majorities in 1838, in all the counties where they pretend they did not this year get out their whole strength, and only adding the average gain in those counties which the strongly contested districts exhibit,—and the Democratic majority is still 1,950 votes. And even throwing away our unquestionable right to claim in districts not strongly contested, a gain proportionate to that actually found in the districts that were strongly contested, the Democracy of New Jersey still have a majority of 1,174. This, then, is the result of the election held last October in New Jersey, notwithstanding the operation of a new election law, framed expressly to exclude from the right of suffrage a large class of Democratic voters; notwithstanding the desperate efforts of that party to exhibit a majority in favor of sustaining the measures of the Governor and his Council; and despite of all the frauds which they practised and the corruption they attempted.

If the grossest fraud ever practised upon the rights of a free people shall not receive its fitting rebuke from the House of Representatives, it will surely not be because the people who were its victims failed to vindicate their rights before the country, in the only mode recognized by law.

The people have spoken in fitting tones. Will those tones be disregarded by the body whose very existence is based upon the rights of the majority so flagrantly violated in this remarkable case? We think not.

In the face of the facts now given, superadded to those already detailed in our former article, will these defeated candidates attempt to seat themselves in a body to which they do not belong? Can the parchment of a Governor supersede and extinguish the sacred rights of the people in the election of their own representatives? We think not.

These members affected a becoming sense of their position, and of the duties of a representative, when they proposed to their opponents a second reference of the matter at issue to the people at the recent election, though they did not as properly appreciate the great constitutional obligations which protected the solemn right of election, by a different guaranty than the convenience or the necessities of disappointed partisans; and now, that their own remedy has been applied, that their own proposition has been decided, that their cause has been tried once more, that the merits of their case have been again discussed before the tribunal to which they sought an appeal;-now that they have been again disappointed, defeated, overwhelmed by the indignant expression of the popular will, upon what ground of personal honor, or public probity, can they presume to rest

their claims?

SONGS OF THE PASSIONS.

To the Editors of the Democratic Review:

GENTLEMEN: It is some time since I have troubled your readers, and I have no doubt that my forbearance has been to their relief. Upon reflection, the theme which I somehow unfortunately selected, does not seem now, event to myself, of a nature to interest, and still less to call forth, the power and voice of Song. Perhaps constancy to one idea is not my virtue; that question, however, I ought not to undertake to decide; at any rate, your readers may congratulate themselves on this last infliction.

The following pieces were originally published in another form, when I had no idea that they would extend to a series. I send them to you now, that, if you please, they may be published in the same work with their fellows, to which, be they good or bad, they are required to make up the series.*

No. VI.

I SHALL NOT SEE THY FACE AGAIN.

I shall not see thy face again,

But sleep shall bring thy form,

In all thy radiant beauty, back,

With all thy spirit warm:

And from the fountain of my thoughts,
So shall thine image rise,

That not e'en absence shall avail

To tear thee from mine eyes.

I shall not hear the music

Of thy voice, when it may be
That the roses of thy lips pour out
Their perfumed melody;

Υ.

*The pieces previously published in the Democratic Review which our correspondent wishes to be considered as forming part of a series of Songs of the Passions, are "STANZAS," Vol. 3, September, 1838, page 50;-" THE UNFORGOTTEN," Vol. 3, November, 1838, page 268;-" A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER," Vol. 5, January, 1839, page 60 ;-" STANZAS," Vol. 5, March, 1839, page 310;-"I MET THEE AND THY BROW WAS CALM," Vol. 5, June, 1839, page 589. They should, of course, be numbered in the above order.

But the secret spirit of my heart

Shall tell me thou art near,

When the zephyr's breath is murmuring
To the blossoms of the year!

I shall not soon forget thee

For the places where we met
Bear the shadow of thy loveliness,

And whisper of thee yet;

And the light of spring and summer skies—

The heavens-the earth-the sea-
They are beautiful; and beauty will
Recall the thought of thee!

No. VII.

NAY, TELL ME NOT THAT HE IS MAD.

Nay, tell me not that he is mad,
Who drains the poisoned bowl,

And revels in the frantic joy
That steals away the soul;
For I a deeper poison drink,
Whene'er I meet thine eye,

And feel that though 'tis death to look,
'Tis worse than death to fly!

Thou art a vision of my night-
A mystery-a gleam

Of some far brighter world, revealed

In thee, as in a dream;

I pant for thee! my spirit longs
As morning for the light,
As doth the thirsty summer day
To drink the dews of night.

No. VIII.

THE BEAUTY IN THY FORM THAT DWELLS.

The beauty in thy form that dwells,

And in thy gentle face,

Too human for the skies, too pure

For any meaner place.

If words would speak its subtle flame,

The unuttered accents die;

For earth no language hath to speak
Thy beauty, but a sigh!