eat metropolis done their
duty. Gladly does old Massachusetts respond to their paeans of triumph.

"We learn from the New York papers that there was considerable
uneasiness in that city on Friday among the Whigs with regard to the
result. Never was the struggle of the administration party so desperate
and convulsive. Hordes of aliens and illegal voters were driven into
the city--

"`In multitudes, like which the populace North
Poured never from her frozen loins, to pass
Rhine or the Danube.'

"The most reasonable calculation admits that there must have been at
least four thousand illegal votes polled at the different wards.
Squatters and loafers from the Croton Water-Works, from Brooklyn and
Long Island, and from Troy to Sing Sing, took up their line of march for
the doubtful wards, to dragoon the city into submission to Mr Van
Buren. Some of the wards threw from four hundred to six hundred more
votes than there were known to be residents in them. Double voting was
practised to a great extent. The Express says, the whole spirit of the
naturalisation laws was defied, and an utter mockery was made of the
sacred right of suffrage. What party is likely to be most guilty of
these things, may be judged from the fact, that the Loco-foco party
_resist every proposition for a registry law, or any other law that will
give the people a fair and honest and constitutional system of voting_."

When I was one day with one of the most influential of the Whig party at
New York, he was talking about their success in the contest--"We beat
them, sir, literally with their own weapons." "How so," replied I.
"Why, sir, we bought over all their bludgeon men at so many dollars a
head, and the very sticks intended to be used to keep us from the poll
were employed upon the heads of the Loco-focos!" So much for _purity of
election_.

Another point which is worthy of inquiry is, how far is the government
of the United States a cheap government; that is, not as to the amount
of money expended in that country as compared to the amount of money
paid in England or France, but cheap as to the work done for the money
paid? And, viewing it in this light, I rather think it will be found a
very expensive one. It is true that the salaries are low, and the
highest officers are the worst paid, but it should be recollected that
every body is paid. [See Note 1.] The expenses of the Federal
Government, shown up to the world as a proof of c