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202 HISTORY OF MARYLAND.
ernor Fairfield received 30, Mr. Woodbury 6, and G. M. Dallas, 220, and the
nomination.
Mr. Benton says : " The nomination was a surprise and a marvel to the
country. No voice in favor of it had been heard; no visible sign in the
political horizon had announced it." To the friends of Mr. Van Buren, it
was a painful disappointment. They acquiesced, however, in the nomination.
The Tyler National Convention, composed of delegates from various parts
of the Union, without restriction as to number from any State or district,
principally office-holders and political adventurers, assembled at Baltimore
on the same day of the Democratic Convention. Judge White, of Connecticut,
was chosen president of the convention with a large number of vice-presidents
and secretaries. Mr. John Tyler was unanimously nominated as a candidate
for election to the presidency. He accepted the nomination, but his chances of
election being hopeless, he yielded in August in favor of Polk and Dallas, and
withdrew his name from the presidential canvass.
The political campaign was conducted with much bitterness and angry
feeling. In Maryland the contest began with the election of governor and
members of the Legislature, and was very animated. Both parties appeared
to look upon the result at the governor's election as determining the vote of
the State at the ensuing presidential election—and such was the case. And
besides, the great contest which was then raging throughout the country was
supposed to be the last that would ever be waged under the leadership of the
twro great political parties. There were also other and special circumstances
which gave this contest more than usual heat.
The constitutional term for wThich the clerks of the courts and registers
of wills were appointed (or rather continued, for they were life offices before
the amendments to the Constitution), expired with the currrent year, and
these lucrative offices were to be filled by the new governor.
The result of the election in Baltimore for governor, excited general
surprise. In 1843 the whigs carried the city for James 0. Law, for
mayor, by three hundred and two majority, and for several days preceding
the governor's election the impression was general that the whigs would
again carry the city; and this also appeared to be the opinion of the democrats. But the aggregate vote confounded all anticipation, as the democrats
carried the city by twelve hundred and twenty-two majority for James
Carroll, for governor, against Thomas G. Pratt, the whig candidate. Mr.
Pratt, however, carried the State by a majority of five hundred and forty-
eight. In the presidential election, WTilliam M. Gaither, William Price,
James B. Ricaud, C. K. Stewart, Thomas S. Alexander, A. W- Bradford, H.
E. Wright and Samuel Hambleton, the whig electors, carried the State for
Mr. Clay by a majority of three thousand two hundred and eighty-two*
being a gain of two thousand seven hundred and thirty-four since the
governor's election. Of the electoral votes Messrs. Polk and Dallas received
one hundred and seventy; Messrs. Clay and Frelinghuysen one hundred
and five.
| Title | History of Maryland - 3 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000233 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 202 HISTORY OF MARYLAND. ernor Fairfield received 30, Mr. Woodbury 6, and G. M. Dallas, 220, and the nomination. Mr. Benton says : " The nomination was a surprise and a marvel to the country. No voice in favor of it had been heard; no visible sign in the political horizon had announced it." To the friends of Mr. Van Buren, it was a painful disappointment. They acquiesced, however, in the nomination. The Tyler National Convention, composed of delegates from various parts of the Union, without restriction as to number from any State or district, principally office-holders and political adventurers, assembled at Baltimore on the same day of the Democratic Convention. Judge White, of Connecticut, was chosen president of the convention with a large number of vice-presidents and secretaries. Mr. John Tyler was unanimously nominated as a candidate for election to the presidency. He accepted the nomination, but his chances of election being hopeless, he yielded in August in favor of Polk and Dallas, and withdrew his name from the presidential canvass. The political campaign was conducted with much bitterness and angry feeling. In Maryland the contest began with the election of governor and members of the Legislature, and was very animated. Both parties appeared to look upon the result at the governor's election as determining the vote of the State at the ensuing presidential election—and such was the case. And besides, the great contest which was then raging throughout the country was supposed to be the last that would ever be waged under the leadership of the twro great political parties. There were also other and special circumstances which gave this contest more than usual heat. The constitutional term for wThich the clerks of the courts and registers of wills were appointed (or rather continued, for they were life offices before the amendments to the Constitution), expired with the currrent year, and these lucrative offices were to be filled by the new governor. The result of the election in Baltimore for governor, excited general surprise. In 1843 the whigs carried the city for James 0. Law, for mayor, by three hundred and two majority, and for several days preceding the governor's election the impression was general that the whigs would again carry the city; and this also appeared to be the opinion of the democrats. But the aggregate vote confounded all anticipation, as the democrats carried the city by twelve hundred and twenty-two majority for James Carroll, for governor, against Thomas G. Pratt, the whig candidate. Mr. Pratt, however, carried the State by a majority of five hundred and forty- eight. In the presidential election, WTilliam M. Gaither, William Price, James B. Ricaud, C. K. Stewart, Thomas S. Alexander, A. W- Bradford, H. E. Wright and Samuel Hambleton, the whig electors, carried the State for Mr. Clay by a majority of three thousand two hundred and eighty-two* being a gain of two thousand seven hundred and thirty-four since the governor's election. Of the electoral votes Messrs. Polk and Dallas received one hundred and seventy; Messrs. Clay and Frelinghuysen one hundred and five. |
