The first intelligence that reached him announced the certain victory of Wright, but left the electoral ticket undecided, with very unpleasant rumors of his own defeat.

When at last the returns showed that he had a plurality of five thousand in New York, and was chosen President, it did not suffice to remove the deep impressions of those few days in which, either in the gloom of defeat or in the torture of suspense, he feared that he had been betrayed by the Barnburners of New York as a revenge for Van Buren's overthrow at Baltimore.

As matter of fact the suspicion was absolutely groundless.

The contest for governor between Silas Wright and Millard Fillmore called out intense feeling, and the former had the advantage of personal popularity over the latter just as Mr.Clay had over Mr.Polk.

Mr.Wright's plurality was but five thousand greater than Mr.Polk's, and this only proved that among half a million voters there may have been twenty-five hundred who preferred Mr.Clay for President and Mr.Wright for governor.
PRESIDENT POLK AND MR.