The elections in the United States, as we learn from
good au- thority, are going against the President. In addition to the oppo- sition of the mercantile interests, which his attack on the Bank and its consequences have provoked, other causes have contributed to the downfal of his party. On his secession to office, he made a thorough sweep of the old clerks, postmasters, and other public servants, in order to provide room for his adherents. Almost every office in his gift was promised previously to his election; and some of the newly-promoted persons being ignorant, and others corrupt, defalcations have occurred in the public money. This, of all things in the world, is most annoying to the Yankees. If the House of Representatives, as well as the Senate, should oppose the President in the next session of Congress, it will be interesting to mark the progress of events and the conduct of the old soldier. No British Sovereign could resist a combination of the Lords and Commons ; but the American President possesses a power really as well as theoretically distinct from and independent of the other branches of' the Government.
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