GAZETTE AND MERCURY.
GREENFIELD,
Tuesday, November 10, 1840.

HARRISON & TYLER

'Hang out our banner on the outer wall,
Our castle's strength will laugh the siege to scorn."

The Buckeye have hardly left enough of locofocoism in that state to serve for seed another year.

"Hide me from myself, as Van Buren said when he heard of the vote of New York."

THE ELECTION.
The returns from this county, we give below. They are collected by the Whig Committee of Young Men, appointed for the purpose at a meeting of the Whigs of Greenfield, early in October. They gallantly performed their task, and had a complete list in this village, by eleven o'clock last night, which enables us to present our readers with a substantial breakfast this morning.

The following are the results of yesterday's labors, so far as this county is concerned.

ELECTORAL AND CONGRESSIONAL VOTE.

Electors.

1840. 1836.

Whig. V.B. Whig. V.B.

Ashfield, 211 121 134 64

Bernardston, 110 82 62 23

Bucklank, 124 66 59 14

Charlemont, 153 56

Conway, 171 134 151 36

Colerain, 254 88

Deerfield, 239 127 110 66

Erving, 20 48

Gill, 63 78 30 56

Greenfield, 173 154 121 90

Hawley, 166 29 97 15

Heath, 115 40 92 13

Leverett, 74 92 57 47

Leydon, 63 54

Montaguo, 189 67 144 25

Monroe, 7 40

New Salem, 180 76 126 67

Northfield, 149 172 67 80

Orange, 159 142 55 47

Rowe, 104 41 54 23

Shelburne, 180 13 105 4

Shutesbury, 75 109 29 47

Sunderland, 130 16 95 75

Warwick, 117 116 77 60

Wendell, 100 88 69 16

Whately, 135 101 85 72

3461 2150 1819 878

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The towns in Franklin County, Massachusetts, voted for Whig candidate William Henry Harrison in the 1840 Presidential Election. The Greenfield "Gazette and Mercury" was blatantly in favor of Harrison and seems to gloat with the observation that "The Buckeye [Ohio] have hardly left enough of locofocoism in that state to serve for seed another year." The Locofocos were a radical wing of the Democratic Party. The statement is not quite correct since Harrison carried Ohio with only 54.3% of the popular vote. He carried the whole country with 53% of the popular vote but won with a landslide in the electoral college with 234 votes to Van Buren's 60 votes.

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