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Rh election of 1844 plainly demonstrated, and the following-table of the electoral vote of that year will show:

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Mr. Polk, the exponent of the annexation of Texas and the occupation of Oregon, the battle-cry of whose campaign had been &quot;Texas, and Fifty-four forty or fight,&quot; was elected by a majority of 65 electoral votes over Mr. Clay, whose party represented opposition to annexation, although he himself had formerly been a warm advocate for the acquisition of Texas by treaty, but had taken an equivocal position in this campaign. Relying, however, on the declaration of Mr. Clay that he would seek the