Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-08-30
THE LATE ELECTIONS.

As usual the Opposition presses are full OF e1ultatlon
about the preliminary elections prec,sety tne same
shout wa, raised about the Indiana, Illinois, Missouri
and North Carolina elections, IN lc34.-ln North Caro-
lima the same Of State management has IN great
degree prevailed and indeed worse as 10 congress- ior
the have had seven oct OF the twelve Congrss
men "a we'll as the Governor up 10 the few months Of
Governor Spaighl's time. They got the Governor
again; but the Democratic electoral ticket prevailed
by handsome majority in the tire OF GoyeInor swsih
SO il will we doubt not, in that of the coalition Cover
nor Dudley The trUlh is, when The ingenious mama
gers and tacticans Of the Opposition set to work for
themselves in 'hHir "specr" r""n.ss they manage 10
the Democracy, white they make the party feeling of
their own class operate the utmost in their favor
They never lose federal in coeny election, and
get gain many Republicans the scoretla they can
them in local matters: without injury to their po-
lcal principles.
1t is not to be disguised however, that activity on one
sde and nerness GROW out OF assured success on
the other has done much mischief TO tire cause OF Re
vubcanism in North Carolina. Upon examining the
polls many countless where the Federasls have sue
ceeded we discover thai their actual strength has not
increased bt that the vote for the Republican ticket has
fallen off The Federal party throughout the Union lies
in the and the influence they exert in their vci-
nifty. The towns and their troops always at the polls.
The Democracy consisting CT The great farming class, is
never fully acayed against its antagonist party, but
upon occasions of great interest 1t requires The eEhu-
siasm Of great party queston,.o bring out the militia
Of the country to meet the train sands OF Federalism
In the late contest in North Carolina, believe, the
falsehuods Of the Opposition Eesensvc topic OF the
negroes had considerable effect in preventing the De
ocracy of tho country from turning out the edtralsts
have revenred themselves Mr.. Van Buren,, for bak-
nr their designs this by attribu!ng their own
inclina,ions 10 him. We will specify some particulars:
First in rceurd to negro sufrage-The federal party
have been VIGOROUSLY in favor of free negro suffrage all
over the Union and for obvious reason these low
est and most degraded voters who are destitute OF pro-
nertv ARE always subject to the moneyed astocracy
They hire them and command their votes Resce it is
that in Boston, in Portland and other Northern ciLles
where the free blacks voe, they ,aasse for the fe
deral party. General Fessenden, 1t will be remembered
in the contested elections in his quarter has attended the
meetings Of the negroes and led the black troops to the
polls for federalism, precisely as the British LED them to
battle during the last war In Portland they in
debsd for their triumph the bllcss' Of the ha
dest contested conflicts In North Carolina, where the
free blacks voted uuh the last year, the tederalsts al
ways commanded the of their votes, sae some OF
them opposed the change in the new ton,
which deprived them of the right OF suffrage. &C.
the New York Convention. the Federalists JAY, kise,
VAN fEcHTES, SPENCER, and Indeed all the present
WHlTE, WEBSTER, and HARRISON men then in the New
York Convention in favor of putting the free blacks
on footing with the whites US to the right OF suffrage
Mr. Van Buren, opposed to it. lie took an efectua
step deprive the federal party of the paupeF blacks
for which they fought so anxously in convention. lie
proposed that while the freehold property qualification
of fly dolarc should be done away wh as 10 The Whites
freehold property qualification Of $3.50 Rsto Tree color
ed persons should be adopted This practically exclnd
ed the whole negro in the Stale There not fifty
such negro feeolders in the State The Federal party
ON the occasion to which we aude, finding it to be Mr.
Van BureRs design exclude the negroes, in this way,
opposed it BITTERLY and the who were in favor
Of property qualification the whites, opposed it
to the blacks Finding theycoud rotpreHa in this day,
they took anoher tack and proposed for
soke and 6!aeS under the hope hatt would disgust the
people and induce them to the reformed Constu
ton Mr.. Van Buren, opposed tks. He suggested the
scheme of the general white suffrage at p.esen
emo the exclusion Of the blacks by freehold oaeaon
which while it had the effect Of preventing The
lists from using the Of their helngs also derived
them Of the argument that property was taxed without
bcinq represeaied. This the ground of principe
they meant to take against si,e Constitution, when it
came before the people; cad they hoped TO prevent its
adontion. The course taken by MIR. Van Buren, cut
them of from this pretextcarred The Constitution be-
fore the people and virtually eStrpaee tie free black
sufrao which previously had been enjoyed on equa
;ty with the whites For doing this and foing the Fee
derasts OF lis State the Federallsts OF NORTH Ca
rolna CRY out against him, as if he had adopted te,
own feelings, for free black suffrage equality with
the whites .,,s-s -. .-....
g. In the same spirit they prejudiced many honest de-
mocrats against Mr. Van Buren, by calling him Abo
ltionis vet the Nuhcrs got up the slave excitement
cover their retreat under the compromise with Clay
McDufe and the rest limited ut it in their orations-
The day after the repeal of the notification ordinance
was published in the Telegraph, GreeE aaEosaced the
publication of the Emanc paor in New York; and forth
with broached the abolition dispute, 10 which he was
answered back by his friends Of the Phi adelpa Inqui
rer and Fshe. Of New got subscribers for his
ertra TELEGRAPH among she people Of the North These
Northern Coalition editors took side GEeenShe ote
and it was kept up hetween tsem until Clay and Biade
putan end sembsyo abolition pancs by the great bank
panic After this over the panic was resumed
by The nuers and their kindred Northern