The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1840-12-02
From The Ns,c Huusn Columbian Register.
THE RESULT.

The Federal party, after having made
General Hsrrison their standard bearer"
esD4nieT Webster expressed il, have, for
the first time i'll forty years, completely
triumphed in the Presidential election
The money power has for once oVermatcn-
cI the moral power Of the people. But
the triumph must, from the nature OF our
free institutions, be short lived, and the
Democratic party, now cheated but not
beaten, will soon show itself in allits an
Glen. strength. The "pipe-laying' sys-
tenn agreed upon ct Harrisburg last win
ter, and extensively prac,ised by the re-
deralis,s, particularly III Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and Western New York, cannot
succeed second time. Had it not been
for the Glentworth exposures, the FEEDER
al majority would have been many thou
sands greater than it now appears to be-
Tha, exposure saved us Philadelphia, Bal.
more, the city Of New York, and the RI
yer counties which from their quick COM
municalon with the city, had ample time
10 understand The movements of the enc
my, and guard against the med!lateu
frauds. But further in the interior, the
plans were too deeply laid to be frustrat-
el, and the noisy clamor Of the FedeTalls s.,
cantradicting and denying what had been
proved upon the conspirators, seemed to
drown all reasoning on the subject, and
they went on unmolcsted "laying pipe
any where" Had the exposure been
made six months earlier, S, that the De-
mocrats could have had sufficient time
throughout the interior to break up the
plot, we should not have witnessed as we
now do in some Of the Ohio Federal dis
tricts, land it has no doubt beeL the samr
elscwhcre,) more votes counted out of the
ballo, boxes, than there were male inha-
bi,ants in the districts; nor should we
have been Bella Badgered as VIC have been
all over the country. Besides the "pipe
layers" we have had all the Abolitonists
secretly, but actively against us. They
pretended to put up a separate ticket OF
their own, to make the South believe they
were not going for Harrison, fearing shat
their open, support Of him might injure
him among the slaveholders-but when
the day Of voting came, they all, but d
mele handful, wheeled into the Federal
column, and followed the "standard bear.
er," as had been originally agreed upon
), D." s~ur opponents Think that victory won
by such means ca,.. be lasting, they have
vet to learn the character Of free people;
Tile Democratic spirit is still u,:quenchea
the beacon fires burn brightly Oh the
hill tops of the granite State; and the
.sncient dominion''-V Virginia, the land
Of Washington, of Jefferson, and OF Ma
Olson, the venerated mother of Republl'
can S,ates-stands yet unterrifed. As in
the dark days of '9s-days darker than
4hese-when she came forward with her
celebrated resolutions, she again will be
The rallying point of Republican freemen,
and again lead the way to more glorious
victory than was achieved in the memora
BILE campaign of 1900.
Banh of the State Of South Caroli
na.-The profits Of this institution, for the
year ending on the lst ultimo. have
amounted to $ls2,526 II cents. From
this sum s32,97O 90 cents, the entire a
mount received for interest on the fire
loan, have been applied towards interes