The North-Carolina standard., 1844-10-23
4 REFORMED WHIG.n
Here is the Circular referred to:
TcoNFIDENrIAL.1

Il REFORMED WIG"
Here is the Circular referred to-:
CONFIDENTIAL.
DEAR SIR:-We feel it an imperative duty to
address you in regard to the approaching Election
1t has long been evident, that the Democratic par
ty has degeneraed into mere faction, and veryfe e.
cent events have demonstrated that despairing oi
succeeding by any just and honest efforts, they are
resolved TO use whatever means may seem best to
promise success TO a cause, having, in itself moth
ing 10 attract the regard of good and patriotic men
1t is evident that powerful and united movement
is now making, and will be made to carry this
State for Texas and Disunion. And what acts
will not be resorted to- order make it efeclu-
al? They who have already added TO wilful false
hoods and infamous abuse deliberate forgeries ot
LETTERS and certificates, will be withheld by
scruples of conscience, from doing anything, how
ever unprnclpled and profigate, if il shall promise
to be serViceable.
We should all rem ember the inexpressbly i'm
portant matters which depend on the Election of
November. We should also remember that no
means are provided by the Constitution for pur ging
the polls Of fraudulent votes. If by any means.
an apparent ma joriiy is returned for Polk and
DALLAS. ~ nothing 6mt rerOtUfior can help US
even if such apparent najarIfy should be procured
by open, gross and demon>trahle fraud. Non,
then, is the time and the only time, in which we
can act for ouT Country with eff CT
| We, then impressed with the importance O. the
occasion, and u charged qoih u general orer-
sight ef The Vhig cause in This State, beg most
earnestly TO urge upon you Immediate measures TO
counterart the efforts OF our opponents and secure
the vote Of the State for Clay and FRELINGHUYsEN.
! To do this, we recommend that some persons of
true Wing principles, and Of influence i'll their
neighbortood, be at once selected, and pledged to
the following duties:
Firs!, To attend The Polls in their Precinct, and
see that every Wing Is brought forward to vote
Secondly, To see the people of the Precinct be-
fore the day Of Election, urging upon them The du-
ty CT attending and voIng, and gain their promise
10 do
Thirdly. To challenge all bad or doubtful votes
and if possible, prevent frauds.
F0urihLy, To warn the people against those
falsehoods which we may expect 10 hear or the
eve Of the Election. These faisehoods will doubt
less be gross in kind and many in number, but
they can deceive none who consider that truth
would be made known early, and fAlsehood only
breads examination.
By immediate and active adoption OF these means
alone we insure The State for the " hig cause.
True, we have majority Of six thousand in the
State but, if Two or thee thousand Wing vote rs
stay away<aud Edgeconb votes a Thousand bey oud
her real strength, aud other strong Democratic
Counties resort tn similar means, what svails
real ma joriiy2 The apparent ma jorily will thus
by our neglect aud their fraud be on their side
and when once this happens the result however
false and fraudulent, cannot be corrected.
We beg your prompt attention to these sugges-
tons from your brother Wings OF the Central Com
mittee, and are.
very IeSpeCuOHf,
RICHARD HINES. Chairman.
GEORGE E. BADGER,
CHARLES MANLY,
JOHN H. BRYAN,
HENRY w. MILLER,
WESTON r. GALES.
We call upon the people of North Caroina-
upon Wings as we'll as democI ats-to mark the
language used in this secret Circular. "IE 6y.
Gny means" say the sisners, I" an apparent ma
jority is returned for Polk and Dallas, n1 NO
THING BUT REVOLUTION CAN HELP
USpH Here it is taken for granted, by the
Raleigh Junto, that the votes Of the people are
federal property; that there can be no other than
an "apparent" majority for Polk and Dallas;
and it is boldly proclaimed that if the vote of the
State is cast for the democracy, the hour for re-
pollution aciW hare come! This is dangerous
language 1t is the language of revolution
whether bloodless or no who can tell2 1t is not
only full of treason to the Union, but in substance
it threatens that, in they defeated in the
present contest, the head men of the Wing party
will lead off in an attempt TO overthrow all govern
ment and plant the flag of REVOLUTION"
on the ruins of Laws and Constitutions People
of North Carolina, you ready for these things
The charges contained in this Circular against
the democratic party, are as absurd as they are
UNANIMOUSLY f,lse; and the wonder with us fs that
gentlemen should have deliberately signed their
names 10 such paper. They charge US with
being unfriendly to the Union-they who are
now courting the aboitionists Of the North for
their support-they who must elect their cand-
date, if they succeed at all, by abolition votes
they who pull like party slaves in the same team
with such men as Adams, and Seward, and Web
ster, and GiddIngs, men who are notorious dis
umionists, and who openly proclaim that the pro-
jcct for annexing slave territory to the Union is
the signal for foreign a ei0il ssr0iIe, and an
Indian acar
Mark another thing in this Circular The
Coons are alarmed-unless immediate and ac-
tive +" measures adopted, they despair even of
carrying North Carolinl AS we said a week or
two since, the agony of anticipated discontinue
is upon them. They feel they are about to be
defeated in this State, and hence these earnest and
secret appeals-these attempts to animate party
which holds in its own bosom the elements of
defeat and disgraceful dissolution. Democrats,
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