Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1844-10-30

by the Democratic Central COMMITTEE,
which must have been known to this hig
organ. not only disavowing all unpatriotic
designs against the Union, but soIemniy
declaring that WE WENT FOR THE
UNION, TEXAS OR NO TEXAS; and
in the latter Of these Addresses, urging on
our lellow-citizens the necessity for annex
alton, as one of the strongest guarantees for
the PRESERVATION OF THE UNION,
and for counteracting the efforts of British
and Northern Abolitionists. The manner
in which these charges have been prefer
red, demands the decided Reproduction of
all just men-the charges themselves, we
pronounce FOUL and FALSE; and with
our whole souls we hur them back upon
our accusers, with the Indignation they
merit.
Desperate, indeed, must be the cause
which requires such means to sustain it;
and desperate must this wing organ have
believed it to be. When we advert to the
point of time this circular was issued from
this City-the 18th October, just about
the time that sufficient returns of the cleo
tons in Pennsylvania and Georgia had
been received here, to satisfy them that MIR.
Clay was defeated, if some extraordinary
expedient was not resorted tot shows
that the leaders of whiggery are alarmed
that desperation has seized upon them;
and points to the fatal doom of their idol,
Henry Clay, on the 4th of November next.
With what grace does this charge of
frauds upon the election, come from the
organ Of party who gave paternity to the
execrable practice of "pipelaying' in
1910? and that too, after the fruits Of their
triumph in that election, secured by such
frauds. seemed, as by an avenging power,
turned to ashes on their lips! With what
grace charge they upon the Democratic
party design of fraud upon the election,
when their own party lately in the Senate
of the United States by strict party vote,
refused TO fr the Presidential election on
the same day throughout the Union p
With what grace can they charge upon US
desi ign against the Union, when all the
recognized organs of the Democratic party
have Indignantly disavowed 1t; when none
but few hotspurs in South Carolina-not
the one-thousandth part of the Democratic
party-have given the least countenance to
such an idea; and when their own party
are making, at this moment, through sucii
men as Giddings, Adams, Webster, Ew-
ing, Choate, Seward, Cassius NJ. Clay and
others, the most desperate appeals to the
abolitionists, (the worst enemies Of the
South to unite with them in the support
of Henry Clay? What reckless incon-
sistency do they exhibit, when, in the same
breath they charge "disunion'' upon US,
they unblushingly advise, that "1 by any
means, an apparent majority IS returned
for PoM and Dallas, Co. NOTHING
BUT REVOLUIYON CAN HELP
!. U.s." - Here we have the spirit Of
violence overt, bloodshed, revolutions, dam
cling III the brains of this very patriotic,
la,o-and-gder'' loving organ of whigge-
ry, casting its. horrid glare upon happy
and contented community! And by whom,
and tor W bat, are the peaceable citizens of
North Carolina threatened with revolution?
Why, "if by any means the good peo-
pie of the State should happen to prefer
Gov. Polk. her native son, educated in her
schools, and true alike to the South and to
the country, to Henry Clay for their Pres
ident, then we have the menaced intention
ofthose who profess to be charged ,oith
q general oversight Of the ,chig cause IN
tbs Stafe," to excite revolution in the
government! If this be not their mean