The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1845-09-05
THE VOICE or NORTH CAROLINA,
AND TIE EIEcTIDN

sa.Nb NJ LIN AC-Ns
Our Stale having but iust chosen her
popular delegates in the National Council,
1t Is not amlss to make one or two obser.
vatIons on her voice as heard through her
Representatives. We have also few re.
Elections arising from the late Election To
submit 10 our readers, and choose to unite
the subjects in this article.
Among the hIdeous features Of that
monster, Familiarity called Modern Democ.
racy, certainly not the least repulsive is
lis ialsehood. We do not mean the pro.
pensity Of certain OF its priests TO mIsrep.
resent and suppress, or even the habltual
ISLANDERS of its rank and file against the
intelligence and honesty Of the country.
These things belong TO demagogues Of
whatever party-of all parties. We mean
by the charge something different from
this. We mean the systematic disregard
by that party of the principles it Processes !:
ITS violation of the doctrines il advocates :
its utter want Of manly adherence TO lis
creed. We proceed at once 10 illustrate
and prove the charge and 10 he specific,
aud bring the matter home 10 our readers,
we will lay the yenure in our own State.
The Democracy Processes to believe that
the will Of the majority, fairly expressed,
ought to govern and that the immediate
object Of the whole Representative system
is TO obtain the honest Judgment of the
people on the affairs Of State. This is the
Jeilursonlan doctrine condensed to It's real
meaning. When, therefore, ii accidental.
~ deyolvcd upon Democratic Leglsla-
turc TO district into Congressional Districts
this thorough Wing State, any one having
confidence in the integrity Of that party
would have supposed that it would Of
course be 50 laid of as 10 represent the
real wishes Of the people.
Blu not 50 thought or acted the Democ-
racy. It's doctrine Of obeying the popular
will is for the canvass. 10 Legislation and
all public conduct lis aim is to secure the
spols. And so by crowding some Districts
aud drawing out others, they manage 10
send from this State five Democratic Re.
representatives. and four Wings, thus giving
to minority preponderance over large
majority, and IN effect DISTINGUISHING many
more than five thousand freemen Of North
Carolina. Now what honest man will dare
10 justify such a proceeding Who eau
deny that it was an outrageous fraud 1t
was So And when men, protesting Dem
q ratio doctrines and maintaining the will
of the majority 10 be the law Of the land,
perpetrated this thing, they did what fair
men never could have done, they stained
no ncrnIchnop ~ thor rtx { ,f vtgI n ~,
ty can find sufficient emblems oi bascness
TO stain upon an escutcheon, with finish
ing tint of lnfamy.
! And who has ever heard any Democrat
plead in eXtenuation for this deed Who
has disavowed it, In these things they
glory. These deeds are the erPioitS Of the
Democracy, its brilliant victories. The
Press of the party a; each election boasts
Of this misrepresentation, and heralds to
the country the success Of foul fraud that
IN private life would have consigned its au-
thor to a swindler's cell. The echo is
caught here and there and every where by
" Enquirers," and " Unions" and Ar
guses," and one paper, the Magnus Apollo
Of the throng, the organ, par ercttience,
the leader of the melodious choir, who
gives the keynote and changes the tune
accordingly as the conflicting influences of
the Cabinet alternately acquire ascendan.
cy, while expressing his belief that there
are five Democrats elected from the State
to three Wings, intmates his hope that
after awhile the Democrats will even have
mqjority of the popular rote And this
is Mr.. Jefferson Republican Richie Oh +!
cantlng hypocrisy, thou art always vile (;
but when thou clothest myself with hoary
head, and for selfish purposes lendest 10
lgnobIe frauds upon an ignorant people the
seeming sanctity OF venerable age, when
the very sabIes Of mourning are made the
mantIes of deception, till even contederates
in the crime sicken at the sight, who can
forhear to abhor
But we tear from all who cling to it that
false hope. North Carolina will never
support a party which bears upon It's own
brow the brand of fraud, printed there by
itself. Honest Democracy, the beautiful
ideal of the law OF the land, sprlnging
from the reflected will OF the people, North
Carolina might embrace. But when she
sees faction, /" held together by the CO.
hesiye powder of plumber, protesting holy
principles but to beray them for the pal
try rewards Of official spoils, and abandon
ing always in the hour of temptation the
creed promulgated when in search of pow.
er,-so long as she sees this, (and the sight
must daily meet her eyes while modern
Democracy poIutes her soil y so long will
she cling tenaciously to the conservative
faith of her fathers, and cherish as the
dearest of her inheritances the precepts
and examples of her glorious, though de-
parted, Wing seers.
The fraudulent contryances of cunning
and bad men may cause her voice to be
suppressed; her responses at the National