Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-12-01
From the North OaroIinian.
WILLIAM S. ASHE, ESQ,
And his trdducers.

A state of ill-feeling having been engender-
ed between MIR Ashe and Mr. Hale. of the
Observer, and from subsequent transactions. it
having created some little excitement IN the
public mind, we propose TO review the matter,
succinctly, and with an eye single to justice.
We intend TO speak plainly.
MIR. Ashe saw an attempt OF some whig
press or politician, to have tickets 40 printed
that Gen Taylor's name only would appear
upon them, with the names of the wing cleo
tore, and without the name of Fillmore,
(whose name come persons supposed TO be in
furious TO the whig cause in the South } and
some of these very tickets, printed for Virgin
10, were sent to the Journal Office at Whining
ton. And also, whig paper, called the Ala
bama "Shield," printed in Alabama. was
received at the Journal office, in which paper
was printed a column of whic electoral tick
cts, with Gen. Taylor's name for President,
hut without the name of Fillmore, Tor any
other name, we be'ive.) for Vice President
This was certainly an electioneering trick.
Mr.. Ashe saw it, 1t no doubt occurred to
him that some person in North Carolina might
attempt the same thing. Therefore, he. with
view to countrract CT forestall any such pro-
ceeding, had printed at the Journal office, in
Wilmington, three separate tickets, having on
two of them the name Of General Taylor for
President, and the names of the whig electors
for North Carolina. without the name Of Fill
more for Vice Presidents and the other, with
the name of Gen. Taylor for President, and
Gen. Butler for Vice President, with the whig
electors. These tickets he says he exhibited
10 persons in BIaden and Columbus, telling
the democrats not to be caught voting any
such tickets as those for although Fillmores
name was not on them. I! ey would undoubt-
eddy vote for him if they voted those tickets;
and told them that it WAS probable some dem
ocrats might be persuaded to vote such tick
ct under the deIusion that they would be vo-
ting for "Od Zack," and not for Fillmore.
When Mr.. Ashe was done with the tickets,
the last person to whom he showed them was
a good democrat, Mr. Vessel of Bladen Coun-
ty, formerly Of Wilmington Mr. Vessel
asked Mr.. Ashe 10 give him the tickets, which
Mr. Ashe did, saying he was done with them
MIR Vessel, of course, showed them to diff
ferent persons, and told them how he came in
possession of them, and what they were print
ell for, &c &c.
MIR. Ashe was Immediately called upon a.
bout the matter, and he very candidly told a
number of gentlemen standing around, the
| whole history of it.
roinian once called him. Edward Johnny
cake Hae,") was at the time in Wilmington,
and heard Of the great outrage that had been
committed; but says (Which we really think
is hard to believe.) that he had not heard that
Mr. Ashe was the person who had printed or
circulated the tickets. Mr.. Hale wrote up 10
Fayetteville, and caused 10 BE- issued from his
printing Office handful, in watch he stated
that such tickets las we mention above,) had
been printed that he had seen two of them ;
| that the person who showed them TO him had
received them from "locofOco :" that the
lOcofoco" had received them from the {" 10.
cofoco candidate for elector in this district,
WIN S. Ashe, Esq" that his (Mr. Hsle's)
object was 10 "denounce the whole scheme I"
| 1--WE use the words of the handbill "by whom
soever concocted and executed. as base act
Of UiNainy. unworthy of any honest mans
countenamee or parties patton"
Now, gentle reader. look at that language I!
| If MIR Ashe had knocked down. killed, and
robbed fellow man, could he have been de-
nounced in blScker or more dlsgrscing and
Stigmatizing language!
| Mr. Ashes character as politician. and as
an honest man. is thus stigmatzed before the
public. merely because he did what we have
stated above.
The language in the handbill created gen.
eral indignation in this place, among the dem
ocrats and moderate wings did not like it
Indeed the facts stated in the handbill were de-
nounced by many as untrue. In this dilemma
Mr. Hale. having in the meantime got home,
managed TO bring second person TO aid him
Accordingly, next day, the same ha7dbll re-
| appeared with certificate from Mr.. Archibald
Aaron Tyson Smith, who certified that Mr..
Ashe told him he had the tickets printed, and
why he had them printed
We procured one of the handbills (before
the certificate was attached to t) and sent it to
the Journal Office for MIR Ashe, with some
comments upon the language used in the hand
hill. but Mr.. Ashe was not then in Whining
ton.
We published the Carolinian on Friday, and
our readers recOllect how we noticed the hand
bill. On Saturday morning we received from
Mr. Ashe some circulars, "a copy of which
we pubIshed,) in which he stated the facts
before mentioned about the tickets, and asked
a. Does MIR. Hale believe the charge he has ac-
cuSed me of - A base act of villainy."
In reply TO that handful, MIR. Hale issued
! another, in no way softening or modifying his
former language. But regretting that it so
turned out that Mr. Ashe was guilty of the
OdSc dCl vi FHldiny1 lnoIcdu Oh Hue " IL"
| mington Journal !!!!!
At public meeting OF the wing party in
Fayetteville, held on Friday night before the
election. MIR. F.. L. Winslow introduced reso-
Iutions rendering thanks to Mr.. Hale for the
manner" in which he had by the nandbIl
"exposed the fraud attempted to he practsed
by the democratic eeclor in the 5th electoral
district of North Carolina"
Who can justify those resoIutions' Who
can justify any man. or set of men. in public
~ giving thanks" to partizan editor. for
using language towards mere political oppo-
nent. such as only ought to be used towards a
cut throat:
The transactions that grew out OF those res.
oIu,lons we pass over, as they have not been
made public
MT Ashe having seen and read the hand
OIL, &C. on the 18th November he sent a note
BY David Reid, Esq. to Mr.. Hale, demanding
iull and complete acquntaI of the caIumn-
Gus charge Mr.. Hale wrote a no,e to Mr..
Reid in reply, In that note of half column
close print, there is but one paraoranh of
twelve lines that has any approach 10 MAGMA.
nimity or fair dealing In those twelve lines
MIR. Hale saws that If he had supposed Mr.
Ashe TO have been the "getter up" of those
tickets, ''though his opinion of the act itself
might have been the same as II then was" he