Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-08-19
NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION.

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The Raleigh Register of Wednesday thus an
nounces the final result of the late election in that
State:
FINAL REsULT.-We give below the returns from
all the counties in the State, with the exception of
Cherokee and Currituck. 1t will be seen that Mr..
MANLY's present majority is 844 which result
cannot be materially altered by the returns Yet to
be received.
NORTH CAROLINA, therefore, is as ever, a stanch
and decided Whig State. The diminuton in the
Gubernatoral vote, and the decrease of our major
ity in the Legislature, are entirely attributable to
general lethargy, local causes, and a shameful null
plcity of Wing candidates in strong Wing counties.
Our Wing friends abroad may rest assured that,
if there is Wing State in the Union, that State Is
North Carolina. If distracted, as the Wings have
BEEN by the local concerns of the county cleo
tons, weakened in their efforts for want of eff
fcient organizations, misled by willy stratagem of
their opponents, and lued into false security by
confidence in their strength we have yet carried the
election Of Governor by sufficiently decided ma
ority now, we will, under more favorable circum-
stances, support the hero of Buena Vista by vote
at least equal to that by which, in 1874 we mani
Tested our confidence in Harry of the West. On
this our friends throughout the Union may conf
dently rely. The Wing majority in the Legisla-
lure VIII De TWO on JOINT Daiiot.
That the falling in the Wing vote for Cover
nor is attributable to other causes than want of po
puarity in Gen. TAYLOR, or loss of strength Of the
Who's as party, is well understood by intelligent
men of both political parties in North Carolina. In
fact is 1--WE learn almost solely owing to an issue
made with reference to proposed amendment of
the State Constitution.
Under the Constitution Of North Carolina, every
white male of twenty-one years of age may vote
for the Governor and the more numerous branch of
the State Legislature; but for State Senators no
one can vote unless he has freehold of fifty acres
of land. One-half of those who elect the Governor
are thus excluded from voting for Senators. The
Democratic candidate, Mr. REID, proposed to amend
the Constitution so as to do away with this distinc-
ton. Mr.. MANLY, the Wing candidate, is under
stood to have argued against the proposed change
while canvassing the State. Many of the Wing
papers and candidates endeavored to sustain HMM
that position In some of the counties, it is true,
the Wing candidates took different ground, be-
they disapproved of the course of Mr.. MANLY,
and were in favor of the alteration. 1t is believed
indeed, that large proportion of the party were
favorable to the change. This diversity of send-
ment and action, as well as the issue itself, weaken
ed Mr.. MANLY before the People.
Without expressing any opinion as to the merits
of the issue ITSELF we feel justified in saying that it
would be extremely difficult for any one TO convince
the forty thousand excluded voters Of the proprey
of their exclusion.
That this new issue had powerful influence in
the late election is admitted by every body, We
know that the Democratic members of Congress
have for weeks predicted that they would carry the
State, declaring that party strong enough to
stand up under such an issue. IT. for example, one
man out of every twenty of the persons excluded
from voting for Senators changed his vote on that
ground, casting it against the Wing candidate, this
would be sufficient to account for the apparent De-
mocratic gain. That the Wing party of North Ca
rona have been able to stand up at all against such
issue is the most decisive proof of their strength.
We have heard leading members of both Houses Of
Congress, and Of both political parties, declare that
in their States no man could stand up twenty-four
hours under such an issue.
We find that Mr.. REDS vote is much less than
that Of other Democratic candidates who were beat
en- and, on looking over the returns from the coun-
ties, it will be seen that the greatest discrepancy
has occurred in the large Wing counties, where
ii was believed that Mr.. MANLY was in no danger,
and where the Democrats are understood TO have
made no effort, lest they should by doing so, rouse
the Wings to action.
We feel confident from the information derived
from all sources, that the Wing party is not only
strong in North Carolina as il ever was but that
as already minated, Gen. TAYLOR will, in the No
vember election, exceed the usual strength Of the
party whose candidate he is.