The North-Carolina standard., 1849-09-12
RHODE ISLAND ELECTION.

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The Raleigh Register, in announcing the election
of Mr. Dixon, Whig, from the State of Rhode Island,
in place Of Mr.. Thurston. Democrat, does 50 in a
way evidently intended to produce the impression
that this Whig triumph is victory over the Free
soil party. That paper says:
This information is the more acceptable, as there
was reason to apprehend, from the t'Free-So party
having formally Withdrawn its own candidate and
thrown its weight into the scale against the Wings,
that the result might have been different"
Now what are the facts The Providence Journal,
a Whig organ printed the spot, says: stMr. Die
IS HeesoH man from education and from prinei-
P but he nothing that party which arrogates
the title of Freeso; and sends Congress to v6te
for SzarHy." That is, Mr.. Dixon being free-State
Whig, is necessarily Freesoil man from education
and from principles and his triumph has been achiev-
ed by his party proper over the Old Hunker Demo
Gratis (who send men to Congress to vote for Slave
ry, and the Freesoil Democrats combined. There it
is, in nutshell The truth is, you may take out
for the purpose and you may start
jumpng-of place. in Maine and travel thoughout all
the free States, and you will not find the first Whig
who is opposed to the Wilmot Proyiso, or in favor
of the Missouri Compromise whereas, if you viii
interrogate the Democrats the same route, you
will find thousands and thousands willing to yield
that Compromise for the sake of the I'm
ion settle this vexed question, and hostile the
Provso not because they in favor of Slavery but
because they regard it as the instrument of wicked
and ambitious. men to build up sectional parties,
which must result in the most lamentable conse-
quences to the whole country. The Register knows
these things to be Will it have the candor so to
inform its readers +! We can perceive good rea-
SON why it should not, especially it processes to
be &c no-party organ of " no-party Admins
traton.
But it appears, after all, that the Slavery question
had very little do with this result in Rhode Island.
The Providence Journal gives the reason of it
I" What, then, has made this great change2 What
has aroused the whole district, giving Wing gain
in every town but two, and swelling Mr.. Dixon's
majority to over six hundreds 1t is the depression
the actring and mechanical business an this STATE
and the conviction that this could not be relieved
without change in the present revenue laws. 1t
was tariff role that was given Tuesday in the
western district; it was expression of the sen-
meats of the people upon the subject of protection
is this which has called out great vote, and
such unusual exertions, and which, added to the
popularity of the candidate, has given such an
unprecedented majority"
Here then, is the secret of this unlooked-for Wing
triumph in Rhode Island. That State, insignificant
she is in point of territory has not less than
more than fifty thousand bales of Cotton, and manu-
featuring seventy millions yards of cloth. These
Manufacturers want protection, at the expense
of the other great interests of the country and they
have just given " Tariff vOte - to make known their
wishes. Gen: Taylor, on his Northern tour, and
who maintaineda profound silence, before has election
this question of protection, has recently in his
Speeches in Pennsylvania promised protection to that
State; and we suppose the Cotton Mill owners of
Rhode Island considered that if Pennsylvania to
be cared for, they too would in for their share
of benefits and bountes 1t was, therefore, Tariff
vote - and nothing else.
Are the Wings of this State disposed to upset the
present Tariff Are they still in love with high taxes
and protection to all interests but their own9 Are
they ready, with Gen. Taylor, strike down the Gd
UGiOrem principle and GO back again the specific
duties of 1842! And will they, or any of their
presses, have the bodness to assert that the election
of Gen. Taylor declaration by the people against
the Tariff Of 1916, and in taUOr Of the odious act Of
1892 We pause for a reply, What says the Re-
gister