Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-10-12


GEoReIA ELEcTIoNs-The result OF the
Elections in Georgia. on the first infant, is
ruly gratifying to the Democracy. Governor
Towns is re elected by an increased majority
of At least fifteen hundred votes over his ma.
iority in isd7. his present majority being !
about 5000 OF more. The Legislature is al
so Democratic This is truly cheering news
Every lover of pure principles cannot but
be gratifed TO see Georgia once more placed,
as the Charleston Mercury very apty re-
marks, where she properly belongs, under the
guidance, of the Democratic party; not mere
ly because it is well.merited vote of appro-
val of her prudent, able and faithful Chief
Magistrate 5; these are domestic considerations
that belong more 10 the Georgians al home.
But TO the Democratic party of the whole
South. of the Union, this result is full OF in
terest, because il places Georgia beside vir-
GINA, Tennessee and Alabama, in the EN-.
phatic rebuke of an Administration that stole
into power under profuse pledges of modera-
ton. and have exercised il with a proscrip-
tiveness beyond the example of party. We
have had the judgment of more than one half
the South on this last fraud of Whigery, and
we anticipate that the voices OF the remainder
will be like these. Maryland, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Florida, will follow these bright
and noble examples, and will give to the
Southern Delega:ioni in Congress the power TO
speak with effect on the great questions i'm
pending, that involve their safety and their
honor. In this aspect the moral worth of the
Georgia Election cannot be over. estimated.
The two candidates for Governor were inter-
rogated some weeks before the election on all
the aspects of the slavery question. Gov
Towns's reply was immediate, able, compre.
hensive. and in al respects such as became a
Southern statesman. Judge Hill never replied
at all. Doubtless he was SO instructed by his
party. The game of concealment, and nom
commIttal, had succeeded admirably with Gen.
Taylor; it gave his friends in every nook and
corner of the Union. the liberty of pledging
him to the peculiar, orthodoxies and hetero-
doxies of all sorts of men, and of claiming his
silence as the proof that they had not misrep-
resented him. A game so cheap and success
full, was worth playing while its luck lasted.
Judge Hill was man singularly amiable,
kindly, afable, charming all that approached
him personally the most popular man in
Georgia. Why not enact Gen. Taylor over
| again: Free him from the odium of a distinc,
declaration of Wing principles, assure him the
support of the Wing party, and leave the rest
TO his personal popularity. 1t was an admi-
rable scheme, but unfortunately for its sue
cess. it had been played off before, with re-
suits just unfolding TO the astonished and in
dignant eyes of the people. No party can
have patent Tor deluding the people in per-
petuity on the same model, and the second ex.
hibiiion of the Wing device was received with
the scorn and derison that usually greets the
exhibition of stale iugglery. The Wings
must invent new cheat as often as they ex
pect fresh success. Bf.sanyza.g s = 81 .ail1
@qaP. S-Our latest adviees from Georgia state
that all the counties in that State have beer
heard from, and that Towns majority is s5oC
over Hill The Senate stands % democrats
to % federalists and the House of Represen
tatives 81 democrats to So federalista. Ma
lorty on joint ballot 7. No U. S. Senator tc
elect this year.