The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1849-02-23

Shich our candidates lost ground. Unde
u such circumstances it was not TO be regard
i ed Is surprising if there should be q grea.
L or ioss with US than the average OF tn,
!. State generally. But, in pom, Of fact, in
stead OF losing three hundred votes will
; US, the Wing candidates actually gained
two hundred aud forty eight, by the stand
ara universally adopted. being upwards o.
i've hundred better than 10 the other dis.
'r'cts. Instead, however, of our getting
credit for standing up under adversely bet.
I yer Than other sections, the reverse is the
TACT; aud such have been the representa-.
.'ons made, tina, all through the central re.
, gions /, seems by this time 10 he under.
stood that our loss in the summer occurred
7 mslny IN the West; and was amused re.
Gently to see that one OF our own represen
fatlves, after residence of only ten days
IN Raleigh, had become firmly convinced Of
this fact. But, in the recent election for
PRESIDENT, our g. ound in the State was re-.
covered again and upon it's appearing that
there, had, from August to November been
gain, 10 one or two Of the METROPOLITAN
districts, Of two or three hundred, they are
IN these papers, greatly glorifed and this
change 10 properly ascribed TO the ex,raor.
binary effIrts and wonderful eloquence of
Mr.. A., Mr.. b., and others; while in our
district, which even in the summer did bet.
ter, both positively and comparatively, than
The resl OF the State, gain Of thirteen
hundred IS unnolIced. Not only SO, bu,
have now before me paragraph in circu
lauon, which falsely states The majority of
Gen. Taylor in our district a, one thousand
less than 1t really was, while i. exaggerates
as much the vote of another dls,ric, in the
State, so as 10 enable these persons to ar,
gne, as they do, that ours is no, the strong
est Wing district in the State. The editor
Who makes such a statement, as well as
those who rerublsh il, know the truth very
well, because they haze oil, think, pub
l'shcd IN their columns the votes of the dif.
ierenI countries; bu, they know that few
of their readers, in the State generally, can
tell precisely what counties constitute the
district, and that still fewer would be like.
ly 10 select Twelve counties from lie, OF
eighty, alphabetically arranged, and foo, Up
the mal,ritles, 90 as to detect the misrep.
fcsen'aion.
| have referred to these cases merely for
Illustration. To detail oil such mil hl make
volume. By such means a sorl Of public
opinion 10 made in tho State that answers
veil the purposes Of the makers. II has
been remarked heretofore, again and again,
that the Democrats OF the centre treat us
with more consideration than do those OF
our own party; yet the former can have no
motives of SO dong, other than their feel
Ing OF right prompts, since they suffer more
from US, IN party point OF view, than they
do from the State generally. The Wings
mny. perhaps. in some few instances, be +
operated on, no. only by feeling OF jeal.
ousy, bu! that stronger one, of dislike of
those whom they habiually injure.
When an election is pending they call
loudly on US. |. is then "harra for the
g'ea. western reserve lei us hear your
thunder the State is in danger send down
strong wing delegations to the legislature,
and heavy ina lorities for Governor !" when
the contest is over, they having themselves
10 the mean time been oyer,hrown and
trampled down, no sooner ascertain BY the
noise from the West tina, the State is car.
red, than they spring up nlmbly, and be.
fore they have had time TO rub off the mud
left by the feet OF Democracy who have
marched over them, they most modestly
make arrangements for dividing among
their favoriles all the eff .ers 10 the State.
Not content es mere camp followers with
their proper privilege of plundering The
slain, they assume TO distribute the honors
and appropriate the spolia opima. What,
If Napoleon during his twenty campaigns
had found tina, there was one division of his
army which was regularly broken and
routed in every engagement, would he have
bestowed on tina, division all the honors
and prizes won by the valor of the rest of
the soldiers And If he had done so, if he
had given to them nlone the Crosses Of the
Legion of Honor, and distributed TO them
only annuites and pensions, would he there.
by have KEEP, alive tina, splri. which made
his followers az true as steel, alike amid the
burning sands of the Pyramids and the ices
and SHOWS of Moscow; which made him
victorious against the odds at Marengo, en-.
abed him TO overcome the vast obstacles in
the campaign Of Wagran, and carried his
banner triumphan, under the sun at Aus.
terl,z; that spirit which caused mighty
monarchy to fall without blow before his
presence, on his return from Elba, and
made his old guard willing as one man to
die for him, when his star wen. down for.
ever on the field of Waterloo! But the
central division Of our army, the weakes,
and worst portion Of it, has 10 all engage.
men,s been uniformly defeated, and has as
uniformly claimed all the fruits of the vic.
tory. No. content, too, with this, these
people, with the misch,evous vanity Of
grown up children, are constantly insisting
that they shall choose the candidates and
make the Issues.
If il we're known, for example. that q
particular gentleman would, il a candidate
for the office OF Governor, lose ten Wing
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