Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-08-16
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
wrLMINGroN, N. c., FRIDAY. AUGUST 10, 1850.
The Causes oft.

party has been most terribly used up in this State
1t now only remains to pick up the scattered frag
ments of the dear deunct and hold regular inquest
them, in order to settle the important question
as to who killed Cock Robin" The wing press
seems to set about this labor of love in most unove
ly temper. The Raleigh organs rate the naughty
people most soundly for having dared to disgrace
the State by electng democratic Governor. The
people doubt feel very bad, and suitably pen
tent but all that don't alter the result nor answer
the question as to who killed Cock Robin Our
neighbor of the Chronicle speaks patheticaly, and
says that North Carolina Wings were neglected in
the bestowal of Offices; and that having received no
fodder, they would no longer stand up to the rack
This may be considered candid, but hardly compli-
mentary. However, our neighbor says that he
knows this, may fairly set down to want of pap,
of the causes which contributed to hasten the
dissolution of the dear departed
Again it is stated that local causes exerted an
influence unfNyorable to Gov. MANLY, as no doubt
they did but not to anything like the extent which
some suppose It. seems to be settled fact, that
whatever business talent the members of the whig
party may display in the management of their pri-
vate affairs, they signaly fail to give satisfaction
when called upon to fill public executive stations
This is historical fact for the proof of which we
need go no further back than the late Cabinet of
Gen. TAYLOR, and the official course ofGoy: MANLY
So long the Gubernatorial Chair continued to be
sinecure, so long did the Raleigh Regency retain
power but no longer. AS soon as Gov MANLY was
called upon to exercise any real power so soon did
ne fail to give satisfaction and he was doomed
man, to the extent to which the result might be sup
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conduct arrayed against him. These influences were
felt upon the lines of the Plank and Turnpike Roads
Disregard of the wishes of the people, and subser-
vcncy to the dictation of particular interest NAV
be set down another of dissolution But
none of these causes, nor other similar ones which
might be assigned at all sufficient to account for
the overwhelming defeats of the wings in portions of
the State where it is impossible to suppose that they
could have exerted any influence whatever. 1t must
be borne in mind that MIR. REDS gain is not contin-
ed to the East nor to the West to the North to
the South. Leaving out Rutherford, some of his lar
gest gains are in Surry in the far West and Washing
ton, in the extreme East There are sufficient DEM
ocratic gains in counties unaffected by any local
question, to have given Mr. REID nearly three thou
sand majority. 1t is. therefore, plain that other
besides those already specified, must have been
at work to effect uniform democratic gain through
out the State not only in the election of Governor
but also in the election of members of the next Leg
isature- which operated upon the parties to-
tally irrespective of their different candidates. Prom
inent among these, might enumerate the Of
the late Cabinet and the state of the public mind up
the slavery question Leaving totally out of the
account the shameless corruption of some members
of the Cabinet and the reckless dishonesty Others
nmical to Southern rights and interests and that
whatever Gen. TATLoR's private views feelings
might be, the SEWARD influence was in the ascen-
dant at the White House. The accession to the Pre-
sidency of Mr. FILLMORE, man whose name upon
the wing ticket of 1848 made the pill peculiarly
palatabe to the Southern portion of the party could
hardly tend to strengthen it at this juncture in
Southern State. A portion of the whig party in
Congress has been faithful to the cause of Southern
rights but that portion has been in opposition to the
administration which sustained by the whig
press and whig leaders of this State The subser-
Went course which has been pursued by the whig
organs in North Carolina has contributed not lit
tie to weaken the attachment of the people, who
have turned to the democrats the true national
constitutional and Southern party.
But more than all this, the pending difficulties be
tween the North and the South have opened the PEG
pies eyes to the fact that the tariff and revenue pol
icy, recommended by the Wing party is essentially
calculated to build up the North at the expense O
the South, and to aggrandze the interests of thos
who are making upon the dearest rights ant
most cherished feelings of the Southern people PEG
pie are no longer willing to be taxed upon almos
every manufactured article they use, in order tina
the Abolitionists of Massachusetts may the NOR
/ rapidly accumulate money to be spent IN warrin
4 against the institution of slavery.
1t quite probable that the question of Equal Sui
frage not without its influence, but this inau
ence was by means a controlling one, for we fin
that in the county of Dupn, where considerable di
ference of opinion existed upon this question: on
friends did their whole duty fully and Cheerful
" in counties where the current of opinion in
favor was unbroken. We might remark, in passin
that we have no sort of doubt that this reform wi
u made
1t is both foolish and ungenerous to charge tn
defeat upon Gov MANLY. Any other Wing wou
I have shared the same fate. The first time Govern
i MANLY was a candidate, he ran 1886 over the vo
cast for Gov. GRAHAM at the election immediate
preceding, and within 226 of the highest vote ev
cast for Gubernatorial candidate in this State.
will be found, at the summing up, that his prese
vote does not fall far short nothing in proportion
the increase Of the Democratic, and at any rate, tt
aggregate vote of the State is considerably tn;
it ever has been BEFORE cOnclusively proving tn
the Wing defeat has not been the result of anatl