North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-08-23
Conversations Election.

Conversational Election.
From the returns given In another column, it
will be that in the Counties of Buneombe,
Henderson, Haywood, Rutherford, Cleaveland, Nc
Dowell, Burke and Caldwell, Mr.. Clingmans ma
jority is three thousand three hundred and three
votes. This majority, large as it is, will probably
be increased to four thousand, when we get the
votes of Yancy, Macon, apd Cherokee. Extraordi-
nary as is this majority, it has nevertheless been OBJ
tanned on very thin vote of the District This
was owing partly to the fact that there was
county elections to bring out the people, and also
to the universal impression felt throughout the Dis
trict that Mr.. Clingman would get votes enough
and more than enough, and that no effort was nee
essary to bring out the full strength. In such
nelghborhoods as happened to contain afew Gath
er men, the collision brought out pretty full vote;
but in the greater part of the District the people
being all one way, there was no talk" and feeling
secure, there was small vote. The supporters of
Col Gather as is usually the case with minorities
were active and polled their full strength. Had
there been full a poll as is sometimes brought
out say twelve thousand, Mr.. Clingman would have
obtained at least nine thousand, making his major
ty six, instead of four thousand. AS it is howev-
er, the majority is overwhelming everywhere, vary
ing in the different Counties from two to one to
four to one.
The result has been obtained in the face of the
ther, in the opinion of both his friends and foes,
was regarded as the strongest man that could be
brought out. On this point, as we said at the be-
ginning OF the canvass, we have no doubt. He
sustained by a large body of active and influential
politicians, who not only talked for him all the tme
but who printed and circulated more matter for
him than has ever been seen in any former contest.
Every charge, whether high or low, which it was
supposed could influence voter however ignorant,
no
Wing press of the State, as far as we know out of
the District, kept up steady fire the same side.
1t was also asserted by persons protesting to know
the fact, that the administration at Washington
was hostile to Mr.. Clingman's election, and that
President Fillmore himself said during the spring
to citizen of the District that it was all important
that he should be defeated In spite of all these
efforts he has in every quarter of the District alike
by Wings and Democrats, been most triumphantly
sustained.
Lis position In the contest is generally under
stood that it is hardly necessary restate it. He
occupied precisely the same ground as that indi-
Gated in his published speeches. He on all occas-
ions denounced the so called Compromise bills as
" Bills Of Surrender" He showed that they de-
prved the South of every part of the territory OBJ
tuned from Mexico. Though this act of spoliation
was as gross wrong was ever inflicted on
free people, yet it did not justify revolution or an
attempt III any mode to destroy the government,
because it had been consummated partly by the
South itself Any good form of government ought
only to be destroyed when it is past reformation.
In the present instance if the South had been true
to herself the North, though having the power,
would never have dared to perpetrate such an out
rage. If the Southern representatives generally
had insisted on it, fair settlement could have been
obtained, but large number of them shamefully
abandoned the rights of their own section, and
consented that it should be excluded from the pub
lie territory, provided that exclusion should be eff
fected in the least offensive to their feel
ings 1t is not to be wondered at that even the
moderate and just men of the North felt bound by
the force of public opinion at home to accept the
surrender thus offered by Southern men,
With reference to the Union, Mr. Clineman de-
clared that though in favor of it, as long as the
Constitution in its letter and spirit was observed,
yet he was opposed to any other Union with the
North, than such as that instrument had original
ly ordained. When, therefore, he should be sat
isfed that line of policy hostile to the interests
of the South was to be persevered in, he would be
for overthrowing the government as the enemy of
his own section which it ought instead to protect
This period has not yet, however, arrived. On the
contrary, if a proper and united effort should be
made by Southern men at this time, full Justice
could be obtained. 1t only needs that the South
period which brought Mr.. Jefferson into power,
and reformed the government The Federal par
ty, under its new name of Union party, is now
more dangerous than it was in the DAYS of John
Adams, because it has progressed farther in the
road Of consolidation and monarchy. Why, then,
should not the South rally under the e-honored
ever victorious flag of this period? AS the prin-
ciples of the Southern Rights party everywhere,
are those of the party of Jefferson and Madison,
why not adopt at once the appropriate and haow-
ed name of the Republican party 1t was upon
these principles and under this banner that the con-
test has been fought in this District Though call
ed in derision the Little Fzag" with one supper
ter, the people focked to it, and its followers are
counted by thousands. Let our friends-the friends
of the Constitution and the South everywhere un- |
fold it, and victory will march with them. Under
this banner, and in this name they will conquer.
The destruction of old parties or at least the OBJ
liberation of the old party lines, affords fortunate
occasion to rally together party which can reform
the government, and render the Union worth hay
ing and therefore permanent. .AshviHe Neaos.
The New ARMY UNIFORM. A general order
has recently been issued from the War Depart
ment giving description of the new uniform for
the army of the United States, which has been
approved by the Secretary of War. 1t is to be
strictly enforced and generals and cher inspecting
officers required to notice all deviations from