Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-08-14
NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION.

NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION.
BY the statements of the wing journals of this city
of yesterday and by the further Intelligence published
in our telegraphic column this morning, it appears
that the democrats have carried North Carolina by
majority of about fUe thousand!
We regard this overwhelming result as in all rea-
sonable probability settling the fact that Gen. Scott
is not destined receive single electoral vote south
of Mason and Dixons line.
II is to North Carolina, among all the southern
States that wing hopes and efforts have been special
ly directed. The Wing Convention, the whig com
-mttee here, and the wing party everywhere, know
ing that the election in North Carolina the only
August election in the South which the wings could
hope TO carry, keenly alive TO the immense
moral effect of failure in that State. In
this view, North Carolina received the vice presi-
DENTAL nomination. The two southern wing MEM
bers of Congress who took the most early active, and
prominent lead in forcing upon the South the noml-
nation of Gen. Scott were Hon. Messrs. Mangum
and Stany-the a senator, the other represent
tative, of North Carolina. To operate specially in
North Carolina, the whig abolitonis conspiracy
gotten up, falsely charging Gen. Pierce with having
made declarations hostile TO the fugitive law. These
false charges printed on the sheet connection
with a transcript of the legislative record of New
Hampshire, were scattered broadcast through the
State, with an Introductory letter from two members
of Congress certifying the correctness of the record
and though specially mentioning the false charges
published along with 1t, yet plainly calculated to
give to the whole document greater credence and
consequence than it would otherwise obtain. This
trick was, moreover, resorted to at so late moment
before the election to render the full exposure of
it before the people in time for this election, and of
the falsehood of the charges thus circulated, almost
impossible. In addition to this, the wings, knowing
that the democrats had before elected Governor Reid
against Manly mainly on local issue, now put in
nomination against him of the most popular, in
auental, and eloquent wings in the S;ate-Mr. Kerr
who, through his whole canvass, took special pains
so shape his in the different parts of the
State concate the feelings of different locali-
ties all the special issues. Clearly with the effect
of aiding in this canvass and doubles with direct
dr. Graha q INST az
rotary of the Navy and went home. The State was
flooded with whig documents from Washington, and
special official emiSsares were despatched from their
desks to circulate them and augment their effect upon
the public mind. In a word, the wing party and its
managers and organs made every conceivable effort
that unfair and improper, to carry the State And
the result of the whole movement is an unexamPled
and, We confess, an unexpected Waterloo defeat Of
the Whigs, which has not only insured the State for
Pierce and King in November but has, as IRE conf
IDENTIFY beHere placed North Carolina, Heretofore the
Gibraltar Of Southern Uhiggery. permanently in the
l.ne or southern democratic STATES! The Wing cleo
tioneering committee of New ork scattered secret
circulars through North Carolina, filled with decep
tive statements and reacherous appeals, to arouse
the wings OF that State.
There is but explanation of all this. The
nomination of Gen. Scott has proved itself to be
milestone hung around the neck Of the southern wing
party. The abes wings of the South distinctly fore
saw, and over their signatures proclaimed, in a
deliberate manifesto, this result. In able speeches
several of them, in most conclusive manner, set
forth the grounds OF their opinions, and declared mat
Gen. Scott could not receive their support. But Sew
ardsm and sectionalism deaf to their warnings,
and only forced the nomination of Gen. Scott upon
the reluctant and protesting South, but resorted to
confessed corrupt bargain TO accomplish 1t, which
bargain was scornfuly repudiased by the Seward
paps of the North just as it had been consum-
mated by the nomination. The broad contrast of all
this TO the Taylor canvass is most manifest Then
Gen. Tay the preferred candidate of the South.
The South to her cost, beguiled into the belief
that he, a southern might be trusted to
tain the constitutional rights of the South against the
80 hgher-law - doctrines and the controlling power of
Sewardisrn in the wing ranks. No such delusion
exists-hardy is any such pretence made in the
OF Gen. Scott He is in the field the chosen repre-
sentative of the enemies of the South. The result
has begun to appear. 1t will appear fully in No
vember.
1t is important to remember that, according to the
most reliable accounts from Iowa, the Scott movement
thus far have prospered better in the North
than in the South. This fact is of the more interest,
because purely sectional canvass and " clean
them vote" for Gen. Scott seem the only whig
reliance. 1t is highly probable that this result,
the wings, now despairng Of the South, may direct
their main efforts. Against such attempt let the
democratic party and the patriotism of the people,
everywhere planted on the policy of peace between
the North and the South, be forewarned and forearm
ed. The democratic cause, we believe, is safe in
the South, Yet it should not be forgotten that even
in that section democratic energy and watchfulness
must not slacken until the final battle is fought and
won. At the North, the other hand. and especial
" in the three great States which form the field of
the main contest, may be well assured that "high-
er-awism," confident and boastful OF its now ascer
tanned control in the whg ranks will put forth its
most desperate and INSCRIPTIONS efforts 1t is for the
democratic party remember that not only the as
tendency of its cherished policy and principles,
but also the peace and tranquility of the Union. hang
theevent of the struggle Let the efforts and zeal
of the united democracy be commensurate with the
demands of the crisis! Vosh. Union.