Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-08-13
--.. From the Washington Union, August 10.
North Carolina Eieetlon-The Presidential Cues
ffon as the south Settled.

-- From the Washington Union, August 10.
North Carolina Eieetion.-The Presidential Cues
tion as the South Settled.
By the statements of The wing journals of this
city. of yesterday, and by the further intelligence
published in our telegraph column this morning it |
appears that the democrats have carried North Car
DINA by ma rity of about fire thousand.
We regard this Overwhelming result as in all rea-
sonabe probability settling the fact that Gen. Scott
not destined to receive single electoral vote south
of Mason and Dixon's line.
1t 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
mittee here, and the whlg party everywhere, know
ing that the election in North Carolina was the on
ly August election in the South which the wings
could hope to carry, were keenly alive to the i'm
moral effect of success failure In that State
Ia this view. North Carolina received the vice presl
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
nomination of General Scott, were Hon. Messrs
Mangum and Stanly-the one senator, the other
a representative, of North Carolina. To operate
specially in North Carolina, the whis abolitonist
conspiracy was gotten up: falsely charging Cen
Pierce with having made declarations hastle to the
fugitive law These false charges, printed the
same sheet and in connection with transcript OF the
i>lative record of New Hampshire were scattered
broadcast through the State with an intro !uctory
letter from two members of Congress certifying the
correctness OF the feCOIu though not specially
mentioning the false charges published along with
it, yet plainly calculated to give to the whole docu
ment greater credence and consequence than it
| would otherwise obtain. This trick moreover.
resorted to at late moment before the election
to render the full exposure of it before the people
in time for this election and of the tasehood of the
charges thus circulated almost impossible. In ad-
dtion to this, the wings, knowing that the demo-
Gratis had before elected Governor Reid against
Manly mainly a local issue, put in nominal
nf tba I1ar ioHu al
and eloquent wings in the State-Ar. kerr-who,
through his whole Canvass took special pains to
shape his in the different parts of the State
to concate the feelings of different localities all
the special issues. Clearly with the effect of aiding
in this and doubtless with direct view to
do so, Mr.. Graham resigned his post Secretary of
| the Navy and went home The State was flooded
with wing documents from Washington, and special
official emiSsaries were despatched frem their desks
to circulate them and augment their effect upon the
public mind. In word, the whig party and its
managers and organs made every effort that was
fair and proper and almost every conceivable effort
that unfair and improper, to carry the State
And the result of the whole movement is an unex-
amped, and, we confess an unexpected Waterloo de-
feat Of the arhigs, which has not only insured the
State for Pierce and King in November, but has, as
IRE confidently beere. placed North Carolina. hereto
fore the GibraIter of southern 1chigge,y permanently
IN the line Of southern democratic States! The whig
electoneerng committee of New York scattered Sc
Icepve statements and treacherous appeals
the wings of that State.
There is but explanation to all this. The
nomination of Gen Scott has proved itself to be ii
milestone hung around the neck OF the southern
whig party The ablest wings of the south distinct
y foesaw and over their signatures proclaimed, in
Il deliberate manifesto this result. In able speech
es several of them in most conclusive manner, set
forth the grounds of their opinions: and declared
that Gen. Scott could not receive their support But
SpwardiSm and sectiOnaliSm were deaf their
ings, and not onl y forced the nomination of General
Scott upon the reluctant and protesting South, but
reSOrted to confessed corrupt bargain . to accom-
plish it. which bargain scornfully repudiated
by the Seward organs of the North just soon il
had been consummated by the nomination. The
broad contrast of all this to the Taylor canvass Is
most manifest. Then Gen. Taylor the preferre,
candidate of the South. The South, to her cost.
beguilded into the belief that he. southern man
might be trusted to maintain the constitutions
rights of the South against the higher law' doc
trines and the controlling power of Sewardism ir
the whg ranks No such deuSion exsts--hardly il
any such pretence made in the case of Gen. Scott
He is in the field the chosen representative of thu
, enemies of the South The result has begun to ap
pear. 1t will appear fully in November,
1t is important TO remember that, according to TIT
most reliable accounts from Iowa. the Scott move
ment thus far seems to have prospered better II
the North than in the South This fact is of tn
more interest because purely sectional canvass
a " clean northern vote for Gen. Scott seem nov
the only whg reliance 1t is highly probable tina
this result the wings, despairing of the South
may direct their main efforts. Against such at
tempt let the democratic party and the patriotism
: of the people, everywhere paa ted on the policy o
peace between the North and the South, be tore
warned and forearmed. The democratic cause, a
n we believe. is safe in the South. Yet it should no
be forgotten that even in that section democrats
energy and watchfulness not slacken until tn
t final battle is fought and won. At the North OF
s the other hand and especially in the three grea
States which form the field of the main contest W
may be we'll assured that $ higher lawism,' conf
dent and boastful of its ascertained control il
t the whig ranks, will put forth its most desperat
unscrupulous efforts. 1t is for the democratic part
to remember that not only the ascendency Fits owl
cherished policy and principles, but also the peac
and tranquility of the Union, hang on the event G
the struggle Let the effort and zeal of the unite
democracy be commensurate with the demands O
the crisis
S The Press o America,
Il We make the following eloquent and truthful ez
tracts from the grafton recently pronounced by Hor
e Robt c. Winthrop, before the Association c
n Alumni y of Harvard College:
And then, the press of America-the periodical
press the pamphlet press, the light literature press
and above all, the newspaper press of America
that tremendous enginery which throws fres
{ broadside at morning and noon. day and evening
beneath almost every roof in the Republic and who's
competitions often betray it into fatal complain
ces with the prejudices. the passions, and even tn
~ profigacies of its supporters. Who estimat
II the influence of such enginery upon socia
4 and moral condition? Who calculate the pei
=. nicious effect upon the community of single col
rupt, licentious newspaper, coming ISLANDERS like
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