Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-10-22


To the People of Eastern North Carolina.
Although there will be another issue of our paper
between this day and TUESDAY THE SECOND
DAY OF NOVEMBER, yet, from the Arrangement
of the mails, this will be the last opportunity we
can have to address large body of our readers all
through the Eastern portion of the State and IN some
of the Western counties also. We therefore pro-
pose to say a few words. Few we hope, will be ne
cessary for the merits of the candidates and the
prncipes of the parties have already been sufficient
" canvassed and the fat ofpubc opinion has placed
its stamp of approval upon the principles and the can
didates of the Democratic party and of reprobation
upon those Of the ScotSeward party. In the course
of ibis canvass. in meeting charges brought against
General Pierce we have found it necessary to exam
inc the record fully and must say and we say 1t
candidly honestly and from our hearts out, that
have never examined into the political history Of
any man. whose whole course would bear more RI
cid examinations or who has been more straig htfor
ward consistent and constitutional in his whole views
and conduct In 1880 we find him standing by Mr.
Calhoun. in the Senate of the United States and vO
ting for bis celebrated Southern rights resolutions In
1914 we find him advocating the annexation Of Tex
as and rebuking the aboitonists who opposed 1t on
abolition grounds And he then pledged himself
SHOULD war be the consequence, to go. and in 1916
he did go as a private soldier After the compro-
mise was passed. and Mr. Atwood who was the De-
moeratic candidate for Governor Of New Hampshire
came out against the Fugitive Slave Law, we find
Cen. Pierce depriring him of the nomination and
clocting sound man over him.
On the other h.nd we have found General Scott
claiming to be a Democrat at Rochester, N. Y. in
1899, and in the year, candidate for the NOM
ination of the Wing Convention, which met OF Hair
risburg, Pa. We next find him wiring Native A
merican lelters-Canada annexation letters anti
slavery letters-Unitcd States Bank and Bankrupt
law and high Tariff letters and all sorts of letters,
including hasiy pate of soup" letters. We find
the compromise passed. and the Fugitive Slave Law
resisted at the North, and Gen Scott's name en-
ployed to sanction ;hat resistance; and great let
ter-wrter Gen. Scott had BEEN not acord did
he write for over two years in favor of that law
even when Intercepted; and to cap the climax,
we find this modest travelling
through The country making speeches for himself
and strong nativeiSt as he has been prasing up the
. rich broguen and the - German accent and all
that sort of thing and the last heard OF him. he
was at Syracuse. New York, where he partook of a
public dinner, at which VIM. H. Seward presided.
Need ask you upon which of these two men
your choice your enthusiastic choce-must fall
What Southern man can support Scott and Grahami
Who can refuse to support Pierce and King?
The canvass which has been in progress, since
the nominations made by the Democratic and " hie
Baltimore Conventions, is drawing rapidly to q
close and as it does so, various signs serve to fore
shadow with all the certainty of conviction the ina
result 1t is striking fact that since the Presden
tial canvass has commenced not single State, no
even Florida has given popular majority for The
Wing party Within little over week, elections
have been held in three of the most important States
OF the Union, Pennsylvania Ohio, and Indiana, State
casting sxty-wo electoral votes and entitled to fifty
SIX members of Congress In these States the De
moeratS have obtained popular majority of some
thing between forty and fifty thousand and carried
thIrtynlne Congressional Districts, while the Wing
have only carried seventeen. We have taken thu
trouble to examine the votes in these States. from
1886 to lS4o inclusive, and we find no instance i,
which either side has obtained as large maioritie
at the State elections the Democrats have in tbi
instance and then failed to carry the vote of tn
States for the candidate of their party We lool
upon the October elections in these three States as
and really decisive of the whole contest
Even Florida, it has at length been ascertained
has gone democratic in every thing, Congressman
Governor, and ma ority of fifteen in the Legisla
tnre While the tremendous majority of 1864 in Bal
tlmore city renders it to impossible that Scot
can do any thing in the State of MARYLAND Las
year we carried Baltimore by about seven hundred
and the Scott men, before the late municipal cleo
ton IN that city, sad unless you carry the cit
by two Thousand, you cannot carry the State" W
haee carried the city 10y TWO thousand and sixtee,
hundred over, and we will carry the State even &C
eording to their own showing
We cannot believe that North Carolina will fail f.
redeemsthe pledge she has given through her larp
majority for Mr.. Reid, and by the Inns of bcr elo
qaent Dobbln. She will not desert one who has new
er deserted the constitution. nor failed to bear hi
testimony against all attempted encroachments o.
the ghts Of Che souh She will rally for the fren
OF y oodburya the man of the constitution and til
l mon tranklin Pierce, of New Hampshire In tn
changes aud vieissitudes of party warfare the tow
wilmington the county Of New Hanover the Who'll
cape Fear country has stood like rock, and nethe
lhe leg cabin excitement Of 1910. nor the Rough an
heaay eathusiaSm OF 1913 caused the least waYerin
IN helfnnshaken and unshakeable devotion to III
great principles Of the Constitution and the un;or
These principles are every where trinmnhan
state after Slate is wheeling into line, and Nor,
Carolina will respond to the call made unon her h
majority OF ten thousand for Pierce and kim
9ar last word--our most earnest request ia 81,
friends Is, to REMEMBER THE SFcaND X Z,