Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-12-28
The following is the official vote cast for Com
WILMINGTON on Thursday last
KN0w-NoTHTNG.
The Town EIrcIIOn.

erage majority fer the successful ticket is elgh'ee"
AMI four. sevenths, tc fraction.
Well our ticket is deeaied for the present. ana
there is no use TO cry spilled milk But We are
M, beaten nor dismayed We have brought up
lee.way of full eighty votes since The August eecnon
when the majority against on the strict town vote
was about one hundred The majority OF the votes CAST
was g. andihad the votes from the country been ex
cluded it would have been about one hundred.
And we have gained this too, in the face OF the regis
traton law which operated largely to our disadvan-
tage, But for that law there would inevab y
have been majority of full fifty votes for the Anti
Know Nothing ticket Old citizens of town are
informed came down to the polls but could not vote
from not being registered Others working. men, al
though registered and tax payers were not prepared
in the present stringent times to fork their taxes
Immediately, and therefore could not get pass OF
the votes lost from want of registration three fourths
were on our side and would have voted our ticket
The same was the case iu regard to the taxes. Many
smaller property holders, pushed up for money were
disfranChised because they did not have the money
al hand and did not to 60 around borrowing 1T,
and so stayed at home. We lost in that way. But
with all these thirgs against US, we have gained
about eighty votes in little over four months. We
need not advert to the influence welded by party in
power all of which thrown warmly into the con-
test nor 10 the fact that the majority for the success
full party does not equal the number Of voters actual
" in the employ of the town. We are not now de-
batting or calling in question anybodys right to do
they have done, but simply adducng facts bearing
the case and going to show the difficulties the citi
zens Anti. Know Nothing ticket had to contend with
In the face of all these difficulties the majority OF
the successful party has been reduced to merely
nominal affair. The result of another contest can
therefore be easily foreseen.
If we were to say that we do not feel somewhat
disappointed, or, as people say, bad the result
of the election we would not expect anybody to be-.
lieve u.s. and we say no such thing. But submit
cheerfully to the legal decision Of the people the
polls.
We are warm partiZans we have our personal pre-
ferences, and we think that nobody can pretend to
say that in the gentlemen ticket did not
have candidates emnently deserving of 'tbe warm
personal as we'll political support OF their per
sonal and political friends, and they got ours and
they will get it again with will. But while
both personally and politically we supported the
Anu-N Nothing ticket, we opposed The opposite
ticket purely upon political grounds We have stu.
men composing The opposite ticket. Everybmjy
knows them respectable ard good citizens. Let
thai pass. 10 few days things will sub>lde to the
usual level.
Well, the Registration Law beat u.s. Had our vo-
tiers been registered closely those vi our oppo-
nents we won have carried The day. for we ad the
majority and have It gentleman who was at
thu polls all d;y i"f IS that there were over
twenty five Of voter VII" could rot exercise the
right of suff,agr tins account. Better luck mex
lime Gentlemen Of the opposite party, it is your
turn now, II will he ours nex' time
o. There i great deal Of trnh IN the old pro
verb that the Ieas said The soonest " ended. In the
heat OF election contests much Will always be sale
and done on both sides that tad perhaps better no
be said or done hut when the contest is ant
the thing decided, such things become worse thai
useless, since they can, by possibility, effect an.
result, save that of creating and perpetuating per
sonaI feeling. At such a time, the proverb will
which we set out becomes douhly and dOuhl
applicable
The successful party had a grand jubiation and
procession and an illumination, and what old Genera
Cass once called, much I" noise and confusion" On
of their transparencies had it Ct $50 majority
Their last Efort.' How the painter could figure
out would rather puzzle an arithmecian to discove
There were 927 votes polled To have given ma
orty of $50 over the highest vote for any GU
ticket would have required 125 votes than wer
actually poled, and to have had 80 over the low
est would have required la The fact Is thu
votes more would have elected one of our car
didates, 9 two of candidates, IL three of then
and IA more the majority of the ticket whic
is rather queer showing for splendid triumph
The fact is that it was the closest election hel
in town. A close shave. Close enough to have kel
all hands exceedingly nervous until the last nan
was counted out.
The Democrats and the ant-Know Nothing men
bers of the old Wing party. who act with them, 8
for what they believe 10 be sound principles Is
to be supposed that thus believing they the me
to give up the ship! Is there any doubt of the r
Spouse to such supposition' None in the world, e
pecialy in view of the fact disclosed by the resu
of the election, that although defeated by an aveas
of l8 TO 19 votes, they have still gained largely
the face of so many disadv antages.
Nor are they going TO squabble among themselV
or waste their breath in useless talk about what
over. With less complete organization than the
opponents they worked openly and manfully. Ih'
will close up their ranks hold aloft the standard
their principles, rally around and fight under In
standard until victory crowns their efforts.
The Albert Adams.
We ore pleased 10 learn that the last steamer
Boston brought the news of the safe arrival of Il
PriO Albert Adams AT Marseilles from Wilmin 0to