Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-10-10
presidential Election.
TuEsDAY. NOVEMBER 4fh. ]

We would wish to H this prominently before
our readers, especially those in The strong Demo-
cratic counties in this District, from until the
rival of that day upon which the people of the United
States, from Maine to California, are in their espec
tive States to choose Electors for President and Vice
President Every man who has taken the slightest
interest in public afairs-who knows any thing of
the momentous issues involved-knows that this will
States, involving important results to the Union
and the safety of the South may, involving the
very Union itself Is this time for apathy, or is it
a time for exertion Shall we fold our arms, and
let the thing 20 by default; or shall we come up to
the work like men, and give Buchanan and Breckin-
ridge not only Bragg's majority, but much larger
one? We address ourselves especially to the Demo
Gratis of New Hanover, and Duplin, and Sampson,
and Bladen, and Columbus, and Onsow and Wayne,
and Edgecombe-aye, and Brunswick, too; but we
do not confne remarks to these. We mean them
for the Democracy of every county which our paper
may reach. We call upon them in the name of their
country-in the of their arouse, exert
themselves, shake off the apathy which seems 10 have
taken possession of them, and bring out their whole
force on the 4th day Of meet No0ember.
We beg of them to bear in mind that the August
election was, after ALL but preliminary skirmish
and that the great pitched battle of the canvass is
yet to ccme-that the great issue has yet to be de-
cided, on the 18th day Of November. We achieved
great triumph the first Thursday in August last !;
but if we allow that to relax energies-o i'm
press with fatal feeling of security, then better
had it been for had achieved no such triumph.
We don't say this for the purpose of exciting un-
necessary alarm. We have the strength and the
votes 10 give Buchanan and Breckenridge al least
| fifteen thousand majority. But votes do not count
unless they are poled and certainly no more mortI-
fying result could be shown than the defeat OF a
party so largely iii the majority, simply because the
voters were content to stay at home and trust the
great issues of the election TO accident tree ctl-
zep convinced of the recttude of his new
er leave the vnlication of that 10 chance, with
out mourning the responsibility attaching to will
full neglect Of duty.
We wish to speak plainly to our friends-we al
WAYS do. There is no use in selfdecepton OF the
decention of Others We know that the Democratic
feeling is stronger in this section than it was in Au-
gust last-that men who voted for Mr. GlImer Will
now vote for Buchanan and Breckenridge. All this
we know but we know also that unless the present
apathy be shaken off, the ote of this section of the
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gust and in counties where the Democrats out-num-
Der their opponents three four to one, as they do
in New Hanover, Duplin, Onslow, Wayne and other
counties, it is easy 10 on which party the main
loss occasioned by this failure to vote will fall
Now, say that in Dupin there is falling off of ten
or twelve per cent on the whole vote, the Democrats
would lose by the operation about as many as all
that their opponents could poll They would lose
at least six 10 every one of the opposition.
Pending the last Presidential election We happened
to be up for very few days in some of the Western
counties. The State had gone in August by nearly
six thousand votes, and our Democratic friends
thou hit they could rest on their oars. We at
once that in that section they felt perfectly easy
bout the maer-they thought il was all right, butwe
thought differently for saw that the Democratic
vote would not be poed and that, from the EXCEPTIONS
made on the other side, the Wing vote would W.
sounded the alarm here and in this section gloTiou
vote was poIled, and that alone saved the State
f and by close shave. We saw then the dangers o
e apathetic security-we see them now, and warn on
friends against them.