Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-10-15
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RALEIGH, SATURDAY. OCT. IL. 1856.
The November Election.

On Thursday the 4th day of next month the peo-
pie will vote for President and Vice President of the
United States. 1t will be by far the most mpor-
tant election ever held in this any other country
We sincerely believe that the preservation of the
federal Constitution and the best hopes of mankind
are at stake in this contest
1t is the duty as it is the high privilege of every
citizen to exert himself for the cause which he pre-
fers and to vote for that at the polls Espe-
ciaiy is it the duty Of every member of the Demo
cratic party to exert himself seeing the combina-
tions in existence against his party and the great
importance Of general Democratic success. thus
far in these Southern States Democratic friends
have had comparatively quiet and unexcited cam
paign; but this, instead of relieving them of the du
ty and necessity for exertion, furnishes of the
strongest reasons Why as the election approaches,
they should rouse up and labor for full vote. Our
friends in the free States fighting the battle for
US; le. us to it that no Southern State fall
ters, or exhibts-what does not eXist-a feeling
Of Indifference in this momentous crisis.
The fact should not be concealed that the friends
of Mr.. Fillmore in this State becoming quite ac
tive, and are making arrangements for bringing out
their full strength. They calculate casting as
IT..
Gmer in August; ana if they should do this, and
if the Democrats should poll for Mr.. Buchanan no
more than they polled for Gen. Pierce, they will be
disastrousy defeated. "Forewarncd, forcarlned." "
We observe, in Know Nothing paper before us,
notices for sic Know Nothing mass meetings in the
Western part of the State and We hear of others
to be held elsewhere.
Are the Democrats of the State properly aroused
We know that our Electors and SubElectors are
manfully discharging their duty,-but are we not
to have more mass meetings, more gatherings, more
barbecues than those already provided for?
1t is idle to expect full vote without using the
meens to obtain it. 1t is all very well to talk about
fifteen and twenty thousand majority; but let us,
by efforts, ensure it. 1t will not come OF ITSELF
by general spontaneous movement Important as
Presidential elections always are, stH it is known
that the people never turn cut to attend them as
they do the State elections. Hence, the necessity
for greater exerton at this time. Let the leading,
active Democrats in all the neghborhoods talk with
the people the importance Of going to the elec-
ton-et meetings be held short time before the
4th of November-let persons be appointed to at
tend the various precincts, and let all the precincts
be we'll supplied with Electoral tickets 1t gener
ally considered the duty of the Electors and Sub
Electors to organize they 60 along, and to see that
tickets are furnished in all the Counties; but they
cannot attend to every locality and the surest way
therefore, is for ecery Democrat to resolve himsel
into committee Of one and go to acork IN this, ana
IN other respects, to ensure a full cote.
full vote in November will be brilliant Demo
cratic victory Let us all remember that, and ac
accordingly. .-r.