Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-08-20
THE RESULT IN THIS STATE.

1t may not be out of place, now that the excite
ment of the contest has somewhat subsidized, to re-
view the field and examine the that have pro-
duced so signal Democratic victory.
The result is no ordinary one. 1t was not pro-
duced alone by State issues neither by the admitted
popularity of Gov. Bragg The prominent State is
sues were Free Suffrage and Internal Improvements,
with the issues growing out of these two. Gov.
Bragg advocated Free Suffrage by legislative enact
ment but advocated no other amendment to the
Constitution and he opposed Convention. Mr..
Gimer professed to be for Free Suffrage but against
the proposed mode of obtaining it He preferred
Convention, and he desired further amendments to
the Constitution others, provision increas-
ing the tax slaves, so to protect, as he said,
the landed interests against the encroachments of
the shareholders, and the Commons voters. He was
also known to be white basis man, both as to leg
isative representation and the distribution of the
Common School Fund. He also claimed to be bet
ter internal Improvement man than Gov. Bragg
and his votes in the Assembly for years past in ia
vor of all schemes of internal improvement, were
pointed to by his friends, and popular support asked
on this account. He also advocated a great Bank
scheme, the Bank to be based on specie and State
and Railroad stocks; and very strong effort was
made by himself and portion of his friends, to en-
list in this way the favor and support of all who
were supposed to be dissatisfied with our present
Banking system, and who might be ready to avail
themselves of an opportunity to advance their own
interests by thus increasing the value of their Stocks
and by other means not necessary to be mentioned,
but which would certainly be found in such Bank
as the one proposed. These, then, we're the State
issues discussed. That Gov Bragg would have de-
feated him upon these alone and by handsome
majority, we do not for moment doubt; but the
true cause Of his immense majority is to be looked
for in another direction.
Mr.. Gilmer scorn third degree Rnoso Moth
ing and lie opposed tile Kansas Nebraska act and
hence the overwhelming majority which has been
cast against him. Know Nothngism and ant-Ne-
braskasm had fair and full hearing from the
mountains to the seaboard, and then again from the
seaboard to the mountains. The respective claims
Of Mr. Buchanan and Mr.. Fillmo re were also thor
oughy canvassed by GOV. Bragg and Mr.. Gilmer.
Behold the result i-thirteen thousand majority
gainst KnoaO Nothingisa, against Millard Fillmore,
and in tauor Of the Kansas Nebraska act, the ma.
In proof of what we have said, we refer to the
old line Wings who united with in achieving this
victory. They came to our assistance, not upon
State issues, but because they concurred with us in
opinion in regard to Know Nothingism and the Kan
sas-Nebraska act, and considered it their duty to
make common cause, in this extreme-crisis against
the enemies of the Union and the Constitutional
rights of the South. They that the contest for
the Presidency was between James Buchanan and
John c. Fremont, and they acted accordingly. We
honor them for their independence of mere party
when the Constitution and the Union ere at stake
and We are proud to have their assistance and CO.
operation.
Look, for example, at that great gain Of five thou
sand votes in Mr.. Clingman's District 1t was made
under rather Instantaneous circumstances. There
are but lew slaves, comparatively, in that region
ana the people there are almost all very strongly ir
favor of internal improvements, because. from the
situation by nature, they feel most deeply the need
OF them. Appeals were made to them in favor O
the white basis and of an increased tax on slaves
and they were urged, in the most vehement terms
to prefer Mr. Gilmer, an ultra internal improvement
man, to Gov. Bragg, whose course on the subiec
mas always been judicious and moderate; but al
'nese appeals were in vain. The people there ros
Up their might to exterminate Know Nothingishn
and to sustain the great principle ofthe Kansas-Ne
ofaska act. They saw the rights of their State i,
.ne common territories, and the federal Constitution
III peril, and they rushed by thousands to their de
renee, n Bred amid the pure free air of the Blu
Naee-a ccustomed to the fullest liberty, both q
a'nd and body, and cordially detesting Know Moth
.ussm' because Of its low cunning, its nidnigh
meetings. its horrid oaths and its skullipg nature