Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-09-01
The Result of the late Election.

Aggregate vote I'LL Tie Cldtes 0u,Ats
The Result of the late Election.
The last Democratic Pioneer contains the follow
;rc sensible and well-considered remarks, which we
commend to the attention and consideration of our
Democratic readers:
a W,RS1SG.-The result of the recent election
in this State should teach democrats lesson from
which they should profit. The returns show de-
crease in the democratic vote when compared with
that of Gov Bragg, and though majority is large
i; is owning 10 McRae's weakness, and not to our
strength as brought into the field We are satisfied
that the Democratic party is stronger oday in
North Carolina than it has been for years. We
know that its numbers are larger, and that it has
Absorbed the best material from the opposition, and
vet we have poed fewer votes by many than at the
previous election. This has not been caused by any
dissatisfaction with Judge Ellis. No objection to
the administration of Mr.. Buchanan has produced
this falling off in the vote, because never was an adj
nnstration more popular in the State than the pre-
sent This is fully attested by the numerous Access
SONS to our ranks from the Know Nothing party
and among them, many who have heretofore been
most violently anagonistic to the Democracy. 1t is
we'll known that not few of the " American" party
voted for Judge Ellis upon personal grounds, and
still we find material loss in the popular vote.
Why is this? The answer is plain and self evident.
is attributable to the lethargy and supneness of
TOO great confidence in our own strength belief
that our numbers were sufficiently great to bear
down all opposition even without an effort. Thou
sands Of good and true men, from the influence OF
feeling of security remained at home, supposing that
there was no real necessity for their votes ard that
We should have enough and to spare. So far as the
Governor is concerned, we have not sustained in
Jury, but its bearing upon the future success of the
party may be most disastrous. Its results, how
ever, may be seen in the loss we have met with in
the Legislature. There has been clear nett gain
of several opposition members. which would not
have been the had the Democracy done its duty.
But even greater calamity might have befallen US
had the American" party been fully organized.
and its strength concentrated upon one of its own
party. As a body. they could not, and did not vote
for Mr.. McRae. Had they done so, with the luke
warmness in our ranks, engendered by conscious
ness of strength, there is telling what might
have experienced. We hope that this lesson will
not be lost upon democrats We hope that the fu-
tlre will prove that they learned by experience, and
that they will not trust too much to our own power,
or to the weakness of the enemy. Should we do so,
We may have to regret it when it is too late"
In 1910 the aggregate or total vote for Governor
was sO,3s7-in 1872 72,354-n 1874, 2,o19-in
1885, 79,ll3-in ls4s, "a, 21s-in 1850. SO, 916-in
1852, 9I,477-in 1854, 95s25-in 1856, 1O2, 56s.
The aggregate or total vote in 1868 will be about
$4,000, showing falling off of some 5000 since
1906 Up to 1854 Gov Reid had received the largest
vote ever given for any candidate in the State having
poled As, 1874 votes in 1852; but in 1854 Gov Bragg
poled 4s,7o5 votes, going fraction beyond Gov.
hela' In 1856 Gov. Bragg received 57,59s votes,
having increased his vote $500. Gov. Reds first
majority was 2,774, his second, 5,491; Gov. Bragg's
A'St was 2,OS5 and his second, 12,62s. The largest
majority ever given for any candidate in the State
vas gwen for Gen. jackson in 1928, when he led
Mr Adams by $3.50 votes out of ITS votes cast
lot the two. The next largest majority is that for
Judge Ellis which is about l6, 600; the next largest
lot uen Harrison, in 1910, about l3, 900; and the
next largest for Gov Bragg above stated, in 1856
OoV Morehead's vote in 1910 was 44,4s4-in
1917 u ,943, showing falling off of 6,54l. Gov.
oralam increased his vote but 900 from 1914 to
1910 The votes of the opposition Wing candi-
uS'es Tor Governor did not vary more than fifteen
hundred from 40 900, from 1874 to 1854, when Gen.
D0eksry received 4662O the largest vote ever cast
lot any Of their candidates.
Inc Pioneer is correct in saying that the falling
o the vote is not to be attributed to any dissats-
"cnoh with Judge Ellis for he acquitted himself
we'll and most acceptably before the people, and in
~ counties was he more warmly supported than in
muse which voted against him in the Charlotte Con-
,eAoon. Nor is the falling off to be attributed 20
dissatisfaction with Mr.. Buchanan's administration
III 'he Democrats of the State are enthusiastically
aened to it, while thousands of the opposition ap.
r'''e us course on the Kansas and slavery ques-
s' The decrease in the vote is, therefore, to be
'''outed to over-con6dence on the part of the Dem
'cras and the result shonld rcach Thorn lesson to
" acted on in the future. /" The price of liberty is
eternal vigilance"
INNER TO Mr.. SPEAKER ORR.-The Anderson Ga.
contains an account Of the dinner given to Mr.