Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1859-08-20

The understanding in 1852, when the Districts
we're laid off, that each party would have four;
the Democrats the Second, Third, Fourth, and Sew
enth and the Whigs-fort there ,eere Wings in thoce
davs-the First the Fifth, the Sixth and the Eighth
By great efforts the Democrats gained two of these
Districts, the First and the Sixth, and held the
Eighth, which was Whig as long as Mr.. Clingman
remained in the House. The Seventh District was
barely Democratic, yet Mr.. Craige has held that,
with majorities ranging from three hundred to twenty
five hundred. Aton time there was but one Know
Nothing member, NJ. Glmer; but afterwards Mr..
Vance was elected and by the loss of the First and
Sixth Districts two more Know Nothings have been
added to the delegation.
In 1858 DR.: Shaw carried the First by 81 MAORI
ty; in 1855 he was defeated by Col Paine, X. n,
by 346 and in 1857 he was elected by SO majority.
The most extraordinary and unjustifable means
we're resorted to by the Know Nothings in this Dis
trict during the late contest The staple Of the
appeals of Mr. Smith and his partzans was State
debt and federal extravaganza. The cry was
"Smith and loo tares" aud this cry acquired force
from the fact that Mr. Smith had voted in the Leg
ilature against the bill to raise money to pay the
State debt And as evidence of the Inconsistency
Of the Know Nothings, and Of the demagogism of
their conduct We state that in the Eighth District
the Democrats were held responsible for the failure
Of the bills to aid the Western Extension. and no
doubt lost many votes on this account In the East
the Democrats suffered account of appropriations
for internal improvements; in the West they suffer-
ed because the appropriations were regarded as in
sufficient. Let the Western people remember this.
Let them remember that the watchword of Mr..
Smith and his party in the late contest was opposi-
ton to their interests and that too though his
ton has recently received handsome amount in
aid of their Canal. Let Western Know Nothings,
1they can, rejoice over Mr.. Smiths success. In
addition to this, We learn from the Murfreesborough
Citizen, that fraudulent votes were polled for Mr.
Smith, and that numbers of inoffensive Democrats
were kept from the polls by threats and intimida
ton. That paper says
1--WE believe that this election has been carried
by fraud and intimidation. A purgation of thu
polls would show that scores, if not hundreds, o
illegal votes were thrown for Mr.. Smith. Beside:
this We believe that many honest but illiterate De
tickets. To our knowledge, several Democrats 70
TED. in a single precinct on last Thursday, for Mr.
smith under the supposition that they were voting
for Dr.. Shaw"
That paper adds
The menace of violence, thrown out in tn,
Wnton convention of last May, although it scenes
al one time unlikely to be carried into effect ha
nevertheless been thoroughly fulfilled. The mos
dSgraceful scenes have been witnessed from on
end Of the District to another The canvass Ia
oeen slgnalized with ARRAYS, and assassin-like II
Jacks, to which not the animus of murder, but on
'ne strength or the nerve to execute was wanting.
There are other facts which we might mention
out We have said and quoted enough to show tha
Mr. Smiths victory was not fairly achieved
In the Sixth District Gen. Leach and his partizar
were, ifpossible, more INSCRIPTIONS than the Kno
N0things were in the First Every device and a
KINDS Of false statements resorted to to decei,
and mislead the uniformed. The expenditures
1e federal government the pension bill, tie pay
members of Congress, specific duties the Pacif
railroad the thirty million bill, all these thin
were handled by Gen. Leach and his friends in
way which rendered it for the time being impossib
lot the truth to keep up with them. It was false
charged, too, and no doubt believed by some Of Il
.aVe'mg, that money had been sent on from Was
lnston City to be used against Gen. Leach. st
nj. Scales runs but fifteen votes behind his vote
io'7' when his majority was 729. Gen. Leach
clear gain in Iredell and Davidson is 8O2, lacki
ony one hundred Of his majority in the District
MS votes in these two Counties arc rery large
larger than have ever been given to others Of
party We do not know, but We trust, for the CHI
acter Of the District and of the State, that they
oil genuine votes.
We deeply regret the defeat of those worthy N
ana sterling Democrat, Shaw, Scales, Coleman, q
williams; but looking to the future, We are not
al depressed by the result "Sweet are the use,
aa7ersty." We now know the ground We occu]
"e danger that threatens, and the amount of y,
which will be necessary in future contests.
must organize in time, and prepare thoroughly
me campaign Of 1850. Our recent, revsrsss
'oiy serve to animate us to Increased vigiI,pcs
renewed exertion. North Carolina . a Des.ocrs
"'ate and the fact that she is so will be proclaim
again. in unmistakable terms, in 1860.