Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-09-28
Vol. XIV 80.
A I" Budget of BIunders.''

NORTH -CAROLINA-That the nt-slavcry party
in North Carolina hold the balance of power is made
probable if not evident by the late election of the
opposition candidate for Governor of that State Mr.
Gilmer The greatest number of the party unfrcnd-
y to slavery in North Carolina consist Of the Quak
crS who are rather numerous in some of the coun
ties the Wesleyan Methodsts and that class of
rcligionists who call themselves Christians. Two
preachers of the persuasion of Wesleyan Metodists
Crooks and Mcbride, our readers may remember,
obliged to leave the State for bearing their tes
timony against slavery Abiding to this, in speak
ing of the election of Mr. Gilmer, letter addressed
to gentleman of this city from his friend in Gull
ford county, says:
but the moral effects of these proceedings [the
expulsion of Crooks and Mcbride were felt in a way
not exactly looked for by the radical slavites. For
quite number of our best citizens left the State,
and others withheld their votes, and thus plainly
manifested their disapprobaton and it was not until
Mr. Gilmer gave his anti Lecompton vote in Congress
that our people could be induced to forgive him Cor
the part he took in the business though he went only
as moderator In my section of the county,
jamestown and High Point election precincts, the
effect was very strongly marked. At jamestown, in
1857, Gmcr received 1OS votes, and his competitor
100. This year Gmer received 229. and Williams
is votes. At High Point Gimcr received 10s votes
in'1s57, and in 1859 200; Williams 81 each year.
Gmer's reelection by such deci led majority shows
ely tIldL tHe ItOPc dic
radical slavitcs, and that branding man with abo
tionism has lost its talismanic effect. Let us take
heart and hope for better times"
We have before us a return of the votes of Gull
ford county, both at the late election of Governor
and the previous one in 1857. In 1857 the vote for
Williams, the Democratic candidate for Governor,
was in that county AGO; the vote for Gilmcr 1865
at the recent election Of 1859 it stood for Williams
46S; and for Gilmer, 2.G47.
n (I,jlford countv tho Ou.kerr WnS1oysi, Noth
cdsts and Christians form considerable part of the
population. 1t was in Guilford also that the sys-
.cm of Common Schools was introduced at an early
PERIOD and the people at large arc better educated
than in the majority of the other counties The
system was introduced in North Carolina by de-
grccs-a law was passed allowing the counties TO
accept reject it at their pleasure and at first it
was adopted only by somewhat less than a third Of
all the counties in the State.
We have before a North Carolina paper, the
Greensboro Patriot in which appears article de-
finding the QuakerS of the State particularly those
of Northampton county, :gainst the attacks of Sen
ator Bragg, of that State who has been denouncing
them in his public speeches. The Quakers, it seems
have offended the friends of slavery beyond forgive
ness by giving the majority to ntiLecomptonite
candidate for Governor"
The Post which is one of the organs of the aboli-
tionists, assumes that Mr.. Gimer has been elected
Governor of the State and that the inference there
fore is that the antisavcry party in North Carolina
hold the balance of power" This will amusc those
who know better. Mr.. Gimer was defeated for
Governor in 1856 by majority of some $4,000, and
was supported in that campaign by persons who
claim to be as sound on the question of slavery as
the Democrats But Mr.. Gilmer was a candidate for
Congress at the late election, and successful by
an increased majority, by the aid Of the anti-sarery
rote That is the way to state it, Mr. Post.
The Guiltord correspondent of the Post notices a
fact which had not escaped our attention, towt the
largely increased vote which Mr.. Gilmer received at
jamestown and High Point. Although Mr.. Gilmcr
acted only as moderator in the Crooks and Mcbride
business-his main purpose being, while these men
were driven out of the State to see that they were
MT mortally injured-yet even this injured him
with the ansavery voters, and it was not until he
gave his anti-Lecompton vote that these people
could he induced to forgive him for the part he took
in the business"
The blunder which this correspondent has made
in relation to Common Schools, is too apparent to
need correction.
There are two poticeable points in this NATTER -
first the fact that certain persons in Guilford,
charged few weeks since, are in correspondence
with the abolitoniss and, second, the qualification
with which the reelection of Mr.. Gilmer has been
received by the abolitionlsts. The New York Even
ing Post one of the most ultra of the black Republi
can organs, infers from Mr.. Gimer's triumph that
the anti slavery party holds the balance Of power in
this State; and the correspondent of the Post who
is evidently abolitionst, concludes his letter by
calling his brother abolitionsts to "take heart
and hope for better times" According to this cor,
respondent who is Gilmer partizan, it is longer
fragrant offence in North Carolina to be an aboli-
zionist