The North-Carolinian., 1859-10-01
THE NORTH CAROLINIAN.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT'R 20.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. G.
John A. Gilmer

Is elected, and it is not our attempt to defeat
him now, merely because he is opposing the de-
mocracy-he is beyond our reach SO far as that is
concerned, and consequently readers will bear
with us whist we give few extracts from the
New York Post, concerning this gentleman who is
so sound on the Slauery question:
That t.s ~Slasor, party - orth Carolina
lroid the balance of power is made probable, if not
evident by the late eleceion of the opposition can
didate for Governor of that State. Mr. Gilmer The
greatest number of the party unfrienGly TO slavery
in North Carolina consist of the Qaakers, who are
rather numerous in some of the counties, the Wes-
eyan Methodlsts, and that class of relgonists who
call themselves Christians. Two preachers of the
persuasion of Wesleyan MetLodists, Crooks and
Mcbride, our readers may remela ber were Obliged
| to leave the State for bearing their testimony
against slavery. Abiding to this, in speaking of
the election of Mr. Gilmer a letter addressed to a
gentleman of this city from his friend in Guilford
county, says:
But the moral objects of these proceedings 1.-THE
expulsion of Crooks and McBride1 were felt in j.
way not exactly looked for by the radical saveites
For quite number Of our best citizens left the
State, and others withheld their votes, and thus
plainly manifested their disapprobation and it was
not until Mr. Gilmer gave his anti Lecompton vote
in Congress that our people could be induced tc
forgive him for the part he took in the business
though he went only a moderator In nv sec
| ton OF the county, jamestown and High Poin,
| election precincts, the effect was verv strongly
marked AT Jane stown, in 1857, Gilmer received
lOo votes and his competitor 1O9 This wear Gil
mer received 229, and Williams 65 votes Al
High Point Gilmer received IO8 votes in 1857, anl
IN 1893, 2oo; Williams 81 each &year. Gimer.
reelection by such a decided majority shows con
clusively that all the southern people are not rad
cal siaveites, and that branding man with abol
tionism has lost its talismanic effect Let us TAX
heart and hope for better times
We have before us a return of votes of Cn;]for,
county, both at the late election of Governor and tn
; previous one in 1857. In 1857 the vote for VIII
l'ams, the Democratic candidate for Governor, wa
In that county 46O the vote for Gilmer, 1,563-
at the recent election of 1859 it stood for Williams
1853; and for Gilmer 2,O47
In Guilford county the Quakers, WESLEYAN Metho
dist and Christians form a considerable mart of tn
population 1t was in Guilford, also, that the svm
tenn OF Common Schools was introduced at an earl,
PERIOD and the people at large are better educated
than in the majority of the other counties The sys
tenn was introduced in North Carolina by Degrees
law was passed allowing the counties to .dan+o,
it At fhsr % "rH @ af nft of the conntie
in the State.
We have before us North Carolina paper tn
Greensboro Patriot, in which appears an article de
Tending the Quakers of the State particularly thos
OF Northampton county, against the attacks of Sena
tor Bragg, of that State who has been denouncin
them in his public speeches. The Quakers, it seem
have offended the friends of slavery beyond forgive
ness, by giving the majority to an anti-Lecompton
ite candidate for Governor"
The only mistake here is in regard to the ofic
for which Mr. Gilmer ran.
Take this in connection with the fact that NJ
Gilmer has denied the assertion of the Bos
ton (abolition) Tract Journal, and with the palpa
bic truth that the Opposition papers of our Stat
are preparing the way for union with the Blacl
Republicans. and the prospect of the Abolitonist
are bright. They the Raleigh Registe
quotes from Virginia paper-brghter than the
have ever been.