The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-08-16
Chr mestern gRmutrat.
THE RESULT.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.

THE RESULT.
In summing up the result of the late Congress
sional elections in this State, the Wilmington
Journal says:
When the State was last re-districted, four dis
trcts were given to each party. the End, Sd, 4th,
and 9Th being Democratic, and the lst, 9th, 9th,
and eth Wing The 9Th district gave majority
for Scott and Graham The 9Th district was look
ed upon as Democratic, it having followed the lead
of Mr. Clingman in that respect, and voted largely
for the Democratic candidates for Governor. and
President.
BY strong effort, and under the most favorable
circumstances, DIR. Shaw and Mr. Scales succeeded
In wrestling the LIST and 9th districts from the OPP
position. MIR Craige carried and continues to
carry his district, the 18th, bya large majority
1t is thoroughly democratic. In fact we think
that district was democratic when constituted
although, being Mr. Graham's native section, it
gave majority for Scott and Graham.
In looking over the field We find the reported
majority tor Mr. Smith, some four or five hundred
pretty near the same as that obtained in the same
counties by Scott and Graham also find certain
causes operating untavoraby to DR.. Shaw. The
effect Of the Virginia election and canvass upon
district only separated from that State by imagina
ry line, calculated to depress the Democrats
and stimulate the opponents. The counties OF
the first district or many of them, for their geo.
graphical position can hardly be brought i'll to
participate i'll the advantages of any system OF
North Carolina internal improvements, OF course,
when a debt is incurred and increased taxation
rendered necessary for the purpose of meeting the
annual interest of that debt, the property of the
citizens of these counties must bear their share of
the public burthcns equally with those who are
brought more directly within the sphere of the
benefits to be derived from the public works
Railroads and the debt and taxation incident
aofo npY1lor in fhot
Mr. Smith, DIR. Shaws successful competitor,
member of the last Legislature. He took
strong. though unquestionably wrong, grounds
against State debt and taxation We say wrong,
because proposed in the last Legislature to
involve the State farther, and because surely no
honest man would wish to see the State repudiate
any of her obligations fail to impose such tax
would enable her to meet them promptly.
However, there is no doubt that Mr. Smiths course
made him capital in that section, and that during
the canvass, he continued to inveigh against the
Democratic party as the cause of State debt and
taxation. That this unj ust must be apparent
TO all who reflect that the great works for which
the State debt was incurred passed more by Wing
than Democratic votes; still it touched sensitive
chord, and had its effect, even although it
outside issue with which member of Congress
could have nothing to do This will be APP
parent when it is borne in mind that one of the
things that tended to I'M the Democrats in part
of the District, the refusal of the last Legis-
lature to grant large sum additional to that al
ready appropriated in aid of the Albemarle and
Chesapeake Canal.
In the 9th District, what might be called a
"dead set was made on Mr. Scales by the revival
of certain domestic difficulties of delicate charac
ter, to which no gentleman of refined feelings could
publicly alude, even for the purpose of selt-vindl
cation. That, time and the natural reaction of
generous people must effect, but caiumny travels
fast; truth, although pretty certain to overtake it
in the end, makes slow progress-too slow, in this
case, to permit justcesto be done to Mr. Scales.
This (6th) district was one of those given to the
then Wings, now Opposition party in the last
re-dstrcting Of the State. Leach's majority will
hardly equal Scott and Grahams in the district
We wish to do justice to all parties. While we
regret the loss of Dr. Shaw in the first district, we
are free concede to his successor the possession
of talents and character ola highly respectable
order We do not wish to say anything derogatOry
to Gen. Leach but we must think that politics apart
the sixth district is the loser by his election over
Mr. Scales. We must regret this election more
accounts than one There will unquestionaby be
such a reaction as will fully vindicate Mr. Scales.
We had hoped that this reaction would have COM
menced soon enough for its effect to have been
felt in the present contest, bat it appears that we
mistaken.
While Mr. Smith making capital in the LIST
district by inveighing against Democratic debt for
public works, Mr. Vance, in the Sth was sailing on
the opposite track, because the Democrats in the
last Legislature did not go largely and immediate
ly into the Western n. G. Railroad. We fear
that local issues, side issues-jealousies and d-
visions have beaten Coleman.
Comparing the majorities in the districts carried
by -he opposition with those carried by the Demo-
Gratis, it will be found that the aggregate Demo-
erattic majority Is as large in proportion to the
aggregate vote polled as it has been ut any time
aud that the State is as essentially and largely
Democratic, even although it should turn out that
the opposition have succeeded in halyng the dele
CATION this time
REORGANIZATION