Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-08-01
For the Standard,

Mr. EDITOR: have been in very bad health near
ly all summer-the most of the time in bed-conse-
quenty have not been out or mixed with the peo-
pie at all. take opposition paper but the Fay
etteville O6se7rer but from the editorials in that
paper, and the many extracts from kindred prints,
one would be led to suppose that Mr. John Pool
would lead Gov. Ellis by thousands. do not re-
gard the last Gubernatorial election as fair test of
party strength in North Carolina; but the Demo-
cratic party proper was certainly from 10000 to
10000 majority then.
Now, for Pool to be elected by thousands, as the
Opposition press and Opposition speakers and cross
road politicians would have US believe he must get
the whole Wing strength, and a very large proper
ton of the Democratic vote besides or import votes
from abroad
Seeing what have seen and heard, have made
it my business for some time to inquire of such per-
sons as could see, if they could tell who it was
that had changed-what Democrat would vote for
Mr.. Pool? I have made this inquiry from gentle
men from Chatham, from Richmond, from Moore,
from Montgomery, from Stanly, and from Randolph,
and not until to-day have conversed with solitary
man who could name single Democrat that would
vote for Pool To-day an intelligent gentleman,
practicing physician, and a strong Wbig, who re-
sides at New Market, in Randolph county, called to
see me, and asked him the same question, and he
said that he knew of four voters in Randolph that
would change their votes | asked him how he
knew it. He remarked that he heard them say so.
bu: that two of them were Democrats and they
would vote for Pool, and two were Wings and would
vote for Ellis.
The Opposition have resorted to every stratagem
for years in North Carolina to put down the Demo-
cratic party, such as changing names, changing is
sues, supporting men of the Democratic party in
preference to men of their own party, against the
regular Democratic nominees, and now they are try
ing to carry the election by pretending that Pool is
going to make "clean sweep" and to make their
purposes doubly sure, they have started report
that Ellis is so well convinced that he will be beaten,
that he has actually quit the canvass and that Mr.
is not only common talk through the country. but
is actually published in the Opposition papers in
different localities.
Now, Mr.. Editor, it is certainly very bad cause
indeed that requires party to resort to such sub
terfuges as these and many, many others not here
enumerated, to foist itself into power
The day of Dragging and Misrepresentation is
nearly past and the result will show the truth of
the matter; but if have been correctly informed
and my information has been derived almost exclu-
svely from Wing friends who have called to see me-
Gov. Ellis will poll the full Democratic vote
Let every Democrat 60 to the polls and vote, and
the result will show has heretofore done that
all this is for effect and without the shadow of
foundation in truth. P NJ. POWELL.
Powelton, N. c., 21st July, 1860.
The speech which Hon. H. V. johnson did not de-
liver in Macon and Atlanta, Georgia, because the
crowd refused to listen to him. comes to us in an
extra of the Atlanta C0ntederacy After frankly ad-
mittng that the Democratic party is divided with but
little chance OF reunion Gov johnson skctched brief
y the which led to this state of affairs order
to fix the responsibility where he claims that it be-
longs-on the seceders at Baltimore and Charleston.
The whole secession movement, he charges was
without justification and its authors will yet reap
retribution. Its highest attribute is that of a
sheer, naked and ungenerous warfare against great
and distinguished Democrat" The characteristic
feature of the organization is Congressional
tervention in favor of Slavery in the Territories
Non-ntervention in Gov Johnson's opinion, was the
basis of the Compromise measures of 1850. 1t was
embodied in the Nebraska Kansas act, and honor,
interest and policy demand adhesion to the prnci-
pie. More than this, Congressional slavecode for
the Territories, if enacted would be worth but lit
tie. Mr.. Douglas advocacy of nonntervention is
nothing new, and is only pretext for the war wa
ged upon him, the true causes of which the jeal
ousy of those whom he had outstrpped in the for
the Presidency, and the hostility of the Adminstra-
tion Gov. johnson then proceeds to show that
there was necessity for revising this decision at
the present time, and that by doing the Seceders
ALLEVIATE from them the Democracy of the West, who
Will, IN time, make laws Tor the Union. lhlS state
of things which the Seceders have precipitated fa-
vors the election of Lincoln and Hamlin; Breck-
inridge and Lane could not be elected if they get
the vote every Southern State. They are likely to
lose Alabama and Louisiana, and probably Texas,
Tennessee and Maryland The battle will be fought
in the free States between Lincoln and Douglas, and
the South should avert the success Of the former by
supporting the latter Gov. Johnson in conclusion,
reviews briefly the claims which the Seceders have
to nationality, showing that they are throughout
sectional and reiterates his determination to strug
gle for the principle of nonntersention and the in
tegrity of the Union. The Augusta, Ga, Constitu
tonalst announces that 100 600 copies of this speech
are to be distributed through the South.