The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-19
THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST.
Our Correspondence Describing the
New Phases Of the Revolution,
&s., BE-, As'
Correspondence

Car North Carolina Correspondence
RALEIGH N. c., August II, 1862
ne Law us,es-Odsss Of the Result, Latent and Pas-
ne Present Govty~or--kr Holden and Marsha! Grol|
sAy- Movements in Polissut Ssoeks-BGl and h7crefs-
Arsscsposed RISE in Douglas &ok-7As Con''ns Ooa9sas
Csnuensioss--As Nepo Fck Herald in Raleigh, &C., DC
Our CONTEXT is over szd very ODD and mixcd up affair
4 wss TIE Opposition has certainty dealt severe blow
70 the eonocracy and may possibly follew up Ne
yeeer with even raore telling vdvantage It looks vyxy
Ne revolution or reaction you kase called It. So
many elements been at work TO produce the result
aot TO be wondered at and thosah surprisar in it's
,~nitude csr.not be sasd 10 have been whely unex.
rscted.
Two yeasssgo xve more zee rival csucdatss for
democratic favor at the Charlotte Convention were Judge
Abs and w. W. Hodes, editor o. the Standard Of this
CITY, the latter gentleman Of smitted ability aud who
psrty and given Il power than evor before pos
ssssed or probsblg ever win again, and who had
sevsrtheiess he was thrown overheard and Judge Ellis
Von whom party favoss bad again and again been
hviehed, chosen. How unfortunate for his party
tAa choice has BEEN let eecent events demonstrate
ruled the asstinies q the state for two years,
during that time ether the exalted position he
cuped gave the peoplesn opportunity OF observing more
closely, orvhether 1t was from the mere operation OF
purely nasrral causoc certain IL is that feelings and
opAnicnswere undergoing change in regard TO tho in
cumbent Of the state House We all know difficult TO
The could and so 1t is with the Governor sad his
Then ca ne the late election struggle True the Governor
renominated by his party but that something like
standing .oast With parties here, particularly wn the
democrats They feel compelled from party pr dc and
~ tAat sort of thing Now, Mr.. Holden, be 1t rcmem-
bercd stih at the head Of the powerful and
euessl democratic paper in the State He stR WINGED
under the neglect and contempt with which be tad been
treated and though the mannees and courtesy OF many
. man might have concliated and eoothed him into
ffendliness, yet Governor Ellis not the for that
Occasion and observed that during the campaign
tho ire Of the Standard not at all the oppo
son, and in fact, sometimes It's battery got oddly out
q order that It did damage 70 It's
ranks than TO those Of the enemy. saspi-
end very few astonished. Some thought OF
Crouchy 1t Waterloo and compared Holden 10 that
certain Marshal Our Waterloo, however, not lost,
though Ellis you aware loses fa& ten thousand
rust to describe OF the which
produced that result. Another cause and, must be
confessed powerful was the political question upon
which the contestants took the field and Of which have
thcre pers ,nal well political causes at work TO
bring about the result which we see before
In regard TO the Presidential election there prospect
contrary 10 all my former expectations that the
State may 30 for Bell and Everett in November begin
70 think the democratic party irreccveraby damaged
More than that we are divided. Douglas has some
strength well a. Breckenridge On the Soth instant
70 have State Douglas Convention, End then it will
be eeen how much OF showing the "Little Giant"
make Henry W. Miller, one OF the abest lawyers and
side and will, In all probability take the stump. Be-
sde know that Douglas married his nrst wife here
and therefore claims kin with the Old North State gene
rally Depend upon IT, there is large Douglas element
amongst us that has net shown itself airyl yet We
. "house divided against ITSELF" fear.