Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-05-22
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RALEIGH: SATURDAY, NAY 1s, 1861.

RALEIGH: SATURDAY, NAY 1s, 1861. ::
The Election in Wake.
It will be seen by the official vote that the old
ticket has been elected to the Convention from this
County.
The circumstances attending this election, and
the means resortcd to to defeat the old ticket will
not orly Justify, but they require few words Of ex
PLANTATION.
Messrs Badger, Busbee, and Holden were elected
in February last by twelve hundred majority. Mr..
Busbee having volunteered to fight the enemy, could
not be candidate. Before Mr.. Battle was ann"un-
ced an offer was made by some Of the friends OF
Messrs. Badger and Holden to support Gov. Bragg
as the third person on the ticket and thus prevent
party strife in the County. If Gov. B. had accepted
this offer, and had exerted himself with his friends
to prevent the nomination Of new ticket we should
have had no strife in the County; but that gentle
man thought proper to pursue different course,
and thus showed that in crisis like the pres
ent he is incapable of rising above the little inu-
ences of party. Gov Bragg having refused to idcn-
tfy himself with the majority Of the people, and
having deliberately and seshly chosen party strife
in preference to the best interests of his country,
Kemp P. Battle, ESQ.,, who had received the next
highest vote to Mr.. Busbee in the mass meeting in
February last in response to many CALLS announced
himself candidate. ...s
Soon after this meeting of the Squads was called
mainly by the efforts of Judge Saunders; and some
forty or fifty men, for the most part party hacks
whom the people had repudiated in February, pro-
ceeded to make nomination and to attempt to die
tate to the County. The ticket presented was COM
posed of clever and respectable gentlemen, to wit
Thomas Bragg, Charles Manly, and George ".
Mordecai. Gov. Bragg was nominated to catch the
old Democrats Gov Manly to catch the old Wings,
and Mr.. Mordeai to catch the conservatives gener-
ally 1t was strong ticket ingeniously gotten up.
The two Ex Governors made speeches in the County,
and Mr.. Battle, not having been candidate in Feb
ruary visited portion of the County. Messrs.
Badger and Holden did not canvass. -
If the people had been.left to themselves, the old
ticket would have been elected by five hundred ma
jority. But the most monstrous falsehoods Of all
kinds were invented and circulated. In the face Of
facts to the contrary it stated in all parts Of the
County that the old ticket had withdrawn in favor
, Of the new one which was called " compromise
ticket"-that Messrs Badger and Holden were in
favor of Central Confederacy that they were dis
posed to submit to the rule of Abe Lincoln !-and
that, if elected, they would endeavor to upset the
Constitution deprive portion of their constituents
of rels liberty, and generally and specially ruin
every body and every thing! So far as Mr.. Holden
was concerned, nearly the whole power of the
State government in all its ramifcations, was
brought to bear against him; Also the State Jour
nal the organ of Gov. Ellis the Register, the
new decency organ Of the Squads and the organ, to
some extent, of the old Wing party-and most of
the leaders Of the old Democratic and old Wing par
ties. That dangerous man Holden" therefore
triumphed over all these influences, without can
vassing the County. He is satisfied rs -e
One of the monstrous falsehoods used, we under
stand, was that if Messrs. Badger and Holden should
be elected there would be draft for troops three
days!-eaving the inference that this call for troops
would be made by Lincoln as the result Of their
election!
We do not charge that any of these falsehoods
work Of their friends-of men lost to decency and
TRUTH and who live, and move, and have their being
in the filthy atmosphere of party. .-
The vote polled on Monday is some seven or eight
hundred less than that polled in Februafys We are
satisfied, from our knowledge of the County, that
threefourths of the unpolled vote would have been
cast for the old ticket
Dat - l>,,k H.
disposition in crisis like the present. to retaate.
We shall not pause to crminate when the country is
in danger War is upon us, and the war must be
fought out Let the party pack be marked and re-
menbered, but let us not spare the tisssa this
juncture, to pursue him. If public afaifS ass mis-
managed; if injustice is done; if tAvmitei without
merit are singled out and honoTed, while the honest
and worthy are kept in the ranks and II party is
substituted for country even in the midst FOWL
war; let US either bear it like men, rise shove it
for the sake of our State So far Te are con-
cerned our course is plain. We sh4Yl strike back,
when assailed and we shall expose falsehood
whether uttered against our friends or ourself but
we shall not be diverted from the great business
Of encouraging the people Of all parties to resist the
aggresslons Of the common enemy He who thinks
chiefly of himself or Of his party in this crisis is
unworthy of North Carolina
In giving in our last list Of the volunteer
companies in this City, it was stated that R. j. Hoke
was the captain Of the OrangeL Light Infantry. Thie
was mistake. R. J., Ashe is the captain Of the
company referred to. -
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