Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-10-21
Candidates for Congress in thi, State.

"ouAOosCs SVI OVuST6SS IN SuO Ss0scs
The people Of this State will vote in their respec
tive Districts for ten members Of Congress- on We'd
nesday the 4th day of November next The soldiers
viii vote in camp on Thursday the seth October.
In the First District the candidates are Hon. Will
liam n. H. Smith, Of Hartford, present member;
Dr.. Edward Warren, of Chowan; and DR.. P. 7.
Henry, Of BERTHE. %
In the Second District, Hon. Robert R. Bridgers,
Of Edgecombe, present member; 1t Walter Dunn,
of Lenoir; COL Ed D. Yellowley, of Pitt; and Col.
Bryan Grimes, of Pitt
In the Third District, Dr. j. 7. Leach, of John
ston; Col Duncan K McRae, of Craven Thomas
l. Faison, of Sampson; and Col. W. s. Devane, Of
Sampson.
In the Fourth District It. 7. G. Fuller, of Cum
berland Robert Strange, Of New Hanover and o.
P. Meares, of Brunswick.
In the Fifth District, Capt Josiah Turner, Of
Orange; and Hon. A. H. Arlington, of Nash, pre-
sent member
In the Sixth District Hon. John A. Gilmer, of
Guilford. ~.
In the Seventh District Samuel H. Christian, Of
Montgomery; and Hon. Thos. S. Ashe, Of Arson,
present member.
In the Eighth District DR.. j. G. Ramsay, Of
Rowan and Hon. William Lander, of Lincoln, pre-
sent member.
In the Ninth District Hon. B. s. Gather, of
Burke, present member; and Rev. s. P. Smith, of
Wilkes.
In the Tenth District, Hon. A. T. Davidson, Of
| Cherokee, present member Gen. G. w. Logan, OF
Rutherford; Gen. W. F. Jones, of Polk; John D.
Hyman, of Henderson; and Marcus Erwin, of Bun
/ combe
Twenty-eight candidates and ten places to be fill
ed The friends of eighteen gentlemen are destined
to be disappointed
We have not felt it to De our duty as Conserva-
tive Journal to take any part in the contest in those
Districts in which more than Conservative can
ddate is running 1t is not for US to decide between
Conservatives-we leave that to the people them
ssves. Our advice is to cote for the best and ruest
Conservative and in Districts where there are more
Conservative candidates than one and Destructive
is running, to unite on some one Of the Conserra
tives at all hazards so to defeat the Destructive
Those who urged the cotton States to break up
the old government without good cause, and plunged
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to manage the affairs of the new government. Let
US vote them down in every instance.
We hear it said now and then that many of the
people are so depressed that they will not vote
We trust this feeling is not general. The right o.
the people to govern themselves is being tested
and the citizen who refuses to vote surrenders thai
right Not to vote is to consent silently to the rule
Of the few over the many. We know that certain
species of terrorism exists and that the press ant
the people are not as free they have been; but
yield to this terrorism, or if from any cause VI
decline to take part in elections we will aid in asten
ing upon ourselves and our children the chains o
an oligarchy which may never be thrown off excep
through blood and suffering. Let sosry Conseroo
tipe turn out and uote and let him urge has neigh
6ors to cote Nth him. 1t is of the first importanc
to reform and strengthen the administration at Rich
} mond, and this can be done in other way THAI
by electing suitable men to represent US in Con
e greSs.