The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-10-11


THE YANKEE PAPERS AND THE PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTIoN.--The yankees getting up terrible
excitement over their Presidential election, and bad
blood (of which it is known yankees are full! is be-
ginning to show itself 1t is no uncommon thing fol
a Mcclellan meeting to be broken up by mob al
Lincolp's friends. for Lincoln meeting to be
disturbed by McClellans friends. The friends of
each already threatening vengeance and predict
ing bloodshed. We Confederates don't how
much they quarrel but pray that their d!ssentions
may multiply and increase. No one in Dixie would
shed tears if Lincoln and Mcclellan were to eat
each other up.
A late number of the New York Herald has an
article upon the bitter party spirit manifested by
the newspapers in the North It sometimes re-
quires a rogue to expose rogue, and the Herald
being the most villanous sheet in the North, it no
doub: speaks knowingly. We copy portion of the
Herald's article:
| The manner in WHICH the rival claims of Mr. Lin
coin and Gen. Mcclellan are being pressed is dis
grace to the emil ghtenment of country, and a
source of serious peril to the public peace. The
Lincoln papers assail the character of Gen McCel-
! Ian with every epithet eff "bloquy. He is denounced
.gunbort general" coward TRAITOR &C..
while all the many thousand loyal and gallant men
who support him come i'll for a liberal sprinkling of
the same abolition dirty water. The Mcclellan pa
rers not behind i'll the unwholesome and
disgraccful activity. Not content with challenging
the personal honesty of our national chief mogis-
trate they have of late put forth nsinuatons to the
discredIt of Mr. Lincoln's wife, charging her with
accepting brides, and with paltry peculation in a
crockery bill.
As to the attacks upon Gen. Mcclellan made by
the Lincoln organs, they foul and dsgraceful
beyond any parallel in partizan warfare.
How long do the chief organs of this Lincoln faction
believe that they with IMMUNITY pursue the work
Of rillifying Gen. Mcclellan coward. poltroon,
trait and fovt in r,ybi hnyo
peradrenture. cast from sixty TO eighty thousand
votes in his favor at the next election !
In the present nfamed and revolutionary cond
ton of the public mind any spark may serve to kin
die conAagration that will not be extinguished
without bl"odahed. There will, fear, be attacks
upon the offices of the newspapers engaged in these
scurrilous outpourngs, and we shall have the mis-
fortune to the editor of one Lincoln organ SITS
pended a lamp post at his corner, while the
editor Of another Lincoln organ keeps him company
on the lamp post opposite"
~ We receive many communications. notices
of marriages and deaths, &c, without the of
the authors attached. We thought every body knew
by this time that attention paid to such no.
tees unless responsible name accompanied them
We do not even take time to read anonymous com
municatons The name is not wanted for publica
ton, but to the editor that the information
communicated is true.
We make no charge Ter the mere announcement
Of marriages and deaths; but do charge for all
matter announcrnent-the money to
company the matter wien sent.
HOMICIDE IN CABAEEUs-A correspondent at
Concord writes to the Bulletin follows:
"A most unfortunate affair occurred in this town
on Wednesday. very angry alteration arose
from cause between Lieut.. w. A. Smith of the
Militia, and Henry C. UtIey, furloughed soldier,
when the latter, making threatening dpmonstra-
ton towards the former shot down by Smith.
and almost INSTANTLY expired. Smith taken in
to custody by the examining court and admitted to
bail in the Of $75.t;O0.''
TAXLS IN Observation-Disclosures D. G.. Maxwell,
the Comic Tax Collector for this county, has
furnished with the following statement of the
amount of taxes collected during the month of Sept
from about one-half the taxpayers of the county,
not including the town.
Five per cent tax 500 S82 90
Soldiers tax, l per cent. 28,97D 10
Aggregate $97, 1852 45