Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-08-12

WHAT THE PRESS SAY.
From the N. Y. Herald.


been too much reconstructed to answer
radical ends. Governor Holden made
bold stroke to save the State to his party
by raising the Ku-Klux phantom and de-
claring several strongly democratic coun-1
ties in q state of instruction; but even
these desperate measures proved futile,
and North Carolina has gone democratic
by ten thousand majority. Both branches
of the Legislature are largely democratic,
which secures the election of democrat to
the United States Senate in the place OF
Abbott, whose term expires with the pres
ent Congress. The radicals elect only two
of tho seven congressman. This crushing
defeat of the republicans was most unex-
pected, as it was deemed certain before the
election that they would carry ut least four
Congressional districts, and no fears were
entertained concerning the Legislature
Unlocked for as was the result by the
North Carolina republicans, still it is but
the natural sequence of the maladmlnls-
traiion of affairs in that State. The repub-
Leans placed too little consideration upon
the white population, and sought almost
exclusively the colored vote. At the South
the white man IS proverbinlly uncertain
"and nigger is mover sure, and the late
election proves the North Carolina darkies
are no exception to this rule. Ghe white
vote was fully cast and nearly solid for the
democratic ticket, aTthe republicans up
pear to have been demoralized and failed
tn polI their entire vote. Governor Hol-
| denis administration is decided failure;
too much of the State legislation was for
the benefit of q particular race, instead OF
the people, and in every department affairs
had become so muddled that any change
would be for the better. The republican
party will do we'll to heed the lesson taught
| by the North Carolina election. Unless it
speedily outs loose from the narroWm mind
ed, corrupt, fanatical leaders which have
brought it to the verge OF ruin other radi-
cal States will as unexpectedly whecl into
the democratic line and that party again
be in the ascendancy.
From the Baltimore Gaz.tte.
The returns from the North Carolina
election are not oil in, but are sufficiently
full to indicate that the Democrats and
Conservatives have carried the State by
from five to fifteen thousand majority
Both Houses of the Legislature also have
been carried by decided majorities. OF
the seven members of Congress to be
chosen they have carried five and the
Radicals two. The Conservative candi
date for Attorney General has also been
elected. The victory is the more1mportant.
inasmueh as tho large majority IN the
State Legislature renders certain the
. choice OF a Democratic Senator OF the
United States, in place of General Abbott
whose term is about to expire.
= Some idea of the vast change that ha:
taken place IN North Carolina since the
last election may be had from the fac
{ that at the last election the Radicals had {
majority of seventy seven on joint ballo
in the Stale Legislature, whereas now, 1t Ii
+, believed, that the Conservatives will have
a majority of two thirds or from one hun
8 dred and ten to one hundred and thirteen
I members of both Houses out OF one hun
r dred and sixty nine-a gain OF from fifty
four to fifty-seven. For once the ballot-bo'
y has triumphed over the schemes OF fraud
q and force, and cruelty, which were brough
d 70 bear upon the people Of North Carolina
q Holden and his satellites, Instsad Gtspro
- ducing the requisite amount OF lntImlda
- ton. have reused to indignation e0on
II large class of Union men who have hithcr
20 to voted with the Republican party, an
have thus to their own discontinue bee
:. the means of bringing good out Of evil b
: provoking peaceful, but most decide
- political revolution. "Klrk's lambs WI
g now be Withdrawn, and it will be strange
E. indeed If Kirk himself be NOT brought
-, the bar of Justice for the crueltles he ha
- praoticed and for his contemptuOus dt
"a iiance of the process of the Courts. This
r the Legislature will refuse to make an
III appropriation for the payment of Holden
militia we may we'll believe, and it is quit
eogsibie that it may 20 one stop turtht
and bring IN articles of lmpeaGhIle1
We against Holden himself. Il any event, |
mr. has been rendered incapable Of intlictin
or any further injury npon the people oV'
:. whom he has tyrannlzed so long.
Al From tho Baltimore Sun.
10 The Result In North Carolina.
elr The election in North Carolina sQpn
or certainly to have resulted in O cOnserVat1'
ba triumph, and hardly any honest man W
regret that such highhandedness as Go
''o Holden has practiced hns boon signal
eo rebuked by the people OF that plunder'
as State, A majority of the Legislature, al
%. four at Ieaat out Of seven Congressm
80, have been secured by the Conservative
~ The Conservative candidate for Attorn
Dir General has also been elected by a ham
DIV some majority The New York Times tn
,ur moralizes upon 1t
~ 1T seems certain that the anticipatio
90 Of riot aud blaodshed, which seem Go
OF Holden's pretext for invoking the presen
ad of Federal troops, were not realized. A
ow it seems ct least probable that, notwit
~, standing Holden's extraordinary efforts
'-l0 we might almost say in consequence
ues these cfforte-the gains have been on
nd side Of tho democracy. There Is pos
I'VE bilitv of managing election matters u lit
o1o too much,
~ It is known in addition that capital
,so and moneyed mon generally wore disgust
-. with the reckless manner in which
~ Legislature of the State trihed with
ork public credit by passing all sorts OF corr!
aad railroad grants, exc, until the bonds tell
p' less than thirty ceatsTene class now sell
It'll at only twenty-four cents) on the dol
oc- The credit of the State before tho var '
very good. When We remember that
md debt has been enormously increased 81
o1o then, with little or nothing to show for
mo a domestic revolution is hardly to be WI
1n5. dered at. 1t is Ignorance and rasca
that has been defeated. All this o
ma shows tho necessity of constitutional I
va hibition of State aid to railways, go.
i've new roads are really needed, capital
to generally be found to build them,
en- From the Charleston News.
Ain' We congratulate the Conservative pr
of North Carolina upon their glorious
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