Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-08-16
The North Carolina EIectiOn-What is
Thought of 1T I'm Other States.

we SufTcllucT IlllCll Vi O1tI space IIlIS
morning to extracts from our exchanges
showing how our late election is regarded
by our friends outside of the State.
When all the facts in the case shall have
been laid before the public the wonder will
be that we were able to do so well.
We do not fear any ill effects from our
nominal defeat upon the prospects of Mr..
Greeley. Wherever the report Of this
nominal Radical victory shall go there will
60 with it the announcement that the peO-
pie of North Carolina have entered their
most solemn protest against the fraud and
cheat sought to be practised upon them,
and have appealed to the proper tribunal
for redress.
From the Norfolk ,Tournal.l
TIE RESULT OF THE BATTLE BETWEEN
THE ADVANCE GUARDS.
North Carolina has accomplished for
herself all she could accomplish but the
election of Judge MerrimOn; and for the
great cause of the Constitutional party Of
the Union she has done more than, under
all the circumstances, the country had
right to ask OF reason to expect.
From the Petersburg Progress
NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION.
There can be little doubt that Caldwell
will be declared Governor of North Caro-
lina-nOt, however, by the will of the ma
jOriGy of her people, but by fraud and false
hood, which the desperate eNigencies of
the Radical party rendered necessary to its
very existence.
From Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and Messenger. ]
NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION.
But on whichever side the official can
vass may throw the meager majority, the
Democrats and Liberals have done enough
for the election. They have secured five
out of eight Congressman and have added
another Democratic Senator to the little
select body i'll Congress. More than all,
they have satisfied the world that North
Carolina is sure to vote against the re-
election of Grant in November, and have
thrown wet blanket upon his prospects
all over the Union.
IFrom the Richmond Dispatchl
NORTH CAROLINA.
The doubt that hangs over the election
of Governor of North Carolina does not de
prive the Conservatives of the honor and
the moral force of q great victory there.
Though the corrupt Oaldwell-the pet of
| the Grant AdministratiOn-be elected, that
cannot rob the independent people OF North
Carolina of the credit due them for glOri-
GUS struggle against the reartul odds of the
power ald the money Of the Federal Ad-
ministratiOn. They have carried the Legis-
lature, which gives Conservative United
Stdtes Senator, and they have elected five
out of eight members Of Congress. These
achievements are vastly preferable to the
election of the Governor, while if the Radi-
Gals have elected that officer it is by such a
small majority that it looks very like de
feat, and is, we are convinced, but pre-
monitory Of their great defeat in Novem-
ber.
Never before in this country has there
been such interference with State elections
by the Federal Government. Through the
| Ku KIux prosecutions twelve or fifteen hun
| dred persons were deprived of their votes,
| and some fifteen hundred young men were
driven from the State by the " reign of ter
ror" established there. Caldwell's majority
| (if he is elected) will not exceed half the
number of those who were thus briven from
the polls. What sort Of victory would that
be :? A victory through an intOlerable, and
vicious, and sordid tyranny, that cannot
| fail to excite the Indignation of good peO-
ple evcrywhere-a tyranny over the Con-
| stitution and laws as we'll as the rights and
| liberties OF the citizen.
This North Carolina election is fatal to
Radicalism. At last we have presidential
| election in which there is a party at the
North cooperating with the Conservative
nartv Mt the South. A blow struck at the
latter is a blow that lis felt by the former.
| The great Liberal party at the North is
| making common cause with the Conserva-
tive party at the South. The terrorism and
bribery-the corrupt practices 4resorted to
by the Federal Administration and it agents
! in North Carolina to stitle the voice of her
people-Will arouse the Liberal party at
the North and fill their hearts with the
fire Of liberty. They will go to the polls In
| November with the spirit of freemen, and
! with resolution strengthened by the re-
collection of the wrongs and Outrages in
flicted upon their brothers of North Caro-
| lima.
Turn out as it may, the North Carolina
election is a great victory for the COnserva-
! tives and great defeat for their Radicals.
| The canvass brought out the policy of the
Administration of the repression and per
secution of the South as indispensable to
the prolohgation of its power. Mr.. Bout
| well announced it, and the officers OF the
GOvernment, with their spies, intOimers,
and prosecutors of all sorts, were actively
| engaged in putting this policy i'll force
The speakers and the actors, the adrOit ac-
cusers of the South and the merciless per-
secutOrs of her people, used all their power
to check every impulse toward the recon
eiliution of the people and to convince the
nation that the continued repression of the
I South was necessary for the safety of the
country.
North Carolina hrs thrown a flood o.
light upon the purposes and tyranny of the
Administration. The election there is {
triumph for Liberalism, and will give :
new impulse to the ardent desire of thu
American people for Reconciliation,
Peace, and the restoration of the Govern
ment to the hands of capable and patriotic
men, who will administer it fO" the good o
the people, and not, as it is now, for th'
personal benefit of those who fill the public
, offices.