The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-08-07
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North Carolina.

North sCafOnud.
The doubt that hangs over the election OF
Governor of North Carolina does not deprive
The Conservatives of the honor and the fnora'
force Of great victory there. Though Tue
corrupt CALpwEIL--the pet OF the ''RAS'
administration--b elected, that cannot ROD
the independent people Of North Carolina OF
the credit due them for glorious struss'e
against the fearful odds of the power ana inc
money Of the Federal Administration. Ihey
have carried the Legislature, which gives u
Conservative United States senator, ana
they have elected five out of eight members
OF Congress. These achievements are VASTLY
preferable to the election of the Gofef'ioi'
while If the Radicals have elected that o1ilcef
It Is by such a small majority that IL LOOMS
very like defeat. and is, we are convinced,
but premonitory of their great defeat III
November.
Never before in this country has there
been such interference with State elections
by the Federal Government. Through the
kuklux prosecutions twelve or fifteen hun.
bred persons were deprived Of their votes.
and some fifteen hundred young men were
driven from the State by the :" reign OF ter
rorn established there. CALDwELL's ma.
jority Of he is elected) will not exceed hall
the number Of those who were thus driven
from the polls. What sort of victory woula
that be? A victory through an intolerable,
fpr
fail to excite the indignation of good people
everywhere-a tyranny over the Consti!u-
ton and laws as well as the rights and llber-
ties OF the citizen.
This North Carolina election is fatal to
Radicalism. At last we have presidential
election in which there is party at the
North cooperating with the Conservative
party Mt the South. A blow struck ut the
hitter is blow that is felt by tho former.
The great Liberal party at the North is
making common cause with the Conscrva-
tive party ut the South. The terrorism and
bribery-the corrupt practices rcsortcd to
by the Federal Administration and its agents
in North Carolina TO stifle 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 Novem-
Der with the spirit of freemen, and with il
resolution strengthened by the recollection
of the wrongs and outrages inflicted upon
their brothers of North Carolina.
Turn out as it may, the North Carolina
election is great victory for the Conserva-
tives and great defeat for the Radicals. The
canvass brought out the policy of the Adj
ministration of the repression and persecu-
ton of the South as indispensable to the pro-
longation of its power. Mr.. boutwell,
announced it, and the officers of the Gov
ernment, with their spies, informers, and
prosecutors of all sorts, were actively en-
gagged in putting this policy in force. The
speakers and the actors, the adroit accusers
of the South and the mercless prosecutors of
her people, used all their power to check
every impulse toward the reconciliation of
the people and to convince the nation that
the continued repression of the South was
necessary for the safety of the country.
The policy is horrible; the measures to
carry it out are vicious. The policy is false,
the pretcXt for resorting to it bypocritical.
The interests of the nation do not demand
it. 1t is only employed to prolong the exist
ence of the war party. The safety of the
nation demands reconciliation" and it fur
thermore demands the death of the war
party, whose existence is incompatible with
peace and the administration Of the Govern
ment upon true republican principles ac-
cording to the Constitution.
North Carolina has thrown flood of light
upon the purposes and tyranny Of the Adj.
ministration. The election there is "a triumph
for Liberalism, and will give new impulse
to the ardent desire OF the American people
for Reconciliation" Peace, and the rcsto-
ration Of the Government to the hands of ca
pable and patriotic men. who will admins
ter it for the good of the people, and not, us
it is now, for the personal benefit of those
who fill the public offices.