Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-08-16
[From the Charleston Courier.l
THE NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION AND ITS
ENCOURAGING RESULTS.


Ocracy cOntended under fearful odds, such
as TO have induced from the beginning no
hope, unless to those who felt the inspira-
ton OF right, aud that " thrice armed is he
who hath his quarrel just" There really
was but three weeks to work III since the
adjournment of the Baltimore Convention.
And what is tie result? One of which the
Conservative party may well feel proud
Instead of Radical majority of Is, GAL i'll
1865, when the last Governor was elected,
nothing but an official count can now de-
termine the result. A General Assembly
largely DemOcratic-Conserva which
ensures the selection of United States
Senator in the place of John Pool, Radical,
and the election of five out of the eight
Congressman.
The Administration has received a Sc
we're blow. 1t has been practically defeat
ed where it placed its strongest hopes, used
its most Strenuous efforts, and bOasted Of
its completest triumph.
From the Philadei pha Evening Herald.l
WHAT OF NORTH CAROLINA?
Those who have been taking note of the
manner in which the returns of the North
Carolina election have been announced
can scarcely have failed to perceive that
there was evident intention in the tardi-
ness with which election intelligence from
the interior counties of the State has been
received. On Saturday morning dispatch
from Raleigh announced that few or no re-
turns would be received before Monday or
Tuesday. Monday and Tuesday came,
and with them the tidings that Merrimon's
conceded majority of last week had been
rasped down here and there, until there
was not only nothing left of it, but that
Caldwell was really elected Governor.
We say there was evident intention in
this delay. Dishonest work was i'll pro-
gress' The strong Radical districts, the
elections in which were of course i'll the
hands of Radical officials, were made to
almost double their first reported majOri-
ties, and this has been the case i'll almost
every county where the Conservatives
We're too largely in the minority to be
able to counteract their nefariouS proceed
in@s.
That Mcrrimon was fairly elected Gov
ernOr of Y orth Carolina there is no more
doubt than that water will seek its level.
That the Radicals, i'll imitation of their
Philadelphia brethren, have resolved to
count him out is eqnally clear. The Ad-
ministratiOn cannot afford to losr any State,
much less a Southern one; nor will the
Conservatives be permitted to record or
maintain a majority. We Therefore conf
IDENTIFY calculate that MerimOn will not be
returned as elected.
But should this desperate course be re-
sorted to it will avail the GRANTEES moth
ing. North Carolina is Democratic rs GER
tainly as Kentucky or Maryland, and how
ever the returns Of the late election may
be debauched November will tell the tale
against Grant.
[FrOm the Philadelphia Age.I
NORTH CAROLINA.
No matter whether MerrimOn or Cald-
we'll is elected Governor of North Carolina,
and that fact is still undecided, the Demo-
Gratis and Conservatives have gained a sub
stantial victory, and the GRANTEES met
with e severe reverse in the first battle of
the campaign. They claimed not less than
ten thousand majority for Caldwell. A
| few hundreds will, in all probability, divide
the candidates when the official count is
announced.
AS to the Congressional election, that is
victory for the Democrats and Conserva-
| tt. CS. Five anti-Grant men 10
| three supporters of the administration in i
state set down sure for the denomination
lists, is a sure harhinger of victory i'll No
Vember.
The Democrats and Conservatives have
the Legislature by 4 handsome majority.
Tins gives them member Of the United
States Senate in place Of Pool Another
substantial result of the late contest.
| This result, in State which, with the eX-
| ception Of 1870, has given Radical ma jOIi-
ties ranging from nine to twenty-three
thousand majority, is a substantial defeat.
North Carolina will vote for Greeley i'll
November.
IFrom the n. y. Herald
THE LESSON OF TIE NORTH CAROLINA
ELECTION-,THE PERIL OF THE 'AD-
MINISTRATION.
The result of the North Carolina election
is still in doubt so far as the actual figures
are concerned, and it is not yet known
whether the State government is to be con-
tinHed in the hands of the republicans,
where it has remained ever since the re-
habihtatiOn of the State af the war, or is
to be transferred to the democracy. 1t is
conceded that the democrats have elected
a majority of the Congressman and have
carried the Legislature, thus securing a
! United States Senator i'll place of the re-
publican incumbent, John Pool; but on the
State ticket each side claims to be ahead,
the democrats being less hopeful at last ac-
counts than they have heretofore been
since the close of the polls. However this
| may be, it is certain that the republicans
have actually suffered Il severe reverse III
the first battle of the campaign, and even
erIor the effect will be none the less DANA
ging to their future prospects.
The whole federal and Stste patronage
.nd the machinery of election were i'll the
hands of the administration party. The
| negro vote was united i'll support of the
! republican ticket, and when White citizens
| were known to be practically disfranchised
through threats Of prosecution on Old in
dictments that were held hanging over
their heads. 1t seemed to be as impossible
| to wrest North Carolina from the hands Of
! the administration as it would have been
/ to snatch this city government from the
grasp of Tammany three years ago. No
| apprehension OF reverse was felt III the
! republican camp, and If gigantic efforts
were put forth by that party in the canvass
| it was rather with the object of making
! their victory SO overwhelming as to dismay
the followers of Greeley than with any idea
! that they were needed to keep the State in
! republican line. Under these circumstan-
/ ces the very closenesS of the contest and
| the uncertainty of the result is, in effect, a
! republican disaster, and will be so regar-
ded all over the United States, \ Orth and
! South.
| - from the New York World
The evidence of the colonization OF ne
| groes by the adminiStratiOniSts into North
| Carolina, and the reception OF their votes
| in spite of the protests OF citizens OF the
| State, has become so conclusive that none
! can doubt that this was the reliance OF the
supporters of Grant for saving that State.
In addition to this it must be born in mind
| that the poll-books and the returns have
been in the hands of the Grant men. The
slownesS of the reception of the returns has
enabled them 70 make their calculations
| how MANY votes must be added to this or