The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-26
The Campaign in North Carolina.

The first State election this year is that of
North Carolina, which takes place on the first
day of August. There are to be chosen at
that election a Governor, Lieutenant Govern
or, Attorney General Secretary of State,
State Treaurer, Auditor Superintendent of
Public Instruction, Superintendent of Public
Works, and eight members of Congress.
AS the day approaches the excitement of
the campaign grows more and more intense.
Both parties claim to hold the vantage
ground, but it is race in which only one can
be successful. The Grant party are resorting
to the most desperate means to win. AT the
bidding of their master members of the Cab
met have been obliged to forego their accus-
toned visits to watering places and have gone
to North Carolina to swelter beneath burn
whom they can not believe TO be what they
represent him. Wilson, the Radical candi-
date for the Vice Presidency, too, has entered
the field in North Carolina, to press his own
fortunes.
General Grant, however, does not depend
for success upon direct appeals to the intelli-
gence of the people of the old North State,
but has sent thousands of dollars there, to be
lavishly expended among the credulous ne
groes and ignorant whites, to secure their
votes for the Republican ticket. The Wash
ington Patriot says:
Governor Morgan, chairman of the Ma
tional Radical Committee, is reported as hay
ing said that if half a million of dollars were
needed, it would be forthcoming. Large sums
of money have been raised by assessments,
and sent to Abbott and Pool TO buy votes-
The aggregate is estimated at 100000. Dur
ing the last sixty days, the United States
ury, in addition to one hundred and eighty
thousand dollars previously, under pretense
of expenses of the judiciary, which formerly
never exceeded five thousand dollars year.
These facts show the desperate condition of
the Administration, and a purpose to win by
corrupting the ballot-box, if that be possible"
Nor are the opponents of the Grant party
idle; for Senators Thurman, Trumbull and
Blair; Governors Walker and Vance; Col.
Hinton, of Va, and Gen. Gordon, of Ga, are
canvassing the State against the administra-
ton. The people of North Carolina are
aroused, and are making gallant struggle
to recover possession of their State, and drive
out the pestilential swarm of carpet-bagg ayers
and plunderers that infests it.
Under ordinary circumstances it is by no
means likely that such desperate measures
would be resorted to by General Grant to
achieve Republican victory in North Caro-
lima. But the coming election will be re-
garded in great measure as a test of the rel
alive strength of the two political parties.
and as a token of the result at the Presiden-
tial election in November. If victory should
rest on the banner of the Democrats and their
Liberal Republican allies, the opponents of
the Administration in other States will feel
encouraged to 60 forward, with the plain as
surance of victory. If, on the other hand,
the Grant faction should, after all, succeed in
retaining their vulture.like hold on the COM
monwealth the opposition elsewhere should
grid themselves anew for the fight, remem-
bering that their cause is just, and that it
must and will eventually triumph