The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-27
North Carolina.
From the New York Tribune.l

| From the New York Tribunel
To the President of the United
States the North Carolina election, ON
the 9TH of August, is almost as inter-
esting an occurrence as the Saratoga
races. The Secretary of the Treas
ury has been sent into that State to
take part in the campaign. Two
more Cabinet officers are there or 60
ing, and the Grant candidate for the
Vice Presidency is also on the way.
| Nearly q quarter of million of dol
| lars have been dr;twn from the Treas
ury within short time ostensibly to
defray the expenses of North Carolina
Federal Courts, which never before
called for larger sum than five
thousand. Marshals and deputy mar
shals by the half dozen have been
appointed i'll counties where there is
nothing for such functionaries to do;
and the whole civil service machinery
has been set in motion to secure
victory for the RenominatiOnists.
Gen. Grants anxiety is perfectly nat
ural. North Carolina is the first
State to hold an election since the
two parties named their candidates
for the Presidency, and the result
next month cannot but have an influ-
enee in November. The success of
the Republican candidate for Cover
nor does not necessarily imply the
success of the Administration candi-
date for President three months later,
because there are many Republicans
who will vote for Greeley but will not
vote the Democratic State ticket.
That ticket was made up before the
Liberal movement became fairly de-
veloped. 1t is consequently straight
ticket, and Republicans who support
it must do so with an eye merely to
moral effect upon the later and more
important issues. On the other hand,
if the RenominatiOnists are beaten
now nothing can save them in No
vember, and they know it, and are
working accordingly.
In many respects North Carolina
offers an easy field for their opera
tions. The white population is sup
posed to be eminently conservative,
but experience has shown that great
and sudden changes in their vote are
effected by slight causes. In the
State election OF 1868, for instance,
the majority for Holden (Rep.) was
1S ,64I, while Gen. Grants majority
in the same year was only l2, 136. In
1870 the result was reversed, the
Democrats having majority of 4 ,995.
Last year there was a popular vote
ON the question of calling Il Constitu-
tional Convention, and the Republi-
cans, who opposed it, had u majority
of 8, ,;345; but the call had been made
by mere majority OF the Legislature
instead of by two-thirsls, as the Con-
stitution required, and it is fair to
assume that many honest Democrats
joined the opposite party in voting it
down because it was unconstitutional.
At best, therefore, the balance of par
ties this year is doubtful. The negro
vote is for Grant. Under the lead of
Federal offiee-holdersR and carpet
baggers, the colored people have been
we'll organized and drilled, and taught
to nlaintain themselves in determined
hostility to their late masters, no re-
conciliation with the Southern whites
being everywhere the watchword of
the denomination party. But the
white vote is 10000 in excess of the
colored, and with the exception of the
office-holders the whites are almost
unanimous against Grant. In the
mountain region of the State espee
tally Mr. Greeley is extremely popu-
! lar, and IN the central and sea-board
counties also the Liberal cause is
making rapid progress.