The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-22
An HnDarfisai view of the North
Carolina Election.

Carolina Election.
All who are conversant with the lead.
ing newspapers of the country know that
the New York Herald is strictly indie
pendent. In reference to the present
parties it has been professediy neutral
though with decided leanings towards
Grant. 1t is of interest therefore to
know the view taken by this journal of
/ the North Carolina election in its latest
phase, that is, slight majority for the
Radical candidate for Governor resting
under its cloud of fraud, and majority
OF the Legislature and of the Congress
men for the Democrats and Liberals.
The Herald says:
The result of the North Carolina cleo
tions IS still in doubt so far rs the actual
hgures are concerned, and il is not yet
known whether the State government is to
be continued in the hands Of the republic
cans. where it has remained ever since the
rehabilitation of the State after the war, or
l. to be transferred to the democracy. 1t is
conceded that the democrats have elected
majority of the Congressman. and have car
ried the Legislature. thus securing a Uni
ted States Senator ia place of the republf-
can incumbent, John Pool but on the State
ticket each side claims to be ahead, the dem
ocrats being less hopeful at last accounts
than they have heretofore been since the
close OF the polls. H0aoeger this may be- ii is
certain that the republicans haze actually sur
Jered serere reUerse in this first battle Of the
campaign, and even if they should succeed in
Soriag their GoUerHor the effect aoiH be none the
less ddnaaging to their future prospects. The
State belongs legitimately to the republican
side. The democratic Attorney General
was elected in 1870 by majority of nearly
five thousand through division in the re-
publican ranks, but every other year since
the cessation of the war the republicans
have been successful by majorities ranging
from nine to twenty-threc thousand. This
year at was confidently anticipated that the
republican triumph would be more signal
than at the last election for Governor in
1868, when the republican candidate receiv-
ed over eighteen thousand majority, and
everything appeared to justify this belief
1t seemed to be as impossible to wrest North
Carolina from the hands of the administra-
liCb ~ IL " OuIt i4StNC DtCil " Sll0bCn IftlS
city government from the grasp of Tamma-
ny three years ago. No apprehension of a
reverse was felt in 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 over
whelming as to dismay the followers of
Greeley than with any idea that they were
needed to keep the State in the republican
line. Under these circumstances the Gerry
cl0SeneSs Of the contest and the uncertainty Of
the result is, in effect, a republican disaster"
Here, it will be seen, that viewing the
election in the best possible light claim
ed by the GRANTEES. the Herald pronoun-
ces the result an Administration "disas-
ter" 1t will be remembered that in the
canvass in North Carolina, Wilson, the
Radical candidate for Vice-President,
frankly admitted that his party could not
that State. From this result, the same
independent journal draws moral for
the benefit of the Radical managers. 1t
says, "the lesson of the reverse is read
in their attempt to produce, or rather to
continue, strife between the races and to
keep alive the animosities of the war be-
tween the North and South-a scheme so
diabolical in its origin, and selfish in its
intended effects, that it has reacted
against its authors. We may add fur
Their that if it has produced this result in
North Carolina, the Indignation of the
right-thinking, peaceloving people of the
country at large will know no bounds.