Wilmington journal., 1872-08-02
From the n. Y. Evening Telegram.
THE CONTEST IN NORTH CAROLINA
The Lowerys and All the KUfsians for
Gen. Grant.

The State of North Carolina will have |
an election on the first of August next. 1t
will be the first State election since the |
latest and last national convention OF tins |
wear of grace chose its candidates for Presi- !
dent and Vice President of the United |
States, and as such it is looked upon with |
intense interest by both rival parties, the
liberals and the radicals. We are not dis
posed to be over Sanguine Of the result,
and yet are inclined to believe that the
radical party in the State viii be beaten so
far that in the future years their chances
of regaining power will be few and far be-
tween. The issues are not 50 close drawn
as people here imagine. There is palpa-
BILE difference between the aim and sentl-
ment of the Democratic and the radical
party in the State as there is between night
and day, between tho angels OF light and
the devils of darkness. On the one hand,
the best and worthiest people of North
Carolina, they to whom the great Interests
of the commonwealth are Of paramount
importance, and worthy of the most sacred
regard and patriotic devotion, are debarred
from their share Of management in the
concerns Of their native State On
the ether hard, the very d. 1gs 6f
the carpet bag element, the least
reputable and most unmitigated ma
tive scoundrels such as sthe Lowery
gang, such as Holden, Il characterleSs scrib-
bier; such as Caldwell, renegade, not
alone to his party convictions, but to his
home and friends; such as Settle, the late
Chairman of Grants Convention at Phila-
delphia, who deemed it highly honest
proceeding to draw O,OOO from the Treas
ury for services never performed, and such
as all the native bred scalawags and rob-
bers who shout hosannas for the admins
tration. All these make up the opposition
to the Liberal Republican and Democrat
party. No respectable man would trust
the loan OF 1 dollar to any of the rapacious
set of blackGuards who ruled the State in
uolden's time, and still continue In part TO
misreprcSent it.
Yet, though the self same rIscals squan-
dered the resources and banErupted the
credit of the State in Wall street and else
where by a system of Wholesale and Scan-
dalOuS plumber, they have put themselves
forward and are accepted by Grant and
his corrupt tools as the representatives Of
| North Carolina. Now we find Henry Will
son, alias jeremiah Goliath, the one string
political banjo player Of the age; Boutwell,,
the corner grocery financier from Massa-
! chusetts, whom Butler forced Grant, rs
we all know, to take into his Cabinet
Well, there are other lights, but they are
feeble. They will win none to their standard
/ by conviction Of the honesty and patriotism
| Of Grants administration, while we have
no doubt whatever THAT thousands Of hon
est Republicans now attached by the party
links alone to the regular organization will
break loose at the very first chance, and
that chance will come in just two weeks
| from yesterday.
We want no better evidence of the dc
perate straits III which Grants party finds
itself than the utterly criminal and daI-
| ingly outrageous proceeding given i'll the
letter of Congressman Beck, Of Kentucky
concerning the transmission Of S250,OOO III
| government funds to- Raleigh to help III
carrying the election for Grant. This caps
the climax of Grants numbcileSs offences
against the States individually, demon
strates his absolute ignorance o
the very first principles upon which
this government is based. Now that
Boutwell, is in North Carolina hC
will, no doubt, see after the distri
button Of that quarter million dollars
and the first slice we expect Will be handed
over to the LOwery gang, who, whateycl
else they may be, are good, sound radicals
and have helped before this to call many ;
local election for the party. DOutWel
should shell out literally to the Lowerys
They haye nun dered 4 countless nlumbe
Of good Democrats already, and as the Stat
and national (Grant) government can bt
helped through their instrumentality W
expect to see them handsomely pardoned
1t is pleasant prospect for tie LOwerys 4
il stands