The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-05
THE NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION.

What we stated the day after the cleo
ton in North Carolina, may be stated to-
day with equalemphass, if not satisfaction,
as to the result. The mighty tidal wave,
which our contemporaries assured US was
sweeping on from the "Old North State,o
has not as yet been witnessed by US, ex',
cept in its Geographic rush the morning
after election. nor have we any special need
of hydiomctric instruments to determine
either its volume or the force of its current
at the present writing. 1t is only as the
initial contest since the Presidential battle
was fairly opened that it has attracted any
special attention. The leaders Of the
coalition have strained every nerve in
the hope of carrying the State, and Of add
ing new force to the Greeley movement by
the prestige of brilliant and decisive VIC
tory. This they have failed to accomplish.
By the registration of 1867, the total
white vote Of the State was fraction over
one hundred and three thousand, while the
colored vote only reached something over
seventy-one thousand and the Democrats
carried the State in 1870, on closely con-
tested vote for Attorney-General, by 4,22l
majority. 1t was hardly to be expected,
then, that the State could be carried by the
Republicans by any very decided majority,
fiat all, in the canvass that has just ensued.
If it could be made apparent that
our organization there remained I'M
broken; that there was no such gen.
nal detection in our ranks as our adj
versaries confidently asserted, and that
no such overwhelming victory as pre-
dicted was possible for the Greeley-Con-
servative ticket in November, it was all
that we had any confident ground to ex-
pect. 1t is true we gave some counter as
surances to those made by the coalitionists,
. but they were such as were derived from
the observations Of others rather than from
any confident expectations of our own. o."
Two years ago the Democrats carried the
State by the majority we have stated, and
elected five out of seven Congressman.
What better have they done under the
powerful prestige of Mr.. Greelcy's name,
d. with the still more powerful Tribune TIC
back them in this election? If their band.
some little majority, for so close State,
is not entirely annihilated, they may thank
their stars and Greeley garters that things
are not decidedly worse than they at pres
ent seem. The large Republican gains
over the vote given two years ago show
that the "great Greeley detection" has no
broken corporaI's guard of our force il
the whole State. Whatever else may hay,
been the result, so much at least is certain
We might cite the result of the great Octo
Der " storm" in Pennsylvania in 1864, pre-
vious to the election of President Lincoll
for the second term, as having had vastl,
more significance than this North Carolini
"drizzle" can have at the present time.
In the October election, before the Presi
dental election Of that year, the Key-Ston,
State went against us, but in the NovembeI
election following, she wheeled CALAMITY
into Republican line, and has stood will
mistaken front ever since. We predict tn
nd same gallantry for the indomitable Republi
can column in the /" 0ldNorth State" Ii
ranks have not been broken; they hav
not been thinned. 1t is by no means Ger
tain yet that they have met with repulse
The large force of Tammany operators sen
there ITO manipulate things generally, :
will give a doubtful complexion to the coal
ton victory, if one has actually bee
achieved. The peculiar law Of North Caro-
lima favored the operations that were adroit
ly praoticed for the cutting down of tn
Republican vote. BY system Of sweep
ing challenges, which every intelligent pei
son knew was palpable fraud on the cleo
i've franchise, they sought to deprive, an
no doubt did deprive, hundreds of colore
Republicans of their votes. As a specime