Wilmington journal., 1872-08-09
OUR ELECTION
From the New York IIrroIIl


Although the politicians still insist upon
befocgin9 the result of The election in n 0rth
Carolina, each side perSiStcutiy claiming
the victory, it appears tolcrably certain that
the democratic ticket has been elected in
the Stale, that the dcmn Gratis haze secured
a large majority in the LEGISLATURE, thus
gaining a | nitcd States Senator in place of
John Pool, and that they have also carried
ut least five oJit OF the eight Cungressn men.
The republicans are by ttnmS admitting
and denying their defeat, and government
officials are tclegIaphimg TO the depart
mcnts ut Washington mysterious assur-
ancps that all will yet 90 well. 1t may he
that these reports have two objects, the
first to break the force of the terrible blow
inflicted on the republican cause in the Pre-
Sldcntiai contest by the North Carolina dis
aster, and the second, to prepare the way
for TAM Ieriu@ with the figures, if the vote
should be sufficiently close to warrant an
attempt at fraud. But however this NAV
be, and whatever may be the actual result
Of the official count, il is certain that the
large republican loss, the failure of the
anticipated twenty thousand majority,
and the clOscncss Of 4 contest in which
every advantage that patronage, money
and the control Of the machinery OF the
elCc'tOn can give, was enjoyed by The re-
publ,cans, will be just us damasinesto the
administrator party A5 a coulpleUe and
total OVcrtlrDW. ~ the present moment
the North Carolina election las given more
strength 10 the Greeley movement than it
has yet received from any event since the
meeting Of the Cincinnati Convention.
Leaders who have heretofore held alOof
from committing themselves Oh either side,
may now be expected TO flock over by the
hundreds 10 the liberal ranks after Summer
II ,,4I., a.
masses is seen i'll the anxiety with which
every politician now strives to impress
upon his friends the belief that lie has
always been on the Greeley side. The
administration republicans are beyond
doubt proportionately depressed, and
while they may affect To believe that their
disaster is not SO great as it is represented,
they fee. that their supposed power has re-
c1lvcd Il serious c1iecA, and that they can
no longer be looked upon as lnVincible,
even though they should manage to drag
their State ticket through the official can
Vass, with 4 small majority at its back.
[FrOm the Washington Patriot~l
Next to the defeat of John pool-the
head and front of Radicalism in North
CarOlina-fOr the United States Senate,
that of ThOs. Settle for the House of Rep
resentatives, is peculiarly gratifying. They
are both '.scallawagS' or renegade North
CarOi!nians, vino sold their blrthrght for a
mess of pottage, and then instjgated all the
bitter persecution, with which that State
has been visited. Settle was a swift wit
ness before the kl-KluX committee, and
his testimony was not published before he
was appointed Minister to Peru, ia reward
for that service. After few months resi-
dence, by which his pay for year-$lO,-
O0O--waS drawn, lie returned home and
became one of epecrtliarpets Of the White
House.
1t was mainly through the personal
efforts of Gen. Grant, that he was made
President of the Philadelphia Convention,
and that selection looked to still higher
advancement, in the event of success,
which may now be considered hopeless
Settle was the candidate of all others in
North Carolina, upon whom the Admins
triton lavished it's favors and patronage
An immense amount of money was raised
and thrown into that district, of which he
personally was tie chief distributor Num-