Year: 1862

AID AND COMFORT TO THE ENEMY."-We have lust
seen startling evidence of the injury inflicted upon
the cause and upon the character of North Carolina
by the system of eectioneering against Col. Vance
by some of the papers opposed to him. A letter
from highly respectable North Carolina officer in
Richmond to friend in this place has been shown
to US, in which the following incident is related -
Being, for the time, officer of the guard in charge
of the yankee officers he heard one of them, q
Major, in conversation with another, mention North
Carolina. He thereupon joined them, and found
that the Major asserting that the North Caro-
lima election had turned upon the question of re-
construction Of the Union and that the election of
Col Vance was decision in favor of reunion u
He endeavored to convince them the utter ground
lessness of such notion, and of the undying hate
of North Carolina towards the old Union. But his
arguments were Of no avail for, said the Major, IL
have in my pocket copy of tho manning
NorthCarohna paper bitterly opposed to COL
Vance, in which that is affirmed to be the point in
the contest"


We withhold the name Of the paper, for our OBJ
ect is not to prejudice any paper, but to point out
the schievous effects of such system of election
eering. The Major has been exchanged, and has
gone North with the paper in his pocket. Ofcourse
it will be used to revive the dropping spirits of the
North to encourage enlistments and to protract the
war. The facts may be implicitly relied on"


The above we clip from the Fayetteville Observer.
If evidence were wanting of the mischievous and
wicked course of the partizan antiConservative
press of this State, during the late Gubernatorial
canvass, the above would furnish it. We charged
upon those papers at the time the consequences of
their abuse Misrepresentation and arrant falsehood
against the old Union men or Conservatives, and
the supporters of Col. Vance,


During the entire canvass the friends of Colonel
Vance avowed their advocacy of vigorous prosecu-
ton of the war-their support Of the Confederate
government in thus carrying the war on, in accord
with the spirit and letter of the Constitution
and their opposition to all propositions for re-
construction of the Union. No Conservative paper
candidate in the State avowed any sentiments in
opposition to those views; and yet the Conserva-
tives were held up by the Raleigh Register, Will
mington Journal Iredell Express, and papers of
that class to our Yankee enemies and to the world,
as opposed to the war-opposed to giving aid to the
Confederate government-n favor of a re-construc-
ton, and that the election of Col Vance would indi
cate to the North the prevalence of the Union SEN
timent in North Carolina In vain did we deny it,
and charge these miserable partizan sheets with
falsehood, and with giving "aid and comfort" to
the enemy. Still they persisted in this course to
the end and now they affect to be pleased and sur
prsed at the avowal of Col Vance in favor of pros
ecuting the war, &C., as if they were ignorant all
the time of his real opinions, and Of the opinions Of
the Conservatives.


And what is the effect of their wicked course p
Why, all the Yankee officers and soldiers who were
at Salisbury, have gone home with the full convic-
ton that the Overwhelming defeat of Mr.. Johnston
is evidence that North Carolina is still old Union to
the core. A balder, baser falsehood was never ut
tered and yet it is the legitimate inference from the
statements and reiterated asehoods Of the destruc-
tive press and partizan supporters of Mr. Johnston.


dispatch from Mobile, giving the Northern
news, says:


"The Northern version Of the North Carolina
elections is that the secession candidate for Cover
nor is defeated-that the Unionists elected nearly
every member of the Legislature"


The extent of this false impression no one can
imagine. What do such men deserves We can
not estimate it better than by the measure applied
by the wifi of Tam OShanter, when she was pour
ing GU: her wrath upon her truant laird. Burns
makes her say:


"Ah Tam ah. 7ans! thou'll get thy farin!


In hell they'll roast thee like herrn."


The following order from the Adjuant General, Of the
Confederate States, is sensible:


"A seizures and impressments Of any description Of
property whatever belonging to the States Of the Confede
racy are hereby prohibited and officers Of the C. s. Army
are eponed abstain carefully from such seizures and
mpressnens and in they made by mistake such
officers are ordered to make prompt restitution"





The New York Times of the 26th ut in flourish over
the Federal Navy says that consists of 2s2 vessels
whereas one year ago it consisted of ss vesses that 5
wooden and % roncad Of have been built in one
year. That IA of the ronclads in commission Over
s,,Ichasod and