Year: 1862

AID AND COMFORT TO THE Wv nave just
seen startling evidence of the injury inflicted upon
the cause and upon the character of North Carolina,
by the system of electioneering 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,
Major, in conversation with another, mention North
Carolina. He thereupon Joined them and found
that the Major was asserting that the North Caro-
lima election had turned upon the question of
construction of the Unionl and that the election of
Col. Vance was decision in favor of re union IL
He endeavored to convince them ofthe 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, 81
have in my pocket copy of the -, manning
a North Carolina 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 mischeyous 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 enStments, 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 nischievous and
wicked course of the partzan anti Conservative
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
ance with the spirit and letter Of the Constitution
and their opposition to all propositions for q 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, VIII
mington Journal. Iredell Erpress 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-in favor of a reconstruc-
tion and that the election of Col Vance would indi
cate to the North the prevalence of the Union SEN
timcnt 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
prised at the avowal of Col Vance in favor Of pros
ecuting the war, &C., 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-
tion 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 alsehoods of the destruc
tive press and partzan 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 deserve? We can
not estimate it better than by the measure applied
by the wifi of Tam O'Shanter, when she was pour
ing ou: her wrath upon her truant laird. Burns
makes her say:


"Ah Tam! ah 7am! thoull get thy fairin


In hell they'll roast thee like herrin."