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THE JOURNAL.
MEW HANOVER ELECTION.
The Demcrtcy New Hanover to thelf
JSrethrea tfertt&ghottt the State, greeting.
Under this head, Democratic brethren
of the UMe, we propose to offer you a
few remarks on the result in our county.
And the first thing we would say is,
THAT THE DEMOCRACY OF NEW
HANOVER COUNTY HAS DONE
NOBLY, UNDER ALL THE CIR
CUMSTANCES!! It maybe asked,
How can this be? In August, New Han
over gave Hoke a majority of 818, and
wow she only gives Polk a majority of
UOuch is the result as exhibited in
tfie fabre below, in explanation ot tins
! to say a few words :
In the first place, our readers will see that
4ie Democratic vote has increased from
that although our friends
ley have still done better
now. H(H it then, that our maionlv
i m
Sampson Mass Meeting.
Never did the sunriseaipon a day more
glorious for ibe Democracy of Sampson,
than Friday last, the 1st inst. Our read
ders will remember that sometime ago
when we noticed this meeting in the pro
spective, we then said that our friends there
would beat the whig "doings" of the same
kind, at least fifty per cent ; if we had of
said five hundred per cent , we would have
been nearer the truth. We confess we
expected to see a good many 41 folks" in
Clinton, but as Mr. Dobbin remarked in
the beginning of his speech, we didn't ex
pect to see every body there. But to the
meeting:. About 10 o'clock in the morn-
ing, the people began to pour in at every
avenue that leads to the Court House. At
about 12 o'clock, the vast assemblage was
called to order by Dr. William McKay,
Ul IIJIO . , III I i
, we propose to say a few words : , . . , e . ft - 6
President of the day,
GABRIEL HOLMES, Esq.,
Vice Presidents,
William Faison, J. W. Lamb,
Jas. Moore, sr.,
Chestnutt, G. H. Danghtry,
Kilby Lassiter, Daniel Murphy,
Jno. Parker.
Secretaries.
Jas. A. Moore, Jno. Moore,
Wm. J. Owen, Wm. R. Slocomb,
Thos. I. Faison.
Marsh alls of the day,
M. C. Blount, Jno. Spell.
These nominations being unanimous
responded to by the vast multitude, Mr.
Holmes came foward, and in a short but
appropriate manner, thanked his fellow
citizens, for the honor they had conferred
upon him, in calling him to preside over
their deliberations on that interesting oc
casion ; he also explained the objects for
which the meeting was called. When Mr.
Holmes got through, Mr. Dobbin, of Fay
etteville, was called to the stand. Of his
greedily the "Register," "Clarion," danger of its iiyuring the federalists more than
a the democrats. But even there we shall find
"Chronicle," &c, devour some flying and boisteroiis federal aboliUonists
report, which made its way somehow or votjng the federal ticket, while the honest and
other, into these regions, about the election unsuspecting democratic abolitionists will
of a whig Governor in Arkansas. Is it vote the abolition ticket. The abolitionists
.u. .u t- r voted the fedeial ticket in Pennsylvania, in
I 6 Hh n nnH in Indiana, and thw Will do SO Ul
Election Returns.
The Key Stone Secures the Arch!
PENNSYLVANIA
Right side up ! ! !
It is tw our thrice pleasant duty to an.
mon sense, who could for a moment be
lieve that the brave little Democratic State
of Arkansas, would ever dream of giving
a Federal vote. But we should recollect
New York.
No third party, or split party, got op oh lo
cal or other questions, has ever existed in this
country which has not been the means of re
. , , . . . I crumns voters for the federal party in the end
mat me popular curreui .wrcpiug mew Tfa - , democracy to the half way
gentlemen coons towards the month of hoise, become estranged and soon the schee
Salt river, and we don't think it at all sin-; ming, adroit leaders of federalism find means
gular that they snatch at everv litlle twig' to bring them into the federal ranks. With a
that grows around the shores of its ljJf
6 , .r ... . ; duty did we not earnestly and loudly caution
U Jiiti , iw iiaivii ii pvooiuiv til jut a
few days, their departure on the long, drea
ry voyage which the popular voice has de
creed they must make, before they can OUR.TO WW Matters and things
NOITI CAROLINA.
The returns from our own good old
North State come in doriotfsly In ak
most every county from which we have , nounce to our readers, that Pennsylvania
yet heard, we have made large gains. ihas cast her
What would the coons say if the M whig
ibraltet" of the South, would yield' up
its citadel into the hands of Democracy ?
The complexion of the returns published
ill the table below, look very much like It. ! v
"milky silky" of the National In- L
Twenty-Six Electoral
VOTES FOR POLK & DALLAS.
The Democracy of this noble State, unan.
.11 J i ,i i k 1- ! r
paueu Dy nwuwm overwueiming monied
manuiaciuringcomoinations, which wr
1 . . 4 . . ....
our friends against this insidious snare of ab
olitionism.
reach their proper destination the headj
waters of Salt river. Full returns have;
not yet come to hand from this State, but
in general.
Last Monday was pretty considerable
j of a noisy stirring, blustering day in our
has decreased? In this way : It is a well!- " ,
i. . r .u. .l. tt . .l . Lemuel dies
hiiuwii wci, uiai in wie sicKiy inunin ui
August, quite a number o( our citizens go
off to the North, to the Mountains, or some
other more healthy location. It is equally
well known, that that portion of the com
munity which can afford to spend the
summer months at fashionable watering
places, belongs, without almost nny excep
tion, to the Federal party. Those peo
ple absentees in August were all at
home to vote for Clay. Again : A great;
many Seafairing men, who claim Wil-
mington for their domicil, were in port
on Monday last, who were absent at the
August election. Still again, there were,
we understand, some 40 maiden whig vo
ters. These facts will, we think, account
for the increased whig vote polled in this
county. The returns show an increased
Democratic vote in the county, consequent
I. . i 1 j
our exenange papers connrm wnai we saiUjUule Town Gf Wilmington. Although
we believe there never was, on any previ
ous occasionof a similar kind, such a ner-
, , ... e speech, we have not room to give even an
ly the coons have made nothing from our 1 ,. ' . . ,
tX t rv Ti outline. But this much we will say, we
ranks. No, the Democracy of New Hano- , . ,. . , , .
:racy
ver has proved itself as fjim and unchange
able as the eternal principles it avows.
Again we would say, THE DEMO
CRATS OF NEW HANOVER HAVE
BEHAVED THEMSELVES NOBLY.
H our friends elsewhere knew what we
have to contend with here, they would say
o also. If lliev knew as we do, that the
Federal party in the Town of W ilmington
has almost all the patronage to bestow if
they knew that the vast influence of the
Rail Road is brought to bear against us
if they knew the desperate and untiring ef
forts which the whigs of this place have
been making for the Inst six months, we
say if our friends throughout the State
knew these things as well as we do, they
would agree with us in say ing that we have
done well nobly.
Below is a table of the votes polled at
each precinct ia
NEW-HANOVER COUNTY.
in our last number. She has elected Drew,
the regular Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor, by a majority of about 2000 ; and
Yell, (Dem.,) to Congress, by about 5000
majority.
jew York.
Our readers will remember that in our
last number, we expressed our confidence
in the Democracy of New York. We
still feel the same confidence. Indeed the
result in Pennsylvania has, in our opinion,
placed the matter beyond doubt. It will be
remembered bv those who have read Fed
oral papers for the last two or three months,
that they insisted that Henry Clay was
vous state of excitement exhibited by both
parties such an eager rush for the ballot
box, yet we believe that every thing pass
ed off quietly. We have not yet seen any
bloody noses or broken heads as the fruits
of that day's political battle. It's true,
now and then, when a fellow marched up
to the polls with a bold & confident step, &
one of the challengers happened to sing
out, " I challenge that man's vote," he
would look a little wrathy ; the blood
would begin to come and go ; but still the
dignity and fearlessness with which the
much stronger than his, the Whig party. Judges of election alias, the poll holders,
The Pennsylvania election has complete-1 carried themselves on all such occasions,
ly dispelled this dearly cherished illusion ; prevented any difficulties from occurring
of the Federal imagination.
from such-rencounters. Every body now,
n B , i , , t U ,t . a glorious victory overall Its powerfu en.
Pennsylvania the other day, it would be ? ' U cnu,pne.
, , r . i . miesv Yes, noble, gallant PennsvIvanJ.
perfectly unnecessary for us to speculate , . , . ie JT! "8y,;?m
nnnn what rhntr hfi t lP fPSU . When ..... " UI '3U
I KS IV m J v -ww IIU 111 J w 7
the full returns shall come to hand. One
thing however is evident, to both Whigs
and Democrats by these returns ; and it
is this, that in North Carolina, coonery
with all its thousand and one humbugs, is
fading away with as much rapidity before
the pure light of Democracy, as melts the
snow beneath the first beams of the return-
. v fW I .
mg summer s sun. l ne returns in our ta
ble of to-day, of course, are not official,
but most of them have been gathered
from such sources as are a guarantee for
their correctness. We shall. continue to
place before our readers at the very earli
est moment such others as may come to
hand.
Below we give a comparative table of
our losses and gains, so far as heard from.
Some of them we have received viva voce
from our friends, but still we think we can
endorse for their correctness in the main
at least:
Federal avd Democratic gains so far as heard
from, since the Governors Election in August
last.
We say that this result will, or rather i is waiting with almost breathless eagerness
has, exercised a vast moral influence over; for the arrival of every mail. The phizzes
the vote of New York. No returns have of our Whig friends, ever since the news
yet come to hand from this State, but we! from Pennsylvania began to pour in upo.
candidly say that we feel as certain of her! us, have been rather too much on theova!
vote as we do of the vote of any State in 'order. We know it's right hard to stand,
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2. 3
F
Wilmington" 333 354 236 355
Sandy Run 91 81
Upper Sound 25 It 16 24
Holly Shelter 2) 49 55
Rocky Point 4 89 6 71
Long Creek 128 3 134
So. Washington 9 102 10 108
Moore's Creek 5 89 1 73
Piaey Wood 3 86 9 76
Cain Tuck 39 45
Upper Bl'k River 2 81 2 72
383 1123 283 1101
The Contest is over.
Well, at last the long agony is over. An
armistice for a few days is tacitly agreed
upon between the tariflites and anti-tariff-ites,
the bank men and anti-bank men-
Whilst we are writing this paragraph, the
jurors of the country are delivering their
verdict in the great case. Democracy ver
sus Federalism. Yes. before the ink on
these lines will be dry, the rendition of thai
verdict will be irrevocably registered on the
reut record book of the Union. Which
ever way it may go (and for our own part
we entertain not a doubt about the result,)
we have enough confidence in the masses
of both parties, to believe that patriotism
will lead the vanquished, however hard it
may go with them, to abide the decree of
the people, like men and like American
ttepnblicans. Notwithstanding the whig
leaders the Federal Central Committee
men held out the threat, that should Jas.
K. Polk be elected, nothing but revolution
could avail the whig party still we be
lieve that the great body of the Whigs
of the Union will obey the mandate of the
American people like good citizens that
they will, when a majority of the real
people have told them that the days of
Coonery and Spoonery are numbered, go
soberly and calmly to work to support
the Constitution and laws of our common
country, with as warm hearts and as wil
ling hands as if they themselves had been
triumphant in the contest. It's true, the
coon leaders, when they reflect how they
have ridden and talked how they have
shuffled and twistificated, how they have
blustered and bragged; how they have
expended their time and money; but above
all, when they think of the fat offices
which the greedy eyes of their imagina
tions have been devouring for the last six
months when they reflect we say, upon
all these things, no doubt they will feel a
have heard many political speakers in our
time, and to none of them have we ever lis
tened with more pleasure than did we to Mr.
Dobbin on this occasion. Even the wings
present admitted that his address was char
acterized by a spirit of candor and fairness,
to which the most rabid of the coon party
could offer no objection. For chastity of
language, and perspicuity of sty le, in our
humble opinion, Mr. Dobbin stands with
out a superior in North Carolina. For a-
bout an hour and a quarter he held his vast
audience enchained. But we must hurry
on. Next in order, our distinguished rep
resentative, the Hon. J. J. McKay, ascen
ded the rostrum. We had heard Gen'l
McKay before, and were prepared to listen
to a good speech, but we must confess we
were not prepared to hear just such a tall
talk as he delivered on that occasion. The
way he made the old coon's fur flv, was cu
rious ; again wc say, we wish we had time
to give a sketch of hisspeech. He handled
every question at issue between the two
great parlies, in a style which shewed that
he was well acquainted with every corner
and nook in ther kingdom of coondom.
For two hours did he pour it into Feder
alism at such a rate, that even we ourself,
before he closed, began to sympathize with
whiggery under the unmerciful drubbing it
received at his hands. We only wish that
Gen. McKay could be induced to talk to
the people more than he does. The ter
mination ol Gen. McKay's speech brought
about half past three o'clock, and of course
time for dinner. However, before we ad
journed for the latter interesting part of the
day's business, our humble self was called
upon by way of winding up the talking,
to present to the Democrats of Sampson,
on behalf of a lady, who, in her own sim
pie but eloquent language, " was an eye
witness of our struggle for independence,
and who is still the friend of democracy,"
a large and beautiful cake, which had fi
gured on its base the twenty-six stars of
our Union; on its centre James K. Polk,
and surmounting all, the lone star of Tex
as. The meeting then adjourned en masse
to the Academy Grove," where the sump
tuous tables were spread for their recep
tion. To give some idea of the vast
concourse of people who were present,
we would merely state that there were
three tables, each upwards of 100 yards
long, and that they were all literally filled to
overflowing. Every thing was in profu
sion. It was a glorious day for old Samp
son. Every thing went off" in the happiest
stylenot a single accident occurred to
mar the joyousness of the day. In our cal
culations as to the number present, as the
political die is cast, of course we have no
! reason, if we were so disposed, to exagge
rate for effect. We conversed with a variety
of persons of both parties, and they all a
greed that there were at least 3000 persons
present on the occasion. W.e were glad to
see some of our good old whig friends there,
and hope that they were benefited by the
speeches of McKay and Dobbin. Indeed
the increased Democratic majority which
the county cast on Monday last, is actual
evidence that such was the case. Hur
rah, say we, for the Democracy of Samp
son. 1
the Union. From the subjoined extract but still they'll soon get used to it. Their
from the New York Morning News, ourj defeat in Pennsylvania, we hope will pre-
readers will see that the Whigs will not; pare them to bear with a becoming grace,
be able to effect as much by their coalition the Democratic thunder of New York,
with the "Natives" as they anticipated, which we expect will be here about next
The Democratic members of that party j Saturday. We know it's mighty provo
have had theij eyes fully opened to the king to have worked and bragged and bul-
game the Federalists were playing, and lied so much as they did, and then be bea-
have determined not to be duped by them
any longer :
THE VOTE OF NEW YORK CITY.
The whigs have been sending all over the
country an assurance that they are going to
carry the city by a large majority for Clay, by
means of their projected cealition with the na
tives. They have premised their friends in
other counties and States a majority of not
less than ten thousand. Let no one be alarm-
ten. It s rnihty lough to stand ; but still
we hope they will bear it with christian
patience. We advise them to make a virtue
of a necessity.
Sampson,
Edsecombe,
Pitt,
Green,
Johnson,
Wake,
Franklin,
Craven,
Brunswick,
Wayne,
Duplin,
Jones,
Lenoir,
Bladen,
Cumberlaad,
IN ash.
New-Hanover,
Halifax,
Northampton,
Warren,
The " Wilmington Journal" makes a
! very low bow to the 41 Raleigh Clarion"
j and begs leave to say that the eulogistic
ed at this. It is all, in vulgar parlance, gam portion of its notice is considered as being
mon. A fortnight ago we had some appre
hensions that they might perhaps get a cou
ple thousands by such a coalition. These a
larms have now all vanished. We expect
now to carry the city by a large majority. We
shall be disappointed in every vote under four
thousand democratic majority, and shall not
be surprised if it should be higher.
We have nothinff but the best assurances
from all parts of the State. We give them all
back, with interest.
In reference to the great coalition, we will
content ourselves with giving the following
calculation of the probable vote of the city,
made by a prominent, active, and zealous de
mocratic native. From it our friends abroad
can draw their own conclusions. M A couple
of hundred of democratic natives," said the
individual referred to, " will be the outside of
the number who will be weak and unprinci
pled enough to be corrupted by such a mean
and miserable coalition as they talk so much
about; and Polk must go out of the city with
a large majority. The democratic party polled
20,000 last spring, the natives 24,000, the
whigs 5,000. Among the natives, about 8,
000 were democrats, who will all now vote
as good and true democrats, for Polk, Dallas,
and Silas Wright. Substractino the 8,000
from 24,000, will leave 16,000 whigs and whig
natives, and adding the 5,000 will make 21,-
000 as the probable vote for Clay. Adding
the 8,000 to the 20,000, will make 28,000 as
Democratic gain.
79
85
125
30
121
128
128
33
28
93
11
18
SI
55
90
Whig gain.
rels on one of the hardest fought political
fields that the annals of our Republic have
yet exhibited a wreath of laurels, too
which no length of time can possibly fade
I IIT I Z. ... .
or ne-oim. vv nere now is all the loud and
bragging gasconade about the magic influ
ences which suirounded the name of Hen
ry Clay ? It is all now hushed forever, by
the loud and enthusiastic peals of rejoicing
which are ascending from the stroni?
lungs of Democracy, from one extremity
of our happy Union to another. The
result in Pennsylvania exhibits to the
Coons the fact that Henry Clay
is even weaker than the Federal par
ty; and God knows we thought that it was
weak enough.
We have no room this week to give the
returns seriatim, but we will give them
in a condensed form so far as heard from.
In the forty counties from which returns
have come to hand, Polk's majority is
3169 ! In the same counties in Oct. last,
when we carried the State by nearly 5,000,
Shunk's majority was only about 300; so
that now, it is, we think, a fair calculation
to set down Polk's majority in the State,
at from
6000 to 8000 ! ! !
This is a sample of Clay's popularity with
a vengeance. Hurrah, for Pennsylvania !
44
Net Dem. gain so far
1105
887
24
09
78
3
218
considerably in the complimentary line
verging, perhaps, a little too far on the con
fines of the ' saft soder" order, as Samu
el Slick would say. The Journal would
also respectfully beg of the Clarion not to
torture its tendpr heart with any dreadful
fears about the effects which the ' unholy
influences of Loeofocoism, as the Clarion
is pleased politely to style them, mav ex
ercise over the Journal's heart. The Jour
nal would also suggest to the Clarion, not
to be too prodigal of his " long drawn
sighs," as a pretty considerable expendi
ture of them will be required in a few
days at its hands, over the last resting place
of that same old coon." In " all sincer
ity," the Journal would like to know if
the Clarion really thinks or is it joking
that a man must almost necessarily cease
to be a gentleman when he becomes a
Democrat. The Journal was aware that
the great mass of the silk slocking gentry
of the Federal party, think that they (the
Feds,) monopolize all the "decency," but
it was not prefaced for the " culling a lit
tle too fat" style of its 44 brother," the
Clarion. As to the fling about " young
converts" the Journal would beg to sav to
the probable vote for Polk. Majority for Polk
to allow for the seduction of a larger number lls brother, the Clarion, that :t is not so
of democratic natives than supposed, and to j very much annoyed at it, as the Clarion
allow for the possibly that the democratic na
tives in the spring may not have quite amoun
ted to 8,000."
possibly anticipated.
WST POSTSCRIPT. The Journal
begs to say, that its classic editor being
from home, the Latin part of the Clarion's
fUtle tottr. Time, however, will heal all
these bad feelings, and soon even these old
" ring-tailed" coons will become reconcil
ed to their fate; for the best reason in the
woild too, because they can't help them
selves. We'll see.
ARKANSAS.
Dying Coons will eaten at Straws.
To us there is no better evidence of the
utter desperation of Federalism, than the
fact that the slightest rumor of whig suc
cess, is snatched up with an avidity by their
presses, which shews full plainly, that all
hopes of Clay's election is fast fading a
way, from the mental vision of even his
most bragging and unscrupulous support
ers really it does amuse us to see how
Democracy of tlie North.
We know of nothing which should ele-; complimentary must go unnoticed for the
vate the cause of Democracy higher in the ! present
opinion, or, endear it more to the hearts
of the slave holding people of the South,)
than the high and independent stand, the
Democratic presses of the North, the "lo
cus in quo" of abolition fanaticism, have
taken on this, to us, vital question. We!
ask our friends to read the following casti
gation, which the "New Hampshire Ga
zette" gives the abolitionists of New Eng
land. We say our Democratic brethren
of the North, deserve at our hands the
warmest gratitude for their firm and inde
pendent adherence to the constitutional
rights of the South.
Political Abolition.
We have neter filled to denounce political
abolition. We believe its leaders to be dis
honest and selfish. The impossibility of ac
complishing the objects they propose, best il
lustrates the uature of their pretensions. They
say they aim at obtaining the control of the
general government so far as to procure the
release ot the blacks. To do so thev must
Counties.
Anson,
Ashe,
Beaufort,
Bertie,
Bladen,
Brunswick,
Buncombe,
Burke,
Cabarrus,
Caldwell,
Camden,
Carteret,
Caswell,
Chatham,
Catawba,
Cherokee,
Chowan,
Cleaveland,
Columbus,
Craven,
Cumberland,
Currituck,
OaVidson,
Davie.
Duplin,
Edgecombe,
Franklin,
Gates,
Greene,
Granville,
Guilford,
Halifax,
Haywood,
Henderson,
Hertford,
Hyde,
Iredell,
Johnston,
Jones,
Lenoir,
Lincoln,
Macon,
Martin,
McDowell,
Mecklenburg,
Moore,
Montgomery,
Nash,
New Hanover,
Northampton,
Onslow,
Orange,
GOV K.I1XOH.
Hoke. Graham,
From the Democratic Signal.
Mr. Badger's late letter to the Guilford : Pasquotank,
j people, is an amazingly strong pull upon
the quiet order of Friends, of that longi
tude as strong indeed, as it well can be,
without theeing and thouing them, plump
ly. It has been generally supposed that,
for some causes connected with the pri
vate moral character of Mr. Clay, (which
as public journalists, we have not thought
it necessary to lay before our readers) oh)
Guilford would not 44 speak in tones of
1840," for the present federal candidate : Tyrrell,
but we fear Mr. B. has attacked the Qua-Union
kers at a point whence their spirit may j Jake'
u . . tt : . i ri Warren,
uc mutkp ti. rur instance, speaKing oi
Texas
Perquimons,
Person,
Pitt,
Randolph,
Richmond,
Robeson,
Rockingham,
Rowan,
Rutherford,
Sampson,
Stanly,
Stokes,
Surry,
Washington,
Wayne,
Wilkes,
Yancy,
506
499
489
409
499
311
496
309
477
260
94
332
1088
794
000
241
188
720
342
622
1070
485
658
354
866
1410
710
381
199
985
463
378
328
206
269
189
379
585
153
356
1773
285
23
000
1242
513
107
796
1101
362
553
1555
177
217
622
441
318
113
599
981
736
435
727
81
1165
1023
137
oeo
1271
716
136
846
167
615
Total, 39433
1073
136
887
507
271
335
875
1263
751
544
518
454
277
1153
000
383
286
336
180
681
603
137
911
508
246
118
361
359
253
976
1920
569
370
565
308
401
1527
6S9
195
198
911
371
316
000
808
584
586
70
283
514
178
1756
593
366
287
607
1082
678
559
449
809
1402
461
541
1105
1032
311
000
1073
127
368
217
1333
310
42586
39433
3153
phesidejct
Folk. Clay.
486
283
280
351
VIRGINIA.
From this Stale, owing to the fact that
in most of the counties, in consequence of
bad weather, the polls were kept open
three days, we have nothing definite. In
the Baltimore Sun, (neutral) the only pa.
per which we have yet seen with any ap
proximation to final returns, the majorities
in 26 counties are put down, and then the
following remarks are made by the Editor:
"This shows a democratic gain of 382
since the Harrison election. It may be
proper to remark, however, that Loudon
is reported higher than given above, and
that Page and Rockingham are thought to
he incorrect, sufficient time not having p.
lapsed since the election to hear full re
turns Irom them. There is 123 counties
in tne otate van miren s majority was
1.392."
Mark what we now say, the 17 Elec
toral votes of the Old Dominion are as
certain for Folk, as are the 26 ofPennsyl
van in.
1101
936
1503
796
m.26
703
223
126
319
O II I O .
Nothing definite has yet come to hand
from this State either. The reported re
turns from a few counties however, if they
could be relied on, would seem to indicate
that the abolitionists are voting for Clay.
If such be the case, it is not improbable
that she will cast her vote for that old coon.
This we only give as conjecture. We
will be able to tell all about it next number.
655
172
m.176
588
203
890
1123
78
383
114 182
878 533
1363 1037
911 253
" And what is the mighty blessing for
which this fearful price is to be paid ?
Here, in the South, it is alledged to be the
first t kea solemn oath to observe and follow j extension of slavery to other and distant
the Constitution of the United States. They regions and Us perpetuation to the remo
can not occupy a single office without first test generations. Jlnd is this the doctrine
miarantfU tn th Knnth tho 1-J.2 J tht Whig party? 18 tlllS the object of
of their slaves. To get hold of the levers, the Union? is this the purpose of the James Tomlinson, (Dem.) has been elect
wnicn tney want, tney must nrst swear a de
liberate oath not to do what they propose to
do ! The leaders of the abolition party pro
pose, in effect, to wade through perjury to the
accomplishment of their ends 1
Political abolition was a device of federal
ism to work mischiet to the democratic party.
It is one of those numerous spawns that have
I been at various periods sent forth on errands of
nate and hostility to the democratic cause. It
is true that in Massachusetts it now receives
the curses of the federalists, because there is
MARYLAND.
As usual, this little Federal State is true
to her old notions, and will no doubt, poll
her vote for Clay and coonskins. We can
do without her.
We have not yet received intelligence
from any other State, upon which to hang
even a conjecture. Some flying reports
reached here from Georgia, but nothing to
be relied on. In our next number, how
ever, we shall be able to announce to our
readers that JAMES K. POLK, IS PRE
SIDENT OF THESE U. STATES.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The entire delegation in the New Con
gress will be as follows :
1 . James A. Black, Dem., re-elected.
2. Richard F. Simpson, Dem., re-eleeted.
3. Jos. A. Woodward, Dem., re-elected.
4. A. Sims, Dem. vice John Campbell, Dem
5 Art em as Burt, Dem. re-elected.
6. Isaac E. Holmes, Dem. re-elected.
7. R. Barnwell Rhett, Dem., re-elected.
Thomas TV. Dorr. The father and
mother of Gov. Dorr, have petitioned to
the General Assembly of Rhode Island, for
the release of their son. It was moved by
Judge Branch, who presented the petition.
to refer the petition to a select committee.
which motion was resisted by the antt-
suffrage party. On Wednesday, (30th)
this petition and also another for the
object, signed by Martin Uheeny ant)
others, was referred to the Convicts Cotf
mittee.
Johnston County. In this County, Steamship Marmora. The Cfcalestn
Constitution? Assuredly not.
And again:
ed over Col. McLeod, (Fed.) to fill the
Mercury, of the 1st inst., says :
The steamship Marmora, Capt. rage,
seat in our State Senate, vacated by the ! (one 0f Errickson's propellers,) arrived at
this port last evening, from JNew ior.--
"We are not willing to sacrifice the faith dealh of Ransom Saunders. The parties
and the peace of our country to injure s will now be tied in the upper branch of
foreign nation and involve ourselves in the our Stale Legislature,
consequences of an unjust and odious war, Green County Here also, the De
to spread abroad that institution in other mocracy has been doubly triumphant in
u.w iv gxve w ii an cxienixon equal , ttie election of Edwards, (Dem.) in the
to the western continent, and a duration
fating as time."
place of Harper, (Fed.) deceased, to fill a
seat in the House of Commons.
She is 400 tons, and draws when loadeu
10 feet . with sails and steam she goes at
the rate of nine miles an hour ; she has a
double engine of H0 horse power. 'I'hc
M. will proceed from this port to N
York, and from thence we learn to the
Mediterranean."