WILMINGTON JOURNAL Extra.
Wilmington, N. C, October 30th, 1844.
The Prospects Before Us.
Not a single Election has taken place
since the Baltimore convention, but has
hibiied to the country a Democratic tri
umph ! The political horizon never pre
yed a more pleasing aspect to the friends
.i equal lights and equal privileges.
Oonery, spoonery, and broken promises
down hill with a rapidity which
Jlearly shows, that after November next,
hey will henceforth repose quietly in that
oblivion from which, for the honor of our
luutry, they should never have been evo
ked. The great Harrison States of 1840,
Pennsylvania, Maine, and Georgia, have
wheeled into line within the last few weeks.
Even in those States which the Whigs
have carried, their losses have been so vast
ince that era, that not a single doubt re
mains on the minds of our friends, but that
even THEY will cast their votes for the
Democratic candidates.
NORTH CAROLINIANS, will you
be behindhand on the 4th of November
next? If you only will do your duty, even
North Carolina will be redeemed.
Democrats! Look out for
WSIIO FRAUDS!
U'e have in our possession a copy of
the Whig Electoral Ticket, printed in this
I iace, we presume, which bears the fol-
inu FRAUDULENT FACE upon it:
TRUE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
WHIG ELECTORAL CANDIDATES
Fu the Presidency & Vice Presidency.
1st District, William W. Cherry.
' 'Zd do. Josiah Collins.
3d do. Robert B. Gilliam.
1th do. William H. Washington.
5th do. Daniel B. Baker.
6th do. Maurice Q. Waddell.
?th do, John Kerr.
S(ii tio. Augustin rt. onepnertl.
"ihh do. James W. Osborne.
"10th do. Jonathan Horton.
'11th do. John B ixtcr."
Now we do most unhesitatingly pro
nounce this iorm of the Federal Ticket as
wlo1 ... doppivp trip linnest voters of
ilH-UUU J . - - v, i . - " -
he Fifth District. We do not know how
I r this fraudulent move of the Federal par
ty w ill extend, but we take this, the ear
liest moment in our power, to warn our
lYiemis in the country ot the trap that the
tiiin leaders nave lam lor mem. uur
will see that the names of Clav and
1 r imghuysen does not appear on the
ket at all. Instead of these names,
.1 , K- r c. fori ii.r hnmnprirr nf TMnrlli
i- . l- .!.. . 'I'lIC 'PDTTf 1 IT"
PUBLICAN TICKET" are inserted in
i.-tters. This scheme is adopted, we
iiv uoi who are its advisers or abettors,
villi ; . other object and with no other in
1 1:1 than to deceive the people, on the
!:ty Oi election.
Since the recent elections have taken
lite leaders of the Federal party
found out that, in the South, the
i.ime of He.vet Clay and defeat go
iud in ..ml. They know that his de-
hI,i:'I F;" nv snn tutto u ivTunpeTa has iYnlr
w . w .vyv, t 1J J iUJ ItHIU'J
Siis name odious with the great masses of
cur peopie; ana, tnereiore, on me day 01
election, their leaders send forth their
I I'ickets without his name. Can it be dos-
1
oIe, that the Federal party in this State
,'iave become in their desperation so insane
as to think that the intelligent people of
North Carolina wont see into and put the
1 -
seal 01 condemnation on their miserable
ricks !
DEMOCRATS! we would call upon
011 to take the earliest meansiof exposing
i.: c .1 1 xt 1 t.-!,
ma new irauu : we wouto cutwn you
0 go to the nnlls enrlv on nprt lW'ni.v'
"T'rH----B
n.l toll fhn nnoolf in rUin - I . .
uape, ail aoout Mis matter tea them
hat this is the party whose leaders are
eeking their votes for tMffi&tibn' of
Henry Clay, the inveterate enemy of
the south. Ask them if they can vote
with a party which descends to such low
and unworthy means to attain its unholy
ends ?
EXTRAORDINARY DEVELOPMENTS
As the fortunes of Federalism become
daily more desperate, so does its advocates
become more reckless and unscrupulous in
their course. We call the attention of our
readers to the address of thg Democratic
Central Committee, called forth by the in
famous SECRET CIRCULAR, put forth
by the whig clique'1 in Raleigh. We
ask them to read this Circular, and observe
the low and base language it adopts, to
work upon the minds of the weak and tim
rous portion of our voters. We would
ask you, fellow-citizens, in what regard
you would hold men, occupying the posi
tion that the signers of that secret Circu
lar do, as the leaders of the Federal party
in this State, who would have the effron
tery to tell the people of North Carolina
that if James K. Polk and George M.
Dallas are elected "nothing but revolution
can save us"l Ah, Messrs. Hines & Co.,
you will live to see the day when you,
yourselves will be heartily ashamed of
your low and unworthy chicanery.
WHIGS of North Carolina, we ask you
to read this address before you cast your
votes; we ask you if you are still willing
to act with a party whose head men will
descend to such low tricks to prop up a
sinking cause. Let ALL lead this secret
circular, and accompanying address.
Read it Democrats, and PASS IT ABOUT
AMONGST YOUR WHIG FRIENDS.
From the Raleigh b'tanilard Extra.
j 3 q q a 3 f q.
iki to .is
To the People of TVortli Carolina.
Fellow-Citizens: Chance has thrown
into our possession, a printed confidential
letter or circular, issued from this city, by
the Whig Central Committee, since the
elections have been held in Pennsylvania
and Georgia; hundreds of which, we are
informed, have been put in circulation, se
cretly ! This circular is marked 44 confi
dential," and contains the most unwarrant
able charges against the Democratic party
of premeditated FRAUDS and DISUN
ION, and was intended, as we have rea
son to believe, to create a false alarm on
the eve of the election, to frighten the tim
id from their duty, and arouse in the whig
ranks a spirit of bullyism at the polls.
The copy we hold, was sent to the Ed
itor of the Standard. The person who
sent it, states that he is 44 A REFORMED
WHIG," but does not give his name, as
his note at the foot of the letter will show.
It is postmarked 44 Raleigh, 15th October,"
and addressed to a person, who, as we
suppose, being unwilling that his name
should be known, has erased it from the
superscription, and endorsed the circular
to the Editor of the Standard ; prompted,
no
now making, and will be made, to carry this
State for Texas and Disunion. And what
acts will not be resorted to, in order to make
it effectual? They who have already added
to wilful falsehoods and infamous abuse, de
liberate forgeries of letters and certificates,
will scarce be withheld by scruples of con
science, from doing anything, however un
principled and profligate, if it shall promise
to be serviceable.
We should all remember the inexpressibly
important matters which depend on the Elec
tion of November. We should also remem
ber, that no means are provided by the Con
stitution for purging the polls of fraudulent
voters. If by any means, an apparent major
ity is returned for Polk and Dallas, $jE& no
thing but revolution can help us even if such
apparent majority should be procured by open,
gross and demonstrable fraud. Now, then, is
the time and the only time, in which we can
act for our Country with effect.
We, then, impressed with the importance
of the occasion, and f&P" with a general over
sight of the Whig cause in this State, beg most
earnestly to urge upon you immediate meas
ures to counteract the efforts of our opponents
and secure the vote of the Stata for Clav and
Frelinghuysen. To do this, we recommend
that some persons of true Whig principles,
and of influence in their neighborhood, be at
once selected, and pledged to the following
duties :
First, To attend the polls in their Precinct,
and see that every Whig is brought forward
to vote.
Secondly, To see the people of the Precinct
before the day of Election, urging upon them
the duty of attending and voting, and gain
their promise to do so.
Thirdly, To challenge all bad or doubtful
votes, and, if possible, prevent frauds.
Fourthly, To warn the people against those
falsehoods which we may expect to hear on
the eve of the Election. These falsehoods
will doubtless be gross in kind, and many in
number, but they can deceive none who con
sider that truth would be made known early,
and falsehood only dreads examination.
I5y immediate and active adoption of these
means alone, can we insure the State for the
Whig cause. True, we have a majority of
six thousand in the State; but if two or three
thousand Whig voters stay away, and Edge
coitibe votes a thousand beyond her real
strength, and other strong Democratic Coun
ties resort to similar means, w hat avails our real
majority. The apparent majority will thus,
by our neglect and their fraud, be on their
side, and when once this happens, the result,
however false and fraudulent, cannot be cor
rected. We beg your prompt attention to these sug
gestions from your brother Whigs of the Cen
tral Committee, and are,
Very respectfully,
RICHARD HINES, Chairman.
GEORGE E. BADGER,
CHARLES MANLY,
JOHN H. BRYAN,
HENRY W. MILLER,
WESTON R. GALES.
And subscribed to the above, is the fol
lowing note by the person who sent it to
the Editor of the Standard:
44 From such a cause as this good Lord deliver
me! Arouse, Americans! and put down the
man ! These I find all over my County."
What surprise must such a letter create
in the bosom of every good man, contain
ing as it does, charges so vile and foul, of
FACTION, FRAUDS, FORGERIES,
TREACHERY and TREASON, against
their fellow-citizens secretly circulated
n-4l.fi eve of a momentous election fiH-
for Texas and disunion,1 and that, too, in
the face of two Addresses, lately published
by the Democratic Central Committee,
which must have been known to this whig
organ, not only disavowing all unpatriotic
designs against the Union, but solemnly
declaring that WE WENT FOR THE
UNION, TEXAS OR NO TEXAS; and
in the latter of these Addresses, urging on
our fellow-citizens the necessity for annex
ation, as one of the strongest guaranties for
the PRESERVATION of the UNION,
and for counteracting the efforts of British
and Northern Abolitionists. The manner
in which these charges have been prefer
red, demands the decided reprobation of
all just men the charges themselves, we
pronounce FOUL and FALSE; and with
our whole souls we hurl them back upon
our accusers, with the indignation they
merit.
Desperate, indeed, must be the cause
which requires such means to sustain it ;
and desperate must this whig organ have
believed it to be. When we advert to the
point of time this circular was issued from
this City the 15th October, just about
the time that sufficient returns of the elec
tions in Pennsylvania and Georgia had
been received here, to satisfy them that Mr.
Clay was defeated, if some extraordinary
expedient was not resorted to it shows
that the leaders of whiggery are alarmed ;
that desperation has seized upon them ;
and points to the fatal doom of their idol,
Henry Clay, on the 4th of November next.
With what grace does this charge of
frauds upon the election, come from the
organ of a party who gave paternity to the
execrable practice of 44 pipelaying" in
1840? and that too, after the fruits of their
triumph in that election, secured by such
frauds, seemed, as by an avenging power,
turned to ashes on their lips ! With what
grace charge they upon the Democratic
party a design of fraud upon the election,
when their own party lately in the Senate
of the United States by a strict party vote,
refused to fix the Presidential election on
the same day throughout the Union ?
With what grace can they charge upon us
a design against the Union, when all the
recognized organs of the Democratic party
have indignantly disavowed it; when none
but a few hotspurs in South Carolina not
the one-thousandth part of the Democratic
party have given the least countenance to
such an idea; and when their own party
are making, at this moment, through such
men as Giddings, Adams, Webster, Ew
ing, Choate, Seward, Cassius M. Clay and
others, the most desperate appeals to the
abolitionists, (the worst enemies of the
South,) to unite with them in the support
of Henry Clay ? What reckless incon
sistency do they exhibit, when, in the same
,!nnht to ,lo n hv th rrmvp designed to fill, the public mind
of the charges SECRETLY made against Mi alarm-infizmmg the passions
11 r 1 1 .1 nf -neicrhbor against neighbor, and tending
insr abandoned whiggery, he has 'shached
himself.
to a fraternal strife of blood on the day of
election! Had this organ of the Whig
party of North Carolina, as they style
themselves, been satisfied to issue secret
circulars to organize their patty for the c
lection, we should not have complained ;
19 I ! n m 4 l-s jr 1. 1 r
tout tnese secret cnarges agams mo aguiu-
tn address vou in reffaxd ttf the approachtn
1?1 ... sSii :.- -P A..i7 fnrcrprip.it. find
Tr has long been evident, that the Democra disuniGn, is a STAB IN THE DARK
ggery
The letter may be seen by any
gentleman, on application at the?Office of
the Standard. Here it is :
confidential.
Dear Sir : We feel itTtiyjgjperativeduty
c wij-w uu. -.kp a and from a quarter we had supposed too
. and very recent events have demonstrated that, a.nq irom a quui w o 1.
despairing of succeeding any just and hon- , elevated in society to have lent themselves
- est efforts, they are?j-olved to use whatever to such a work. Hence the necessity, in
means may seem best to promise success to a jusCe to ourselves, and to our cause, to
cause, having, in itself. nothing to attract the J g d j d We are char.
regard of good and patriotic men. It is ev.- meet anu pu. uo 44 urthUtntJ
dent, that a powerful and united movents . ged with the design " to carry this State
breath they charge 44 disunion" upon us,
they unblushingly advise, that 4 if by any
means, an apparent majority is returned
for Polk and Dallas, WT NOTHING
BUT REVOLUTION CAN HELP
US."jg$ Here we have the spirit of
violence overt, bloodshed, revolutions, dan
cing in the brains of this very patnotic,
44 law-and-tyder" loving organ of whigge
ry, casting itshorrid glare upon a happy
and cTJtttemed community ! And by whom,
and tor wMt, are the peaceable citizens of
North Cafolina threatened with revolution?
Why, 44 if by any means" the good peo
ple of the State should happen to prefer
Gov. Polk, her native son, educated in her
schools, and true alike to the South and to
the country, to Henry Clay for their Pres
ident, then we have the menaced intention
of those who profess to be 44 charged with
a general oversight of the whig cause irf
ihis State,11 to excite a revolution in the
government ! If this be not their mean-
f:3 i i
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W . .. ?