The North-Carolina standard., 1844-05-22
DISCUSSION AT LAWS STORE

we learn that very able and animated dis
cussion took place on Saturday last, at the store
of Mr. Laws in this county The democrats
were represented by Mrssrs Wilder and Thomp.
son, and the Federal Wings by Messrs. Miller
and Hicks. By the way, DR.. Hicks seems to de-
sire notoriety He wishes to sec his name in
print. and for one time at least his sky-d0ring am
bition shall be grat6ed The Doctor, we under
stand. laVished great deal of abuse and numer-
Gus falsehoods upon the Editor OF the Standard :
said we had been bought and sold; and talked as
fuently about bargains" and contracts as if he
himself had been sold and paid for dozen times
over: His speech, in fine, was like all his
speeches, full of bombast, and nonsense, and little
and contemplate personal allusions; but how
we ask every body who knows any thing-how
one can extract blood from a lightwood knot, or
gather pearls behind the counter of an insolent
and offensive guack. QuGck went the Doctor.
and every political drake on the hill quocked
back again, until the very air smelt of medicine,
and every mug of hard-cider appeared to reek
with pills, and plasters and lobela If we had
time or space to bestow upon him, we could show
and prove that this same poLiticion-this bLoaoer
of all political doctrines-this repeater of the ae-
onlzlng words elect me or I Idie-has been for and
against every important measure and has even
been heard to call Henry Clay an abolilionist
with an oath to it too revolving to be printed for
"eyes polite" But after all, the Doctor is not
absolutely repulsive in all the main elements of
his character-if indeed he has any main eIe-
naents; and being politically dead, we insert the
following obituary as a warning to all horse
swapping, cross-road politicians: Died partially
in Newlight District on Saturday evening last,
and died completely in Raleigh at about one o.
clock on Monday last Doctor Hicks This of
course is only political death The deceased
hasleft but few political friends to dppore his loss
He swallowed strong dose of nuLLifcation some
years since, which gave him strange hutternp
and hesitation in the head and in endeavorng to
right up his upper tenement, he swallowed par
eel of protecti'e pills. which, added to the loss of
a nomination for the Legislature, produced in
slant political dissolution
Mr.. Miller, we understand, confined himself in
a great degree to the tariff question. and Iabored
to show that high tariff makes goods cheap
He may keep on laboring in that way, if he |
loves labor without enjoying the fruits of it, Will
Mr. Miller be kind enough to prove that high
rains make low waters2 When he does that.
we may have faith in bis tariff arguments
We are also informed that Mrssrs Thompson
md Wider made mastPrly speeches on all the
great and vital questions of the day and that their
'forts produced an excellent effect upon the peo-
1le. With such champions the great cause of
democracy has no failures or revrrses of fortune
o dread or provide against. Wake county will
tand by her true men, The Wing nominations
made on Monday last will meet the fate of all
Wing nominations here, and the citadel of the
State will continue to unfurI in triumph the un-
tained and glorious banner of democracy