The North-Carolina standard., 1844-10-16
For the North Carolina Standard.

Mn EprroR We have our candidates fairly 10
- field to supply the vacancy occasloned oy tne
0Iaoib of Mr.. Ransom Sanders. John Mcleod Is
Nhe whig candidate, and James TomlInsou Is the
Jemocralic candidate. Il seems from the state ot
titles peculiar interest is felt in the election OF
H. Johnston Senator, the result will decide the
lI;,;cal character of the Senate. Col. Mcleod IS
y Mira in his whg notions his party could pos
hiy DESIRE He is an old federalist of the blue
s;nbt stamp He is for Bank, organized solely TO
Ee nroft of the stockholders; for Tariff OF pro-
ns,iIon for the amendment of the Constitution
uaanst the annexation of Texas, under any cir
o1mstances and at all times. So he IS Tor re-
uan;zarion of the Congressional districts; though
Ushoe not as vet said how he means TO provide for
,La State debt, which the improVidence of whig
7 legislatures has created
Tbe wbg candidate persists in telling the peo-
.,o thew get many things they have to buy cheaper
P' u,eans of the Tariff, though he has not the har
Jbood TO saw they sell higher Now this doctrine OF
bioh duties making cheap articles, our people be-
a;1 to understand. They cannot see how il is that
is owing the cheapness OF the foreign articles,
that the manufacturer calls for high duties, and
/. that it is owing to every thing being cheap
N abroad that the Tariff has been made so high. So
our farmers begin and feel the difference in
every thing they have to sell; that this home
market they hear so much of, is all moonshine-as
every article Of produce is decidedly lower than at
II auy former period. We begin to open our eyes
f and see into this gross deception. Mr.. Clay and
I his whig friends go for keeping the Tariff oil
n 1872 without regard to The amount OF revenue.
Il Col! Polk and the democrats go for reducing 1t to
the lowest revenue point. About this there is no
mistake. :, :.
r information one or two points. You will your
self please answer my questions, or have it done
II by some one of your correspondents:
/ l. How often have amendments been proposed
NJ and adopted to our Federal Constitution Col
Mcleod has asserted that il has been tpelue times
amended.
Il. r. H. Iov
the late Tyler treaty, and what the prospects
n of war from annexation
3. Is it competent for the Legislature to change
the Dstricts2
We shall be happy to have the above questions
answered. SMITHFIELD.
ANSWERS AND CONNIE NTS.
l. The ccons begin to see that the people are
averse to amending the Constitution, and hence
these assertions as to what has been heretofore
done; which assertions they ought to know ar
not true The Conventions in a number of th
States-North Carolina of the number-at thu
time of adopting the Constitution expressed de
sire ITO avoid misconstruction or abuse of lis pow
ers) that further d"claratory and restrictive clauses
should be added Congress in 1889 proposed thC
ten first amendments which were adopted. These
amendments contain new grant Of powers tc
Congress, but are either restrictive or decaratoIy
H in their nature. The 11th article, forbidding
suit against any State, was proposed at the thirt
II Congress- and the 18th amendment which re
Iates to Electors of President was proposed By
the eighth Congress, iii consequence of the diff
i Guilty in the election between Mr. Jefferson ant
II Col Burr.
II must have taken tremendous and unexam
pied effort on the part of Col. Mcleod, to masni
N fy twelve amendments into twelve times at which
an alteration in the Constitution was effected
The truth is, no person ever thought Of striking
ont the Veto Power, as Col. Mcleod now pro
poses to do. until the Veto Of Grneral jackson feI
# upon the Bank, and thus defeated the ambitious
n purposes of Henry Clay. Are the people o
Johnston willing so to alter the Constitution t.
4 give 10 a bare majority of one in the House ant
Srnate-Gddings or Adams-the power TO vot
and decree the abolition Of slavery in the South?
1 2. TO the second question we answer that By
The first article of the treaty Texas offered to ced
10 the United States all of its territories ~ ant
the boundary between this country and Mexico
was 10 be the subject of future negotiations. Thi
was made known to Mexico, and the matter wouIc
no doubt have been amlcaSly settled before this
had the treaty been ratified As to war, if any
thing leads TO that, it will be the rejection of The
treaty; and The blame aoiH rest upon Henry CIas
and The federal party.
g. The federaists, it seems, want TO change thu
Districts. They arc more anxious to gain power
even at the expense of the Constitution, than they
are TO relieve the people. By the Constitution o
the United States the representation of each Stat
is to be apporioned every ten years. This Stat
was districted in l842, and it is doubted whelhe
it be consistent with the Constitution to alter til
Act OF 1912 until the Legislature of 1852 Blu
what do the federal leaders care for Constitutions
when they obstruct their way to power ant
plunder2
The Coon fa'sdango IN Lexington.
One hundred and fifty coons marching in so