The North-Carolina standard., 1848-07-12
EQUAL SUFFRAGE.

al Suffrage, as advocated by Col. sReidsa61
by Mr.. Manly, is producing powerful i'm.
OPP: :on mon the public mind in this State. The
LEADERS,, who have set their faces against it,
Sbo are endeavoring to make party question of
' At last seriously alarmed. The last Asheville.
,...Doer begs its " Wing friends" not to commit
selves to Gel. Reid on account of Equal Suf-
srrs. 1t says: ...' ...
ITO our Whig friends we would merely saw,
rr much any Of you may desire tie sakIfarv re-
%% % rhich Free Suffrage 1oOuA certainly introduce,
Tm "ot allow yourselves 70 be dupef by Demagogues
90. 90 desertion Of your party or principles.
Nany good Wings, Gmong- aohOm zoe number our
Lr are in favor OF an extension of the right of
raEaUe-but we think it subject involving too
%nnv important consequences to be decided by pas
ion and prejudice"
Capital! What will the Register say to that
.oue of the People" and that paper denounce Equal
SoHage as s clap-trap" and sc humbug "-as dam
,,,ous to the State-as revolutionary in its charac
~ and the first step :" towards Agrarianism; while
I de Charlotte Journal, Whig paper, approves the
uciple, and the Asheville Messenger, the organ of
f n, Wings of Western Carolina, speaks confidently
n # the salutary reform which free suffrage would
urtainly introduce" ., ...
I As an evidence of the desperation to which the
LADDERS of the Wings have been driven by this ques-
ion, we quote the following from the wilmington
Commercial:
ss Among the measures which follow in the train
free suffrage or rather among those which are
ayocated by the movers of this scheme, is the desc
aton Of the Bible and the abolition of Matrimony.
II This is the consummation so ardenty desired, by
Icobins in politics and Jewellers in sociality; they
30 hand in hand in the work; whatever restraints the
ssons, curbs the ardor of political prescription,
4 i hostile to the feelings and designs of both.
It's distinguished feature in those monstrosities,
hat while they the largest liberty for them
selves, they have the very smallest regard for the
rights of others. The command sThou shalt not
SEAL comes In the way of the taxing the property
Of the land holder without his consent. tThou shalt
not cove is adverse the equal division of proper
w. Thou shalt not commit adultery is against the
abolition of matrimony, and the cherished licentous-
ness of the Jewellers; and as ye would that men
should do unto you, do ye to them,' scatters
all the doctrines of the whole tribe, the winds. So
that before this progression be brought to its
Grand climacteric, the Bible must be put away, as
behind the spirit of the age,' in its doctrines and
admonitlons. ..
We do not say that the Democratic Central Com
miee their obedient disciples, intend the results
here sketched FORTH But we do say that they are
willing to hazard oil these consequences to secure the
election. of Mr. REID Of Rockingham, and the til
umph of their party. They know they will inflict
,wrong by their scheme but in the desperation to
which they are reduced for want of argument and
ruth to sustain them, they have appealed to the vii
a passions of the vile; and willing to risk the
estructon of the whole political edice md the de-
moton Of every moral barrier, to enjoy transient
pleasure in political conquest.
We believe the Democratic leaders are at fault in
this pursuit They never can induce the sober, think
ing people of-Norh Carolina to hazard the violation
the principles of republican government, and take
step which may lead to the removal from the Ark
Of the great Charter of temporal and eternal blessed
ness and hope; and to trample beneath the feet of
deding lcentiousness the banner of the Cross, un-
iun,I nf hINh houo md
goriously ProsPered, and through the counsels of
which ouf Institutions were reared. T" ..-.. ~
Is there an intelligent or honest Wing in the State
who can swallow such stuff as that! Does the Re
gster, which copies it, endorse it! Is not the Edi-
tor of the Commercial qshaVsed of tl. = 81
1t is not our fault, nor the fault of Col. Reid, if
this question has been made to assume party char
scter. In the exercise of his undoubted right as
citizen of the State he came out boldly for the doc
tne; and Mr.. Manly, in the exercise of the same
ight took the opposite side, followed by the Regis
ter and other Wing prints. Who, then, is to blame!
Col. Reid! If so, then referm-no great Princi-
pie could be started for fear that it might encounter
party opposition. If Mr.. Manly and the Register
did not desire to make party question of it, ,Ohy
did they, oppose it,? Why did they not say, let the
people, who possess all power, do as they please,
and We shall be contentl They did not say this and
this, becahse their Federal principles, instincts,
and sympathies prevented them. They opposed
equality in political rights among free white men
hey believe that property ought to have its infu-
ace in the government, and they said so. This is
the secret of their course and they relied for their
success upon the generous confidence" and blind
DEVOTION of their "Whig: friends" But they will
hH Their day of doom is rapidly approaching;
and as the Wing party fell back into its original ele-
nsns of chaos and discord, on the 9th of June, in
Philadelphia, the fragments of it in this State will
be driven from power the Sd day of August next.
The people have willed it, and it must be so!