The North-Carolina standard., 1848-07-26
WAKE COIJNTY.

WAKE COUNTY. - ~
notwithstanding their repeated and Overwhelming
defeats in this County the Wing leaders are again
in the field with candidates for the Legislature. The
printed ticket, which we have seen, is as follows:
Eyerara Hall for the Senate, and for the Commons
John c. Moore, (!) Reuben Fleming, and william
Laws Why is Mr.. Christopher G. Battle thus
slighted! Two years ago he took the stump, and
did his best for the Wings; and now because ne is
absent in Mexico, though he has caused 1t to be re-
peatedly announced in the Register that ne IS cam
didate, the cold shoulder is turned upon him. A hne
specimen, truly, of Whg justice and Wing gratitude
We do not believe that Mr.. Laws desires to run
for the Commons, that the use which selfish par
tizans are making of his name, meets his sanction
He knows as well any man, that majority OF the
people of the County opposed to him IN political
sentiment and we cannot think that, under the cir
cumstances, he would permit himself to be mixed up
in such business as the Wing leaders of the Coun-
ty now have on hand. ,..5 ... .-....... -. -...
We perceive that Mr.. Hall has issued Circular,
in which he takes ground against Equal Suffrage,
and INDUCES in strain of contemplate demagogue-
ism about the vote of Mr. Thompson, at the last ses-
sion, in favor of the law providing for an Examin-
ing Committee for Teachers of Common Schools.
Mr.. Hall says: s...
sBy this law of last Session, which Mr.. Ihonep-
son voted for the right to select teachers is taken
from the " School Committees - who are elected by
the PEoPLE-the parents and friends of the Scholars
and given to this Examining Committee y
which Superintendants are appointed by the County
Court! So by this Act of the last Session. the pa
of children in each District deprived of the
privilege of selecting through their ooDn Commit
tee-nler, ''-Ieachers for their children! And
this power is transferred to an EXAMINING COM
| M1rTEE," over which they have control-which
may reside out of their rDistrict-unacquaintedw with
their wants, and liable to select and fr upon them
Teachers auhom they do not aoant-cho may differ from
them in habits, and religious principles 20
The above statement of the design and effect of
| this law, is simply untrue. Provision is made by
the law for which Mr.. Thompson voted, for an Ex-
amining Committee in each County, to pass upon
the moral character and qualifications of Teachers,
and to grant certificates to such deemed worthy
| to receive them; and, so far from depriving the
School Committees in the different Districts of the
right to select Teachers, particular is taken
by the Examining Committee that the School Com
mittees shall at all times have opportunity to
! lect their Teachers from among those who best
fitted for the duties to be devolYed upon them 1t is
a good law. We have not referred to the Journals,
but we believe it passed the Legislature without a
dissenting voice. Mr.. Hall might as we'll argue that
the "right'' of man to 1" select" his own Doctor
| is "taken from'' him, because Physicians, before
they enter their practice, usually attend course
of lectures and obtain diploma; that the people,
rights are invaded, because student in Law, be-
fore he take at bar, has to pass the "ex-
amining committee" of the Supreme Court and OBJ
tain license. That man who undertakes to instruct
| the youth of the country, aspires to profession
quite responsible that of Physician or Law
yer; and do say, and forever, that it is the
duty of the peoples Representatives to see to it that
| the children who 60 to our Common Schools have
as good Teachers possibly be provided for
them. But why argue plain question? We
have already heard this attempt the part of Mr..
Hall to get votes by misrepresentation and demagogu-
! ism, condemned in the strongest terms by Whigs i;
and the Sd of August he will find, that he who
would deliberately connect amendments to the Com
School system, the system itself, with party
politics, can expect no favors at the hands of the
enlightened and patriotic people of Wake County.
Is there Whig paper in this City prepared to sus-
tain Mr.. Hall in this attack Mr.. Thompson for
this vote! What says the Register?
| We hope the Democrats of Wake will rebuke
these Whig leaders and this Whig ticket, by an
creased majority for the Democratic candidates Vote
| the whole ticket, brother Democrats-for Thompson
in the Senate, and Sims, Newsom, and Jones in the
| Commons; and at the same time put in plumper
| for REID.
| THAT "THRESHING MACHINE" ISLANDER.