The North-Carolina standard., 1850-07-20
GOV. MANLY AND .THE nAs1s. !,

GOV. MANLY AND "THE BASIS" !
The Register Of ednesday last endeavors 10 vain
to defend Gov. Manly against the charge Of having
taken ground against the present basis Of representa-
tion 1t is than idle in that paper to assert
that Gov. Manly is still the platform Of the Wing
Convention, and that he has done nothing calculated
to arouse or alarm the East. We showed, rim last
by an extract from the Communication in the Green's
borough Patriot, which copied by the Register,
that Gov. Manly had taken different position from
that laid down by the Convention that nominated him.
tn denouc'ng Co.. Reid uong distribute the School
Fund according to federal population About this mat
ter there can be doubt in the most preiudic
cd Whig minds; and neither the Register nor any
other Wing print will dare deny that Gov Manly has
taken this position. And now, what is the difference
as to the principle involved! If it be just and right
to divide the School Fund according to Federal
bers, is it not also just and proper that the basis of
representation should be changed! Both are, in the
end, questions of money. The School money was
raised according to Federal numbers, apd if called
upon to refund it, should have to be taxed in the
same way to pay it back; and (eF if divided among
the Counties, as Gov. Manly proposes, the West
would only get more money o,.t Of the East by this
specific law, just as it would by law upon law for
power were broken up and the East thus rendered
too weak to offer effectual resistance. 20 So it will
be that the principle in both cases is the same
and that Gov. Manly, in taking the position he has
on the School Fund question, has in effect staked and
pledged himself against the present basis Of representa-
tion Is it not so! We defy the Register to meet
| these facts We challenge it, inscriptions as we
know it to be, to deny that Gov. Manly has taken
this ground with reference to the School Fund and
we await its argument to show that there is any DIFF
ference in the principle which governs both these
questions.
But above and beyond this, we assert, again and
again, that Gov. Manly HAS taken ground against
the basis of representation in the Legislatures and
that ne stands committed, by strong an inference
as can be drawn from the unequvocal declarations of
any public man, to use his influence in case of re-
election to change this basis and substitute the white.
The Register calls this statement miserable party
trick, calculated and designed to injure Gov. Manly
in the East "-bu that paper neither contradicts 1t in
so mnny ,oords, declares its own position on this
important question.
But the Register, while it thus plays off and
evades, quotes from its own columns the following
very significant extract from an account of the dis
/
Reid and Mr.. Manly, and argues that this is the
ground still occupied by the latter gentleman. We
copy the entire extract:
/" If complaints shall be made against our present
constitution, and there shall be found grievances to
exist, let all the pares Whig and Democrat, (said
Mr.. Nanly) unite together, and by the instrumental
y OF the abiest men and pures patriots of all paItes
remedy these defects and redress those grievances
! IN sober and deiiberative manner, divested of all
! fpoI qndf froof oil
will doubtless recollect that Col. Reid's PROPOSE
tion is simply to amend the Constitution so that all
those who are now entitled to vote for member of
the House of Commons shall also vote for member
OF the Senate He repudiaes aHidea Of aboHshing the
present basis representation the Senate to tur
bers of both Houses 5ut ut The sume time p,ofssses to
be the great adroeate Of equal rights. No,v let
come to,cards making all equai The County of
Hertford for instance, account of its taxation,
forms Senatorial District, and sends one Senator to
the Legislature. This County at the last Guberna-
toria election gave all told, $50 votes. The Coun-
ties of Wilkes, Caldwell, Burke and Mcdowell form
one Senatorial District, and send Senator to the
Legislature. Those Counties gave at the last elec-
tic for Governor 1878. So that If COL Reds scheme
be adopted for making men equa he aOould make one
in Heryord equal to nearly seren in UiMes CuL-
,oeA, Burke and McDoDeN. And by the same vote
OF equality he aoouH make in Warren equal
to nearly fire, and in Nash equal to four and half
Of those TN the Counties heretofore, mentioned This
would be equality with vengeance"
We invite attention to those portions of the above
which we have put in itaHcs Why these SUPPOSE
tions-hese significant questions on the part of Mr..
Manly He alleges that Col. Reid, if he be in
earnest in advocating equal rights, DOES NOT GO
FAR ENOUGH, and that, ~ according to the
present basis, THO white men of the West are not
equal in political power with those of the East IN
convince the people of the West that Col. Reid is
not to be trusted the champion of Equal Suffrage
and that they ought not to listen him OF regard him
as an honest politician, because he does not PROPOSE
in reality, to establish "equa righ,s-to make one
man in Burke 4" equal'' to one man in Warren! Is
not, according to the Registers admissions and
sho,cing clearly established the fact as heretofore
alleged in this paper, that Mr. Manly Is making war
on the Commons and the Senate basis?
We again invite the attention of the people to the
fact, that COL Reid occupies the true ground on this
question, and that his opinions upon it are intended
for all portions of the State. In his Address to the
people of the State, he says:
Our basis of Representation for one branch of
the Legislature is taxation, for the other it is federal
j population. The Aboitionists at the NvM ,cish TO
destroy the bas,s Of federal population upon ,ohich soe
are represented in Congress- regard their course on
the subject as mischevous and dangerous, and /
should regard similar increment in relation to our
representation in the Legislature, faught ,cih equal
mischief and dang~.''
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