Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-07-12

tor the same Legislature assembled, anu IN
spirit of iberalty highly creditable to themselves
and still more complimentary to him, repealed those
instructions. This is the same Gen. Cass who was
charged in the late canvass with being WllmOt
Proviso Abotionist. How stands the with
Gen. Taylor 1t affords pleasure to state
that his has not done justice to the South
You looked in vain to his Annual Message to Con-
gress for any appeal to the North to give up your
fugitive slaves or to do you justice in relation to the
question of slavery. But you will find that he re-
commends miserable non-actiOn policy, which is
in the end to accomplish the very object of the Will
mot Proviso.
This plan has become the scheme of the Abolition
lists at the North. Gen. Taylors policy has already
been denounced by the veteran statesman, Henry
Clay, to whose eloquence many of you have delight
ed to listen and around whose standard many OF you
have delighted to rally. Yet in the face of these
facts, my competitor, Governor Manly, in speech
delivered before the Wing Convention accepting the
nomination. in speaking of the policy of Gen Taylor
said
"The Wing party of North Carolina, by a MAORI
ty of 5000 votes contributed to bring him into pow
er and we will be the last to desert the standard OF
the brave old soldier"
And again i'll the same speech he says:
"The Whig party may well congratulate them
selves and the Nation in having at the head OF at
fairs such m.n, at such tremendous crisis as the
present"
For myself, must say that cannot congratulate
any norton of the people of my State upon having
at the head of affairs who persists in policy
SO deadly hostile to dearest rights In vain may
we elect and support those who do not represent
those interests. Is this bitter pill of destruction to
be gilded with the popular name of military chief
tain The question is not whether you will desert
the standard of brave old soldier but it is wheth-
you will permit yourselves to be betrayed by the
mischievous policy of Gen. Taylor and his Cabinet
While have opposed Internal improvements by
| the Federal Government, yet have always avowed
myself the friend of fair and judicous system of
Internal Improvements by State But ! have
ever been opposed to such wild and extravagant
schemes calculated to involve the State in
large debt without the prospect of return of adj
equate advantages to the people. That may not
be charged with concealment, my views misrep-
resented, will state, that had been member of
the last Legislature would have voted against the
bill, chartering the Central Rail Road. My object
ions would have been more particularly confined to
the details of the bill. | do not assail those who
voted for the bill, but believe they governed
by high and honorable motives. The stock in that
Road has been secured, and the charter has become
the rrepeaabe lar of the State and this longer
an open question.
The State is largely interested in the Road.
Under these circumstances, citizen of the State
desire to the faithful execution of the law and
the success of the enterprise. These views would
govern my public conduct in regard to that subject.
| desire to see our system of Common Schools en-
couraged and improved, until it shall answer the
audable purpose for which it established. This
has ever been subject in the success of which have
felt deep interest. voted with great pleasure for
the first act passed by Legislature to estab
lsh Common Schools. During the last canvass in the
Vest Gov. Manly assailed my vote amendment
to that BILL to distribute the School fund according
to federal population. Whether he will do again,
know not. In his published speech lately made
before the Wing Convention, and which | pr sumo
intended for circulation in the East as we'll as
in the Vest observe he does not make this point.
make this remark because the experience of the
past has taught what have to expect for the flu
| IL SaI,o Il
ing to federal population because thought that. up
the whole it would be satisfactory and near
right any principle we could adopt. Since gave
that vote, successive Legislatures have convened,
and once at least, a Wing Legislature has re-enac-
ted the whole School Law, and this principle of dis
tribution still remains For the part acted think
it has fallen my lot to receive than my share
of abuse.
The views I expressed during the late on
the question of Equal Suffrage remain unchanged.
Justice to myself and to the friends of this
requires particular notice of a remark made by
Gov Manly in his late speech before the Wing Con-
vention in Raleigh In relation to the of that
question, he uses the following language:
"Whence did it come =! In vain was it sought for
in the primary assemblies of our people They had
not spoken nor moved in the matter The great lever
of public opinion, the Press had been silent. The
Democratic Convention, which had just been held,
had publicly recommended such rule of action for
the guidance of their nominee. From what region
then could it have proceeded! 1t was conlectured
that it smelt of the charmed house Of the Washington
CiV tactics and that it had been sent read ymade
to brighten the Wings of this State from their pro
priety and to place them in false position in the
election of Governor. What was conjecture then
has, in part, at least, become history noT 1t has
been publicly asserted and admitted at Washington
am told, that it was gotten up and manufactured
there and sent on for North Carolina use; quoted
and signed and gloated as the intallibe Demo
cratic thunder their patent exploding blunder'
buss for demolishing everything"
| Again. in the same speech he says:
/" It was not to equalize the voting rights of the
! people of North Carolina, but to elect the Demo
cratic candidate Gen. Cass, to the Presidency, that
{ set that ball in notion y
| am no stranger to the inventions of Gov. Manly
| fruitful ina gnation. AS to the charge that this
question was started to elect Gen. Glass; have onl
to say that made several speeches in favor of Equal
/ Suffrage before Gen. Cass nominated. Gov
Manly must know this fact, for of these speech
es made in his presence. The charge that this
question sw was gotten up and manufactured else
where and - sent here is totally untrue. have
frequently, in public speeches, and in private con
versatons in the presence of Gov Manly, cOntradic
ted this and similar insinuations made by himself and
others 1t would strange that he still persists
in such an lliberal towards this and
its friends. Perhaps when he made that speech he
did not expect me to be candidate again but dc
not think that justfes him. He says it "smelt" OF
" the charnel house tactics of Washington City, and
in the last canvass he said it smelt of AbOt1on7sm
No wonder this question of popular rights smells bac
to Gov Manly, uho Federalist during the las
uar Young as he was, his precocious developments
then but foreshadowed that in mature age he was tt
be the enemy of Equal Suffrage. 1t was not because
it set of the ''charnel house" that he opposed 1t
but because it was favorable to popular rights, ane
inconsistent with his notions of Government 1t wa
too dwelling" and too Agrarian for him: He ar
pued that if the nrinciple was carried out the poo