Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-01-24


ETC., see fourth page.
The " Higher Law :" Party.
ARTICLE IV.-SEcrIoN IL. No Convention of the
people shall called by General Assembly unless by
the of twohrds of all the members of each
house of the General Assembly,
3 No part the consultation of this State shall be
ed unless bill to alter the shall have been read three
by hreehs of the whole number members of each house
respectively shall alteration take place until the
bill agreed to shall have been published months prcvi
a election of the General Assembly.
IT, after such publication. the alteration proposed by the
preceding General Assembly shall be agreed to in the first
by two-hrds of the whole
in each house of tho General Assembly, after the shall
house then the said General Assembly shall prescribe
mode by which the amendment amendments may be SUBJ
mted to the qualified voters Of The House of Commons
throughout the State and if upon comparing the
given in the whole State it shall appear that majority the
have approved thereof them and otherwise the
shall become part of the Constitution.-N &. Cons
We have deemed it necessary to quote the whole
section of the amended constitution which relates to
the mode of altering any part thereof as our Wing
contemporaries who have got up sort of madness,
With method an it, upon the subject of Convention,
totally oblivious of the provisions of that insru-
ment in their ardent devotion to the higher law -
doctrines of an unlimited Convention. For our own
part, prefer to abide by the constitution. and to
effect any changes in the therein prescribed.
It may be that VIC very wrong. at least says
politicians Of them, we mean, for we hope better
things of the Wing people, and we know that many
of them regard this humbug, and the mongers there
Of simply humbugs, and nothing else. 1t is but
little fifteen years since the ratification of the
present amended constitutional portion of which
we have quoted yet we already find the Demo-
cratic party ccnsured for their adherence to its pro-
visions, and denounced as faithless to the people,
e r.1 &ho
tion and DESTROYS of efectng reforms in legal and
constitutional manner. We ask any common sense
man to read the quotation we have made from the
constitution, and say whether the mode of efecting
amendments by legislative enactment is not the one
therein plainly pointed out and contemplated by the
trainers of that document.
We learn by private letter from Raleigh, that
after the passage of the Free Suffrage Bill in the
House, the Wings of the Senate held caucus, and
resolved to go for an unlimited Convention and kill
Free Suffrage; and Free Suffrage was killed, as will
be by reference to the Senate proceedings of
Saturday. This Convention, for the sake of which
Free Suffrage was killed. is to be called upon the
federal basis; the basis upon which the House of
Commons is chosen. Now, be it known, that the
West has majority of 8 votes in the Commons, and
that the East is only enabled to hold her by her
greater taxation. which gives corresponding pre-
ponderance in the Senate. How the four five
Eastern Wing Senators who Joined in the defeat of
Free Suffrage, in order to get at such Convention:
will Justify themselves to their constituents is anoth
er matter We regret to see that two Wing papers,
Mt least in this district, have hosted the black flag
and Joined in cry which, if it succeeds, is to make
us nero CIPHER, and put us into the hands of the
West like sponge, to be squeezed at will. 1t is
nonsense and cheat to say, that in the event of
unlimited Convention, the West would not have the
wish to change the basis, and kill the East. We
have already shown that she would have the power
We find in the last Observer some righteous indig
nation and holy horror expended upon US, but no at
tempt at anything else. Such things are cheap and
of course expected to go for what they worth
ii. e., nothing--especially when opposed to the
facts of the case.
1t is possible that this measure of Equal Suffrage
may yet pass the Senate upon reconsideration.
We learn from the Raleigh Standard of Wednesday
that on Monday last, MIR. Washington the Senator
from Craven, who had voted with the prevailing
sdc rose and moved to reconsider the vote by which
the Equul Suffrage Bill had been rejected.
HaE-our Legislature adjourns to-day. Let it.
SLALL Pox-As we find that considerable and we
think. unnecessary apprehension, exists among our
friends in the country upon the subject of small
pox in this place, shall make it business to
keep them apprized of the actual state of the
The following is the last official publication:
POLICE OFFICE Wilmington, N ca
Jan. %, o'clock P. NJ.
l have to report case Of Small Pox-a negro
child which the Alley directly West of the Poor
House. The child and all the family Immediately
moved to Mount Tirza, about three miles below town.
There of Small Pox within tho town. except
the white child heretofore reported which is nearly we'll
JOHN DAWSON, NJ. P.
We have heard of no cases since the date of this
report.
ARRIVED SATE.-The Brig Calendar, from this
port, for Galveston, Texas is announced as having