Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-08-04
The Issues-the Election.

1t is unnecessary for us, at this time, to urge
upon our readers the great importance OF the ensu-
ing election They feel its Importance as we do,
and they foresee, as we do, the influence it will
have not only on the future character of the State
but upon the country generally. Democrats! Free
Suffrage men are you ready!
Every vote cast for John Kerr will be vote for
Scott and we have the authority of New York
Wings for the declaration that "vote for Scott
in so is a vote for Seward in SO"
Every vote cast for John Kerr will be vote for
high Tariff and National Bank, for he declares
himself on the stump in favor of both.
Every vote cast for John Kerr will be vote
against the Independent Treasury against the pre-
sent low Tarifftaxes and against those principles
of economy and simplicity which the Democrats
are laboring once more to establish in the Federal
Government.
Every vote cast for John Kerr will be vote re-
fecting the character of brave volunteers to
Mexico for though Mr.. Kerr at one time pronounc-
ed the war just and urged our young men to en-
gage in it, yet when he became a candidate for
Congress he stigmatzed it as q Pok's war" and as
unconstitutional and unjust. And thus, in effect,
he joined Tom Corwin in inviting the Mexicans to
welcome those brave boys with bloody hands to
hospitable graves"
Every vote cast for John Kerr will be vote in
favor of the doctrine that majority Of the people
Of the United States can change the Federal Con-
stituton Even Seward could claim no more,
and he has not yet asked that. What he may do,
time must determine
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a open Convention, to be called with the view of
ma king radical and vital changes in our fundamen-
tai law; and to be called, not by the deliberate
voice of two-thrds of the General Assembly, as
the Constitution provides but by a twothirds vote
which Mr. Kerr proposes to force out of the mem
bers without reference to the Counties they may
represent an obedience to the aOiU Of bare nagjori
tyof the people at the balLot-bor!
Every vote cast for John Kerr will be vote in
favor Of his higher law" or moral power" doc
trne Of majorities as against the vested rights of
minortes and the plain language of the State
Constitution.
Every vote cast for John Kerr will be vote in
favor OF the present basis in one breath; and of a
"mired basis in the next.
Every vote cast for John Kerr will he q vote
against FREE SUFFRAGE and its acknowledged
champion and unfaterng friend, DAVID S. REID.
Mr. Kerr says he is willing to azlouO you Free suf
frage, provided you will take the back track. undo
all you have done on the subject, and consent to
call Convention, and take. as the result of that
Convention, number of other things besides Free
Suffrage, which you have not demanded and do
not want! Will you do all that No, not even
10 please Mr., Kerr.
Every vote cast for John Kerr will be vote
against David S. Reid, the friend and champion of
the laboring classes the pure and honest statesman
the man who has but set of views on publ;c
questions and one of the best Governors the State
has ever had Fellow-citizens, do you wish to in
stall vanity, inexperience, recklesspess, and gross
inaccuracy of thought and Judgment in the GU
bernatoral chair? If you do, vote for John Kerr.
And every vote cast for Wing candidate for
the Assembly, aUiH be a vote for Whig United
States Senator.
Brother Democrats! Free Suffrage men! the
eyes of the freemeR of thirty States upon you,