Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-12-10

ron, our Regalar and SPECIAL corresponaent.

RALEIGH, Nov 80, 1852
DEAR JoURSAL-The bill to increase the capital
stock of the Commercial Bank will be read its Sec
ond time tomorrow having been reported from the
committee to-day.
The bill to establish the Tobacconists Bank was
rejected on its second reading.
The bill to appoint Superintendent of Common
Schools passed its third reading and is now law
Common Schools, passed its third reading
Bill to charter the Charlotte and Cheraw Plank
Road Company passed its third reading; also did
the Chapel Hill and Durhamville, and the Lumber
ton and Fayetteville Plank Road bills.
The Free Suffrage bill was read the first time in
the Senate and without debate, was lost by the fol-
lowing vote:
YEas-Messrs Albritton, Arendell, Barrow, Ber-
ry. Bower, Boyd Brogden, Bunting, CALDWELL Can
naly, Clark, Collins, Cunningham, Drake, Hargrave,
Herring Wesley Jones, Kerr, Ellington, Mcdowell,
Mcmillan, Murchison, Person. Shaw, Speight Steele,
Thomas, Ward, Washington, Watson, and Withers
80
NArs-Messrs. Albright Bynum, Cowper. Hoke,
T. F: Jones, Kelly, Lane McCleese, Mitchell: Muir
ray, Palmer, Richardson, Thompson, Wiley, Wood
fin, and Joyner-16.
At the solicitation of Mr.. Brogden the vote was
reconsdered and the bill made the order of the day
for Friday next but Mr. B. had as we'll let it die,
for it will die when that day arrives.
The House has been hammering at the bill to re-
peal the county of Jackson causing much debate,
bills from the Senate were read the first time.
The evening session was taken up in discussing
the bill relative to the Deep River and Cape Fear
Navigation Company. and adjourned without voting.
No ballot for Senator to-day. w.
RALEIGH Dec. l, 1852.
DEAR JoURNAL-Not much of interest was trans
acted in either House of the Legislature to-day
both branches adjourned at an early hour, to be
present at the meeting of the Electoral College,
which assembled in the Senate Chamber, at IL o.
clock. WALTER +. LEAKE, was elected President,
and PERRIN BUsBEE, Secretary to the College Mr..
Leake, taking the Chair, delivered the following
brief, but eloquent address
Gentlemen Of the Electoral COliege:-I return you
my warmest thanks for the unmerited compliment
you have just bestowed in selecting me to preside
over your honorable body. To say that | do not
feel proud of the honor you have now conferred.
would be to indulge pcurile and an unworthy af-
fectation, unbecoming the occasion, and altogether
at variance with the emotions of my bosom. At no
period, since my entering into public life have
been called upon to address audience, political
otherwise, in which labored under as great a de-
gree of embarrassment, do on the present occa-
sion. My embarrassment originates less from not
knowing what to say, than holc to say it,-a feeling
know you and each of you, and those around, can
more properly appreciate than describe.
While have been ready, under any and I'M
der all occasions TO stand forth the humble advocate
of the principles of my party and that, too, in the
hour OF their greatest need now the battle having
been fought and the victory won, feel no DISPOSE
ton to indulge in any, the slightest remark, that
may be calculated to wound the feelings of the most
sensitive gentleman present. Yes, in the language
of our distinguished political leader, with the
of noble, high minded and generous impulse the
hour of victory is always the hour of magnanimity;
and gentlemen, need not say that such knoac are
your sentiments.
That political controversy, circumscribed within
proper limits is both right and commendable, we
presume, is what no well-inormed mind will deny.
will go further, and say, that while tits the very
element that sustans the vessel of State, great
should be taken that the of party feeling
should be restrained within proper limits least its
malevolence should generate spray and bewilder
the pilots course, and end in the " wreck of the
whole ships crew.
We have been contending, and as I know and be-
eve, on both sides, honestly contending, for princ
Piles. We have met each other before the proper
quorum, and Their and there entered into our respec
tive views of governmental policy and now con-
graduate you and each of you, and [ congratulate
the American people, upon the verdict which we are
this day to record. They, the jurors of the respec
tive vicinages, have declared, in thunder tones too
loud to be unheard, well as too significant to be
misunderstood that the principles of Democracy as
handed down to from our political fathers are the
principles best calculated to make great, pros
porous and happy people. We have met to
record that verdict by selecting known to en-
terrain The principles which the majority of the Free
men OF North Carolina have endorsed. Yes. we have
nere dSSempleu anu organized ourselves into an
Electoral College; and in the presence of this array
of intelligence and responsibility, we are about to
cast our vote for President and Vice President of
the United States; important political right-a
right, while it illustrates both the theory and practi
cal operation OF our government, proclams to the
world that the American Democracy, rightly under
Stood does not consist Gas has been falsely charged)
IN every mans governing himself but in every man S
having the right to choose his own Governor
When we say that Democracy is equality, we do
not mean absolute, but relative equality not euua-
ty per Sc, but that kind of equality consistent with
governor and governed. American Democracy has
as much to fear from extreme equality as from mark
ed nequallty-as much from RIGHTEOUSNESS which is
an excrescence of liberty. from Arstocracy which
as We have proclaimed it, is conservative in its cha
racter. and has not one single leveling trait No
man, for one moment, doubts either the patriotism
or the intelligence of either of the great political par
ties the patriotism of both looks to the improvement
as well as to the preservation of common country
and the only difference consists in the means employ
ed to attain that end. Patriotism, allow ME to saw
have often thought is word little understood by
those who are most noisy in its commentator. That
is not patriotism which, by overlooking the means,
has eye single only to the end though that end
should be national ACKNOWLEDGMENT. No national
elevation should be pursued at the expense of
national character. Justice, the love of right the
practice OF right, for rights sake-these should al
ways characterize the intercourse of nations as we'll
as OF individuals We should never forget, in the
language of the inspired pensman that righteous
ness exateth nation' and verify believe, that any
departure thererom will in due time receive its me-
rted retribution.
A man has the natural right to the fruits of his
own industry; but he has right appropriate to
his own use the industry of another So it is with
nation--it has national right to improve its own
anndIf hnt hno h.