Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-12-11
FREE SUFFRAGE.

On Friday the Sd of December 1852, the Free
Suffrage bill was rejected in the Senate of North
Carolina, twenty-seven Democrats and six Wings
voting for it, (thirtyour votes, two-thirds of the
Senate being necessary to pass it and the follow
ing Wings against it:
Messrs. Albright, Bynum, Cowper. Gilmer. T.
F. Jones. Joyner, Kelly, Lane McCleese, Mitchell
Palmer, Parks, Richardson. Thompson ana =" ooonn
The Speaker of the Senate, Mr.. Edwards, De
mocrat. declined to vote. He might have passed
the bill and either one of the above-named Wings
might have done the The responsibility rests,
therefore, on these sixteen Senators.
And in the House, on Wednesday last, the Free
Suffrage bill having been offered again, and put
upon its first reading for three-ffhs vote, 1t was
rejected, the following Wings voting against 1t:
Messrs. Albertson, Afford, Amis, Brooks, Caid-
well of Guilford Carmichael Cherry, Colitns Coox'
Erwin, Eure, Fur, Goodwin. Harris of Ca6arrus'
Holeman, Johnson, Jones, Lowry, Miller, Ferry'
Sanders Of Johnston, Shimpock Slmons, Smith, SPru-
i'll, Stiles, league, Thornbnrgh, IrlPP, turner Of
Ireden, Waters, Waugh, Whitehurst' and wiley
Mr. Waugh voted in the negative in order to
obtain the right to move to reconsider; which he
did and the bill will again come up for action to-
day, Friday.
Seventy-two votes are required to pass the bill,
being three-ffths of the whole number of members.
The same bill is also pending in the Senate.
Iu order that our readers may clearly understand
the matter, we will repeat again tie condition IN
which the question stands: The Free Suffrage
BILL which was expected to be passed this session,
reouired two-thirds vote and that bill has been
defeated in the Senate Had it passed, the people
would have voted directly on the question at the
polls; but having failed, the bill has been again
started in the Commons and Senate. If it should
pass this session by the threefths VOTE it will then
stand for two-thirds vote in the next Assembly !;
but if it should fail, the measure will have been
thrown back four years-that is, it will require two
sessions of the Assembly to perfect it and submit
it to the people.
Messrs. Eure, Afford, Goodwin, Simons, Stiles,
and Waters, who voted for the bill on its passage
through the Commons on the 10Th of last month,
voted against it on Wednesday last. Several mem
bers were absent on the last vote, and of the
Wings declined to vote. Ten Wings voted for the
bill on Wednesday last, and fifty-four Democrats.
We are determined that the people of the State
shall know the men who are opposed to this fun
damenta principle of free government; and hence
we have spread out the names. There they ar!
Such a vote-a vote against making free white
equal at the ballot-box- would look much
better on the journals of the British or Canadian
Parliament than it does here, in republican North
Carolina.
We hope the constituents of these men will file
this article away for future use The struggle for
this great measure will never cease until it tri-
unphs and't the longer it is delayed the more pro-
found and overwhelming will be the popular indig-
nation against its opponents. Indeed, the people
would be untrue to themselves and to their poster
ity, if they should fail to call to reckoning and
to repudiate, now and hereafter, those who have
thus trampled down great principle and defed
their will.