Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-07-28
ORANGE AND ALAMANCE.

We are grati6ed to learn that our Democratic
friends in these Counties have brough, out strong
ticket for the Legislature. The ticket is follows:
Senate, Capt. John Berry Commons, ]. w. Lancas-
ter, B. L. Durham, George Patterson, and John F.
Lyon.
we hear that the campaign has opened well for the
Democrats. Capt. Berry is hos, in himself, and
he is most galIanty and ably seconded in his efforts
by the Commons ticket. Our friend Lancaster, for
mery Editor of the Graham Democrat, is, We learn,
distinguishing himself on the stump.
1t is hardly necessary that we should urge upon
our friends in Orange the importance of the present
contest There has been no cortes, like it, in impor-
tance, for the last twenty years. will there be for
the next twenty years. Let the Democrats-let all
the friends Of Free Suffrage remember, that every
vote swapped off to Whigs-that every vote lost,
which might have been poled-that every vote thrown
on personal grounds for Wings, will be vote either
lost to the nobles of causes, or vote cast against
Free Suffrage and in favor of the friends and advo-
Gates of the Seward candidate for President.
We know the people of Orange well and being
native of that glorious old "emPire County, We
have some right appeal to them at time like this
Friends, if you wish to acquire your just rights at
the baliot-box, noao Is your time. Non-andholders,
are you to be turned off, year by year, from the Sen
atoria ballot-box, and that too when you pay your
taxes, perform military duty, work the roads, and
stand ready to shoulder yoLI firearms at moments
warning to march to the defence of your country !?
Did you ever shrink when that country called WI
went to Mexico from Orange and Alamance! Were
not hreeourths of the brave boys who volunteered,
non -landholders2 And yet you-the non-landholders
are told, by the Whig candidates for the Assembly
in your Counties and by John Kerr, that you shall
voe in the Senate-that, far this right goes,
you not reemen and tha if you are to be aoaOtd
this privilege you must take the back track undo all
you have heretofore done this subject make void
and useless the Proclamation of Gov. Reid based
upon the action of the last Assembly, and do what
Why, call a Convention What do you want with q
Convention :! Do you wish to lose Free Suffrage
Are you dissatisfied with the aOay in which that great
measure is being carried OUT though that way is in
strict accordance with the Constitution? Beware
fIiends-beware of the propositions of Whg leaders
on this subject Thy are the enemies Of this grea
pririAge. and they seeking to defeat IT, We know
the men, and we know what we say to be so.
| Hear DAVID S. REID-he has never deceived you
and he says the BEST the surest and in all probability
the only way to get Free Suffrage is to sustain its ad
vocates at the baotbox, and to send men to the mex
Assembly to uote ii right through. And if you woule
send such men to that body, you must choose fo
your Senator, John Berry, and for your Commoners
Lancaster, Durham, Patterson, and Lyon. They viii
obey your wishes the question, and take pleasure
no doubt, in SO doing.
This is plain language but we use plain languag
because in earnest, and because address
ing friends. We shall be denounced for it by tn
organs of Federalism and by the enemies of equally
at the ballot-box; but what care we for that? Thi
Is free country, thank God and the people of oil
Orange are freenen let them but act as freemen a
the polls, and all will be WE'LL Never let it be Sal
, that the descendants of the Regulators and of tn
true Wings of the Revolution, are against Free Sui
fiage-qgainst that right Of equality at the baot-bo
for which our forefathers fought and bled.