Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-06-19

iron heel of Power-power under the pre- tence of be-
ing derived from " the people only.
The signers then 60 present the issue, they
regard it, as follows:
81. The issue. then has been fairly presented; Free
Suffrage, Free Convention, unrestricted 6y anu
thing out the sOiH Of the people.
We have chosen to support a FREE CONVENTION.
We opposed Free Suffrage, not because though.
the people ought not have it, but because did
not like the manner of getting it. We never
stltution by Legislative enactment
Here, then, we have the following propositions ::
1s That the present Senatorial basis is unjust, for
the reason, among others, that negroes represent
ed in the Senate.
| I'd. That the Senate ought not to be based upon
"property,' but upon " The people '-that is, on the
free white people.
Sd. That the present Senatorial basis is an obi
Gus ant-republican remnant of feudal arstocracy -
that, under it, ten white the East' are equal
FIVE hundred - in the W est and the basis itself is
declared to be against liberty against JUSTICE against
equality, and Tyranny in its most odious FORM
| 4h That the issue is Free Suffrage or Free Con-
venton; and the signers declare that they opposed
Free Suffrage though many of them elected as
its advocates, because they wanted free Convention
We ask the earnest attention of the people of the
State these facts; and call upon those of them
who have heard Mr.. Kerr to sa is mol also oppos
ed to Free Suffrage and the advocate Mis free Conren
ton. Will he avow himself, when he gets 10 the
West, the friend of the present Senatorial basis
We predict he will not. We know he declares, ir
his public speeches, that he has yet hear of the
who is in favor Of the white basis; but this is, t.
say the least. evasion of the point in ISSUE I:
Mr.. Kerr ignorant of this Western address Doe:
he not know these thirty-six Western Whigs9 l.
he od their nd oh
Are they not his friends political and personal? Ane
do they not support him upon the avowed ground Ma
he is aOiM them the advocate Of free COnuention
Away, then, with this unmanly evasion |! John ker
knO,cs that attack upon the Senatorial basis ha
been made. is now going under his auspi ces, AM
that he is party to the attack; and yet he has tn
assurance to stanl up before the people of the Eas
and substantially deny the facts!
We have scarcely begun the discussion of thes
important points. We shall continue remarks il
relation to them, and shall show, before conclude
that the Wing leaders of this Slate, with few hon
orabe exceptions, engaged in sectional crusad
with the view and in the hope of ad va ncing par:
interests; and that these leaders, backed by the RAJ
eigh Register, bent attaining their end, ,Ohic
is the defeat Of Free Suffrage and free Contention
NO MATTER WHAT THE RESULT MAY BE TO THE SEN
AToRIAL BASIS AND TO NEGRO REPRESENTATION Il
THAT BRANCH OF THE ASSEMBLY. The Registe
may wrthe under the exposure, and cry ont 6 fou
libel on the Wing party and all that but shall
go right on in the performance of our duty. We ar
not dealing with the Wing party, but with unprinci
pied and desperate Wing leaders, who, beaten a
every point on both Federal and State issues, wou
now involve the honest people of North Carolina il
all the bitterness of sectional dscord, in the hope
once mole reaching power and of thereby gratifying
their love of Office and their selfish ambition.