Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-04-14
CITY OF RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA APRIL 1852
8 Mr.. KERR's CAswELL SPEECH.

NH. AEHR'S CASW ELL SPEECH.
The Danviile Republican furnishes the following
sketch of Mr.. Ker's Speech, before the late Whig
meeting in Caswell: "
Mr.. Kerr's display on national politics was hidi.
erous!y ertraucgant and wholly unwaranted by the
few points. for which we must acknowledge our in.
debtedness. He stated that the Whig party had no,
deserted their principles That the Bank s not OBJ
solete That Protection is still the glory Of the
Whig Party! We esteem this an important confess
sion, for we well know tina. many Of our Whlg friends
have repudiaed those measures, particularly the Bank
1t the Wing leaders generally, are Of Mr.. Kerr's
way Of thinking. may not be surprised to those
old measures Of Bank, Protective Tariff. and Distri-
bution revived in the approaching Presidential con-
dard to be erected that has been often stricken to
the dust BY the American people. But we afraid
that Mr.. Kerr 10 mistaken. We know him to be a
bold courageous man. who carries his principles writ
ten in his hand to be read of all men. But there
leaders Of his party more devoted to the spoils than
he, who are mixing the colors, and will throw to the
breeze banner bearing devices unintelligible 70
the masses. as SO many hieroglyphics. And not a
syllable will be seen heard of Bank or Protection,
and the agility with which Mr.. Kerr will fall into the
ranks, it will be funny to witness.
Another assertion Of Mr.. Kerr's we heard with
some surprise. We understood him to say that the
Government had always been administered rpon
Wing principles, and could be administered in NO
other way" At first we looked at him with aston.
ishment. Expecting some new revelation of Whig'
gerry stood aecipere auribus - but alas no start
ling developments were made, no proof adduced Ia
support of his assertion. But behodn9 the gentle
man still beating the air with greater vehemence and
vocferating louder than ever at length lost our
gravity, and looked upon the we would have
done upon pantomimic exhibition designed for the
amusement Of the crowd for at loss to con-
ceve how any rational man could assume such Po'
sition with seriousness. In conclusion would ash
if the Sub-Treasury and ad-valorem Tariff now il
successful operation, are Whig measures2"
Will Mr.. Kerr stick to that! Will he maintain
before the people of this State, that a mammoth ma
tional Bank ought to be chartered by Congress? Ane
will he insist in the face of the almost unanimous
resolves of our last Assembly, that the free States
ought to have more protection" at the expense
North Carolina and the slaveholding States
But we know Mr. Kerr too we'll to belieDe that h
will stick long to any thing. He will advocate tha
and that only which may seem to be most popular
and as fast as his hobbies crack or become damaged
by use. he will throw them aside and mount others
We have doubt that his display" on the oc
casion alluded to, was " ludicrously extravagant.
He excels in that respect. But can it be possibl
that MI. Kerr could have been in earnest when
asserted that t" the government had always been ad
minis,ered upon Whig principles"!