Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-05-28
Mr.. Kerr in a Hurry.

EdentOn, on the 24th at Plymouth on the 10th at
Washington, on the 28th at Newborn, on the 3lst at
Greenvile, on the I'd June at Weldon, on the 4th
June at Raleigh and on the 7th at Fayetteville.
We hope friends at these different points will
give him warm reception. and will PROFOUND to
him among other questions the following:
Did you not, Mr., Kerr, denounce the Mexican war
while it was in progress as war nnjnst in ite ma
ture, and one in which it did not become Christian
people to engage? And had you not short time
before uttering this denuncaton exhorted the young
men of Caswell to engage in it =!
Did you not, Mr.. Kerr, admit in discussion be-
tween yourself and Mr.. McRae, at Franknton, in
1913, that Mr. Fillmore was unsound upon the ques-
ton of slavery?
Did you not recently in speech delivered in Yam
ceyville. take ground for National Bank and pro-
tective Tariff.
Did you not, Mr.. Kerr in the autumn of 1850,
take prominent part in a meeting in Rockingham
County, in which Judge Douglass spoken of in
the most exalted terms, and justly commended for
his defence Of the fugitivcslave law at Chicago 2!
And have you not since publicly alluded to the po-
tical character of Judge Douglass in dispara ging
terms? Did you not, Mr.. Kerr, write with your
own hand the Rockingham Resolutions here alluded
to?
Are you, Mr. Kerr. in favor of or against Con-
vention? How would you vote at the polls
Are you, Mr. Kerr for or against the present ba-
sis of representation -?
Was MIR. CASTOR wrong. or was he right. when he
declared in the Convention of 1885, that he would
never sanction the principle that bare majority
may authorize Conventional! Was Mr.. Meares
right, or he wrong, when he the author of the
two-thirds requirement declared that it was insert
ed in the Constitution for the express purpose of
preventing the call of Convention to strike down
the present federal and taxation basis 8
Are you not Mr.. Kerr, against Equal Suffrage?
MIR. Kerr may be- and no doubt u.s. somewhat in a
hurry; but hope the people at the various points
named will take him by the button, and hold on to
him until he answers the foregoing questions.
| Raleigh Standard.
Two Grand Opportunities Lost.
| Gen. Scott, reported by letter-writer in the
Nashville Banner (who processes to give the Gene
rails words tells us that through his aid and
influence the compromise measures were adopted (of
course not including the fugitive law) 'by vote
of from five to in the House of Representatives.
By vote of nearly three to one, those same
ures including the fugitive law have in the present
House of Representatives been repudiaed and disa-
vowed as final settlement by the whig party. In
the whig caucus they have been denied even a hear
ing. being ruled out of order by Gen. SCOTS leading
l Southern champion.
Now Cen Scott has been all the time on the spot,
and submit that he has thus had two most suit
able opportunities y to give little g aid and
influence to the maintenance of the Compromise.
That influence he has either put forth withheld
If he has withheld it, then what confidence can be
placed in his fidelity Compromise man If he
has put forth his influence without being able to get
even whig vote in three in favor of maintaining
the compromise open House ,and without being bic
to 1t from being choked down and stranged by
his fast friend presiding in secret party con-
clave, then what confidence can placed in his abi-
aty to maintain the Compromise against the whig
organization
We trust suitable opportunity" will soon be
taken to explain this matter and let the people
how it stands. Certainly it does not look we'll at
present. Wash. Union.
CONNECTICUT SCHOOL FUND.-The capital of the
school fund, on the I'd day of September, 1851. as
certified by the State Auditors amounted to 50 049
4S2 80. The receipts into the Treasury the past
year have been $685. 1874 Is, which exceeds the re-
ceipts of any previous year. The number of chill
dren returned by the Comptroller entitled to par
ticipate in the dividends of the year, was "a 852
This enumeration gave 81 40 to each child
APPOINTMENTS BY THE GovERNoR-Gov Reid has
appointed DR.. John A. Hanks, of Chatham, to rep
resent the State in the next annual meeting of the
Cape Fear and Deep River Navigation Company
and Messrs. Peter Evans and Elias Bryan, Directors
on the part of the State in said Company.
The Governor has also appointed Judge Battle tc
hold the extra Term of Mecklenburg Superior Court
and Judge Manly to hold the extra Term of New
Hanover Superior Court.--Ral. Standard
The New Bedford Mercury (Whig) is very severe
on President Fillmore for his Mormon appointments
1t says.
''The appointment of Brigham Young as Governor
was perhaps, proper policy under all circumstan
ces-but the retention of that shocking brute in of
fce after he had expelled the judges appointed b,
the United States, appears to cowardly policy
Yet in comparison with the appointment of such a,
: ignorant scamp as Orson Hyde judge of the Su
e preme Court of Utah, the retention OF Young is
small matter. We think the President erred griev
ousiy in appoingting this Hyde to judicial station
and we think this way of allowing the Mormon
to control both the executive and the judiciary c
Utah is against the interest of the people of the
States who are not Mormons, if not against goo
g morals
Proposed ReductIo" of the British National Debt
= We learn from the New York Tribune that th
recent advance in London in the price Of Consols
IF par has brought forward the idea of reduction
the rate of interest the Public Debt of Great Br
tain The YarNuS m In this hn,