Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-05-26
A FEW PLAIN QUESTIONS.

A FEW PLA1N
We take the liberty OF repeating the questions pro-
,nded TO Mr.. Kerr in paper of the l9th Instant
n, Kerr can answer. if he chooses, from the stump
Md YOU not, Mr.. Kerr, denounce the Mexican war
lille il was in progress, war unjust In It's nature
VA one in which it did not become Christian peo-
Ia to engage! And had you not, short time before
,t,erug this denunciation, exhorted the young men
- CasweI to engage in it!
Nh vou not. MIR. Kerr, admit in discussion be-
..oon Yourself and Mr.. McRae, at Franknton, in
,eta. that Mr.. Fillmore was unsound upon the ques-
ton of Slavery
Did you not recently, in Speech delivered in Yam
cevv!le, take ground for National Bank and pro-
tective Tariff
Did you not Mr.. Kerr, in the autumn of 1850, take
. nrominent part in meeting in Rockingham County,
IN which Judge Douglas was spoken of in the most
exoed terms. and justly commended for his defence
If the fugitive slave law at Chicago! And have
Won not since publicly alluded to the political char
,cter Of Judge Douglas in disparaging 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-
yentionl How would you vote at the polls
Are you, Mr.. Kerr for or against the present basis
of representation
Was Mr.. CASTOR wrong, or was he rIght' wheh ne
declared in the Convention of 1885, that he would
never sanction the principle that bare MAORI
~ NAV authorize Convention " was Mr.
NEAREs right, or was he wrong when he the author
of the two-thirds requirement, declared that II Was
inserted in the Constitution for the express purpose
of preventing the call of Convention to strike down
the present federal and taxation basis!
Are you not, Mr.. Kerr, against Equal Suffrage!
The &" STANDARD" knows that the originator of
EQUAL Suffrage" for the Gubernatoral campaign of
ls4S was old Sam. Houston, who was expected here,
ON that OCCASION together with dirty" Douglas, to
teach " the locofocracy how to beguile the People.
Register.
The Standard knows and has again and again pro-
nounced the above statement, a falsehood. Neither
Judge Douglas nor Gen. Houston had the slightest
agency in introducing into the campaign in this State
the question of Equal Suffrage The measure origi-
mated With Gov. Reid-he is emitted to the honor OF
having introduced it, and he is able as he is willing
to bear all the responsibility which may attach to an
advocacy of it. And we now ask gentlemen of both
parties in the State take notice, that this charge has
been repeatedly pronounced false, and that Whig
Editors, lost TO all proper regard for truth and fail
dealing, continue to prefer it, without shadow OF
proof to sustain it, and we'll knowing that no proof
of any character whatever be produced upon the
subject.
Old Sam Houston - and "drty Douglass! THAI
emanates, be it remembered, from the organ of % al
the responsibility and all the decency." - Dirty
Douglas why this ePithet? Is it because Judge
Douglas handled the jack-plane, and has the
SMELL of the workshop his garments? Is he
- dirty" because he commenced life mechanic
Does the Register object to him, and hold its ariso
cratic nostrs in his presence because he worked
with varnish and glue, and made his way up from the
bench The Editor of the Register may sheer as
much as he peases the early calling and habits of
Judge Dougas-itis but natural that he should do so,
speaking he does for the arstocracy of the country,
many of whom look upon the Woodworking mechanic
with contempt, and too dirty" for promotion or
public honors but can tell the Editor thing, of
which he has probably thought, and that is, tina
if he had been pat, when boy, to the cabinetma-
kers trade, Douglas was he 'couid hare been there
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