Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-06-05

The WING METHOD OF AMENDING THE STATE
CONSTITUTION. The more We reflect upon the sub
ect the profound is our conviction that the po
sition of the Wing party on the subject of amend
ments to the Constitution is perDicons in its enden-
CIV, and hostile to that stability in the fundamental
law of the State, which its trainers thought ne
cessary to its we'll being. Indeed, begin to sus-
pect, from certain discrepancies in some of the wing
journals in relation to this subject that the late Whg
Convention in its zeal to hatch up some project for
the defeat of Free Suffrage, well to heal the
dssensions in its party, adopted the resolution in
laton to this subject somewhat hastily and without
mature consideration of the results which must neces-
sarily flow from it. hat does the Wing party pro-
pose? 1t proposes to su bmit the question of calling
a Convention to the people, and a majority of the
votes cast is settle the question: beg leave to
call the attention of CO nservative men of all parties
to the dangerous results which necessarily flow
from the adoption of this method of deciding the
question If the doctrine is established that
mere majority of the voters have the right to call
Convention for the amendment of the Constitution of
the State, what protection against agitation BY pot-
cal demagogues will that instrument possess If such
majority be allowed to call Convention to amend
the Constitution once it will operate precedent
ofiresistble authority, and thenceforth all those safe
guards which the wise and patriotic trainers of that
instrument have thrown around it, will be DESTROYED
Thenceforth the Constitution will become whatever
a majority of the voters, actuated by whatever i'm
pulse, NAV choose to make 1.-THE inexhaustbIe
from which demagogues will draw the capital
necessary speculate themselves into power.
1t is vain to say, in reply to what we have urged
that the Wing party has guarded against any such
result as we have described, by limiting the control
of majority over the Constitution by the clause of
the 7th resolution in its lately adopted platform which
connects the federal basis with the proposition to call
Convention for if the barriers imposed by the Con-
stuton are overleaped, if it be conceded that bare
numerical mai GRITTY can call Convention to amend
the Constitution who but that majority undertake
to prescribe basis for that Convention? The Jour.
nails of the Wing party are urging this question on
the great elementary principle that the people have
a right to rule" Now if a majority of the people
have, upon this principle, the right to call Conven-
ton to amend the Constitution, they have also the
rig prescribe the basis upon which that Conven-
ton shall be called they have the right to call thai
Convention on the. basis Of white population. We
appeal to the calm and impartial judgment of ouI
wing friends to say if this is not the irresistible
clusion from the antecedent proposition! And if a
Convention were called on the basis of Ohit.
population, who is there short-sghted to per-
ceve that destruction of the compromises of oul
State Constitution would inevitable follow that the
basis of representation in both Houses of the Legis
lature would be abolished, and the principle of the
concomitancy of taxation and Representation ignored
(OrcUer2 But, perhaps. it may be replied that the
wings do not propose ever to call Convention on
the basis of white population. We do not charge
that as their present design. But they conendine
Tor proposition which, if once conceded must at nc
distant Gay orlng as consequence such Convention
on such basis.
These remarks, somewhat hastily thrown together
are the result of our sincere convictions We beu al
conservative whgs all those in favor of the exis;ino
compromises OF the Constitution all those in who's.
bosoms the love of their State and an earnes devo
ton to her welfare stand above all party considerations
deliberate uaturely on this subject before commit
ting themselves to the support of Candidate ad vo
eating the 7th resolution of the whp platform
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