Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-08-04

veation" !
The Wing papers in the East have been denying
that Mr. Kerr is for Convention. What will they
say nows The Newbernian, Wing paper Of the
9Th June, said:
1--WE see that the Rep. 5 Pat. states that Mr..
Kerr is the advocate of open, unrestricted Conven
Know FoR Or VIZ W. IA HEzR5 IT, M that hi. speech
in New.Berne on the 2sth ult.. Mr.. Kerr said. in
express terms, that HE DID NOT ADVOCATE
A CONVENTION. Is it likely that in Elizabeth
City, where such stand would have done him more
injury than here, that he should have advocated an
open Convention, and declared within a week or
less here, that he DID NOT advocate Convention
Of any kind %
What must be thought of such a mans Can
any portion of the State trust hims
What will the people of Anson, Wake, New
Hanover, Brunswick, Columbus, Craven, Wayne,
Greene Ienoir, Granville, Bertie, Franklin, Nash,
Edgecombe, Warren Caswell, Person, Chatham,
Perquimons, Pasquotank, Gates, Chowan, Halifax,
Martin, Beaufort, Hyde, Pitt, Washington, North
ampton, and Johnston say to these things9 Are
you fellowcitizens, for an open Convention, to be
called on the Federal basis-a basis on which the
West already has the power by eight or ten major
itys Are you for Convention, to be assembled
for the purpose and with the view of changing the
present Senatorial basis of pure taxation to mix
ed" basis Are you ready, merely for the sake Of
party, to sanction these things! Do you stand
prepared to endorse Mr.. Kerr's "moral power"
doctrine! We beg leave to repeat what we said in
our last on this question: Mr.. Kerr holds that the
majority vote will devolve upon the Assembly
great moral and political obligation which that
body ought not to dregard. This is question,
fellow citizens, neither of morals Of politics.
but of CONSTITUTIONAL LAW and what can "moral
obligations have to do with it? Are we to have
the @h;gher lao" thus early in North Carolina {!
Are we to be told, when discussing grave ques-
ton of Constitutional law that we morally :"
bound to- do so and so, IN opposition to the plain
letter of the Constitution? Fellow-citizens, BE-
WARE! Yield this point now-listen if you will,
and be deceived and misled by this cant about
moral obligations" and there is no telling what
f the next step may be! If this "n'orol" po'eer
majority doctrine of Mr.. Kerr change your Con-
stitution in one respect, IT CAN IN ANOTHER! Be-
erare Be,care! 1t is the slight trickle of water,
not broader than ones finger over the levee, which
marks the beginning of the vast sluice that over
whelms and destroys every thing in its course.
Bearare!
Again: Free Suffrage will :njure no existing
interest 1t is not sectional but general question
It does not touch, nor can it be made, under any
circumstances, to touch the basis 1t is question
of Suffrage, and not of political power as between
= sections or communities. adopted, the Counties
above-named will have just the same number Of
o Senators thereafter they have now and the only
difference will be- that all citizens who pay taxes
will vote for Senator'S. Who can object to that
Your Senate is based on taxation of all kinds, and
it is therefore but just and right that all persons
. taxed should be allowed to vote for Senators. This
is what Gov. Reid proposes, and he is in favor o
# CARRYING out this amendment, according to tht
% Constitution. He is for the Free Suffrage bill
passed at the last session of the Legislature ftha
n bill should receive two-thrds vote at the mex
e session, it will be at put before the people,
IS approved by them, and become portion OF tn
10 State Constitution but if Gov Reid should be de
.. feated in August, and this bill should fail to pas
le the next Legislature, what srM be the 1'robabl
a resultg Will the fifty thousand non-landholder
~ of the State scat four gears longer? Feow-cit
zens, we call upon you reading and rejecting mer
he to think seriously Of these things and to besoare
u Every vote for DAVID S. REID will he a vot
for Free Suffrage and against Convention; an
ID every vote for John Kerr will be vote for Con
vention and against Free Suffrage. Keep tho
r. before the people, and let every body hear it q
s. the polls, on the day Of election.
at We challenge the Wing Editors and orator.
n who are in the habit of denouncing statement
RI as locooco falsehoods, to deny dispute or col
I'd trovert single fact above set forth. We hos
ne proued euery thing aoe haze asserted By Wing az
ry thor;ty; and we again point the public to tn
o. Raleigh Register the Whig organ) Of the 2st
ny of July, as containing PROOF CONCLUSIVE THA
IN JOHN KERR is IN FAVOR OF AN OPEN AND u
'le RESTRICTED CONVENTION.
40 !, ApPoRr1oNMEkr OF REPRESENTATION. Und'
~ the act of Congress, which was finally passed La
week, the whole number of Representatives WI
be two hundred and thirtyfour, distributed as TO
lows: Maine 6, New Hampshire 8, Vermont
" Massachusetts, IL, Rhode Island 2, Connecticut
~ New York SO, New Jersey 5, Pennsylvania p
~ ~ Delaware 1, Maryland 6, Ohio 2l, South Carolir
6. Georgia 8, Florida !, Alabama Z, Mississippi
~ louisiana 4, Virginia Is, North Carolina 8, Tenne
- see 10, Kentucky 10, Missouri Z, Arkansas 2, Ii
:" diana IL, Illinois 9, Michigan 4, Wisconsin 8, low
ne Texas 2, California 2. Total 2s4. The who
number of Presidential electors-adding 81 Sen
o tors-will therefore be 200, making 14e necessa'
~ for choice.