Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-07-24
ORANGE AND ALAMANCE.

I'VE are gratifed to learn that Democratic
s,euds in these Counties have brought out strong
ticket for the Legislature. The ticket is as io'io"S
Senate, Capt. John Berry: Commons, J. W. Lahcas-
ar B, L. Durham, George Patterson, and Iohh t :
Lyon ,ucl
We hear that the campaign has opened well for the
nomocrats Capt. Berry is host in himself, and
no is most CALAMITY and ably seconded in his efforts
Nv the Commons ticket. Our friend Lancaster, for
o'orv Editor of the Graham Democrat, is, we learn
distinguishing himself on the stump.
If is hardly necessary that we should urge upon
or friends in Orange the importance OF the present
CONTEST There has been contest like It, IN lmPor-
lance for the last twenty years. nor Will there DC LOT
tho next twenty years. Let the Democrats-let all
,he friends of Free Suffrage remember, that every
vo,e snapped off to Whigs-that every vote tost'
hib miGht have been polled-that every vote thrown
On nersOnaI grounds for Wings, will be vote either
10, - tho noblest of causes, or vote cast against
E,o Sufrace and in favor of the friends and advo-
Gates of the Seward candidate for President
We know the people of Orange well and being
q native of that glorious old "emplre County, we
have some right to appeal to them at time like 'n'S'
Friends, if you wish to acquire your Just rlgh'S a'
the baIiot-box notv Is your time Non-landholuerS'
are YOU TO be turned off, year by year, from inc 0eh-
,,oriaI baIIot-box and that too when you pay your
taxes, perform military duty, work the roads, ana
stand ready to shoulder your firearms at a moment
warning to march TO the defence OF your country :
Did YOU ever shrink when that country called w ho
went TO Mexico from Orange and Alamance were
not three ourhs of the brave boys VINO
,on-Lrndholders? And yet you-the non-landholders
are told, by the Wing candidates for the Assembly
in YOUR Counties and by John Kerr, that go" shat
t yote in the Senate-tha so far as this right goes,
ou nye not freenaen and that, if you are to be aA0oed
this prvileqe YOU must take the back track, undo all
Won have heretofore done OH this subject, make void
and useless the Proclamation of Gov. Reid based
unon the action of the last Assembly, and do what
WHY, call q Convention What do you want with a
Convention z Do you wish to lose Free Suffrage
Are you dissatisfied with tie Uuy in which that great
measure is being carried out, though that way is in
strict accordance with the Constitution Beware,
fends-beware of the propositions of Wing leaders
on this subject THY are the enemies Of this great
pririLege, and they seeking to defeat 1t. We know
the men, and we know what we say to be so.
Hear DAVID S. REID-he has never deceived you
and he says the BEST the surest and in all probability
the only way get Free Suffrage is to sustain its ad-
vocaes at the baotbox, and to send men to the next
Assembly to Uote it right through. And if you would
send such men to that body, you must choose fol
your Senator, John Berry, and for your Commoners,
Lancaster, Durham, Patterson, and Lyon. They will
obey your wishes the question, and take pleasure
doubt, in doing.
This is plain language; but we use plain language
because in earnest, and because address
ing friends. We shall be denounced for it by the
organs of Federalism and by the enemies of equality
at the baIlot-box; but what for that? This
is free country thank God and the people of old
Orange are freemen let them but act freemen at
the polls and all will be WELL Never let it be said
that the descendants of the Regulators and of the
true Wings of the Revolution, are against Free Suf-
age-qgainsr that right of equality al the ballotbox
for which our forefathers fought and bled.