Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-11-24
THE STANDARD,
,NEIGH, SATURDAY, NOV. 90, 1852.
FREE SUFFRAGE.


We have already informed our readers that the
-y;arty 0; the Committee on Constitutional A
L,r}n,en,s Of the House OF Commons of this State
Igs reported against the passage of the Free suf-
me bill: and that minority Of the Committee
Iue reported in its favor.
We have before us the majority Report signed
Wv. S Harris, W. H. Tnpp, Willie Perry, and
NJ Stiles: and the name of Mr.. Stiles, it will
SEEN is also signed to the minority Report. We
I've never read weaker document than the ma
viry Report. We shall take it up in our next, and
isr 10 the people of the State the object Of the
s7ronens of Free Suffrage, and the tendency OF
hei present movements.
Tie last Raleigh Register goes into fit of he
as over recent article of ours, i'll which we SAID
ss people Of the State shave demanded Free Suf-
hse and THEY SHALL HAVE IT." That paper at
nlts to create the impression that we are seek
!. 10 dictate to the Legislature, and it calls upon
Lat body to give us an &c indignant rebuke.'' We
s.le to dictate to no one. As one of the organs
lie people we claim the right to utter our hon
thoughts. We have exercised this right here
Lire, and we expect to continue to do so, in
.s Of lamentations here or elsewhere We
Ts reclaimed it, aud we proclaim it again-cer-
lly with all Difference and respect for the men,
ss d Assembly-that the people of North Carroll
alaye demanded Free Suffrage, and that the pres
u Ill ought to be passed, in obedience to that de-
sal, and submitted to the people for their appro-
. At the baliot-box.
BIT We do not propose to-day to 60 at length
Eo The subjcct, having taken up our pen merely
stae purpose Of calling attention to the bill in
Flacsl by Mr.. Avery and the Reports of the
znlt.ee The bill and the minority Report are
Eyen below We take occasion to say that the
l2gty Report, though brief, presents the lead
I, points III a strong light, and must command the
EITsogsI Of an Immense majority of the freemen
lie S:,;st.
AbLL to amend ts Constitution Of North Carolina.
WHEREAS, at the last session of the General AS
Eajly 4. ID. lS5O-'5l, a Preamble and Bill pro-
sirg 10 amend the Constitution of North Carolina,
pas read three times in each House, and agreed to by
hee-Eltiis of the whole number OF members ct each
Hause respectively, and has been duly published tor
months previous to the election OF the members
The present General Assembly: And, Where's, It
The purpose Of this Bill, to re-enact and agree to
be alteration proposed in and by The Preamble, and
De frs, section of the bill aforesaid, in the precise
eIds and figures thereof, BY the concurlng votes OF
thirds of the whole representation In each House
this General Assembly, after the same shall have
zen read three times, three several days IN each
House;
Now IS IVherens the freehold qualification, now
ulred for electors for members Of the Senate, con-
lets with the fundamental principles of liberty.
therefore,,
|. Be ii enacted by the Gs neral .qssen,bly of the
Vale Of North Carolina, and is hereby enacted by the
&thmity of the same, Two-thrds of the whole rep.
seu,ation in each Honse concurring. IS That the
ord clause of the third section of the hrst article
The amended constitution. ratified by the people OF
''nh Carolina, on the second Monoay OF Novemoer'
D., 1895, be amended by striking out the words
and possessed of freehold within the same dis
e. Of fifty acres of land, for six months next before
ID at the day cf election" that The said clause
said section shall read follows: 2. All tree
nIe men of the age of twen,y.one years, (excep
sls hereinafter declared, who have been inhabant'
any one district within the State, twelve months
snedia,ely preceding the day Of any election, ant
sll have paid public taxes, shall be entitled 10 vot
VIA member of the Senate"
IL. Be it further enacted, That the foregoing
snendmen, to the Constitution of this State, EN-
sdied in the preceding section, be submitted by tn
''sernor to the people, the first Thursday of Au
gust, A. D.. ls53 thirty days notice having been Civ
land that the polls be opened by the respective shei
u.s. and kept open for one day, from the hour Of te
selock in the morning, 10 the hour of o'clock
as afsnoon at the several election precincts in eac
va every county in the State, under tho same rule
90 regulations now exist, for the election Of men
'" to the General Assembly: That the said she