Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-06-11


shall be. in The full expansion of the energies and
capacities OF this great and progressive people.
Amendments to the constituiIon-,he Beat Method
of eHeeting them.
wuExEAs. at a meeting of the Wings of New Hanover
County on the evening OF March oth the following resou
Resolved That regard the amendment of the Con-
stituton the only DE- rate Republican mode by
open Convention in which the voice of the whole people
be adopted and also whereas the said
olution adopted to be unacceptable to large
ory of the Wings CT the County therefore it is by this
meeting
Resolved That the said resolution be and the same here
by rescinded.
Resolved 3D. the proceedings of said meeting of March
sh with the exception of the resolution first above reced
be and the by this meeting fully approved of
Reoued 3D. that this meeting request all and each OF the
by the Chairman of the meeting of March sth to serve I'M
der said appointment 49,.
Resolved further That do regard open Conven
tion the ny Republican mode of amending the Constitu
ton that there another mode pointed by that nsru
tain at all ha=ards.-New Hanorer Co. Whig meeting,
Apra7th, '52.
T. Resolved That in the opinion of this Convention when
amendments to be made to State Constitution
they should be effected by Convention of the people, elect
ed the basis of the House of Commons and in ia
yor OF submitting to the people to say whether such
Convention shall be called not for the purpose of making
amendments to our Constitution-ig State Conrenio",
18th Resolved That the constitution of this State having
provided for its amendment by legislative enactment and
fs of both Houses of the General Assembly hav
ing voted for the of Free Suffrage in favor
of affirming by the next General Assembly, and of its
subsequent approval By the people, so as to make 1t part OF
said constitution.
9Th That we are for holding sacred the basis of
appotonug among the several states and
against changing the present basis of representation in the
Senate and House of Commons of this State-Deocratic
State Contention, 18th May, 1852
We have chosen three appropriate texts, from
which to deliver discourse upon State politics. and
we will venture to say that whatever we may lack
of the proper sermonic gravity will be more than
made up by the fidelity with which we will stick to
the subject suggested by our observation-disclosures of
the Constitution, and the mode of effectng all such
Our Wing friends cannot have forgotten the series
of resolutions which stands first upon our list, al
though they appear to have lost sight of them for
the time being They cannot have forgotten how
the last resolution of the series pledges them to
tain, at all hazards, the mode of amending the Con-
stituon by legislative enactment. if that instrument
is to be amended. Surely, our friend of the Herald
cannot have forgotten this altogether. 1t has only
slipped his mind and he will soon rally for the 9th
err mode than Convention pointed out by that
instrument, The Constitution, which, lift is amen
ded, he prefers, and to sustain at all hazards
Neither can other prominent Wings who figured a.
| that meeting, have become totally oblivious. We
call upon them to be up and doing at all hazards
against the candidate who places himself upor
the It'll resolution of the Wing State Convention
quoted above-a resolution which fatty contradict
the principle which they pledged to sustain a
| all hazards. Let them read that resolution, ant
compare it with the 7th and 9th resolutions of thu
Democratic Convention, and then ask themselves az
consistent men, and citizens of Eastern Carolina
for whom they will vote-whether they will vote fo
| p;o6 nj ~, r;r &J,o foro Epo n
State policy which they have resolved to sustain a
all hazards; or, by voting for Mr. Kerr support thu
opponent of that policy.
Unfortunately it is too much the custom of par
tizan papers to present everything in an exaggera
ted light, and the few Wing journals we have seer
since the campaign commenced, have given sucl
flaming accounts of Mr.. Kerr's prodigious doings a
would be amusing if they did not pile up the agon,
so high to make it nauseous and disgusting. anc
to remind of the triumphs achieved two year,
ago by Mr.. Manly-the - inimitable Charley a
the Raleigh Register used afectonately to term him
Well, we all know how that Dragging terminated
1t resulted in David S. Reid being chosen Governor
of North Carolina The issues made by MIR. Reit
were those with which the people sympathised- TIT
changes advocated by him were in accordance will
the same time, passed the FREE SUFFRAGE bill b,
the constitutional majority of three -ffths; and thu
the first step taken towards its incorporate,
into the constitution as one of its component parts
Since that time the question of Free Suffrage ha
gained strength with both parties, being estab
lished as a canon of Democratic faith while it i
favorably regarded earnestly supported by yer,
many Wings who like it not alone for ITSELF but VIII
regard it as the only of establishing the prac
ticabilty of efecting amendments really required
by the popular WILL in quiet and conservative man
ner, without the turmoil expense and danger of
Convention. The cmphatic declaration against an,
change in the basis ought to commend it to ali East
ern men, and. indeed, to all lovers of the genera
prosperity of the State. Armed with this weapon
as we'll as standing on the splendid platform tn
Baltimore Convention has laid down. il is rext t
impossible that Gov. Reid could fail to gain groun
in this contest nor has be failed The only privat
accounts have had of the speaking between
Messrs Reid and Kerr, represent MIR. kcrrs pro