Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-07-03

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vention was started to thwart Free Suffrage; he
considered that the sentiments of the people had
already been found out not through his own cleo
tion but by the vote of the Legislature. Free Suf
frage was agitated before the people when the mem
bers ofthe last Legislature were elected the meas
ure had passed one Legislature, and much of the
expense been paid the expense of advertising had
been paid, which Mr.. Kerr had said was more than
half Gov Reid showed that if the plan proposed
by Mr. Kerr and the Wing party was carried out
not only would the expense already paid be lost,
| but the same or greater expense would have to
be paid again he asked the farmers, what would
YOU think of man who would recommend to
you after your crop was nearly grown, in the month
Of July or August, to pillow it all up, change the
direction of your rows, and plant again Would
YOU not think he wanted the frost to catch it 2"
If the question was submitted to Convention 9th
er amendments would be attached to it, which
would cause it to be rejected; he said the BEST
the cheapest, and the safest mode to carry it
| out as it had been commenced, which was mode
pointed out by the Constitution.
We are sorry that we cannot give fuller no
tice of this admirable speech, and we wish every
Wing and Democrat in the land could have been
present and heard it.
Mr.. Kerr next rose and with him the awful
forbodng of many of the spectators for the fate of
our gallant little David. Verify, we feared from
what we had heard the Register and Observer say,
that Mr. Kerr would devour him in an instant and
we had been crediably informed, too that the
Wings were so confident of the "glorious triumph
of their chietan over his Excellency at the discus
sion in Fayetteville that the pomp and parade they
made over him there not surpassed even by
that recently made over the big cow, prefguring,
no doubt, the establishment they felt at the Won
derful abilities of the man. But our fears
soon dssipated the Governor stood firm; he had
not laid his foundations in the sand but he had
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all the storm and all the fury that Mr. Kerr gather
ed around him 'fell harmless the gentle shower"
The people in this section have been disappoint-
ed in Mr.. Kerr, and those Editors who have been
putting him so much have done him a serious in
jury. 1t remarked after the speaking
over, by an intelligent and as observing Wing as
there is in Moore County, that Kerr would have
done better if he had not visited this place. When
we are disappointed in our expectations of man,
we experience kind of disagreeable reaction in
our feelings towards him, which is almost certain
to carry us as far below proper estimate of his
real worth as were above it. Mr.. Kerr is good
stump orator, but he lacks great deal of filling
the proportions which most of the Wing newspa-
pers througho the State have exhibited to the
minds of the people. All the clothing IN the
world would not make giant of man of dimi-
nutive stature will all the putting which Wing
newspapers can do between now and the election
make the keen and polished orator" of Mr.. Kerr
Mr.. Kerr, after informing the people that he was
the Wing candidate for the office of Governor, and
that if elected to that high Office he would be the
Governor of the State and not of party, proceed
ed to the discussion of the various political subjects
which are now before the country.
He avowed that he stood on the platform of
Washington Madison and jefferson that this coun-
try had always been governed by Wing measures; ;
that he in favor of distribution of the pro-
ceeds of the sales of the public lands in favor of
the repeal of the present tariff; in favor of a tar
ff exclusively protective in its features and that
he was in favor of the Compromise and Fillmore.
He exhorted his friends in Moore to 90 for Fillmore
if he was the nominee of the Convention, but if
another, not to vote for him unless he avowed the
same principles. In regard to amending the Con-
stitution, Mr.. Kerr thought it should be done by
Convention, and not by the Legislature; he was
for letting the people decide whether or not there
should be Convention called he was opposed to
a change in the present basis of representation.
After the first speeches were over, there were
two three short replies ON both sides. In his
first reply, Gov. Reid emphatcally asked Mr.. Kerr
if the country had always been governed by Wing
principles why was it that the high Wing tariff Of
1912 was not continued, and especially why was
it that the first law passed by them while in power
was bank law But it must be understood that
that law had surname to it: the full name was
Bankrupt Law At the sound of this word the
Wings grew quite pale.
We were much pleased at the good feeling and
gentlemanly department Of both the candidates
towards each other; for this they deserve the es-
TEEN of both parties. All passed off well, there
was very little stamping done, in fact none by the
Democrats some of the Wings, at one time during
Mr.. Kerr's first speech, suffered the pleasure they
experienced to escape by their heels, but if
scous of the improperly of what they had
menced, stopped it before spread from side of
the house to the other. However, when Mr.. Kerr
was done they had to kick little.
There is one thing more that we cannot forbear
noticing, and we wish to call the attention of both
Wings and Democrats to it, and that is that Gov.
Reid stands blameless before the country even
by his bitterest opponents, Notwithstanding so
much of his life has been before the public. Is
he not tried and true? Will the Democrats not
rally round him in August nexts The day has
passed in North Carolina when the Wing party, by
putting and advertising, can make great man of
who is not intrnsicaly entitled to their fusome
adulation. A DEMOCRAT.
CURE FOR DIARRHeA. At the request of ma
ny readers, we republish the recipe SO generally
known and appreciated since the summer of 1s4
as the Suns Remedy" for bowel complaints in;