Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-07-21
THE CANVASS IN WAKE.

We understand the Canvass has been carried on
during the past week with much spirit by our County
Candidates. Both sides have manifested more than
usual zeal and though MIR. Rogers, we learn has
acquitted himself debater to the satisfaction Of
his friends, yet he has certainly shown zeal than
discretion in his attacks Gen. Saunders has
than one occasion driven him into tight paces
and has compelled him to desert the doctrine of his
leader, John Kerr. Yes. Mr. Rogers says he is for
Free Suffrage, thinks it wrong in principle to effect
it by legislative enactment; but if elected, he will
for it in the Legislature He will recognise
what Mr.. Kerr says it is his Duty to do, the right
of majority of te people of the State to compel him
to vote for Convention, If elected to the Commons.
Such is the value which Wing candidate places on
principle, and such his fidelity the platform of his
party leader.
But this is not half-listen, We freemen of Wake,
who talk of voting for Sion H. Rogers! We hear
that nothing said by any of the Wing candidates
against FRANKLIN PIERCE until the meeting at
Laws's, where there a large crowd, when Mr..
Rogers came out with the declaration that General
Pierce held and had expressed sentiments on the
question of Slavery which ought to forfeit the respect
and forbid the support of all Southern men! And
pray, how did he prove this! By reading from a
vile Abolition, Freesoil paper, the Manchester a.
H. Independent Democrat This paper is edited
by one George G. Fogg, who was the Wing Secre-
tary of State of New Hampshire at the time John P.
Hale in the ascendant and when franklin Pierce,
Harry Hubbard, and other friends OF Southern
rights, had been temporarily defeated in their efforts
to serve us and shield our rights, by such men as
Fogg and Hale. This is the paper on which Mr..
Rogers relies and let us how his witness
will contradict himself. We have a copy of this
paper of the 9th June, 1852, in possession, from
which we quote as foows-the Editor is speaking of
the result of the Wing Convention
"Though generally opposed to the PLATFORM the
Scott men were never expected TO be of that stern
stuff that could forego poIcer for print ple Few
men can. OF politicians, fewer still.
The result is such as always follows struggle
made up of such elements-a compromise of principle
for power. Give up their candidate the Scott men
would not, since they could receive nothing in return
The only alternative therefore, that remained was
keep their candidate and allow him be put on the
Southern Fillmore platform: This they did.
Gen. Scott is nominated. So far it is an anti.
Fillmore triumph. lie has placed himself upon the
platform-save law and all. And here Fillmore and
Slavery triumph. How pro.slavery the platform is
we leave our readers to judge for themselves. For
ourselves, we cannot that it is materially less OBJ
jectonable than the bunker platform on which Pierce
stands; save, perhaps that it does not pledge the
Wing party to resist agitation and put down free
discussion " in Congress and out of it, Perhans
we should add, that it does not in terms make the
most Infamous of all part and parcel of the
Constitution, and 50 beyond the power Of Congress
to "repeal or modify.""
How does Mr.. Rogers like his witness But hear
what this same paper says about franklin Pierce
We quote follows:
"GEN. PIERCE ON THE RIGHT PETITION. The
last National Era contains carefully coated history
of Gen. Pierces Congressional career, showing that
through the whole nine years he served in the House
and Senate, the right of petition right older than
Magner Charta, had no bitterer more unrelentnp
opponent than the present Hunker Democratic candi
date for President of the United States. This is not
news to us. 1t is not news to the people of New
Hampshire, In whose memories the history of their
degradation at the hands of such men as Atherton
PIERCE and Burke, is still fresh. They have not
forgotten that those earned for the State they
mi represented the insulting and reasonable appel
latlve OF " the South Carolina of the NORTH; than
what it were difficult to find name more significant
of disgrace and shame.
AS matter of history, however, we shall endeay-
or at an early day, to place the Eras article before
our readers to the younger portion of whom least
1t will be interesting There is more deeply in
terestlng period in national history than that long
struggle between the Slave Power and its :. North.
ern Allies ION the hand, and the IS Old man elo.
quent, John Quincy Adams, and the few true men
who, tor years stood up with him. the advocates
OF the Right OF Petition, the other. 1t was glo-
rous struggle for freedom, which enrolled its vener
able and heroic leader among s. the few, the mmor-
tai names that were not born die 30 while it enroll.
ed ms opponents among the enemies and oppressors
of their race. - ..7F.h~ %
In this catalogue stands Gen. Pierce In all the nine
years he spent in Congress, not thought, word, or
act can be found, which of the slightest re.
gard for civil, religious personal liberty. On all
questions and all occasions, his course ,Uns one of
entire and unqualified snbserviency to the South and to-