Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-10-02
O-Exnlain yourself. Mr.. Toombs ?

! Q-Explain yourself Mr.. Toombs?
4" His former opinions on our Naturalization
Laws were not agreeable to a large class of our
countrvmen He therefore proposes to alter them,
O-And what do you think of the Generals
new mode of making citizens!
Al think it is liable to many and grave OBJ
iections" some of which you will see stated in my
speech in the House of Representatives, July Sd.
Q-What do you think of Gen. Scott, on the
whole?
| H" That he is great General nobody denies,
but he has shown no aptitudes for civil life
Q-Don't you believe in military availability
II" We have had too recent experience that a
military genius may be wholly without fitness for
civil life, to repeat the experiment Let us be adj
monished by our late almost fatal experiment"
Q-Where may we find your views of this NOM
ination fully expressed?
lin my speech above referred to, and you
will see that therein state that for than a
year Gen. Scott has been the known candidate of
the Freesol wing of the Wing party Even his
friends in the South have cooperated with them to
strangle all acknowledgment of the Compromise in
Congress or the Convention. They finally gave
him the nomination to them he must look for his
election, and to them he must mainly look for aid
and advice in carrying on the government. I'm
der these circumstances, he never can receive my
support"
The Is Standard perceive, despite the planest
and fullest proof to the contrary-proof which, we
venture assert has satisfied every fair-mnded man
of either party in North Carona-contnues to charge
Gov. Graham with having opposed the giving of the
Election of Governor to the People. Register.
The Standard charges only what is true, and the
Register knows it. While member of the House
of Commons of North Carolina, in 1884, William
A. Graham the Scott-Seward candidate for the
Vice Presidency, voted against giving to the peo-
pie the right to elect their Governor and for proof
of this fact we refer to Commons journal of that
session. page 22O.
The ercuse offered by the Seward journals for
this vote of Mr.. Graham, is, that he was very anx-
ious to get such bill through the Assembly as
would ensure a change in the basis of representa-
ton and that, in his anxiety to accomplish this
object he voted strike out the feature of the bill
giving the election of Governor to the people, in
the hope of securing for the bill the vote of the
Hon. David Outlaw, an Eastern member-Mr Out
the people Mr. Outlaw, it is intimated,
pected to vote for the bill, provided the clause in
relation to the election of Governor should be
stricken out. But we give this excuse in the Ian
guage of the Hillsborough Recorder, Mr.. Graham's
home organ:
sit was at this stage of the business. when con-
siderng this substitute, that Mr.. Outlaw moved to
strike the section providing for the election of the
of he Stale rec
which motion decided in the negative, by vote
OF IS to "a.
The result of the action OF the last session, and ap
pearances now rendered it extremely doubtful wheth
the bill could be urged through. 1t was therefore
a matter of much importance to gain friends. 1t
should be recoected that the great object for which
the movement was made, was to obtain an equaZa-
tion of representation and as Mr.. Outlaw and some
others had expressed willingness to submit TO this
amendment but were opposed to an alteration In the
mode Of eecting the Governor, was 1t not an act OF
prudence reconcile them. if by the sacrifice of the
less they could secure from defeat the more lmPor-
tant measure of reform 1t with this bject in
view that Mr.. Graham voted in the affirmative on Mr.
Outlaws notion
This, then, was the bargain between Mr.. Ora
ham and Mr.. Outlaw-Mr. Outlaw was to vote for
the bill if this clause about the Governors election
should be stricken out Mr.. Graham voted with
Mr.. Outlaw to strike out--the vote to strike out
did not preval-it was lost, yeas So, nays 81 and
then Mr. Outlaw (see Commons journal, page 226,)
voted against the whole bill Is not this strange
record Did not Mr. Graham knoD, before this
vote was taken, that the House would not strike
out? And knowing this, does not his vote to strike
out show, at least Indifference on his part, not to
say contempt, for the popular power ! What
would sincere friend to popular rights have said
and done on such an occasion? lie would have
said: Mr.. Outlaw, am very anxious to pass this
bill, account of the present inequality of repre-
sentation and should be gratifed to have you
support it; but 1 am satisfied, from my knowledge
of the feelings and principles of the members of
this House, that the condition you require will not
be complied with. The House will not strike out
the clause giving the election of Governor to the
people and as am honestly in favor of that clause
and do not wish yield it except for much great
er benefit to my constituents, and which can be OBJ
tanned only by thus yielding, cannot consent, as
matter Of form, to record my vote to strike
out Would not this have been the language and
such the course of sincerce friend of popular
rights
The Scott-Seward journals will seek in vain to
excuse this vote. There it is on the record and |