Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-07-21

slton and the purity of motives, hurl back at
nnscrupulous Whig Editors all the imputatons
which, in their desperation in sinking cause, they
have thought proper to throw at US. We have fixed
upon their candidate for Governor-the de,oagogue
kerr-in characters which no art Of theirs will be
able to eace, the fact that he has changed his
upon the basis-the fact that he has endeavored to
evade and cra'ysh on the School Fund-the fact that
he shrunk though repeatedly questioned, from declar.
ing what he wants Convention for-the fact that he
is in favor of right mode of changing the State
Constitution which is totally unknown that instru-
ment, and in the face of its express provisons-and
the fact that he is for doctrine in relation the Fed
eral Constitution, which, if carried into practical op
Grafton. would result in striking out the three-hs
principle which slaves are represented in Con-
gress, and would assuredy lead, in the end, to the
overthrow and determination (as Gen. Scott has
it) of Slavery itself!
The State Constitution provides that no Conven-
tion of the people Of this State shall be called except
on the OF two-thirds of all the members
OF each house of the General Assembly; and yet if
majority of the people should vote for Conven-
ton, Mr. Kerr says it would be the duty of the
bers of Assembly from counties which would GER
tanly lose by change in the basis, to for this
Convention in obedience to said bare majority and
that any member who should refuse to do SO would
be o. an qristocroi, and no republican! 20 What
will Messrs. Washington, Barnes, Amls, Rogers,
W.T.. Collins, Maultsby. Hugh Collins, T. F. Jones,
Joyner, and others who might be mentioned, saw to
that!
The Constitution of the United States provides
that the Congress whenever two-,hirds Of both
houses shall deem it necessary shall propose amend
ments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all in
tents and purposes, as part of this Constitution.
when ratified by the Legislatures of hree-fourths of
the several States, by Conventions in thiee-fourths
thereof, as the one the other mode Of ratification
may be proposed by Congress- This is what the
Constitution says-what says Mr.. Kerr! He takes
the broad ground that majority of the people of
the United States have right to change the Con-
sttution Of the United States. Let Us see how this
would work: Mr.. Seward rises in his place in the
Senate and proposes TO submit it to majority of the
people of the United States to say, at the ballot-box
whether not the Constitution shall be so altered
to strike out the three6fihs principle and also
altered to confer upon Congress other and for
ther control over the institution of Slavery. We
will suppose the proposition is submitted, and the
not majority of hundreds of thousands vote!
And would not Congress be bound, according to Mr..
Kerrs doetrine to take steps for carrying the will of
this majority into effect!
No body supposes that Mr.. Kerr would so vote {;
the contrary, he would be compelled to resist his
own doctrine, when thus practcalized, in common
with his saveholding fellow-ctizens be overwhelmed
by the tide of aggression; but we have given his
position and explained it, show that he is either
demagogue, careless of consequences that he
can get votes by gIorifying the majority doctrine,
or ignorant of what he wants Of what he does. In
either case, submit, he is unfit to be Governor of
North Carolina.
What will that brazen-faced journal, the Raleigh
Register, say now! Will it take back its charge of
'lying - brought against our Correspondent! Will
it come forward and honestly confess the facts
Will it confess that according TO its admissions
of Saturday last. Mr. Kerr is guilty of the charges
preferred against him ! No, it will still evade. mis-
REPRESENT and labor to deceive and the may be
said with equal truth, Of that exceedingly dgnjed and
independent journal, the Greensborough Patriot.
We call upon our friends in all quarters, TO lay
these facts bgore the people.
DAVID s. REID, be it remembered, speaks with no
double tongue. What he was in lS48 on these ques-
tions, he is no. He is of the purest of pub
lie men, the farest and candid Of politicians,
and one of the best Governors the State has had
out to put in such man as John Kerr! Never {!
Then rally, brother Democrats for your avorite
didate-ralIy from the seashore 10 the mountains,
and give him such majority on the 5th Of August,
will silence for years his demagogue opponent,
as well the INSCRIPTIONS leaders who are bend
ing every to defeat Free Suffrage by defeating
DAVID S. REID.
o. LOOK QUITO
We feel it to be our duty to caution the people, and
especially the friends of Gov. Reid of both parties,
against the falsehoods and ISLANDERS which will no
doub, be put forth by unscruPulous Whig leaders on
the eve and on the day Of the election. ForewarRed.
forearmed. Gov. Reid is just what he was two and
four years ago he has changed no position. shrunk
from the avowal of no opinion which he holds, but
on the contrary his principles are broad and long
as the State, and every body knows them by heart.
He has never been charged with equivocation, with
skulking, or with carrying two faces, one for the
East and another for the West.
Desperate efforts will be made to trump up some
thing of an answer to the certificate in our columns
to-day indeed, We should not be surprised if it turns
out that an express has already been sent from this
place to Greensborough, with this object in view
Steady, brother Democrats, and all will be well be
firm, be ardent, be active, Free Suffrage men, and
the day is yours!
Mn. WEBSTER AND THE NOMINATIONS. The Bos.
ton Journal says: We authorized TO state, d.
recy and authoratively, that there is no truth what
ever in the reported conversation between Mr.. Web
ster and Mr. Tallmadge; (as TO the duty of support
ing the regular candida,es.) We presume that il
Mr.. Webster desires 10 communicate with the public
he will do so direc,ly. and not through the medium