Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-11-17
DISCUSSION IN THE HOUSE.


Road provides that the Raleigh and Castor Road
may be connected with the Central Road when the
latter is completed to Raleigh and the 18th sec
ton OF the bill to amend the charter of the former
provides for condemnng the lands in order to form
the connexion. This section was stricken out with
out much debate, and Mr.. Avery, of Burke, offer
ed an amendment providing for condemning the
lands, but prohibiting the junction being formed
until the superstructure was laid upon the Central
Road from Goldsborough to Raleigh.
Mr.. Strange, of New Hanover opposed the
| amendment, and was replied to by Gen. Saunders.
The discussion then became general, and was par
ticipated in by Messrs spruill, Collins McDugald,
Hill Of Caswell, Hill of Duplin, Dobbin, Amis,
Dargan Scales, Caldwell of Gulford, Turner of
Orange, Philips, Wilder, and others. Mr.: Hill of
Dupln, moved to amend the amendment by pro-
viding that no lands should be condemned until
the superstructure was laid on the Central Road to
Raleigh and after considerable discussion his
amendment was rejected.
Mr.. Hill, of Caswell, then moved to amend kv
giving the State four Directors instead of three on
the Raleigh and Castor road. This amendment
caused good deal of debate, and was at last re-
jected. (See vote upon it in Wednesday, proceed
ings.) Mr.. Smith, Of Halifax, offered an amend
ment authorizing the Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad
Company to extend their road to the navigable wa
ters on the Roanoke river, which was adopted with
out debate. Mr.. Fagg, Of Buncombe, offered an
amendment to give the election Of Directors to the
people, which got ii votes in its favor. Mr.. Ave
rvs amendment was finally adopted on Wednes-
day evening, and the bill then passed its second
reading (For an outline of the discussion see
proccedings)
We can perceive no good reason why the State
which owns half the stock in the Raleigh and
CASTOR Rail Road Company-should not have an
equal voice with the stockholders in the affairs of
the corporation. Indeed, the proposition to give
the State four Directors in the Company appears to
be so fair and so just in itself that surprised
at the opposition manifested to it. The principle
involved in this matter is of far more Importance
than some gentlemen seem to suppose. If the rule
should be established that the State is not to have
voice in corporations in proportion to her amount
of stock, the result must prove injurious to the
cause of Internal Improvements generally.
Whenever the stockholders in any work own
more stock than the State, it is but just that they
should exert controlling power, or at least be in
condition through the Directors to do so; and
the same rule ought to be insisted on, and main
tanned by the State where the State owns a ma
jority of the stock.
o1I %1o haIiaf hat
the Senate, when the bill shall reach that body,
will insist on the four Directors on the part Of the
State. .-- .-. -..
| He had camnly awaited the progress of events.
and should continue do so. conscious that however
the result might affect individuals, his Intelligent
coun,rymen were abundantly competent to take care
of their own interests, under the guidance OF tnat
| Power to which he wished we could all habituaiiy
look with more humility and faith. He trusted his
friends would not forget that, with hlgh-toned and
honorable men, the hour of triumph was always the
! hour of magnanimlty.
| Such was the language of Franklin Pierce utter
ed to his friends one evening last month, when
they called upon him at his residence in Concord
to congratulate him on the splendid Democratic
triumphs in the State elections in Indiana, Ohio,
MARYLAND and Florida. The language was worthy
i of the hour and the man.
The .hour of triumph IS ought to be the
hour of magnanimity." The Wings have been
beaten-badly, overwhelmingly beaten. They have
been annihilated as a party, and it would be al
most cruel to exut over their disjointed and
scattered fragments; but while we torgire many
things, there are some which we ought not to for
act. We ought not to forget their vile ISLANDERS
and f,lsehoods against Franklin Pierce-their sec
tiona nomination, effected by the Seward influence
their devotion to party and the "spoils at the
expense of State rights and the Constitutional
riobts of the South-their unworthy appeals to
the people in behalf Of mere military hero, who
was brought forward, not because he was consd.
cred qualified for the Presidency, but because nc
8 was thought most available-their unjust and al
most savage conduct towards Daniel Webster, ane
the means generally to which they resorted in tht
hope of success in the late canvass. Let this con
duct in the leaders Of the Scott tactoa be renaena
bered and remembered for the benefit of the De
mocracy and the people hereafter. We now k'oo
hv experience, what these leaders are capable OF
? and while we may rot unnecessarily harrass AM
: goad them, now that they are down, as we trus
forever, it is nevertheless our right and our duty
boar their misdeeds in remembrance, so that in tn
j. future we NAV know where to find them and hoy
n to meet them. z4.4es ~ -
a TIE vorr or rHs MIDDLE STATES. we state
q Yesterday ,ha, in the New England States. @ Gener,
Pierce has plurality Of about 5000 Inc " vote {
= tie four Middle States shows maJonty OF Dip
le over Gen Scott in favor Of Gen. Pierce.
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