Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-05-25
SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. !

| SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. +
we learn that George D. Boyd, Esq, of Rock
ingham, IS candidate for Congress ii this Dis
trict, in Opposition to r. G Puryear, Esq. the fed.
eral candidates. The Sixth District is composed 81
the Counties Of Stokes, Forsythe, Rockingham,
Davidson, Davie, Yadkin, surry, Iredell, Alexan-
der, and Ashe.
This is the District in which the Hon. J. p.
Caldwell resides. 1t is well known that, in rela-
ton to the Strengthening of Mr.. Fillmore and the
nomination Of Gen. Scott, he pursued course
which drew down upon his head the indignation
of the more INSCRIPTIONS of the federal leaders
and in the Wing Convention recently held, he was
set aside without the slightest alluson to his
or services, and Mr.. Puryear nominated as the
candidate. Mr.. Caldwell, who had been placed
by the people as sentinel on the waschtower at
Washington, and who was in a position to Judge
accurately of the nature and tendency of pass
ing events, perceived that all was not well; and
this fact he proclaimed to the people in order that
they might be at once upon their guard. He
saw that the nomination of Gen. Scott had been
effected by the Freesoil wing of the Wing par
ty, with Seward as fugleman and leader--that
Webster and Fillmore had been sacrificed to ap-
pease the anti Slavery feeling in the Wing ranks
North; and, seeing this, he refused, though a
Wing, to raise his voice for the nominee to
tain him at the polls. Instead of being held to
account, By Southern men, for such course, and
prescribed, he ought to have been applauded and
sustained by denomination to seat in Congress,
where he has shown himself firm defender of the
peculiar interests of his constituents 1t has been
for years, the policy of Wing leaders in this quar-
ter to sacrifice independent Southern rights Wings
to crafty the vengeance of Northern Freesol
Wings; and even now, when the Wing party is
pretty well disbanded and when the ties between
the fragments in the two sections appear to have
nearly worn away, the policy alluded to is perse
vered in-the victims are still brought forward and
the axe of doom still falls.
We have no hesitation in expressing the belief
that the Democrats of the Sixth District would
have given Mr.. Caldwell cheerful support, if he
had taken the field but he has declined to do so,
and they are, therefore, deprived of the pleasure
of evincing their appreciation of his manly and in
dependent course.
George D. Boyd is a man of no little experience
in public life, and possessed of sound Judgment
and excellent common sense. One of the people,
he feels as they do, and understands their wishes
and their wants. He has been true, at all times,
to the honor of his country-he has never approx
ed g Mexican preambles," or given his sympathies
to the public foe. He is Republican of the old
school, and if elected to Congress, will go there
the representative of cliques combinations
not over the head of such a man as Joseph P.
Caldwell, but as the peoples representative !; and
in addition to this, his triumph in this contest must
be, under the circumstances, a vindcation by
generous and high-minded people of the character
the election of Col. Puryear will be construed by
the federal Wings as a. fixed and final approval of
the Convention which dealt so sumnarily and so
unjustly with Mr.. Caldwell.
The contest will be warm and close, and the
friends of Mr.. Boyd, if they would ensure his cleo
ton, must put forth every effort. We call upon
every Democrat to bestir himself-to reason with
the people-to rouse up the lukewarm-to appeal
to the Southern rights men, and make prepare
tons for inducing every voter favorable to Mr.
Boyd to be present at the polls. A fall vote, under
the circumstances, will be triumph. Is there a
Democrat in the District who is disposed to incur
the Notifying selfreproach of having, by his apa
thy and Indifference, contributed to the defeat of
our candidate? We do not believe there is
Work, then, brother Democrats, and the day will
be yours The friends of Gen. Pierce, of both par
ties, have recently carried the Congressional cleo
lions in Wing States and the feeling which led to
this result is strong here as in other quarters
We have every thing to encourage, and nothing to
lishearten A Wing majority of few hun
lred is not to be seriously regarded at time like
his. Effort will overcome this majority, but it
must be earnest, continued, unfagging effort Your
candidate will perform his duty fearlessly faithful
y, constantly; sustain him as one man in the con-
sest and at the polls, and you will have no cause
or subsequent regret.
The Professional Man who dares wear a thread. |
bare until he is of debt in town yester.
lay. A very good looking but melancholy sort of |
nan he was, and wonder. At the bookstore the I
salesman suggested the advantage of cash payment
ind taking the package home ones SELL over trusting
i TO bungling Porters who don't know how to make
change properly on delivery. The sexton of the
.kurch he attended gave him back seat, and spoke
Of the poor ventilation of the upper part of the ROOM
His landlady was very much crowded with boarders,
ind could scarcely find for him al the table,
His lady acquaintances found him so thin and rel
iuced that with difficulty they recognised him, and
liter his introduction could not feel familiar as of