Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-07-27
For the Standard.
:. VeIl;,ble,s Positions.

Mr.. Vemilble's Positions.
Mr.. AoLDEN Having Witnessed the speaking al
Gardnes. in this County, on Thursday last between
Messrs. Lewis aud Venabe, candidates for Congress-,
have thought would drop you line for your pa.
per, II may be able 10 connect my ideas, and put
them In such shape as 10 be understood, whicll1
much fear, as have never before attempted write
for any paper, and would not now but the present
crisis in my opinion demands the active and energetic
service of every true Democrat. Three candidates
in tho field, two Of them claiming TO be Democrats
and the other Federalist-who took good care not
to appear among the old Republicans" of the
" Dark Corner" and we'll for Mr.. Venable he did
not, for although Mr.. Lewis fully exposed Mr.. VS.
position, IL would have been mote plainly illustrated
Il Mr., Rogers had appeared The stand, for then
Mr.. V. would have been seen standing the only
remaining. plank Of the Wing platform, side by side
with Mt. Rcgersi but 10 the discussion.
Mr. Vena6e opened the discussion, and COM
menced In his usual eloquent manner, stating that he
lived aud had lived for thirty years in the house
he married in, that he had always been Democrat
was Elector for Jackson, and came to Raleigh and
voted for him, afterwards for Van Buren, and he had
traced his Democracy 10 Gen. Jackson, and said he
thought that blood was good enough, but that his
opponent and some newspapers and newspaper scrb-
lers had called him a Wing because he voted for
BenneIt's Land Bill. If he sinner in that he
was unrepentng sinner, for he would do II again,
and he Intended 10 agitde that question until North
Carolina gets her share Of the public domain; he
was with Jackson, WAS with the Baltimore Platform
and the North Carolina Democratic Platform, with
Cass, Douglas and other distinguished Democrats.
He undertook TO prove all this by showing that Jack
vetoed the bill for the distribution of proceeds
and not tor dividing the lands, that Cass, Douglas
and others had voted for alternate sections of land
the new States, and that the platforms opposed dis
t button but not division of the lands. Mr.. Lewis
referred him 10 Jackson's Message. He said Gen.
Jackson gui6GLtd in that message-he did not meet
the question !! This remark produced considerable
excitement in the crowd and several persons rebuked
the speaker for what all considered SANDER upon
the old Hero and Statesman. Mr.. Venable seemed
TO be he had let his anger get the better of his
Judgment, and that he had committed fatal blunder,
and then went TO describe the wealth the old North
State was justly entitled to from the Government if
demagogues would allow the people to claim il.
Railroads, plank roads Schools and colleges would
spring up at man. door, the hills and the VAL
legs would be covered with flowers, and everything
now barren woula smile and rejoice a: prospect
~. This was beautiful flight fully expected TO
hear I" SO day and RoastBeef." BY way OF Gaping
the climax, man of fine fancy may dream of these
things, but men of sense cannot expect to realize
them.
He then touched very lightly on the Cuban ques-
lion denied he was opposed to our government get
ting it under any circumstances, denounced 6lbus-
erng, and think is trying to change in his opposition
to Cuba-he finds it don't take.
expected to hear him denounce you, Mr.. Editor,
as hear he did in Johnston County with his bitter
speech, but although his will good he had been
warned by his feW friends not to attempt tit would
have been losing business, for your character and
vices fully appreciated all the strong holds of De-
mocracy, and especially so in The I" Dark Corner"
He simply said he would not allow an Editor who,
in 1910, had lived in Wing log cabins among COON
skins, hard cider, and dirty gourds to make political
opinions for him. He then closed.
And Mr.. Lewis replied in speech which would
have done credit TO any Statesman much less one of
his age and experience. He modest and un-
assuming in his manner, but firm and positive in the
positions he occupied, and manfullJ maintained them
with arguments and proofs incontroverlibe. He
first showed how he came in the field candidate
MIR. VS. opposition 10 organization and srdcule
of Conventions. He next proceeded to show off
Bennet's Land Bill, Mr.. VS. favorite scheme for
pouring much wealth into the lap of North Caro-
lina-he showed to the satisfaction of every unpre-
JUDGED mind that the bill wrong in principle, at
variance with Democratic principles, and that it was
an outrageous fraud upon the old States; and that if
we accepted the provisions of that BILL we sacrificed
our honor and our independence that reliable
calculations had been made which showed that for
every 81 got by division and sale of the public
land would pay in the way Of tariff taxes 81.
He showed how land monopoles could BE obtained
by European Lords by throwing 60 millions of acres
into the market and how these lands could be tenant
ed with the paupers and thieves of Europe, and con-
troll elections and institutions, and particularly
the institution Of slavery. MIR. Lewis speech pro-
duced fine effect for the Democracy. The Gardner
precinct will give him rousing majority. Y.