Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1853-01-26
1W The Register says the Wings of the Hous

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1B. The Register says the Wings of the House
of Commons could easily have defeated Free Suf-i
fragge but adds that paper 's out of pure re-
gard to the public interest, which was suffering
from the continued agitation Of this question, they
permitted it to pass. What did, the Whigs in,
the Senate7tlo2 Why. they defeated. it; and so,
according 10 the Register, they were not governed
by spure regard to the public interest. . The
Register exalts his friends in the House with one
hand, and knocks down his friends in the Senate
with the other. s fysaseas = q ,e,.ss z.
But that paper says the Wings Of the House
: permitted it to pass. Let US see how this is:
The Commons is composed of 100 members.
two-thirdslo of that body is 80. Free Suffrage re-
sceKed 81 votes in the Commons; and as there
were sbuts5s Democrats in that body, it follows
that 90 Wings must have voted for it. They
permitted. . 1t to pass, did they? se' IA
. 80 E-.- =. 80
We repeatedly told our readers. last summer, tha.
the locofoco party desired nothing earnestly, at
hearts as the defeat Of Free Suffrage. Register.
And yet every Democratic member of the, last
Assembly, save one, voted for the measure, and
not one against it. Fifteen Wing Senators voted
against il, ,-one vote fromsthat fifteen would have
passed it andyet that one vote could not be had
| The Register . tells great many things, and
| arepeats them too; but the people have become
accustomed to its tales, that they believe just
as. much of them as they please, and no more.
,Ea Nh. BApGER's NoMISAr1oN. The Washing
ton Cores pondent Of the Baltimore Sun, writing
under date January II, says g The Senate ha
Ebeen in executive session on the nomination 0
Senator Badger. The vote will be "a very clos
one, but & rather incline to the opinion that tn
nomination will be confirmed: ~ =" The Sun, of tn
i 18th states that in short executive session on tn
18TH the Senate postponed the nomipationo Of Nj
Badger.
& 2tz The Raleigh Register exuits over the de
feat Of Free Suffrage il the late Assembly, ant
Il adds: :: We sare unwilling to believe there is
,lastins in the State from which any one, who be
i to croak about Free Suffrage, wiU not bearis
.auith Aisses and seo,n. Let it be remembere
athat organ Of the party Of North Carolin
has thus spoken of Free Suffrage. We say let thi
( be remembered, for in the late Gubernatoral cam
i, the Register declared that John Kerr was 8
d better Free Suffrage man than David s. Reid =
andiin the next campaign the Register vii. den
the above language, and resort to its old game
9 blarney and deception. s. 8 5. ss'.ss s*,s .65..
HLusTnATEp MAeAzlsEa OF ART We hai
i received the January number Of this work, pu
i i lsked ip New York by a. Montgo gomery, u spru'
I Street. by striinger and Townsend and @. B. No
ton and in Boston 10y Redding & Co; and IN Fl
ladelphia by y. ". M1ore price S. per annu1
h Both the matter and the engrayings in this We
$ are Of superior character. ~
:. PERsos Al 81 News. The Hon. Asa Biggs,
$ Martin, Thomas Bragg Esq ,3of Northamp ton, a
3 ~ssNsN. al Smith, Esq, Of Hertford, are intheGi
: i IN attendance on the Supreme Court. Col. Riff
!, of slNayne, passed through on Thursday .son ]
way home from ayisit to bis friends in Franklin.
Z lS Mr. James Gresham, late of don a
Is formerly of this place, has ken charge sof !
s SkAwreRp HopsE, q Portsmouth, where we h'
doubt he viii receive his friends from this ST
y and TIE Aayelliug public generally ID his .
e sty yles Gail ons Gresham whom you visit 1i
ste iEnoiith a IS .s
ll6is ward q. Hsywoosd. l Esqs h has Besns
aTs pointed Judge saundars CLERK and Mastsl
nss g place e Permit
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