Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-11-23
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RALEIGH, WEDNESDAY, NOV. %, 1858.
Heightened FEDERALISM.

SIlcn an EXTRAORDINARY cFeA
per- embued it is with all the principles of Fedora
Iism that we feel it duty to give them special
notice.
The Editor after referring to the fact that the en-
suinr Congress will contain number of new men,
bers, says:
"Thc English are wiser than we arc IN the mater
of giving stability and dignity to the Legislative cna[
acter. If of mark is thrown out 80 tlry
saw by one constituency he Is taken up oy 'nItol'
in an entirely different part OF the country
Who trnt,r3n him to Parliament, and thus his val
nabc experience and talents are secured to inc pup
lie. 1,,,l1;ooo IN +bis nr.ct;ca
~ va sbould not be altogether sorry to see 1t nitro
5,,oaJ among u.s. No injury to popular rights could
ossbly result from it, for the reason that the people
themselves have the whole matter III their hanaS-
What Wing would not have regretted to see MI
frlay- thrown out of Congress, supposng hlm to
Rave been member of the House? And what Ken
tucky Wing in a different district would not nave
freely chosen him as representative! mere were
in like manner few Democrats IN North carolina
who would not have voted under SlnlIaf Gil
ces for Mr.. Macon"
Read the foregoing carefully, felloy-citizens and
then ask Yourselves if it can be possible that these
continents are those of an 11merican Editor!
The Enclish-that is, the fifty thousand or so of
the nobility and their services who control English
nrl;c atfars-are aristocratic than other Peo-
,1cs and their government is OF a class and
iran, = class than any other civilized government;
INIT that they are "wiser" than those illustIious
eogcs and patrots who framed Constitutions, we
have vet to learn In England it is the custom to
have member of Parliament chosen, not necessari-
" for the locality in which he resides but he may
reside in London and be elected from distant dis
trict or shire The sons of the nobility, and fast
Young men " not of the nobility, but who have an
abundance of gold and reasonable stock Of assur-
ance are frequently managed into Parliament in this
way; and they take their seats, after having gone
through the farce of election with as little knowl
edge of the peculiar wants and interests of their
stituents so called as if they had been chosen for
India or some department in the moon 1t some
times happens, it is true, that g man of mark is
returned for distant locality, and Edmund Burke,
we believe, first entered the House of Commons in
this way; but the fact that good men arc sometimes
chosen, or that young man is now and then set
forward who afterwards distinguishes himself cannot
be offered argument in favor of system which
was born of government patronage and favor, and
whose workings directly against the great prin-
cipe which binds the representative to the consttu
ent by the ties of knowledge one of the other, and
of homOgeneousness of interest.
But adds, the Register " there is nothing ant-Re
publican in this English "practice, and we should
not be altogether sorry to see it introduced among
us"!!! Where are we? Is this North Carolina?
Is this free Democratic State? Is this Uhiggery?
We confess not only to surprise but regret at such
sentiments these. We call upon our contemporary
to take them back We appeal to him, fellow
citizen-we wish could say Republican
under this November sun, and in the full blaze OF
the nineteenth century, to cancel to recall, to blot
out those words Why, what is there of g wisdom"
much already? We are a young, free, scfexistent,
selEdepcndcnt-not naton-but confederation of
sovereign States. We threw of English practices"
in 70, buried them in the grave by the adoption of
the Federal Constitution in So and we sealed their
resng-place by the blood of heroes not for a CEN
tury, but for all time. Our progress is forward, not
backwards to the dead past; and we should
think of establishing Engands orders of nobility
of following the example which she sets US, of separ
Gting the representative from the constituent, by al
lowing the former to be chosen, not by the people
among whom he resides and to whom he is known,
but by distant people, and that too by the aid of
gold. Take it back, Mr.. Gacs-or if not, appeal to
the Wings of the State and see if one of them, what
ever they may think or feel will sustain you-or go
before the people of Wake County, and advocate
such sentiments, and if you will poll many
two hundred votes
The Editor undertakes Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Macon
when he supPoses that they might have been excud
ed from public fe if not, he assumes that they
might have been defeated by an abandonment of par
ty Obligations. But they were never either excud-
ed nor defeated for Seats in Congress they were in
Decd "men OF mark, and such men, though thew |
may commit mistakes are seldom set aside so long |
as the people have confidence in their INTEGRITY of
purpose. Mr. Clay, for instance as we'll as Mr. Cal !
noun, and COL johnson, of Kentucky, voted in Con-
gresS to give members Of the House a fixed salary:
and yet this VOTE though unacceptable to their con-
sutuents and almost universally condemned, did not |
exclude them from the public service. They admit
ted their error, and promised to do better in the flu
lure and the people, always generous, and having
entire confidence in their integrity, returned them
our knowledge of the character of the man. would |
nave scorned seat in Congress if it could possibly
nave been rendered him by distant, and to him,
comparatively unknown constituency.
reoerallsm, like the Bourbons neither forgets nor !
ie'inS' Is you acere, is its motto; and hence its
oPpostloh 10 the extension of territory and conse-
quehtiy OF Hee Institutions and to Free Suffrage in
North Carolina 1t holds as a sacred and vital trntb
ot government aoas made to control the DeoDZe and
'o' ne people to control tile government and thia
opinion is more less conspicuous in all it saws and
uoes' 1t is emphatcaly English in its origin in its
1i0ueS OF thought, and in its tendencies; in other
ofaS, What is known in this country as Federalism,