Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-06-03
THE DISCUSSION IN RALEIGH.

THE DISCUSSION IN RALEIGH.
rhecandidates for Governor addressed the people
.. ,b;s Mace on Wednesday last. Mr.. Bragg spoke
Get He opened by abiding to the fact that the
Who leaders had abandoned all their former issues
h, oue that of distribution of the lands or their
nrOceeds and upon this they relied for inducing the
,oonle to restore them to power. His competitor,
Con Dockery, had dwelt much upon this, and ap-
.red disposed to avoid important matters of recent
date especially the Nebraska and Kansas bill-a
measure which had just passed Congress, and the
object of which to secure to the people of the
saveholdng States equal rights in the common ter
raores with the non-slaveholdng. He gave his
nrv of this measure-showed that it was introduc-
ed BY Democrat, sustained by President Perce's
administration, and passed mainly by the Democrat
icYote-but fourteen Wings in the House of Repre-
antatves out of seventy voting for it. and no Wing
from the free States sustaining 1T by roice cote
lie charged that Gen. Dockery and the Wing press
had sought to give this question the go-by-that
though they pretended to be for non-intervention
questions of slavery by Congress, yet their course
had been such as to afford no strength to the Ne
brska and Kansas bill. He referred to the support
accorded to the measure by Messrs. Badger and
Kerr and to the fact that Messrs. Rogers and Pur-
wear had voted against it. and he desired Gen. Doc
kerry to state in his reply whether he with the
former gentlemen or the latter in this matter. He
stated also that the Wing papers of the free States
had already raised the cry of the repeal of the Ne
baska bill, and it therefore became important to
know where North Carolina would stand on the
question, and he wished to know where Gen. d.
would stand. Would he join or oppose this cry of
L
ton with the Wings of the free States, who were
hostile to a to rights and interests, and who
had given no support to the Nebraska bill? He call
ed upon Gen. D. to reply to these questions Mr..
Bragg also referred, in this connection, to the riot
in Boston on acco unit of the arrest of fugitive
slave; and paid high compliment to President
Pierce for his irmness and promptitude in enforcing
the law. Gen. Dockery, in his reply, said nothing
. Of this, and thus withheld common justice from the
President his only reason for it doubt being that
/ the administration is Democratic.
Mr. Bragg then alluded to the effort so constantly
and Systematically made by Gen. Dockery to show
. that our Common Schools were established by the
Wing party. He said this was no party question,
and be would not treat it such but he would re-
fer the facts that nearly all the funds devoted to
act which was approved by Gen. jackson, and that
the act establishing Common Schools was drawn,
advocated, and pressed through, to large extent,
BY Hon. W. H. Haywood, distinguished member
OF the Democratic party. He said he was much
IN favor of Common Schools as Gen. D., and that he
and the party he represented would 60 far as any
man or party to improve the. system to secure
to all the children of the State the advantages of
| education
On the question of internal imp ovements Mr..
Bragg said he had been grossly misrepresented. He
SAID he had no land hobby on this question that
Tue improvements to be made must depend, as those
Inc past have depended, on the resources and
means of our own citizens; that he was for looking
Inc matter in the face and for dealing with it was
aae ne would scorn to deceive the people by prom
sS Oh monies from the general government to aid
HeNn IN making improvements, when it was well
Ano~n such promises could not be made good He
sa ne desired it to be known every where, and he
aamed that it should be known, that he stood on
IS question on the Resolution of the Convention
uS' nominated him. which Resolution, in his judg-
ent was fuller and more explicit than the adop-
w ~ the Wing Convention. Objections had been
10 the declaration in the Resolution that works
uHucTCdheH anu cdTI1eu
VI lie desired to know if any one could wish to see
'Se works imprudently undertaken. Railroads
~ " one time been quite unpopular among us, on
s'uu' OF their mismanagement by Wing leaders;
" mat state of things had passed away, and all
vi aA parties now concurred as to the impor-
l.1 anu necessity of going forward in the work of
!. 'Oplhg our resources and of building up mar
L "''lin our own borders 1t was, therefore, use
rnu' " argue to the people the advantages of i'm
~. the danger was, if indeed any danger
snas ' 'nat the system might be run into extrava-
a. " ana the State involved in debt larger than
asaton. p"'' "''nous ieSOi' - i'SS''e
s,aa =, ne had replied to Gen. D., and he now
So1b 'a' ne saw no objection to extending the
s,s carolina road eastward to Beaufort and west
I'm. ~. ne tennessee line, on the two-thirds, the
no rt.H.'ple OF the charter of the present Road;
bean. :. mat where the people would invest their
Ties. would be safe for the State to do the same.
dep,S enslons appeared to be just, expedient and
ss ofma oy the voice Of the people and the inter
not hn NC State The sum required for them would
lamar my means, as his opponent had admitted in
sed r. nave to be raised at once; but could be
Rad NO. ume to time, as needed The Central
dor th 10. yet completed, nor all the money call
I'D be- ~. It had been chartered some six years:
ms ousy' in maintaining the position
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