Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-06-07
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RALEIGH, SATURDAY, JUNE 8. 1904
THE DISCUSSION IN RALEIGH.

The candidates for Governor addressed the people
., This Mace on Wednesday last. Mr.. Bragg spoke
arst He opened by alluding to the fact that the
Who leaders had abandoned all their former issues
but one that of distribution of the lands or their
nrocecds and upon this they relied for inducing the
neope to restore them to power. His competitor,
Gen. Dockery, had dwelt much upon this, and ap-
neared 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 was to secure to the people OF the
savehoding States equal rights in the common ter
itories with the non-slaveholdng. He gave his
ory of this measure-showed that it was introduc-
ed BY Democrat, sustained by President Perce's
administration and passed mainly by the Democrat
| c rote-but fourteen Wings in the House of Repre-
sntatves out of seventy, voting for it. and no Wing
from the free States sustaining it By roiee or rote
He charged that Gen. Dockery and the Whig press
had sought to give this question the go-by-that
though they pretended to be for nonintervention on
questions of slavery by Congress, yet their course
had been such as to afford no strength to the Ne
braska and Kansas BILL He referred to the support
accorded to the measure by Messrs. Badger and
Kerr, and to the fact that Mcssrs. Rogers and Pur
year 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 Whig papers of the free States
had already raised the cry of the repeal of the Ne
braska 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
repeal? Would he 60 again into National Conven-
don with the Wings of the free States, who were
hostile to to our rights and interests and who
had given 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 account of the arrest of fugitive
slave; and paid high compliment to President
Pierce for his firmness and promptitude in enforcing
the law Gen. Dockery, in his reply, said nothing
Of this, and thus withheld common justice from the
resident his only reason for it no doubt being that
the administration is Democratic
Mr. Bragg then alluded to the effort so constantly
and Systematically made by Gen. Dockery to show
mat our Common Schools were established by the
Wing party. He said this was no party question,
and be would not treat it as such but he would re-
er to the facts that nearly all the funds devoted to
common Schools were received under the deposite
act which was approved by Gen. jackson, and that
me act establishing Common Schools was drawn
advocated, and pressed through, to a large extent
J! hon. W. H. Haywood, a distinguished member
VI the Democratic party. He said he was as much
Ill laVor Of Common Schools as Gen. D., and that he
ano the party he represented would go as far as any
man or party to improve thel system SO as to
" all the children Of the State the advantages O
education.
!, on the question of internal impl ovements Mr.
D.aes SAID he had been grossly misrepresented. II,
s''u % ne had no land hobby on this question; tina
"s improvements to be made must depend, as thos'
:" Ae past have depended, on the resources ant
u'ans OF our own citizens that he was for looking
matter in the face and for dealing with as it was
.Aat he would scorn to deceive the people by prom
- ,'' monies from the general government to ali
A'A' Ill making improvements, when it was wei
A.OSn such promises could not be made good. Ell
,,.: ne desired it to be known every where and b
s. s'uea that it should be known, that he stood O.
Gus Gus question on the Resolution of the Conventio
a"' nominated him, which Resolution, in his judg
' was fuller and more explicit than the one adop
N.Y. W. W the Wing Convention. Objections had bee
70 the declaration in the Resolution that work
ua DC prudently undertaken and carried forward
" Ill., ne desired to know if any could wish to Sc
t's 1sse works imprudently undertaken. Railroad
~. al one time been quite unpopular among us, 0
h.. sOuns - OF their msmanagement by Wing leaders
na. n.y. 'uss state Of things had passed away, and Al
t,.a I" a" parties now concurred as to the impoi
d"" '. and necessity Of going forward ii the work
ls,. lsOpng our resources and Of building up MAJ
lass :. "''n'n our own borders twas, therefore
nra.. !" argue to the people the sdyantsges q Il
'''''"ents the danger was, if indeed sny dsnes