Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-07-01
DEMoCRATIe MEETING IN GREENE.

he middle of the week it was a very full meeting1
to nominate candidate to represent said County IN
the lower house of the next General Assembly OF
North Carolina and also to respond to the acton OF
the County of Lenor in regard to candidate to
this Senatorial District in the Senate of the
next Legisat urc and likewise candidate to for
Sheriff in tn is County.
The meeting was organized by calling Matthew
Carr Esq, to the Chair and VIM. A Fields, to Rct
as Seer etary, and on motion committee OF seven
was appointed to report resolutions for the consioe
ration of the meeting whereupon B. ID. Rves, B.
Canaday Benz. Rasburry, Benz Best, Justus u.
Daniel Willis Murphy, Theophilus Grlmley, Esqrs',
were appointed-retired short time and reported
the following preamble and resolutions, Whlch were
unanimously adopted:
of Greene County, have assembled according to pub
lie notice previously given, to nominate candloate
to represent this County in the next Legislature OF
North Carolina therefore resolved, that the PRIV
lepe which the citizen enjoys of peaceaby ana VOL
unfairly assembling to choose one from their own
body, whose merit is his only recommendation 10
favor is privilege that cost the best blood and iVes
of our revolutionary sres, and with US Is without
price and beyond estimation.
ResoEped, That g history, which is philosophy tea
ching by example, !" testifies to us beyond oo9ot
that this great and happy American nation is alto
gether indebted to the Democratic Republican party
for the political liberty which it alone enjoys
Resoloed, That congratulate our country at
large on the passage of the Nebraska and Kansas
bills thereby establishing another lifegving princi-
pie of the Democratic party, whereby the Dody poh-
tic will breathe more easy, whilst at every Pulsatioh
of its great national heart warm and noul1shlng
blood will be sent its utmost exremtes, Ill whose
every current life-to allprospery and happiness,
protection and preservation to the rights OF the states
the general government and the individual cltlZeh
whilst it scouts dissolution OF this blessed Union
from our every midst and for all this and more are
we indebted Democratic statesmen and Democrat
ic policy alone.
Resoired That we approve and endorse our State
and National platforms, and pledge our ourselves to
hest for the complete and nnal
triumph to the end that knowing as we do that
thereby all faction, Reorganization, and dlsumon al
tinities to be "crushed out and an increase OF
power both in the States and the nation and enarg-
cd prosperity are and will continue to be their egiti-
mate fruits
Resolued That we warmly and unanimously cal!
on our friend and fellow citizen, ID. q. W. Ward, to
be our candidate to represent us in the lower house
of the next General Assembly of North Carolina,
and warmly and confidently commit to his hands
the tme-honored flag of our party, and pledge to
him our cordial and hearty support.
ResoZUed That heartily respond to the call
made upon our friend and fellow citizen, James L.
Speight ESQ. of Greene County, to be our candidate
to represent this Senatorial District in the Senate OF
the next Legislature of North Carolina.
Resolced That also unanimously call upon our
present worthy and efficient Sheriff, j. E. Exum, to
be candidate for reelection to said office.
On the 9th resolution, Mr.. Speight being present,
arose. and in very appropriate and eloquent Speech
which was warmly received by the convention, &C
copied the CALL and is candidate for reelection
to the Senate from this District, composed of the
counties of Greene and Lenor and by virtue Of the
call made in the 9TH resolution, motion COM
Inittee of two, composed of Messrs. VIM. Edmond
son and w. Dixon were appointed to wait on DIR.
Ward, who in town, and inform him that a call
of entire unanmIty and great wainth had been made
upon him by the convention to become the candidate
of the Democratic party to represent this County In
the lower house of the next general Assembly. The
DR.. consented to accompany the committee into the
Convention, which, as you may well suppose, Mr..
Editor, gave him warm reception Order being
restored he proceeded in very fciicitous style to
accept the honor which had just been rendered to
him with so much warmth and unanimity. Mr.. Edi-
tor will not attempt to describe the speech which
he delivered on that occasion, merely touching some
of his points, and leaving the imagination to till up
the interstces After congratulatng the country on
its present greatness power and happiness, and its
great future that looms aar in the distance he said
these astonishing results brought about by the
success of the doctrines of the Democratic Republi
can party. He declared that he endorsed both the
State and National Platforms and would sustain the
gallant THOMAS BRAGG for Governor with what abil
ty he could command. He then discussed the great
question of non-intcryention-cl claimed it Demo-
cratic doctrine-said that it first written i'll the
national resolutions of 1886 by the hand of the great
Sias Wright, who now slumbering in the tomb,
reaffirmed in 1910, "A, 49, and 1852. He asked,
what is the doctrine of non-ntervention-sad it
combining the action of Congress to the limits of the
grants specified in the Federal Constitution and
guaranteeing the States the free exercise of such
as they had reserved 20 themselves or the people
respectively, and that the subject OF slavery
only point raised to test great doctrine, and this
doctrine which is acknowledged to be the true con-
structon of the Federal for the first
time since it raised about to be put in successful
operation by the strong of the National Dem
ocracy 1t was true, he said, that the scales that
had so long blinded the eyes of Messrs. Badger and
Kerr had fallen off of late and they now with
us on this subject, but it was also true that Mr..
Badger had spoken in the United States Senate to
prove that the Wilmot proviso was constitutional
and he believed voted against the Clayton Compro-
mise bill in 1913; and Messrs Tombs and Stephens
of Georgia were two of the eight Southern Wings
who voted against the same in the House of Repre-
sontatives to keep the subject of slavery open that
they in unision with the freesoilists and Abconiss
of the North might, they did, elect Gen. Taylor
President of the United States. All four of these
gentlemen as well as other Wings are now very zeal
GUS in their Conversion to non-intervention-
was willing that they should join u.s. but objected to
their claiming it as originally belonging to them.
He said it would consume too much time to dis
cnss the subject of the public lands, but that he
would do it when he came properly before the people,
He then spoke on the subject Of Free Suffrage and
said he was for it. in the language of the chivalric
Pierce, not because it expected of him
dldate but because it lay next to his heart and his
judgment approved it-called it the great American
Democratic doctrine, and said he for it by leg
islatiVe enactment. He said that he could and would
show at the proper time that only five States out of
the whole thirty altered and revised their Con-
situations by convention-that ten States amended
particular parts by legislative enactment and revised
the whole by conventions called in every instance |
by the legslatures-and that fifteen States both al
tered and revised by legislative enactment alone and
he could tell how the remainder of States acted