Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-05-06
CONGRESS-MoNDAY. MAYl

Senate report of the Postmaster General in rela-
ton to the annulment of contract with j. w. ke!-
ly; Also an act of the legislature of Rhode Island
reversing and annuling the Judgment of the supreme
court of that State for treason rendered against
Thomas w. Dorr in 1914.
Mr.. Slidell submitted a resolution, requesting the
Committee on Foreign Relations to inquire into the
eXpediency of authorizing the President of the Uni
ted States during any future of Congress, to
suspend, by proclamation, either wholly partially,
the operation Of the neutrality laws which was a
greed to.
The Senate then resumed the consideration of the
Indian appropriation bill After debate its further
consideration was postponed, and the Senate went
into executive session and shortly after adjourned
HOUSE REPREsENTATIvEs.-The estimates for
paying the volunteers for services on the Rogue
River valley referred to the Committee on Mil
itary Affairs. The House proceeded to the special
order-being local territorial business. The New
Mexico road bill was passed. On motion of Mr..
Bayly, of Virginia, the President requested to
furnish the House with copies of correspondence
with foreign governments in relation to the rights of
neuras aso copies of The instructions of this gov
eminent to representatives abroad in relation to
Cuba and the dispatches of said representatives.
The House went into committee on the organized
territorial bills, three of which afterwards
ported to the House.
That the young men of the State those too, of ed
ucation and intelligence entering the ranks of
the Oemocra party seems to give great offence to
many of the Wing leaders and newspaper writer's,
accorded to man, slow in attributing
tives of an unworthy character to those who choose
to exercise the freedom of action and opinion, to
which, as free men and responsible agents, they
entitled. That the fact of many young men whose
family associations, at least have been with the OPP
posite party, choosing, coming to act for them
selves, to place themselves in the Democratic ranks,
should be omnous of defeat and therefore distastc
full to Wing leaders is natural but afford neither
excuse nor justification for any of the mputations
which such papers the Raleigh Register and Fay
etteville Observer seem inclined to indulge in.
In former times, even during the comparatively
brief period since have had any connection with
politics. the University of the State used to be per-
feet nest, almost, might say, school of Wing
gerry, turning out few young men that were not en-
bued with most bitter prejudice against the DEM
ocratic party. But the current has changed. The
youth Of the State Democrats. OF this fact
had very abundant proofs at the Democratic Con-
vention. The young members of more than one of
the most influential families in the western part of
the state, where chances of promotion very large
ly in favor of the party they leaving, have elect
ed to take their place with the Democrats. Are i'm
putations to be cast their motives? The acccs-
sions to the ranks of any party, from the ranks of
the old stagcrs of the opposite, always few and
far between. The ties of lifetime whether right
wrong are hard to break. 1t is to those entering
life, in great measure unprecedented and compare
lively free to act that political revolutions main
y due. Sweeping denunciations of motives are the
weakest and least worthy of weapons, and seldom
never resorted to save by those who feel their
strength passing away va journal.