Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-07-12
FREE SUFFRAGE

i sa
u.o neonle of North Carolina will be called upon
,ao;de on the Sd of next month, whether q Free
sssge Governor shall be elected or not and wheth-
ou .ras will choose enough (three-ffths) members
Cor Of the measure to ensure its passage Through
.be Assembly.
u'U Thonas Bragg, the Democratic candidate, is in
Of this great measure, which proposes to place
" f-oe white men on an equality at the ballot-box
nd Alfred Dockery, the Federal candidate, if in ia
Of it at all, is so reluctantly and is the exponent
" tbe views of party which has opposed the meas
s in various. ways since it was started by David
Reid, and which is seeking. now to defeat it by
sdyocating Convention to carry it out, well know
nr that Convention is not necessary to effect it,
md that if it were such body could not be called
= this time in North Carolina.
At the session of 1850 Free Suffrage bill was
-,.scd by three-ifths vote mainly Democrats,
n,nv of the Wing leaders striving to ,feat it. 1t
-,s nublished by the Governor six months in &C
.orJance with the requirements of the Constitution
Nd Of the session of 1852 it came up on its final
r,s.age on thirds vote. If it had passed. it
on1d have been submitted to the people at the bal
o.box would have been approved by them, and at
,bs election every free white man would have had
be right to vote for Senators as well Commoners.
,,rtv is Justly responsible for its defeat The fol-
lowing is the vote in the House of Commons on the
,ocond reading of the bill-the test vote. We have
nut the Democrats in roman and the Wings in italic
letters:
yEAs-Messrs. Altord, Allen, Avery Barco, Bar
,ot Black Bloc Bryant, Burton, Bynuna of Chat
ham Bynum of Northampton, Byrd, CttdcoeU of
lincoln, Calloaoay Chestnut, Christmas, Cotton, Cor
bett Dobbin, Dobson, Dortch, Dunn, Durham, Ellis,
/l01tb
G@1rin, Gaoynn, Harris of Davidson Herring, Hill
# Caswell, Hill of Duplin, Jarvis, Lander, Leach,
Gockhart, Long of Caswell, Love- Lyon of Gran
Vile Lyon of Orange, Martin, Marshall Matthe,os,
Mills MooIng, Munday McL'ugG1d, a; Iclntgre, Nc
Reid of Duplin, Reid of Rockingham, Rives, Rus
sell Sanders of johnston Saunders of Wake, Scales,
Sheriff., Snaons, Stiles, Strange Stu66s Sutton, TOT
son, Waters, Walton, Ward, Waugh, Webb, Wheel
or Williams of Greene, Williams of Warren, Viii
der Wood and Wynne-84.
NAYs-Messrs. adams, Anais, Brooks, CaldaceHof
Clifford Carnichael Cherry, Cooke, Eractn, Fur,
Harris of Cd6arrus, Holernan, johnson, Jones Long
Of Randolph, Lo,org, A5llcr, PERU Perkins SHIN
Turner of Iredel, Hhitehurst and Tiley-27.
The following were absent or not voting: Messrs.
iIBcrtson Collins Daniel, Darga,a, Hawkins, Ing
ram, Sauls Trerler and Turner Of Orang6-9.
Messrs. Ingram and Sauls were absent on account
Ofsickness.
the BILL and twenty-seven, all Wigs, against it.
See journal of the House of Commons 1852, pages
211 and 212.
Messrs Amis, Caldwell, Carmichael, Cherry, John
son. Perry, Perkins and Smith, are candidates for
reelection Let the Commons voters in their Coun-
ties remember when they go to the polls, that these
men voted in the House of Commons to deny them
equality at the ballot-box with the landholders
Il L c,ll1-
Democrats in roman, Wings in italics:
YEAs-Messrs Al6ritton, ArendelI, Barrow, Ber-
~, Bower, Boyd Brogden, Bunting. Caldwell, Can
aday, Clark Collins, Cunningham, Drake, Hargrave,
Herring Hoke, w. Jones, Kerr, Ellington, Nc
DOWel Mcmillan Murchison, Person, Shaw, Speight,
Steele Thomas, Washington, Ward, Watson, With
ers and Wiley-33.
NAYs-Messrs A16right, Bynum, Cooper, Gil
mer, T. F. Jones, Joyner, Kelly, Lane, ne Geese
Mitchell, Palmer, Parks, Richardson Thompson, and
FoOlfn-15
See Senate journal, 1852, page $50.
The bill not being agreed to by twothirda of the
whole representation in the Senate the Speaker, Mr..
Edwards announced that it was rejected. Twenty
eight Democrats and five Wings voted for it, and ff
teen,aU HAigs against ii. Mr.. Edwards did not vote
at all so the statement in the Register and other
Federal prints that he voted against and defeated the
bill, is seen to be untrue. If the Wing leaders
such good Free Suffrage men, and ifthey were so anx-
i0us in 1852 to the bill pass why did they not,
out of those fifteen votes against it. just spare one
more vote in its favor? One vote would have been
sufficient, but that one vote was denied,
The people can here see, fl ON the records, what
party is that favors and what party it is that op
poses Free Suffrage.
The only hope for the final success of this meas
ue is in and by the Democratic party. Bear that /
mind, people of North Carolina, when you go to
n the to