Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-02-08
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=a17=WEDNEsDAY. FEB. 8. 1854.
WHIG MOVEMENTS.


WING MOVEMENTS.
wbip Convention for this State will assembl
inc ,ooe on the 21st instant, and meetings ar
in TINS r d here and there to appoint delegates. W.
being W. I'D TO review at some length the proceed
bad nh .he Guilford and Hartford meetings, as i
igs u t1o these proceedings indicate with some de
eortainty what will be the action of the Con
gree Vi ;tsef. but we have been prevented from do
7sNuVl -, tbe space occupied in our columns by the
ing HERS Report. 1t is time enough, however
Comp .o,ments on State issues.
for tn' ';,f,rd meeting was moved and managed by
Inc -ob,e political sinner, John A. Gilmer, Esq.
a' ns.olutons are in entire keeping with his char
Ills wv nublic man-unfair, one-sided, irrelevant
acr a. ,:., and marked by bitter hostility to De-
to u' and popular rights. The Hartford meet
no'''' -o.ton ND under the auspices of that most
ing Vas ID ,ousi steat Whig the Hon. Kenneth Ray
d''"'~ those Resolutions, too, are suggestive OF
ner' IN.odonts of the man who drew them. MIR.
the anu, FIR years, shaken in the breeze political
ViIn'l Zoo Suffrage by legislative enactment and
Oet"e'" convention on the Federal basis with the
an Open oh,nqs of the basis generally; but any one
VIC" ,ov,mine his course, and reduce his remarks
VIII h. subject to plain English, must see that his
uPVn Of Free Suffrage is all pretence, and that
s"O and most darling object is to upset the eN-
I'D ,,orromiscs of the Constitution. His organ,
ED .,onsborouch Patriot, loses no occasion to di-
us ~, orsgcd inequality of the Senatorial basis,
ID" =. t;mes almost into tears (of the crocodile
S~Is orsr the spectacle, which exists only in the
U1 .ot;on of that interesting print, OF one white
HH"7 onsow outvoting five white men in Bum
H'"- u. The Patriot pipeth unto Buncombe, but
p,n.oube Fsteneth not; the Patriot waxeth SAD In
-:.r Of Wing disasters, to be occasioned by the
,,nrtb If Free Suffrage as separate and lndepen-
o., 9,.,sure and yet no one seriously encourageth
,a,.Dcboly mood; the Patriot resorteth to artistic
r-t, 70 arouse the people against what it terms
sp.iFs hobby" and caeth hard names with as
.,bocsursnce and partcularity as II it had search
i ho dictionary for its epithets; and yet notwith-
.nd;n, ali this the great West stands where it
an tbe subject of Constitutional Reform, and Wing
r continues to decline, it began to do, in 1913,
in all portions of the State
Mar is the course of Mr. Rayner on this subject
b rssciating or insidous than that of Mr.. Gilmer.
One of the most timid of public men, it is nat
rr,l that he should oppose with caution popular
and powerful measure as that of Free Suffrage;
one Of the most ambitious in his party it is no
matter for surprise that he should so endeavor to
shane his action on this subject to obtain the
nce and enlist in his behalf the preudices of all
sections of the State The Hartford Resolutions arc
but the index to his policy but Mr. Rayner will find,
as ali emporzing and unreliable politicians have
found heretofore, that the people competent to
form their own opinions public affairs, and that
they give their confidence only to such as have shown
themselves entitled to it by straightforward, frank,
and consistent course of action.
tappears to be more than probable, judging from
the tone of the proceedings of Wing meetings, that
their Convention will take ground for free Conven-
ton to amend the Constitution. No one can, how
ever, predict with any certainty what they will do;
they may lay down no platform whatever, but con-
tent themselves with general declarations and with
saving the State with hurrah and much 1ashy elo- I
q1ence on the 22d of February, it being the ami
TeSary of the battle of Buena Vista. Very we'll
We are ready for any revelations movements that
may be made; and we shall not therefore, give our
selves undue concern about what our opponents may
OOrSav