Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-03-04
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IS FREE SUFFER AGE DEADp
Some Of our Wing friends (whos vehemently de
ciared year before last that John Kerr was better
Erie Suttrag man than Davy Reid, . have rscenuy
been atlatng themselves that Free osillae !
dead; oi TO use their own classic and refined 1Pres
sion The Free Suffrage hobby has been rooe :
deaf Much as We are indisposed IN tnslr Oyer
whelnino affection, to disabuse Their minds 81 az
idea that affords them aray OF comlor We mus :;
3 Free Suffrage that has rode the w hig party c
Death Al principle as deeply rooted IN the mnas
<of a free people as Free Suffrage is rooted In 5ne
minds of the people OF North car etss
Tho intrieues of party-the old remnants OF ieu9al
aristocracy still lingering in the bosoms OF oruy
fev--may delay its contamination Tor tine' Out
viii ultimately prevail
1t is true that this subject IS one on Wnlcn Pa
lines need not be drawn but it is one against "ich
the weight Of the Wing party has been cast ~
all remember the open and ayowcd hostility mann
tested BY the Wing papers and orators uufins .ne
canvass of 1913 when it was nfse ~, po,i+
nentlv before the people>by Gov Reid Inc result
of thst camna,gn convinced them that it had taken
hold upon the hearts of the people, and IN looo
they tried to get round in favor OF It. But
natelv for them and their sincerity, tney seht III VI
the same man to stump the State for it, that they
had scnt ont against it two years before Inc Peo-
ME listened and said g Though he now blows not,
he used to blow cold and We will none OF INN.
Democratic triumph was the result, ana iars ma
Themselves before the people to support free . II
60 =, FIR even in Wing counties Wing candidates
found it necessary to make this pledge IN order TO
insure their election
IN tbeg history of Free Suffrage. The Legislature
met IN due time the Free Fuffrage bill was INTRO
dueed and it passed its first and second readings
without difficulty But all at once onJection was
made TO the naooe of obtaining il. An attempt was
made TO hunlbug the Democratic members OF the
West into a meeting !" irrespective of party, and
famous paper afterwards known as the " estern
Address was issued and the country Hooded Win
it This Address was signed by men VINO nao- gone one
to Raleigh pledged in favor of Free Suffrage, and
who had twice voted for it. but opposed 1t on Its
third reading They took ground for convention,
and suggested several particulars IN which they de-
sired 60 see the Constitution altered: ms was IS
probably done to make show of leaping ahead OF
the Democrats in favor of reforms thinking thereby
TO change the popular current to their side or, as
is equally probable this was considered the only
way by which Free Suffrage could be defeated; Tor
Mr. Manly bv his advocacy of "whitc basis, had
arrayed the entire East and Centre against Con-
yention. and as vote of twothirds of all the men,
bers of the Legislature was necessary to call Con
yention it must have been plain to every one that
no convention could be called. Far0r7ng Con
yention, then, was opposing Free Suffrage; and OBJ
iecting to the mode was indirect way of opposing
q principle they dared not oppose directly
But notwithstanding all this, the Free Suffrage
bill passed that Legislature by the constitutional
Tn In the meantime the Wings selected, as their
diflate to run after Gov Reid, certain individual
bv the name of John Kerr, who was fish in the
East flesh in the Centre, and foul in the West and
NOTHING when it came to counting votes. lie was
for and against every thing in general and Free
Suffrage and g white basis" in particular; and If
there had previously been any probability of obtain-
ing Convention, it would now have been mpossi-
bic -
But the Legislature of 1852 met In the House
of Commons the members of which were elected by
all white freemcn, the Free Suffrage bill again
passed and went to the Senate Here, we are sor-
nv to say, there was one Democrat opposed to it,
and he unfortunately had been made Speaker. This
afforded the Wing members an opportunity of de-
feating the bill, and at the time of apparently
throwing the responsibility upon that Democrat,
making him the scapegoat of their sins To pass the
Senate the bill must obtain 81 votes. n Democrats
were ready to vote forit and if it could get Wing
votes it would pass. But these could not be
fonnd-only 6 of them supported IT. thus, according
to previous enlargement Of a Whig caucus, as we
have to believe bringing the bill within reach
of the casting vote of the Speaker which vote they
knew he would refuse to give. And Immediately
the cry was raised that the Democratic party was
responsible for the defeat of Free Suffrage one
member of that party'ceuld have saved it. but would
not Aye, but 16 Wings voted against it, and any
one of that 16 could also have savcdit; and conse
quently the responsibility of the Wing party is Is
times greater than that of the Democratic party.
81 Democrats and Wings voted for the BILL and
16 Wings, and not single Democrat voted against
it This shows who defeated it, and tears away the
fiimsy gauze by which it attempted to deceive
the people into the belief that the Democratic party
was responsible Wings killed Free Suffrage, but
knowing they had outraged the popular will, they
shrank from shouldcring the responsibility.
But the principle is still the same, just and right,
and it will yet triumph.
a. Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,
- The eternal years of God are hers );
and those who oppose it viii but provoke their own
downfall Those who lay the flattering JUNCTION to
their souls that the hobby has been rode to DEATH"
deceive themselves 1t will career proudly over the
State this summer, from Cherokee to Currtuck The
Wing papers may oppose it, if they WILL and go for
q Convention. This thing of Convention has been
talked about and bills to provide for the call of one
have been before the two last Legislatures but they
never received bare majority much less thirds
1t is scheme devised to defeat Free Suffrage, and
the people know it. Salisbury Banner.
TwIN SIsTERs-KANsAs AND NEBRASKA From the |
of the Senate Monday last (says the
Annapolis State Capitol Gazette of the 28th inst)
appears that the bill organizing the Territory of
Nebraska has been substituted by bill organizing
TWO Territories Kansas and Nebraska They both |
lie Immediately west of the State and river of Mis-
'ouri. Kansas extends from the 37th to the 10th |
parallel of north latitude, 2074 miles, Nebraska
extends from the 10th to the 10th parallel, OF to
British America 6234 miles. Both territories ex-
end west to the Rock mountains Fort Leaven-
orth is to be the temporary seat of government
KANSAS The governor of Nebraska will convene the
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