The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-06-28

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Very respectfully.
b. NJ. EDNEY.
Alfred Deckery was prominent in this WASH
ingion city movement TO influence and control
the votes OF the people OF North Carolina.
Standard on Gen. Edaey's Letter.
The impudenee Of. the Standard in the above
paragraph. is surprisingly bsldiaced, presented
as il is in the face Of the fact, that the letter Of
Gen. Edney, which induced The remark. has been
brought out by . Washington City movement
in order 10 defeat Gen. Dockery. The letter Of
Gen. Edney, We suppose. properly belonged 10
the State Department, and Of course should be
kept there. II is fair 10 presume, therefore, that
some one in The State Department furnished Mr..
Ciinsman with copy Of the letter. which was
published in pamphlet form in Washington City,
10 be used in North Carolina /" 10 influence and
control the votes Of the people" Here, then, Is
" Washington City movement" 10 influence
our elections. which may well s,artle us, as there
is evidence iha, the Administration has hand
in il. The interference in the State elections in
New York should have taught them lesson,
but they seem not to have pro6ted by il. The
Standards ou,cy against the Wings viii not
serve the purpose for which il seems TO have
been intended, viz: 10 conceal the fact that
/. Washington City movement" has been put on
foo, TO elect Me-. Bragg. Let the people Of North
Carolina zee to il. and rcbuke il as il deserves.
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THE CouScIL or STArE.-Ihe Coun.
Gil OF State met at the Executive Office
in this City ON Thursday last. and adj
journed over to Friday for quorum
the following members being in atten-
dance ON Friday: r. s. French, Of
Robeson, President; VIM. X. Lane, Of
Wayne; Whitmell Stallings, Of Gates;
and Kimbrough Jones, of Wake.
The following gentlemen were APP
pointed Directors for the State in the
North Carolina Railroad Company !:
Charles +. Fisher, Of Rowan; Nathan
iel g. Rand, of Wake; Robert p. Dick,
Of Guilford Robert Strange. ct New
Hanover VIM. Il. Dortch, Of Wayne /;
Samuel Hargravc, Of Davidson John
Berry, Of Orange and Geo. ). Steven.
son, Of Craven. Sfandord.
The iilitcral and narrow pariizan feeling which
has influenced the Governor and his Council in
making the appointments above announced, calls
for stern rcbuke, not only from the press but
from every liberal minded man 10 the State. or
the appointments made twelve months ago, sir
were Democrats aud only f,co whigs-which
was bad enough; but now. the whole eight APP
pointed are Democrats! We feel confident that
The history Of this State will no, furnish another
instance Of such narrow-mndcd policy = where
the Governor has been so completely lost in the
partisan. Surely in great State work, in which
Wings. are equally interested with Democrats
for which Wings have literally subscribed, and
Tor which Wings are 10 he taxed equally with
Dcmocrats-jusiicc would require that Wings
should be suffered 10 have some voice in its ma
nsgcmcnt. Bn, Gov. Reid and his Council have
determined otherwise, and by their acts say that
no Wing shall have voice in directing the al
fairs Of the company, so far as they can prevent
it, thus showing disposition as intocrant and
Proscrip,i,e as ever marked Popish bgo,ry. lii
beral minded Democrats throughout the State,
we ave sure, will in their hearts condemn such
illiberal policy, and we hope il will I've spoken
out in tones sufficiently loud and emphatic 10
deter all future Governors from following so un-
worthy an example. For il party influences are
thus suffered to usurp control. who will he able
10 calculate the injury tina, will result 10 the
cause Of Internal Improvements and the consc-
quent prosperity Of the State.
Or BY correspondence published in the
Marlborough Southerner, we see that the Hon.
KENNETH RArSgR has consented 10 deliver the
Annual Address before the State Agricultural
! Society in October next. Mr.. Rayner, besides
having attained eminencc as statesman, is
practical farmer, and was one Of the nineteen
who originated The State Agricultural Society.
The friends Of the cause may therefore expect.
in his address, rich intellectual and practical
agricultural treat.
The Fourth or July viii be celebrat.
ed at Chapel HUI by the Odd Fellows. Citizens
and Students in an appropriate manner. Iohn
r. Hogan, esq. will read the Mecklenbu,e DE.
cIaraticn Of independence: aud Jones Watson,
esq, the National Declaration. John S. Moore. :.
|, esl. will deliver an Grafton appropriate 10 the