Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-03-22
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LETTER ROM Pr EBUR MOGcASI
MoceAsISyILLE, d.

- - |Ezsss Feb. q IL ISt4 IS
Mn PsisruRs e have been looiin al all the ~
about Free sa utTsge but they
lent on that subject sum of lneetiDss
glance at it sidewa but they Sit of Of jest Ike
they had trod sulutha hot. the bye
that got amung Yesterday. There was a knot OF
Cor Of them got together, and Bill was tell them
that Davy Reed wanr Governor no longer but had
gin it up to Gen. Duckery, who was ded out
asin Free Suffrage If axed Bill if he had seen the
platform laid down by the Wing Convenshun
PlatformI r SEES he Why they didn't have plat
formthe met in the State louise IS : But their
ses he, what theygh - " ell SEES Is they go
in for unlimited restricted Conve nshun. =" . That's
the vary idec, SEES Bill go in for that too That's
better n Free Suffrage And Bill and 8 or more
of them began to holler hurra for Conycnshun.
g Stop, ses 81 made mistake-its unrestrieed
limited Conyenshun that they go for. IN ell,
that's still better-thats what IN for too and alters
has bin' shouted Bill, and went on and left them
to rejoice their :. unlimited restricted Conyen-
shun," unrestricted limited Conyenshun, jest
as they were mind to have it. Now if Bill didn't
have so acres of land wouldn't he be a fool
But got hold of Greensboro Patriot not long
ago that argues that Free Suffrage would destroy
the proper checks and balances; that to allow all
to vote for Senator's as well Commoners would
render 9 Houses useless; and that the distincshun
is necessary for good government. Well, ant it
strange that the other 30 States of the Union have
2 Houses and no land qualifcashun? jest want
to the Patriot II liberty is tnaC sort tnat re-
qures political inequality to preserve it? If It'll
go for THROWN it away and tryin' some other sort
Is that republicanism that requires so acres of land
to make a>freeman? Is that freedom which is best
kept by half the people? 1t looks to like there
is more &C check" than =" balance" in this. Old ars-
tocracy mustn't usurp the of liberty in which
to preach its principles of inequality. 1t mustn't tell
us it can preserve lbreties better than we can
ourselves. That doctrine may do in Europe, where
they have kings and lords and all them sort OF
things; but it won't so down here. Our fathers
didn't fight for half representashun nor agin whole
taxashun. They were willing to pay taxes, but
they wanted them taxes laid by their represen-
tatves.
But the elecshun is comm agn this year. and we
may expect to hear Wing candidits loud in their
profeshuns of love for it. They went it strong jest
before last elecshun but afterwards they didn't want
it. and did all they could kill it. Why, they sent
a Teller up through these parts-I b'eve his name
John Carr, and some folks sed he was runnin'
for Governor-that looked like he'd bust right wide
open for Free Suffrage, and after while he'd kinder
forgit and sneer at it ga hobby" He tried to
roar like lion, and tramped about while he was
speakin like mad bear chained to post but the
people seed he only brayin' like a jackass, and
they didn't like him, for they didn't b'eve he was
sincere. ruther guess that hobby" gave him
about as hard kick as he got though he has
had heap of them and if it don't kick Gen. Duck
cry too I'm mistaken. Yorrn till deth,
PINEBUR MOCCASIN.