Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-04-29


eating his election notwit Outstanding had spokeI.4
favor Of change of the would support 1'ELles
And D0tWt andng Of Late meeting q some le57,
handfpln Henderson who are to meet y 4snYllls
nothing he basis would not be disturbed he
dwelt upon this than he desired but he knew
dr. Bragg would dc along, and would try to blow
up fame in the minds of the eastern people and
attempt to frghten them upon the subject.
The next subject he would cali to the minds of
his audience was that of general Edicdtaoaa Il was
Z one Of much importances and one he desired much
to see fostered and promoted. The fnst speech he
made was on the subject of general Edication
He had advocated itupon the same principle that q
sick man valued the blessings of heath from feel
ing the need of it-said Mr.. Wiley was doing much
stoadyance the cause, and hoped would continue I'M
til every child in the State should enjoy Its adyanta
ges. His speech here was a very pretty one, to
all patriots and parties could and would agree
State improvements was another subject OF great
importance. He declared himself its warm adyo--
cate, and for the extension of the North Carolina
Railroad to Beaufort and the mountains. He VAS
one of the earliest advocates of the Beaufort Harbor
road, (Recolleet he is the line of the sur
svey of the road to BEAUFORT Hag6or, and presents
himself as its warmest and oldest advocate. he has
an. axe TO grind, perhaps.) In the Convention in
1885, IN the Governors parlor, the State House then
not finished some night, he proposed that five mil
lions of dollars should be appropriated by the Legs
lature to buid railroad from Beaufort Harbor to
the ntains--that he went home and told his con-
stituents what he had done-they sustained his
coursc-appointed a committee of three, he being
one to harangue the people upon the subject at the
several precincts of the county-that Richmond
county, God bless her, way down yonder on the
South Carolina line, has always been warm friend
to Beaufort Harbor-that his part and the western
part of the State for the road and ought to
have it, in order to build up great city at Beaufort
Harbor. He here calculated the State debt, and
made it amount to something like four or five mil
lions, and contended the Central road should be
built although the debt might be increased to eight
ten millions thereby. After referring to the State
debt, he said that this debt would have to be paid,
the interest now, the principal hereafter-and how
was it to be paid? This was question of immense
magnitude and greatest importance, for the people
to consider and determine. Two plans had been
proposed. "he Wing plan and Democratic plan.
The Democratic plan is by IdrotiOn, which he
opposed to-the bonds of the State had to be hawk
ed all over the State as they had been-and he was .
opposed to this. His plan was to derive money
from distribution of the public lands-al the 9TH
er States west were getting public lands to build
their railroads.&c. educate their chidren-to build
Colleges-Courthouse and Jails, and North Carroll
should have her share of the public lands for the
same purPoSe-but the States refused her-and
the Democrats opposed to her having her share
of the lands. They had said so in several of their
county meetings-the Standard and ,:ther papers
were committed on the question, and the ConVen-
tsn would have to commit itself it, or else make
an India Rubber sort of platform. He was inclined
to believe they had done So for he had learned that
Mr. Eenable had been conciated, and made speech
before the Convention. He said Mr.. Bragg op-
posed to distribution-had been nailed to the table
on this question.
He boosted of Distribution, as the plan of Clay
and Webster, and was thew hig plan. He referred
to Judge Douglas having used his influence in
Congress to have appropriation of public lands
to build the Illinois Railroad in alternate sections
miles wide, for $50 miles, and condemned this
squandering of the public lands to the West and re-
fusing to give North Carolina her sharc-referred to
the Minnesota Railroad bill and Mr. Kerr's amends
ment for the reserved sections to be given to the old
States, and that then Congress killed the bill after
he Her 70 theft at 4
the State Ct Illinois, after getting the land for her
road, had afterwards sold it to the wealthy of
the Northern cities and to some Englishnen and
Scotchmen who now owned the land, after building
the road and had made twenty millions of dollars
by the speculation more money than owned by
all the Banks of this State; and complained that |
turrOners Goreigners) should grow rich out of US,
and North Carolina not have her share. He
planned that a Democratic Congress should be squan-
dering away the public lands to the Western States
and not give the old States their share. He said
Mr.. Bragg had asked him if Mr.. Fillmore did not
sign this Illinois and other land bills? He said he
had replied YES; but Mr.. Fillmore was President,
AMI was opposed, as his party was for interposiDg
the one man power" in opposition to the wishes of
a majority of the peoples reprcsentatves-(he con-
dennis Congress for doing act and then excuses
Mr. Fillmore for approving it-what consistency D.
he said the veto should only be used for party egs
lation violations of the Constitution. He spoke
of the Democratic party as being in the wrong pew
the question of distribution and wanted to get
out Of it if they could or knew how. 1t was hard
thing for the old liners to confess themselves wrong
the people were right and would do right if the
leaders would let them and did not deceive them;
but occasionally of them would jump out of their
pen and had jined (joincdD us-Ieferrcd to Judge
Saunders whom he styled old Roane, and Vena-
bic, and Leake, and d. X. McRae, Esq.
The General referred to the divisions of our party
in the last Legislature upon the land question-sad
there four kinds of Democrats there. The first
believed that it constitutional to distribute the
lands, but not the proceeds of sale the money The
second believed it constitutional to distribute
the money but not the lands The third believed
that it unconstitutional to distribute either the
lands the money. The fourth believed it was un-
constitutional to distribute 6oth-the land and the
money. He hoped the Democrats would all unite
and agree upon what the constitution, and not
require him like porcupine to fight them in all di-
rections He said Mr. Bragg was opposed to dstri-
button, and among other reasons that 1T would be
placing North Carolina sovereign State in the po
son of begear at the feet of the general govern
ment." He repudated the idea of North Carolina
being beggar in asking for and demanding her rights
lands "Whati" said he, North Carolina beg
gar at the foot of Pierce?" He would rather have
North Carolina to go the poor house than beg at the
should be elected it would be heralded and claimed
as Pierce and Reid triumph-that they had been
sustained by North Carolina declaring against dis
tribution when he believed her people were in favor
of it.
4 He would close his remarks but it might be ex-
pected of him to say word or two about General
Pierce. He began by referring TO the campaign
how Scott had been abused-and that old Seward
fhe collntrv yyolilds runed if