Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-05-10
MR.. BIGGS'S SPEECH.

MR. BIGGS'S SPEECH.
We have read with much interest and pleasure
the speech of Senator Biggs of this State, delivered
in the Senate on the 3Oth April on the Naval Re-
firing Board. 1t is able and well-consdered
speech. Mr.. Bggs has done full justice to the sub
ject, as we'll to Mr. Dobbn, the Secretary of the
Navy, under whose recommendation the Naval Re-
firing Board was authorized, and acted. The wash
ngton Union" in laying the speech before its read
ers, says:
So much interest manifested by the country at large
in everything relating the navy and particularly this
time when no little opposition is made to the operations
and requirements of law passed i'll conformity public
wishes and Ill view OF public necessities that give entire
this morning the very able speech of Hon. Mr.. Biggs Of
the action of the late naval board deiv
cred in the Senate Wednesday last Mr. Bigs has made
an argument which few will attempt to conruver for it is
strengthened with statements which must and will have
their proper effect upon the Countrywide whole forming
triumphant vnd,cation Of the official the navy.
We would be pleased to publish the entire speech
but we doubt whether, with the existing pressure
upon our columns, we can find room for it all. We
shall, however, make copious extracts from it. so
that our readers may judge for themselves of its
style and the corclusveness OF the views and argu-
mcnts which it presents.
Let the patriotic of all parties and all sections stamp
their seal of condemnation upon men, who, to secure
temporary triumph of party would one section of
oul State against the other. Register.
That's the very thing, Mr.. Register, which you
have been doing for the last six years. As soon
you and the arstocratic leaders of your party per-
ceived that Free Suffrage POPULAR and that the
people were determined to have it, you set about to
defeat it, and soon started the Convention ISSUE
The " estern Address," signed by Mr.. Gilmer, and
endorsed by you far you have dared 10 do it.
Of the fruits of this opposition to Free Suffrage;
and at the last session of the Legislature your
didate for Governor having uniformly voted against
Free Suffrage, coed against it again. and in the next
breath advocated Convention to be called in pal
pa6le oiolation Of the Constitution Of the State
thus showing himself sectional man Of the
tremest and most dangerous stamp. You know these
things to be so. You-have been insidiously warning
for years upon the compromises of the State Consti
tuition and believe that, to achieve just par
ty triumph, you would willingly surrender the pres
ent basis of representation in both branches of the
Legislature That is opinion, drawn from your
course for years past. But you will fail. Free Suf-
.trage ciU mph,-BRAGGw will be reelected, and
the State will vote in November next for the Demo-
cratic candidate for President.
GEN. ByNuM's WILMINGTON SpEEcu.-The Will
mington Journal thus notices the extraordinary
speech delivered by Gen. Bynum, one evening last
week, before the K Ms of that place:
"The meeting was addressed by General John Gray BY
num- who spoke at great length We understand that Gen
eral Bynm referred to Free Suffrage "buggaboo'
charged President Pierce with the responsibility Of the anti
slavery excinrnendorsed every word and syllable of his
celebrated Western Address confidence in the hon
esty Democratic leaders, and repeated the talk thereon
been talked by every opponent of the Democratic
party the first. The General did not to take
thing by his notion generally speaking"
The General no doubt suffered his zeal, and his
disposition to create sensation politically, to get
the better of his discretion. The last place in the
State to endorse such doctrines as those contained
in the Western Address," is Wilmington. New
Hanover is one of the largest slaveholding Coun-
ties, and the largest taxpayng County in the State.
Gen. Bynum has damaged his party in that commu-
nifty, as the vote in August will show.
The General says he "has confidence in the
honesty of Democratic leaders," Such dcclara-
ton, from such quarter, is distressing.