Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-07-19
~ From the Wilmington Journal.
The Speaking in Wilmington.

- ~ sat- From the wilmington Journah
The Speaking in Wilmington. ~
A very large assemblage of citizens congregated
yesterday under the depot shed, at the Railroad
Experience Showed the prudence of having the speak
ing there, fer the Court House could not have begun
to accommodate the numbers who attended.
AT little before ten o'clock the bell rang. ana
shortly sitter, say ten minutes aften ten, Dir. d'mer
commenced speaking. He seemed much worn, and
for some reason did not speak with his usual ANNA
sicn. He touched upon Free Suffrage, accusing Gov.
Bragg Of having been opposed to it in lS4S and in
sistcd that he himself was better Free Suffrage
man than the Governor; next alluded to ms pan
for passing the by amending it. saying that
if he had been Governor OF North Carolina he could
have passed, or had it passed very easily without
his amendment the landed interest would be in dan.
ger. He next spoke of his course OIL internal i'm.
proyement,-denied that lie had been a sectional
man further than his duty to western constituency
demanded Next referred to the River-mouth inn
provemcnt bills passed over the Presidents veto,
and hoped that the day not far distant when the
mouth Of the noble Cape Fear would be opened in
spite Of strait-lxced Democracy.
Mr.. Gilmer next alluded to the public lands and
the influx of foreigners, who were crowding into
these lands to the exclusion Of native citizens.-
Thought the influx ought to be stopped, as being
likely to produce dangerous results. Thought that
the giving Of public lands to build railroads at the
West unjust and enured to the benefit Of North
politicians. who pocketcd their millions and hur-
rahed for Mr.. Pierce.
Mr. Fillmore, in Mr. GiImers opinion, had done
much to secure the tranquility Of the country 6y
means of the compromise measures ana also oy
means of his efforts to have these measures recog-
missed as inality. Mr.. Fillmore, he said had ap-
pointed no man to office who was not compromise
man. Mr. Pierce, he said, had unsettled that state
of things by appointing secessonists to office and
oyen terrible to relate, Catholic had been placed
in his Cabinet He had also appointed foreigners to
l.; that
were wrong He had all the respect in the world
for Mr.. Dobbin, but he did not approve Ut his being
appointed to cabinet Office, because he thought his
having made speech in favor of secession ought to
have prevented it. He also thought that General
Foot ought to have been appointed from Mississippi
instead Of Jefferson Davis. He further thought that
the present administration Of the government was
cxtravagant The only nationality of the Democrat
c party was a common longing for the public plum
der. The expenses were about seventy millions
AR. Gimer read several extracts from MIR. Fill
mores recent speeches. also remarks approbatory OF
that gcntleman's course in 1850, from Gen. Cass,
Mr. Clay and others. He did not approve of the
original Kansas and Nebraska BILL in which he dis
covered squater sovereignty and great many other
things of dangerous character.
These were the main points Of Mr.. Gilmer's speech
We could not see that he advanced one new idea or
departed in any way from the usual stereoyped
newspaper talk Of his party.
Gov. Bragg regretted much that his competitor
would continue to misrepresent him. He demanded
Of Mr.. Gilmcr his authority for asserting that he
Gov. Bragg, was opposed to Free Suffrage in 1S4s.
Here Mr.. Gimer replied that everybody in Mr..
B!agg's county said so, and that the members from
that county, friends of Mr. Bragg, had voted against
it. Mr.. Bragg demanded the name of one man who
said so. Mr. Gilmer was silent. Mr.. Bragg contn-
ued stating that when he and his competitor were
in Northampton county this thing had been bi ought
up. One of the members alluded to had been there
IL w. 1f
Suffrage had not been discussed in the county can
of that year, and the first words exchanged be-
tween Mr.. Bragg and any of the members on that
subject after the latter had returned from Raj
egh, when Mr.. Bragg freely expressed his opinion
that in voting against Free Suffrage they had given
q wrong vote
Thus, said Gov. Bragg nail that charge to the
counter as spurious coin. There let it stick.
As Governor, he had discharged his duty in re-
commencing this measure, which he believed to be
right and proper, and he would do again. But
Mr.. Gmer talked about what he could and would
have done, and how easily be could have passed the
measure by means of his amendment. 1t was Sim
ply necessary to show here, that when Mr.. Gilmer
did offer that amendment, it only got some ten or
twelve votes thus proving conclusivey, that it had
10 sort of strength and that the Senate did not look
npon it either practicable practical. The his
tory of Mr.. Gilmers course was record of uniform
opposition to Free Suffrage, which would now be
part of the Constitution had Mr.. Gilmer voted for
it at the time when he voted against it. If anybody
asked him who defeated Free Suffrage, he would
turn to his competitor and say thou art the man."
All the talk about Convention. amendments, ETC.,
were well understood to have been only so many
parliamentary modes Of warfare upon the bill. IL
was hardly worth while now to go over Mr. Gilmcrs
votes, showing his position in direct opposition to
the present basls-they were all on the record
Neither did he deem it necessary to say much about
his own position the subject of internal improve.
ments. That was before the public in his official
communication to the Legslat Ire, in which he re-
commended the extension of the n. c. Railroad
east and west, and the extension of all the aid to
other works that the credit of the State would per-
NIT. This is his position now.
In regard to the public lands and the emigration
ofore igncrs, Mr.. Gilmer and his darling Fillmore
were at outs. Mr.. Fillmore in his recent Newbury
speech invited the oppressed of all nations to come
here He wanted them. NJ, Gimer wanted to check
their coming. Again, Mr. Gmer talked very strong
about the Illinois Central Railroad, for the building
Of which large amount Of public lands had been
given. All he could say that Mr.. Fillmore did
not seem to have the holy horror of these things
that MIR. Gimer has, for Mr. Fillmore, the pet the
idol and the platform of the Know Nothing can6i.
date for Governor is the very man who signed that
very grant of land, by means of which Northern pol.
iticians pocket millions and hurrah for Franklin
PIERCE, as Mr. Gilmer says
SO far as improving the mouth of the Cape Fear
is concerned he felt as deep an interest in that as
his competitor, or any body else He had done all
his position afforded him an opportunity of dong;-
as Governor of the State he had signed memorial
to Congress on its behalf He sincerely trusted that
all the hopes Of the people of Wilmington would be
realized.
Mr.. Gimer bad attacked the nationality of the
Democratic party, and denounced that party as de-
voted to public plumber. One or two things might
be said Since Mr.. Guthrie had presided over the
Treasury Department man could show the first
dollar had passed out without legal warrant There
was no Galphin case-no Gardner case-no mixing