Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-04-30
GOV BRACES INAUGURAL.


W. re.npblish to-day the Inaugural Address Of
Gov Bragg, delivered January LIST, 1855.
We ask the people of all parties to read TINS doc
rmcnt carefully, and then say if the Governor has
,,t bcen faithful and true to his principles and to
,,;s hedges therein contained.
r,r Rraes is in favor of Equal Suffrage, and is
..,ssd to Convention; Mr.. Gilmer has uniformly
vaed against Equal Suffrage and is in favor ola Con-
ont;ou. Gov Bragg is in favor of the present basis
of representation; Mr. Glmer is opposed to it, and
~. h;tcrlv complained that under this basis sta0e-
1ohers and taxpayers hace too much pos0er. Gov
pr,ce is in favor of amending the Constitution ac-
o,rdine to the mode pointed out by the instrument
;tsslf. Mr.. Gilmer holds the radical, dangerous,
and revolutionary doctrine that bare majority OF
.ho ,eople at the ballot box, have the right to call
Convention and alter the Constitution. Mr. Gllmer
cows uou-not that he is in favor OF the basls-but
.h,+ . in order that the paramount principles OF
,mor;capsm may not be trammelled in the ensuing
..ntsst nv vexed State questions" he will "abde
bv and maintain it-.1or the present! lie cons'o-
ors Know Nothngism paramount to all other issues;
and hence, for the present, he will not be tram
mclled by his real opinions as to the basis anu
Convention, He postpones his attacks upon the
shareholders, and upon the taxpayers, ana upon 'he
comnromiscs of the State Constitution solemhiy
.rreed upon in 1885, to u more Convenient season.
Tr,st him who will? He says he is not opposed TO
roua, Suffrage in ITSELF but that he has voted against
+ becausc he regards the legislative rode OF OBTAIN
;na it as unwise and anti-republlcan. "hy' 'ne'''
dJ he vote at the last session of the Assembly to
amend the Constitution By this rery mode, so as to
;,.reose the tar on slares' [See Senate journal,
mage 1907 Again, his friends say that, lnasmuch
.s I'll: East has recently been liberal IN voting ap-
nro,ria,ions for internal Improvements, Mr. Gl'mer
:; ;sDoscd to let the basis remain as it is. Ii so,
rh, did he not rise in his place in the last Assem-
bvy and 50 declare? That was the time to do IT.
-. too late now. Instead of this, however, he sup
norted at the last session bill to call Convention
to change the basis by bare majority OF the voters
Of the State, in papable violation of plain provis-
ion of the State Constitution
Gov Bragg is opposed to the Missouri restriction,
and approves the act repeating it; Mr. Gllmer de-
nounces this act as .rcckless and unwse and holds
President Pierce responsible for aiding in its passage
Nessrs. Seward, Trumbul, Wilson: Ford, Gardner
and other Northern SS -" eiA'' '''~',
Mr. Gimer. How is it? Is not this agreement in
oninon between a Southern man and Northern abo-
ltionsts most singular ones How will MIR. Gill
mers friends explain it?
We shall publish in our next the Resolutions OF
the last Democratic National Convcntion-the Res
olutions of the late Democratic State Convention OF
North Carolina and the Resolutions of the Green's
borough X. n. Convention, together with the Phil
adclphia platform of February approved at Green's
borough, so that our readers may have all the docu-
mcnts before them in one paper. By the way, how
does it happen that of the K. n. papers of this
State have published since the Greensborough Con-
venton the Philadelphia platform, then and there
endorsed? Are they afraid to keep it before the
people? We remember that they kept the June
platform, containing the 18th section on slavery,
standing in their columns; but they appear dis
posed to bury away from sight the February plat
form They tell their readers that they approve it,
but are careful not to let them what it is.