Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-07-26

rood master This occurred in the morning. he
was taken from the water in he evening, about one
hundred yards below the mill, and conveyed 70 MS
house BY his friends.
Mr. Richardson leaves wife and five children,
with large circle of friends, to mourn their IRE
parable loss. He was generous, n0bie-nearteo
man, and his loss will be long and deeply felt.
*.*Register and Signal will please copy.
For the Standard.
The Discussion at Franklin's, Wake.
MEssRs. EDITORS had the pleasure Of hearing
the candidates for the Legislature and for Sher'h
address the people at Frankn's on Monday the 2lst
Wake. They locked together in hundreds to hear
the advocates of principles, which is an earnest
of what they will d. in carrying out those prnci-
pies in August and November at the polls. Our ex-
cellent Sheriff, and present candidate, W. d. High,
led off in speech of half an hours length in which
he told the people that he was and always expected
to be good Democrat though he did at one time
join the dark concern, in order to ind out
what his friend and opponent, Maj. Jones, was do
ing in there; but soon he found out what COM
pany he was in, he did not take time to turn round
but came out backwards as hurriedly man could
come out by that mode of locomotion. His speech
and explanation we'll received by the large crowd
present. and the darling object of defeating him, as
cherished by the midnight congregation, is destined
to disappointment
NJ. A. Bledsoe then rose and addressed the people
for an hour and half in a clear and forcible man
peg, which will tell the 7th of August. The miser-
able twattle, INDUCED in by Know Nothings of the
windy degree, that Bedsoe cannot talk and will not
get the strength ofhs party, is all gas without any
truth. The masses like him, and, most of all, they
like the great principles he advocates and will there
fore elect him, Know Nothings and niggers to the
contrary Notwithstanding
The high and the Hon. Sion 81. Rogers, the Know
Nothing, anti-Nebraska candidate for the House of
Commons, with whole cart load Of documents and
bali dozen boxes Of lozenges, appeared to speak
before the people on great principles; but just at
this time the dulcet tones of 15dds were heard,
which had more charms for the people than Mr.. RS
red back documents, or his promised discussion of
great principles y; yet few remained, among them
| many Democrats, who had heard the grandilOQuent
declaration that the Know Nothing candidate would
discuss great principles" and vindicate his vote
with the vile abotonists of the North the Ne
braska bill. confess did cherish the hope that
we were about to learn the deeply considered views
and opinions founded patient observation, and
matured thought, added to unusual sagacity but
alas! for human hopes, he commenced his discus
sion of "great principles by abiding at length to
the little petty matter concerning an election pre-
cinct which some twenty men wanted at Franklins,
| and which was before the last County Court. The
anti-Nebraska candidate knew that lie was then at
Franklns where these few men wanted the precinct,
and therefore was willing to pander to the prejudices
and feelings of these few neil to get their votes-
| lie takes another dose of loZenges and commenced
his vindcation. Well, he may be an unusually saga
cious mamie may have seen clauses in the bill in
furious to the South which Mr.. Badger and all the
able Senators from the South could not see-he may
have boldly rebuked three thousand fanatcal poiit
cal preachers for entertaining fears in regard to the
bill that had no foundation-he may have done all
this, yet he utterly failed to conceive the
yeomanry Of Wake County that he had not violated
his trust and voted that bill in opposition to their
! views and wishes. The whitening rebuke that will
come upon him at the polls was depicted on
| their countenances and heard in their words, when
! they classed him with Seward Sumner and Beecher
men who would have drenched the soil of the
South in blood to prevent the passage of the bill,
| which found in Sion II. Rogers a warm supporter.
Vengeance is on the wing, and in August the people
| of Wake, who love our fair Southern land and who
would die in its defence, will speak in thunder tones
and consgn the cO-operator with the vile abolition
lists of the North the Nebraska bill to political
grave from whence there shall never, never be
| surecton.
| A. NJ. Lewis made a powerful and impressive
speech which cannot notice at length, having al.
| ready taken up more room in your columns than
| intended. N. G. Rand and Maj Wilder were pres
| ent, mingng with the people and doing valiant SER
vice in defence of Democracy. Old Wake will be
true to herself the Constitution and to the South
in the coming contest by giving the largest Demo-
cratic majority polled Let the balance of the
State do likewise and the Union is safe from the dam
gers of sectonasm and fanaticsln