Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-05-22
STATE OF NoRTH-cARoL1NA.

WHEREAS the last General Assembly, by act entitled
supplementary act to take tho of the people Of the
State relative to the proposed amendment of the ConSu
tion," did enact follows:
Whereas bill to amend the Constitution of the StatU vf
North Carolina been read in each house of the
General Assembly three several days. and agreed to by
twothrd of each house respectively in the precise words
foewing bill to amend the Constitution of the State
Of North Carolina"
Whereas at the session of the last General Assembly, be-
gun held Raleigh. the third Monday of Novem-
ber in the year of Lord thousand eight hundred and
fftyfour, BILL entitled bill to amend the Constitution
Of the State of read three times
each house of the said General Assembly, and agreed by
respectively And whereas, the bill agreed hath been
duly published six months previous to the election of the
members of this present General Assembly according to the
clause of section of article four of the amended Const
tuition and the directions contained in the second section of
the said bill and it is the Intention by this BILL to agree to
the preamble and first section of the bill aforesaid, contain
ing the said alteration of the Constitution of this State
And whereas large number of the people disfrnchised
ber of the Senate therefore, BE enacted By the General
assembly of the State of North Carolina, and 1t hereby
enacted By the authority Of the same 1othrdS of the whole
Number of met ers Of each house concmr1ng, That the
clause of the third section of the first article of the
amended Constitution ratified by the people of North Car
DINA, the second Monday of November, in the year
Lord eighteen hundred and thirtyfve shall be amend
0entyOme gears, beamg mqtre matmd2ed citizen Of
the United States, and tcho has been lnhaban of the
any election and shall haze paid S6,c arss Snail be ets
uea to cote 0r member the Senate for the dStt1ct an
And Whereas it further provided by the said act
that the foregoing amendment to the Constitution of this
state as embodied in the preceding section be sumbted by
1857 sixty days notice having been given in ten newspa
pers;'
Now, THEREFORE, do hereby give notice to all persons
entitled members the House of Commons
polls will be opened the first Thursday in August next
by the Sher of the respective Counties at the election
precincts within the same take the of the said
voters to the ratification of said amendment to the Con
stuton of the States for ratification to vote with
written printed ticket APPROVED !" those opposed
thereto to vote with similar ticket" Nor APPRovED
Given under my hand, Governor of the State
a in
City OF Raleigh, on the 18th day of May, A: D.,
By the Governor: THOs. BRAGG.
PULASKI CowPER, Pr. Secy
So The Democratic Pioneer, GoldsbOroueb Tribune,
Wilmington Commercial North Carolina Standard Raleigh
Register, Greensboro Times Charlotte Democrat
publish the above weekly Tor sRg SS Snd
send copy of paper containing advertisement with bill
Raleigh Standard.
We publish the above for the information of the
voters of the Cape Fear district who would not 9TH
erwise see 1t. OF course, we do il without charge
which we can afford to do, while we can not afford
to violate the rules which we have adopted for the
government of our orcn business and our refusal
to do which in another matter as may be seen in our
paper of this week, has evidently caused US TO be
read out and excluded from the list of papers pub
fishing the above proclamation. Our subscribers may
rest assured that, however the Journal may be pro-
scrlbed by clique, it will publish, on its own re-
sponslplHly' all that interests the freemen of the
Cape Fear region and the State generalv and stand
up always, and at all times, to true Democratic prn
cples, because such principles are those which gov
ern its Editors-because they believe in themNbe.
cause they fight for them, without pay, patronage
or the expectation of such, save what they receive
from generous public, and noble Democrat,
yeomanry whom they have never deceived, and neye
will deceive
We DO not intend these remarks for Governor
Bragg, because we believe he has acted under advice
which he thought right.
aG-We regret to see from various quarters, the re-
port of the precarious state of Senator RutIer,.
health. 1t is feared that his existence is drawno
rapidly to close. A great and good man, he will
be missed not only by the people of his own Stale
but by the people of the whole country