Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1857-03-04

of his age. The ancestors of Gov Cobb, we believe,
were from Lenoir County, in this State.
New STATES AND TERRIroR1Es.-Bills have been
introduced into the House of Representatives provi.
ding for the admission into the Union of Minnesota
8 and Oregon after the necessary steps shall have
81 been taken by the people thereof They will no
II doubt be admitted at the next session of Congress-
The committee in the House have reported adj
y versey to the petition of the inhabitants of por-
4 ton of New Mexico for the formation of new
Territory, to be called Arizonia-the main reason
given is the paucity of the population.
portion of the citizens of Carson Valley, Utah,
have asked that their district be annexed to Calfor
mia, on the ground that not being Mormoms they
suffer great wrongs at the hands of the Saints"-
The committee on Territories reported adversely to
their petition the ground that to grant it would
only extrpate small portion of the evil complain
Cd of; but that something more needed to eff:
feet radical cure of the moral and political pest-
= lence which makes Utah the scandal of the Amer-
- can people" This means would be found in bill
- now calendar for 4" the prevention and punish
ment of polygamy." They also say that the State
y of California is already too large, and would be
made still more unwieidy by the extension of it's
boundaries
Besides the Territories above mentioned there are
4 New Mexico Kansas, Nebraska, and Washington,
organized; and Dacotah together with vast regions
q still to be named, organized and possessed by the
increasing millions of this highly favored country
REcoNs1DERArroN-A NEW SYsrEM.-We think the
last Legislature ought hereafter to be known the
8 reconsider session. and that the democratic party
should receive full credit for having inaugurated the
system of despachng business by the rule Of double
s reaction. Salisbury Watchman.
q Think twice before you speak act once, is a
q good maxim as we'll in public in private life.
The Legislature is blamed by the K. n papers. first,
because it did nothing-sccondly because it did too
much in one respect and not enough in others
thirdly, because in some things it acted hastily and
without due delberation and it is censured,
because it reconsdcred questions and then, and
passed rejected them finally only after the most
patient and faithful consideration. We perceive
more clearly than that it was not possible for
4 the last Legislature to please the Know Nothings
1t would have been more to their credit, and bet
ter for the country, if the Know Nothngs and their
I predecessors the Wings, had "reconsidered their
action. not only at the last but at previous sessions
They should have "reconsdered" before they cast
thirty three votes in the Commons, out of forty,
"reconsidcred" before, in 1885, they voted for the
"Mexican Preamble" and also to Gerrymander the
State so as unjusty to obtain a majority of the
members of Congress. They should also have ere
considered" BEFORE in 1852, they rushed the House
4 of Commons and the State government on the very
verge of dissolution, in order to obtain fuller
showing than they entitled to in the apporton.
ment of Senatorial representation. The Editor of
the "Watchman" may have forgotten some of these
things, but the people have not.
Gen. Dockery and the Western Extension.
The Fayetteville Observer, with its characteristic
midness and charity, speaks Of "the skulking at
tempt of the locofocos to throw upon Gen. Dockery
the responsibility for the action of the Legislature
on one of its most important bills" Now, there has
been such attempt to throw" this responsibility
on Gen. Dockery, for the simple reason that it is
him already. The facts, as We have stated them,
cannot be controverted. They are of record, and
no attempt" on the part of the Observer, or any
one else, can alter them. The people Of the trans
montane Counties fully informed on the subject
and they knoD that Gen. Dockery is responsible for
the defeat of Mr.. Avery's bill.
The Observer promises an "authoritative state
ment" on the subject, which, says that paper. twill
put the saddle on the right horse" We think the
saddle will remain where it is-on the "old wheel.
horse of defunct Whiggery. But we shall see
what We shall sec.