Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-05-22

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rs Ho.p.s Vs,sos.s NE sapdid.tss for
doyesnor sSadsaheiE seapud sppearancs before the
psope in this place. On Thprssy 18th inst The usn~
any line weathir kept many farmers n home, where
other interests demanded their attention. still the
: crowd was very respectable
Both the honorable gentlemen seem to be in fine
health and spirits though Judge Ellis was laboring
under slight hoarseness Their mutually courte-
GUS and gentlemanly bearing here gives earnest of
an agreeable as well as able and animated canvass.
Mr. McEsae led off in speech Of two hours length
He came not before the people 10 please their fancy
with fights of oratory, but to speak Of North Caro-
lima And says Mr.. McRae, tits glorious theme
He alluded 20 the time when as an equal, she COM
handed the respect of her sister States. He had
seen her within the last two decades gradually losing
her prestige He had seen her standing still, while
others We'd together in the march to greatness, and
now, with gloomy forebodings, he sees retrograde
movement, the end of which he cannot predict
In Mr. Holden's Address before the Educational
Convention a, Warrenton, which he is sure Was
never published to benefit him, he finds facts and
figures which sustain him, not only in this partcu.
lar, but another which shall be adverted to by and
by.
Like good physician, having satisfied himself as
to the nature Of his CASE he calls attention to the
remedy. North Carolina is in q chronic decline
Various means have been resorted to for her recove
".
Her people have been taxed to pay the poit.
cal trckstcrs who with one hand On her pulse with
the other have emptied her pockets until the burden
is no longer tolersble But Mr.. McRae, like good
Samaritan comes to the rescue. After maDy years
of diligent study interrupted only by short resi-
dence abroad, he is enabled to present to the peo
pie, in full confidence of its efficacy his Remedum
Principle" which he hopes, presume, will not bea
drug in the market. Distribution, says Mr.. McRae
of the public landslide common property OF the
States-is the only thing that will save North-t aro-
lima. Distribute, and as if by magic, the desert
blossoms the rose. Distribute, and the mountains
go to the sea, and the 60 to the mountains DH-
tribute and spring upin midst manufactures
flourish and the ignorant read Distribute, and the
righteous is longer to suffer. and his seed beg
gng bread Asto the Constitutional application OF his
remedy Mr. McRae has doubts. In the language
of the instrument ITSELF which the gentleman took
occasion to alude in terms not less eloquent than ap-
propriate monument of wisdom and forethought
towhicb the world cannot show parallel he finds all
the license he asks to donate "give away" dstrb
ute otherwise dspose Of the lands or other prop
erty belonging to the general government. de con-
tended that Congress was competent 10 do it, and
the peoples representatives had time and again SO
declared. Indeed, says Mr. McRae, it has been the
position of the public dominion. Land bill after
land bill has been passed through Congress by votes
alike of Wings and Democrats l find, said Mr.
McRae. such men as Buchanan, Benton, Woodbury.
and Norris whose orthodoxy Democrats have never
questioned voting for these bills. donating thous.
ands of acres to the Western and North Western
States. If then the lands may be given in parcels
to few Of the States, why may not all claim the
same favor? Does distribution violate any principle
of the Democratic creed? Ifso, why are these men
retained in full communion, while l, for holding the
same opinion, am uncerenoniously snufed out J"
The idea he'd out, argued Mr. McRae, that the al'
ternate sections reserved to the government, when
these donations are made, arc enhanced in value,
thereby to the extent of one hundred per cent, is
simply ridiculous. By special provision in these do
nation acts, in all cases where lands along the pro
posed railway pre- mpted, the government is to
locate her alternate sections" fifteen miles distant
either side. AS soon then such act passes the
individuals composing the company buy up most of
the lands along the Road. thus keeping the gov
eminent at magnificent distance" from the
transaction. The rule is not different when a
State is the recipient of national favor Many of
the States have been raised to the front rank
within few years. According to the Warrenton
Address of Mr.. Holden Ohio, Illinois, Iowa and Wis
consin have permanent school funds, while Georgia,
South Carolina and others of the original panel
have none. Mr.. McRae spoke kindl" of his friend
President Pierce-though he had forgotten his first
name-and accounted very satisfactorily Ito HIMSELF
for his veto of the distribution bill Of last Congress-
The President intended no doubt to sanction the
will of the people; but imagine the North Car
DINA delegation told him it would never do-that
that they Qhe delegation) would lose their places
Hence his veto, and hence the popular will was sti.
| fed
have thus endeavored briefly to follow Mr.. Nc.
Rae through the main points of his speech. Except
! in few instances have not given his language.
His effort was an able one Qor weak sde) and
pleased his party and no-party friends in Arson.
| Judge Ellis came before the people the candi.
date of the Democratic party for the office Of Gov:
ernor. He stood on the platform which they mad
| t>l H. s,,l~ c,
approved. He congratulated his opponent and him.
self on the prospect of perst nal disagreement be-
tween them. He thought they understood each 9th.
er, and hoped nothing would arise to mar the good
feeling which his competitor seems SO anxious should
continue Mr.. McRae in alluding to his position at
| Charlotte on Internal improvements by the State,
| had intimated that the whale of the West would
dwindle down to weasel in the East and dice Uersa
have, said Judge Ellis concealments to make,
nor sets of opinions for different sections. What
say to the people of Currituck shall not hesitate
to proclaim to the honest freemen of Cherokee.
Judge Ellis then entered briefly into the history
| OF the Democratic party-passed in review the
many services it had done the country. He pointed
with pride to its attitude in the last Presidential
election, and the position it still maintains at the
North, fighting sngle-handed and alone, against the
mongrel elements of Republican, abolt'onism and
abolitionzed Americans. He would warn the South.
ern people how they conspre to break down the only
trustworthy party that has either strength or char
acter at the North. He alluded to the late Kansas
struggle in Congress- and the detection of Southern
men-jeopardizing the Union, and our dearest rights
under it for a mere abstraction. He was sorry to
! hear his opponent say he would have voted against
| the Lecomption Constitution, had he been in Con
gress, and begged leave to say he had known the
gentleman too long, to believe him in earnest in say
ing it. Hear, said Judge Ellis the defiant sent
ments of Seward. Burlingame and their organ, the
New York Post. that " the slave power is doomed, >
the victory for freedom won-that hereafter nc
more Slave States shall come into the Union-tha,