Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-07-24
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6 rs .inyulv that Chathsn Is behind her sisters IN
the eenefaf diffusion Of intelligence by no means
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HsnsSsiiv her cons are enlightened noble and true
her suehters 10 purity, beauty and loveilDess ere
snsnrpsssed and unsurp asaable. But. We nave
not paper we have plenty of political speaking 70
guide as in exercising ffeemans privilege n tno
ballot box. So It was on Monday last the candi.
dates for the Legisiature opened the csmpa,gn Al
and heard an I could. could give you pretty &C.
curste account Of what was said but fear it would
be tedious But there are . few things about which
I have 4 few words to write. In SO doing, hope
to keep my pen within the bounds Of good taste and
fair dealing II do NOT, why no one is IN danger
except myself
Do YOU know Who are our candidatesf For the
Senate, s. w. Cotton, Elisha Straughn, and Z. b.
Long announced themselves. Mr.. Cotton is the
regular recognized Democratic candidate. We have
no nominations; but he is So considered, and Will
be so pronounced at the ballot box. He made no
speech, but simply declared himself taking Demo
cratic grounds Mr.. Straughn is of the opposition.
Like Mr. Cotton, he had not much to say He found
footing simply and solely distribution. One fact
Of him noticed-he alone, of the candidates. spoke
spprovingly Of Mi. Gilmer. He endearingly styled
him oar osen 6ilmer.n But he was not consider
ing him as a southern representative voting against
the admission of slave State into the Union. This
Mr. Gilmer did, and by go doing incurred an ac-
countability to the people Of the 9th district which,
from the sgns Of the times win be more strict than
pleasant OF course he viii give Us chance to
pass on his conduct. We want that chance, and
although in one Of his replies to Mr. Shaw be begs
to be Judged BY his speeches, he win find that both
hAv tn
dict To be rendered in his case next summer de
will possibly fnd it more difficult to convince
southern constituency of the soundness OF his Kan
Gao votes than it was to convince his congratuatory
Black Republican friends The time is soon at
hand when those votes will undergo thorough sift-
Ing, No doubt Mr.. oilmer has felt this already, or
he never would have been SO active in spreading
anti Lecompton speeches, in abundance, (and none
others over the district and help out the matter,
in his ZEAL inprudence, or by design, he has sent
some real abolition sentiments to modify, influence
and mould public sentiment in this county at least
/ viii quote passage. 1t has very strong aboll-
ton ring about it. Southern mineral don't enter
into its composition. 1t is from the Black Republi
can Delegate from Kansas, Mr.. PARROT Read it
thoughtfully, fellow citizens, and say if you could
. not have judged "our own Gilmer" and his votes,
without having the district flooded with such speech
es from such men, Mr.. PARROT and "our own Gil
mer " stood side by side against the admission Of
Kansas-applying to Congress to become State un-
der Constitution with slavery; but each and both
said No. Mr.. PARROT utters vile sentiments against
the South, and Mr.. Gilmer spreads them over his
own district, TO be read, if not approved. The fol-
lowing was sent to one who hitherto has voted for
him, but probably never will again. But delay
You. Here it is /" Better, far better, would it be
that the sunny slopes Of our magnificent Medterrs.
mean Territory should be stricken with the waste of
the desert or smoke Nth the blood Of our people,
thaAt faat tn stQuM blossom, Jructty, and yield
Btat d Gnarnalf d3br yodA hkkt S.
elegantly q clothed Black Republican sentiment ?
Gan Seward or Hale, or Giddings surgass it, Could
you ike the man who uttered it? Can You again
sustan the inan SO far approves to circulate
i in his district? Could you vote for its author
Can you vote again for him who thus approved it ?
Is its author fit man to represent southern con-
sttuency? Is he who circulates such speeches, and
casts votes requiring such speeches to justify them
. safe man to represent you? 1t is no part of mine
to proneunce Mr. Gilmer unsound on the great ques.
Of southern interest You can judge Of his votes
. and bis acts, IS your representative; his votes
against the admission of slave State and his acts
in sending speeches into the district feighted with
= abolition sentiments
For the Commons on the Democratic side are
Turner Bynum, Oliver McAath, and Jno. A. Moore,
Esqrs. Of the opposition, are the Reperend VIM. P.
Taylor, Robert Green, and Tbos. Farrow, Esqrs. /
say opposition, IS that is the only name that exact
" applies. To me they make up an anomalous
party. They are not Whigs-I am told they deny
being Know Nothings- Still, they may be Ameri.
they may be Know Nothing W higs, or, perchance,
Wing Know Nothings. OF all this was left in
= doubt at Baldwin's ="
NJ. Taylor is the only one Of them who has q
public political history and that account only is
he entitled to notice than his fellows in this
race It is history which, to make consistent
would require the tact and shifting ability of Mr.
Taylor himself Reader, viii trace out few points
Tor you you can judge of them yourself Fit them
together, il you can. You must remember all the
while that he is preacher-regularly ordained and
get apart to minister in holy things. You need moi
decide though, how far politics aud the gospel are
compatible. . l-ef
in the summer Of 1864. the Wing party was or
ganized in the State and in Chatham 1t was the
last struggle, made by them as such. Mr.. Taylo,
was then Wing. He made at least one speech IL
that campaign. Still, it was not q Wing speech
was not made TO advance the Wing cause or to ad
vocate Wing doetrine. He was then preaching (or
Sunday, | thinkO in favor Of prohibitory liquor
law in North Carolina and was professedly DESTROYS
OF voting only for men who would advocate the pas
ssge Of such law by the Legislature think b,
wanted temperance ticket to advocate prohibition
Many people will remember the position of Mr. Tay
lor and the speech he made the Sunday after tn,
campagn opened, and how he bore down on som,
OF the candidates because they did not come up t.
bus notions of a prohibitory enactment. So zeaiou
was ne in this cause that with others, he was in
strumentai in getting up series of resolutions o,
the sn9Ject-desired the candidates to subscrib
them u they wished their votes. Is Mr. TAYLOR will
ing TO Allow the voters of Chatham to apply tn,
same test TO him noo which he wished to apply I,
others Msn! Would he subscribe those resolves
IS cspdidate in this campaign Is he willing /,
be done by as be would do! His notions on thi
q fne prohibition of the sale Of spirituou
They nav have changed l. do not doubt = n. /;