Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-04-28

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81 Tho s0t6 Maie6 u66 Mr.. Chalflnan could have
supposed that in two days thereafter he would have
been found voting for i'll And yet he did On the
som On March Il was wrong in principle, and rem
vdered the Senate bill worthless to the South on the
LIST Of April, only two days. repeat. after he de-
nonnced and ridiculed it, when the gentleman from
Mississippi moved to strike it out he voted with the
whole bsdy Of the Opposition sgsinst the motion
Voted against striking out an amendment which in
his opinion so completely emasculated the bill that
il Was deprived Of every power Of generating sim
sle principle Of the least value to the Soulful
But the gentleman may say that he voted against
the Green amendment in order to save. il possible
the House bill. l do not by any means admit that
be can thereby find sufficient justification OF MS
vote but wiling for the sake OF the argument
oply to give him the benefit of that position and
now let us see whether he is ustiabe in taking the
Crttenden amendment in preference to the Senate
bill The gentleman, in the outset Of his remarks,
charged the Democratic party with practicing the
unwise policy Of encouraging foreign migration in
to the new States and Territories, by granting to
aliens not naturaized the right of suffrage and by
making them eligible to Offices Of emolument and
honor and he held up this policy as one that ought
to receive the unqualified condemnation OF the peo-
pie, especially of the South, as it was injurious to
her best interest Now let compare the two bills
in reference to these questions which my colleague
thinks so vitality important The Senate bill, which
he condemns and voted against, proposes to admit
Kansas under the Lecompton constitution which, in
the first section of the eighth article, defines the
right of suffrage as follows:
Spc l. Every male citizen of the United States above
the age of twenyone years. having resided in this State
one YEAR and in The county, city, town in which he may
offer vote three months next preceding any election
shall have the OF an electo and be entitled
to vote at all elections"
Here, then, there is principle which he deems of
vital Importance to the South fully secured in this
constitution The Crttenden bill, which he voted
for proposes to refer the whole subject back to the
people of Kansas. Ny colleague says the majority
in that Territory Supposed to the Lecompton consti-
tuition of course them the Black Republicans would
frame and establish q new constitution, in case he
should succeed in crushing out Lecompton and what
kind of provisions think you, that constitution would
contain in reference to this question, which, he tells
u.s. deserves the serious consideration of the South?
Why SIR the latest intelligence from that Territory,
fruitful of constitutions Niobe of tears represents
that the Black Republicans, anticipating the action
of my colleague in the rejection of the slavehoding
and anti.alien suffrage constitution Of Lecompton,
have already made another which, as we are inform.
ed not only confers this inestimable privilege upon
foreigners, but upon negroes also! Now, what De-
comes Of my colleagues Know Nothing principle in
feed to something; leave him to say what
The LecomptOn constitution contains the follow
ing provisions in regard to eligibility to Office (arti-
Gle four)
"s.c The Governor shall be at least thirty of
years. shall have resided in this State at least five years
next preceding the day OF his election" &c:
SEc II. Lieutenant Governor shall be elected at the
and for the the Governor, and his
qualifications and the manner Of his election shall be the
same IN all respects"
Here then, is another principle which he COM
mends to southern politicians. Now, leave it to
my colleague to say whether, Judging from what we
have already heard of the constitution lately framed
al Mnneoa, he has any good reason to expect that
any other which may be adopted should he succeed in
defeating the Lecompton constitution, will be likely
to come up to his standard of excellence in this re.
gard, In reference to this question: however, I am
inclined to think notwithstanding what my colleague
has said upon this subject he does not after all,
look upon it as any thing more than that sort Of
policy practiced in little electioneering scuaes
in country ;" for l we'll remember that when he
was a member of the North Carolina State Senate
he recommended regular full booded Milesian, one
Patrick MCGOWAN, for Federal office under Gene
raj PIERCE thereby proving very clearly that in ref
erence to this principle which he so seriously COM
mended to southern polticians-and the same may
be said of his opposition to the Green amendment
also-he is if he will permit me, by way of Illus
tration, to use one of the elegant anecdotes with
which he embellished his speech, sorter so, and
a sorter not SO, and rather more a sOrter than
sorter not So" He commends the principle Of ex-
Guiding foreigners from Office, and gives the influence
of his name toward procuring office for of that
class He denounces the Green amendment in his
speech and then votes for it
But Mr.. Chairman, there is another of my col
leagues long cherished principles which l think
he sacrificed to his hostility to Lecompton. For
many years he and bis party, in North Carolina,
have contended that the public lands wasteful-
y squandcred upon the States to the great pre-
judice Of North Carolina and the other old States.
This matter has been presented to the people of our
"6eLoced S1uth, Ito borrow the gentlemans term of
endearment) and enforced with an array of statsti.
cal tables that would appal old Mr.. Daboll himself
With the most eloquent and dsnterested appeals the
people Of North Carolina have been urged to send
to Congress gentlemen Of my colleagues political
faith, who would be sure to guard the public domain
and see that they got their full share. Now, sir,
how has my colleague proposed to secure for North
Carolina her just aud righful ntestest in the i'm
| mense public domain in Kansas, amounting, as
think, to about eighty million acres?
"SEc. 2. And be it further enacted That the State Of
Kansas admitted into the Union the cond
ton that said State shall interfere with the primary
disposal OF the public lands with regulations which
lands to the purchaser grantee thereof or i'm
pose or levy tax assessment imposition of any de-
| United States within the limits of said State"
Here is the just and rightful claim of the Govern
ment Of the United States to all the unsold lands ir
Kansas, fairly nominated in the bond" and there
by secured for the benefit of North Carolina and al
the other States alike. My colleague voted agans
this just and necessary measure of security; ant
while he told us that the President is unworthy q
our confidence, he nevertheless proposed not only t.
depart from the constitutional mode of admittn,
Kansas by act of Congress, but to confer upon tn
President the power to bring her into the Confederac
by his own mere tpse DIGIT, SO soon as she SHOULD
sions. Now, sir, suppose that the people of Kan
4 sas the bill for which my colleague voted havin
/ become law, and the President invested with tina
stupendous power) should reject the Lecompto
constitution, and my colleague takes the ground ths
they would, for he voted against the Senate bill be
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