Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-12-21
No Speaker Yet---Black Republicans Voting
- e. ~ for Mr.. Gilmer.

No Speaker Yet.--Black Republicans Voting |
for Mr.. Gilmer.
The House of Representatives voted twice on
Friday last for Speaker, being the seventh and eighth
ballots. The vote on the seventh ballot was as !
follows:
Mr.. Sherman, black Republican, 90 votes Mr..
Bocock, national Democrat, Sc; MIR: Gilmer, South
ern q Oppositionist SO; scattering9. |
Messrs. Branch, Craige, Rufin and Winslow voted
for Mr.. Bocock. Messrs LEACH Vance, and Smith
voted for Mr.. Gilmer, together with the bulk of
Southern Know Nothngs and the following black
Republicans: Messrs. Campbell, Hale Junkin, Nor
ris Schwartz, Scranton Morehead, Stevens Milward,
Wood Verree Haskin, Van Wyck, Pennington, and
Nixon.
Mr.. Gilmer then rose and withdrew his name and
returned his thanks first to his Southern friends,
and then to the black Republicans for their support
Turning to the black Republicans he said: 81 must
also say that feel in no less degree complimented
by the votes of gentlemen with whom 1 very much
disagree on one great political point" He felt
"complimented" by the votes of men who would
put the torch to our dwellings and the knife to
threats!
Mr. Gilmer then nominated Mr. Botelar, of Va,
and the House proceeded to the eighth ballot as
follows:
Mr.: Sherman, black Republican, Ill; Mr.. Bocock,
national Democrat, SO; Mr.. Botelar, Southern Op-
position:st, rs. The black Republicans who had
voted for Mr.. Gilmer qoouM not cote for Botelar,
but returned to Mr.. Sherman, increasing his vote
from So to Ill. Mr. H. Winter Davis the blood
stained representative from Baltimore voted on this
ballot for Mr.. Gilmer.
The House voted twice on Saturday for Speaker.
On the ninth ballot Mr.. Sherman received III votes
Mr. Bocock IS; Mr.. Botelar 90. On the tenth BAL
lot Mr.. Sherman received Ill; Mr.. Bocock S5-tbe
remainder scattering. Necessary to elect, 1l5
MEASURES OF Defence AGAINST THE ABoLITIoNIsTs
We publish below, from the pen of a very intelli-
gent friend some suggestions as to the best meas
ures to be adopted by the South to counteract the
efforts of the abotionsts and to build up our own
trade and commerce We are not prepared to say
whether the measure suggested by our correspond
ent is Constitutional not; but however that may
be- the condition of the country calls for the
sells of ALL and every suggestion should be carefully
COHSlueTeu ii Ill Wltn SIrlCt
law and thereby exclude Northern fabrics let us act
voluntarily as cltizens let recur to revolutionary
days. when our ancestors threw themselves on their
own resources and learned to live within themselves,
in the incipicnt steps of their resistance to the
aggressions of the Crown. The people of Virginia
have determined
"First-We will adopt strict non-intercourse in
nd with tho md chopf
of all non-saveholding States We will neither sell
to them any article of State or buy from then,
or consume any article of the growth or manufac-
ture of their States.
"Secoud-We will cease to travel amongst them
or visit them, except upon the most urgent and un
avoidable business
"Third-We will employ no laborers or mechan
"Fourth-We will arrest and send out of the
State, in the most summary manner, all itlneran
vendors of Northern books newspapers periodicals
or any other articles of Northern growth or manu-,
facture; and all persons who suspected of anti
slavery opinions or sympathies or who cannot give
precise and true account of themselves, engaged
in Lawful. business we will treat as Migrants and in
| cendares.
1--WE are not sure that these remedies will succeed
We will try them at least"
MEssRs. EDIToRs OF THE REGISTER AND STANDARD
| The feelings of the people of the Northern ant
Southern sections of our Union have for many year
been growing more and more embittered toward
each other, until at length it has become apparen
that it requires but little more to produce dsuno
and hostile collision. In this state of things asl
you conductors of the two most prominent journ
ais in State to unite in concerted action for tn
good of North Carolina, the South, and the Union
Unless |, and large number of other person
who have reputation for sense and sagacty ar
strangely demented, We of the slaveholding State
have at our command peaceable, constitutional
and cheap means of putting stop to abolition ag
tatlon which has brought the North and the Sout
which compelled the proud and powerful nation G
France and the proud, powerful, and hostile natio
of Great Britain to repeal their wrongful laws.
Our remedy is this To impose d:scrminatin
retail license tax of SAY one thousand dollars
license to sell goods which have been ever in an al
clifton State, whether imported into the same o
manufactured there; and to give to the Governor
of the slave States power TO repeal the law to
one or more States which may, in their judgment,
prevent their citizens from intermeddling with on
slaves, and produce an enforcement of the fugtiv
slave laws This is substantially the embargo an
non-intercourse law of Mr.. Jefferson's admnistr.
ton 1t is strictly constitutional inasmuch as tn
U. S. Supreme Court has long since decided tn;
the several States have unlimited control reta
licenses. 1t will cost nothing and will be inoper
tive and null as to such States disposed to II
our slaves alone. 1t leaves the door of reconcile
ton with the latch ever on the outside 1t will Civ
to Northern capitalists and manufacturers the be-
possible means of putting stop to their workmen
aiding the aboltlonists, enabling them to say wit
truth 1--WE cannot sell the goods you make for us
therefore you must let the negroes alone or qrl
our employment"
Ihave written the above outline with view mercl
to sec whether you are prepared to endorse and r
commend the plan. Should it meet your approval
am ready and willing to give you all the aid in nj
power which you may desire. would readily risk IN
head upon the success Of the scheme; and belle,
most sincerely that unless it, or something sirnl
is adopted soon, dsunion and civil war will assure
ly come ere long. Do you not feel confident Messr
Editors, that upon the passage of such law by IL