Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-01-19

remarks against the measure and was followed by
Gov. Morehead in favor it and in reply to Messrs.
Ward, Bridgers, Dortch, Green and Bullock.
The Commons will probably come to avote on the
measure to-day or on Monday next
The Senator from Orange.
In our paper of Tuesday last we submitted the
following remarks in relation to the Senator from
Orange:
"Or Reporter has given sketch of the Senate
proceedings on Saturday in relation to the appoint
ment of Justices of the Peace; and our readers will
be enabled to form some idea therehom of the ex-
traordinary course and bearing of Mr.. Turner, the
Senator from Orange on that occasion. 1t is only
necessary to say now, as we do, that Mr.. Turner's
course is considered by many even of his own party
as exceedingly improper, and such as his intelligent
and law-abiding constituents cannot approve. We
say Mr. Turner, for it was apparent that the two or
three other Senators who co-operated with him were
but secondary and inferior actors in the unusual and
highly censurable scene which he occasoned and
prolonged in that dignifed body"
We now re-assert all we said on Tuesday, and
proceed to make it stronger and more thoroughly in
accordance with the truth of history, as follows:
Saturday last was set apart by the two houses of
the General Assembly as the day for appointing
Justices of the Peace. The House of Commons
o'clock P NJ and adjourned, and it then remained
for the Senate to concur in the appointments made
by the House, or reject them. The action of the
House of Commons was orderly and in accordance
with that courtesy and those rules of decorum which
should always prevail in deliberative bodies; but the
proceedings of the Senate while engaged in the
transaction Of this business, were far different and
this difference occasioned almost entirely, if not
solely by the extraordinary conduct of the Senator
from Orange. Of the motives which actuated that
gentleman We know nothing, and with them we have
nothing to do; but this say to his constituents
and to the people of the State, that from the first
he exhibited factious spirit; that he interrupted
the Senate in the regular and orderly transaction of
business insisting his right to the floor after he
had been called to order and ruled down by the
Speaker; that he reflected upon the House of Com
mons, by assuming and declaring that they had ap-
pointed persons as Justices who were perjurers and
forgers; that he reflected on the Senate and on
Senator's by declaring they were about to pass
the same persons; that he assailed persons propos
ed to be appointed, who were absent charging them
with Infamous crimes; that he afterwarde admitted
that he was governed to some extent by political
feeling and political considerations that he used
language on the occasion unbecoming a Senator and
the body he was addressing; that by calling for the
yeas and nays, and by other devices, he prolonged
the session of the Senate from three four o'clock
the time at which itwould otherwise have terminated
to some ten or fifteen minutes beyond twelve o'clock
on Saturday night thus occupying portion of the
Sabbath day; that his conduct on the occasion ex-
cited indignation and disgust in large majority of
the Senate, and even among his political friends
and that in the opinion of many, he deserved to be
formally censured by that body, and in the opinion
of others expelled These are the facts and this is
the truth of history.
Both the Speaker of the Senate and the gentleman
who occupied the chair temporarily for part of the
time were very indulgent towards Mr. Turner. 1t
might have been ruled with propriety by the Spea-
ker, the two houses being engaged in appointing to
Office that it was not in order to discuss nOmina-
tions; and under this decision Mr.. Turner might
have been raped to his seat and kept there but we
repeat he was indulged and treated kindly and not
by any means harshly. Or, when he resisted the
Speaker, dsputing his decisions, and insisting on
the correctness of his understanding Of the question
before the Senate he might have been taken in hand
by the Senate and reprimanded, and compelled to
know his place. p '%'.-'>- !. a'-.s
Mr.. Turner has thought proper to assail, in his
place in the Senate, not only the journal Of the Sat
urday referred to kept by the Clerk of that body
but also the sketch of the proceedings of Repor
ter and our editorial remarks, above quoted. Mr.
Turner has used harsh language. We will not imi-
tate him in that respect We leave Billingsgate
abuse and low epithets to the Senator from Orange
If they suit his taste, let him deal in them but
while they serve to exhibit his Spleen they cannot
affect the truth of history He feels the position in
which he has placed himself and the best proof Of
this is to be found in his language and in the bad
temper with which he defends himself Wsare quite
cool, and so is our Reporter. As john Randolph once
said on the floor Of Congress, We have seen hotter
times than these" We are not to be deferred from
the discharge Of our duty by either the manner or
the language of the Senator from Orange. We now
assert that the sketch Of the proceedings given by
our Reporter is as faithful and as true report as
any one could have made under the circumstances;
that it is substantially correct and true; and that if
it is wanting in any thing, it is in not having more
fully and thoroughly exposed Mr. Turner to his con-
stituents and to the people Of the State. y
Mr. Turner has also thought proper to allude, in
his place in the Senate, to . communication which
was published in the Standcrd soon atter tie ast
election, in which it was stated in substanos that
Mr.. Turner or his friends had succeeded IN defeas.
ing Mr. Cameron BY votes bought with barbecue,
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