Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-01-27
SENATE

FRIDAY, Jan. %, 1868.
Senate met at 10 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Hen
ry Hardie. Journal read
Mr.. Hall presented memorial from Malcom Nc
Innis, and others, asking permission to dist alco
hol IN the town OF Wilmington, which was read
Lies on the table.
The Speaker presented memorial from citizens
OF Alamance, praying the passage of law author-
zlng the sale of free negroes for debt Referred
Mr.. Lasslter from the committee on propositions
and grievances, reported back several bills:
BILLS AND RESoiUroxs
Mr. Sanders, resolution in favor of Mary G.
Gully, OF Johnston county. Referred
Mr.. Patrick, resolution asking information in
regard to the arrest of W. @. Loftin, citizen of
Lenoir county, and authorizing the Governor to
demand his delivery from the Confederate States to
the civil tribunal of this State.
Mr.. Murrill said that grave charges were pre-
terred against Mr. Loftin, and he did not see why a
special resolution should be passed in his case
while there were probably fifty North Cazofnians
in the prison at Salisbury, and law should he
passed covering the whole. Moved to lay on the
table.
NJ Patrick said Mr.. Loftin was one of his con-
stituehts; he had been denied trial and he felt it
his duty to ask for him fair trial. so that if guilty
he might be punished if INNOCENT acnnittnd Tho
Mr.: Warren, bill to facilitate the payment of
bounty to soldiers. Passed its third reading
Mr.. Ellis, resolution in favor of Stephen Gallo
way. Also, bill to amend the 4Sth chapter of the
Revised Code
message was received from the House trans
hitting several engrossed bills, &c, as follows:
Message proposing to go into the election of nine
Directors for the University. Laid on the table.
bill to change the time of holding courts in
Ashe, Stokes and Rutherford. Passed Its third
reading.
bill to legalize certain acts of the county court
oil henderson Passed its several readings.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
The ten regiment bill with the amendment pro.
posed by Mr. Lane to accept from its provisions all
subject to CONSUMPTION.
| Mr. Copeland made personal explanation He
said that he had been reported in the DaiLv Prog-
Tess in his remarks Of yesterday on the military
BILL to have said that there strong feeling of
hostility in North Carolina against the Confederate
government; and that this feeling was encouraged
by leading journal in this city. This report was
incorrect What he said was this: That there was
strong feeling in North Carolina of hostility to
the administration of the Confederate government
and to some of its prominent acts, and that this
feeling was in his opinion encouraged by a leading
journal Of this city, &C. He was proud to saw that
he believed the great mass of North Caroiinians
were true and loyal to the government, and would
sustain and defend it
Mr. Brown said he would not enter into an elab-
crate argument Said he would vote for Mr. Lanes
amendment excepting conscrpts from the oper-
alton of the bill. While he would and had acaui-
esced in the conscrpt law, he did 50 entering his
solemn protest against such precedents in future
and acquiesced in it only under surrounding cir
cumStances He did not intend to vote for the bill
unless qualified or modified but he would defend,
and uphold that great doctrine of State rights
departure from which doctrine was the rock on
which the Federal government had split and in
which this revolution was born and baptiSed. He
would not strangle the young Hercules of State
rights before he was two years old. He considered
the general government vested with full power to
meet all emergencies in peace or war without over
stepping its legitimate sphere. He thought this
assumption Of unconstitutional power and the en-
croachments of the military on the civil law as
saVoring strongly Of the approach of consolidation
or military despotsm. If there was any hostility
in the State to the general government it really
10 be found among those who claimed r-erceLtence
to be the champions of Southern rights, who were
continually striking blows at the reserved rights
Of the States, and the supremacy OF the written
constitution.
Mr. Carroway opposed both the amendment and
the bill, and asked why the Convention had not
called out this reserved force.
Mr.. Brown stated that he had voted IN the Con-
venton for the bill to raise seven regiments, and
the record would show who voted that measure
down.
Mr.. Carroway continued at some length, arguing
that the CONSUMPTION act was both constitutional
aud necessary.
Mr. Drake saw no necessity for the passage Of the
bill, as the Confederate government was now doing
its full duty so far as the defence of the State
conceEued, and thought its passage would have the
effect of multiplying the conscrpt act its operations
would be suspended in the State.
Mr.. Lindsay replied to the remarks of Mr.. Caro-
way Mr.. O. had at the last sessions made at least
two speeches in favor of this BILL and he could not
account for the gentleman's change Of base.
Mr.. Ellis thought it best to raise force from nom
conscripts. Said the legislature ought to furnish a
company of at least one hundred and twenty, and
that there were 5000 magistrates, 5000 militia
officers, about 10000 preachers, schoolteachcrs,