Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-01-28
SENATE.

FRIDAY, Jan. %, 1863
Senate met at 10 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Hem
~ Hardie Journal read
Mr.. Hall presented a memorial from Malcolm Nc
lnnis, and others, asking permission to distl alco
hol In the town of Wilmington, which was read
Lies on the table.
The Speaker presented memorial from citizens
of Alamapce, praying the passage of alaw authori.
zing the sale Of free negroes for debt Referred
Mr.. Lassiter from the committee on propositions
and grievances, reported back several bills
BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS.
Mr. Sanders, resolution in favor of Mary C.
Gully, Of Johnston county. Referred
Mr.. Patrick, a resolution asking information in
regard to the arrest Of W. G. Loftn, a citizen of
Lenor 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-
ferred against Mr.. Loftin, and he did not see why
special resolution should be passed in his case,
while there were probably fifty North Carolinans
in the prison at Salisbury, and law should be
passed covering the. whole. Moved to lay on the
table -
NJ. Patrick said Mr.. Loftin was one of his con-
stituehts3 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 acquitted. The
resolution was laid on the table.
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.
"A message was received from the House trans.
hitting several engrossed bills, &C., as follows:
Message proposing to go inteahe election of nine
Directors for the University. Laid on the table.
"A bill to change the time of holding courts in
Ashe, Stokes and Rutherford Passed its third
reading.
bill to legaize certain acts of the county court
OF Henderson, Passed its several readings.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
The ten regiment bill with the amendment pro
posed oy Mr. Lane to accept from its provisions all
subject to conscription.
Mr. Copeland made personal explanation. lie
said that be had been reported in the Dailv Proo
ress in his remarks of yesterday on the military
bill. to have said that there was strong feeling Of
hostility in North Carolina against the Confederate
government; and that this feeling was encouraged
oy leading journal in tbs 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 say that
ne believed the gress mass of North Caroiinisns
government 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 conscripts from the oper.
alton OF the BILL While he would and had acaui.
esced in the conscript law, he did SO entering his
solemn protest against such presidents in future,
and acquesced 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, q
departure from which doctrine was the rock or
which the Federal government had split and i,
which this revolution was born and baptised. HI
would not strange. the young Hercules of Stat.
rights before he was two years old. He considered
the general government vested with full power I.
meet all emergencies in peace or war without over
stepping its legitimate sphere. He thought thi
assumption Of unconstitutional power and the en-
croachments of the military on the CIVIL law a
savoring strongly Of the approach of consolidate,
or military despotism. If there vas any hostilit,
in the State to the general government it was rea
10 be found among those who claimed par ercelenc
to be the champions of Southern rights, who wer
continually striking blows at the reserved right
OF the States, ap1 the supremacy Of the write
! constitution. =
MIR. Carroway opposed both the amendment an
the bill, and asked why the Convention had M
called out this reserved force.
Mr.. Brown stated that be had voted in the Co,
vention for the bill to raise: seven regiments, an
the record would show who voted that measu,
down. -
Mr. Carroway continued at some length, argain
that the conscription act was both constitution
aud necessary.
Mr.. Drake saw no necessity for the passage of Il
bill. as the Confederate government was now doir
its full duty sofar as the defence of the State VI
concerned. and thought its passage would have u
effect of multiplying the conscrpt act as its operation
would be suspended in the State
Mr.. Lindsay replied to the remarks of Mr. Carr
way. Mr.. G. had at the last sessions made at lea
Two speeches in favor Of this bill, and be could
account for the gsntleman's change of base
Mr.. Ellis thought it best to raise force from no
conscripts Said the legislature ought to furnish
company OF at least one hundred and twenty, d
. that there were 5000 magistrates, 5000 mill
officers, about 10000 preachers, .schoolteache