Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-06-03

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Two of the most important measures passed =
the recent session of our Legislature are the pei
sonal liberty act, introduced by Mr.. Boyden, g
Rowan, and the resolutions introduced by Mr.. Wal
rem of Beaufort protesting against the act suspend
ing hG6eas corpus and demanding its repeal Ii
latter we have already published, and the fOrmt' .
we give as follows:-
An ACT more efectually to secure the be1s1Is .
the Drit of hG6eas corpus, and 10 pTeoenE ~
transportation Of citizens in cicIt life beyond u.
limits of the State. .-..
SECTION 1. Be it enacted By the General Assem-
blu of the State of North CdrOLinG and 1t IS here
6v enacted by the authority Of the same, That an
person as to whom writ Of hGbets corpus has bee
issued and served, who wilfully fails or refuses
under any pretence whatever, to obey the manda'
thereof or the orders of the Judge or court Thereon
before whom the same is to be heard, or VINO know
ingly or Intentionally prevents the service o. u
same by force, or by keeping out of the way, {,
who shall wilfully fail or refuse to permit any PEI
son upon application by counsel, in his custody,
consult with and have the assistance of COUNSEL i.
the purpose of suing out or prosecuting said W.T.
or who shall send away or conceal any person VIZ =
is in his custody or under his control, with intel
to prevent said writ from being sued out or ex,
cuted, or the petitioner from being discharge
of high mlsdemeanor and, on conviction in Il
Superior Court, shall be fined not less than or
thousand dollars and imprisoned not less than on
year.
SEC. Q. Be It further enacted That if any perso',
shall, under any pretence whatsoever transport q
yOnd the limits Of this State BY force or violence
TcO5 5Ea sEn in nO eY sd Fs bs such person 50 onsnon
dollars and imprisoned not less than one year.
SEC. 8. Be 1t further enacted, That if any perso
~ aTo1 hal kA IL.
of this State contrary to the provisions of th
second section of this act the Governor of the Stat
shall forthwith: demand him of the authorities
the Confederate States where such person may b
imprisoned.
Read three times and ratified in General Assem-
bly,, the 9Sth day of May, 1854.
R. S. DONNELL, S. II. O.
GILES MEBAHE, S. S.
The foregoing measures would of themselves, i
nothing else had been done beyond providing thC
necessary means to carry on the government have
reflected lasting credit on the General Assembly.
In our paper of the 18th May we said
"We publish below, to refresh the minds of ou,
readers on the subject the act of the Confederat
Congress suspending the privilege of the writ
hdbeds corpus. We verify believe, with Mr.. Vice
President Stephens, that this act was unnecessary
that it is unconstitutional and that it was passed
to "control certain elections aud expected assem-.
blages in North Carolna-to put a puzzle upon
certain presses. and bit in the mouth of certain
speakers IN that State" This being the fact it is
especially incum bent on our Legislature to protest
against the act and to demand its repeal and it is
to be regretted that Gov Vance did not at once
convene the Legislature so that this protest and
demand might have been made at the time the
Georgia Legislature acted on the subject. The
protest of this State would have carried with it
much moro moral weight if it had been made
promptly; and this would have been done but for
the fact that Gov Vance substantially endorsed the
suspension Ofthe writ in his Wilkesborough speech,
and but Tor the further fact that he was not dis
posed at that time to trust the peoples representa-
tVos. What he will say now remains to be seen" B"
The passage Of these measures was in strict &C.
cordauce with the principles and doctrines of the
Standard We did not concern ourselves while the
members were here to know who they were for or
who they were against for Governor. We button.
holedno member, and we had no crowd of faVorltes
and dependents to button hole them for US and So
lict their influence and support We had too much
respect for the representatives of the people, and
too much self-respect to adopt such conrse 1t is
enough for US that the General Assembly, by hand
some majOrities, IN spite of the treachery of Gov
Vance to civil liberty and in spite of his Destructive
friends, has given practical evidence of its devotion
to those principles by which alone our free institu-
tOns can be preserved Whatever may happen in
the future we shall prove true to those principles
and to the good old State of North Carolina
The yeas and nays were not called in the Senate
on Mr.. Boyden's measure on its final passage, be-
cause, as We suppose, the sense of the body was
reached on the following amendment offered by Mr..
Hoke:
Provided, That the provisions of this act shall
not apply to any cases mentioned in the act of Con-
gress to suspend the writ of hd6eGS corpus.
YEAs-Messrs Aycoek, Oarraway, Dickson, Ell,
lis, Faison, Harris of Franklin, Hoke, Holeman,
Pitchford Powell, Wiggins-11.
NAYs-Messrs. Adams Of Davidson, Adams Of
GuifOrd, ArendeI, Bagiey, Berry, Blount Boyden
Harris of Rutherford Jones, Lassiter. Leitch, Mat
Slaughter, Smith of Macon, Taylor of Chatham,
Warren, Wooley-22. 90
The vote in the Commons was as follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Allison, Albritton, Amis, Bern
hardt Barringer, Beall Benbury, Best Bond, Bryan,
Burgin, Carpenter, Carson, Carter, Cowles, Craig,
Duke, Dunn, Gentry, Glenn, Green, Grissom, Hamp-
ton, Henry of BERTHE, Hollingsworth, Howard,
Horton, Ingram, Jenkins, Keener, Lyle, Mann of
Pasquotank, McAden, Mccormick, Mckay, Mcneil,
McRae, Nissen, Parks, Patterson, Pearce, Perkins,
Riddick, Ritter, Robbins Russell of Brunswick,
Sherwood, ShOber, Walien, Walser, Wellborn,
Woodall, Young of Iredell, Young of Yancey-54.
NAYs-Messrs. COstner, Harris of Cabsrrus, Hen
derson, Henry of Henderson, Person, Richardson,
Rives, Russ, Shepherd, Spruil, Williams-l1
1t will be seen that Messrs. Virgins, Harris OF
Cabarrus, Henry of Henderson, Richardson, and
Spruill, Vance Conservatives of the crooked sect,
voted against the measure.
We shall have the pleasure oflaying Mr.. Boyden's
remarks on this important measure before our
readers at an early day.
DR.. j. 7. lEAoH-The Richmond Examiner Ct
fects TO sneer at the Hon. James Thomas Leach, o
Johnston the representative from the Sd District o.