The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-06-16
The yeas and nays were called for with the

Buxton, Dickey,s Eaton Furenes, UansSa,i,
King, Lash, Mclaughlin, Spencer OF MONT.
gomery, Stewart, Swan and WINSTON.
NAYs-Messrs. Adams, Alexander, Allen,
Raines Kerry. Bingham, Bradley, Brickell,
Brown Brooks, Bryan, Burgin, Bynum,
CaIdwel, of Burke, Caldwell of Guilford,
Cowner Dick. Dockery, Faulkner, Ferebee,
EoW Garland, Garrett, Gillian, Goodwin,
Gr;ssom Harris of Guilford, Harris of Ruth
erford, Harrison, Haynes, Hodge, Howard,
Jackson, Jarvis, Jones OF Davidson, Jones
of Henderson, Joyce, Joyner, Logan, Love of
Jackson, Lyon, McCauley, McKoy of Samp-
son. Mckay of Harnett, Mcdonald of Moore,
McGehee, McIvor, McRac, Mebane, Murphy,
Nor1eet, Odom, Patterson, Pearsall. Perkins,
Person, Phillips, Polk, Richardson, Rulnley,
Russell, Rush, Satterthwaite, Settle, Sloan,
Smith of Arson, Smith of Johnston, Smith
of Wilkes, Spencer of Hyde, Stephenson,
Walkup, Ward, Wiley, Williams, Winburne,
and Wright.
The 10th section was read and an amend
ment offered, when the hour for adjournment
arrived.
GCoRREcTIoN-In yesterdays report Mr.
Conigland is made to say :" he scorned the
wild mob" The better sense is, as reported
by himself, az scorn and repudiate the doc
trine that the sole power of government
should be vested in mere numerical ma
JOrlCy, winch uoeS mol elhpFrce majority Vi
interests ALSO" No injustice was intended,
and the correction is cheerfully made
FRIDAY, June Is, 1866.
Mr. Faircloth, from committee on petition
of Mrs. Jane f. Ravens, praying for di-
vorce, reported an ordinance to that effect.
A motion was made to lay on table, which
was lost.
The committee on swamp lands reported
an ordinance in accordance with the recon-
mendations of the Governors message.
A resolution in relation to the employment
of an assistant Doorkeeper during the illness
of the principal Doorkeeper, was adopted.
Mr.. Conigland offered the following reso-
luton:
WHEREAS. The Congress of the United
States has under consideration bill, where
by, among other things, it is proposed to
levy tax of five cents per pound on raw
cotton in the hands of the producer, prohi-
biting the removal thereof for sale until the
payment of the tax so proposed to be levied;
and, whereas, the said proposed tax is, in eff
feet, an export duty, and, as such, is contrary
to that clause of the Constitution of the
United States which declares, that mo tax,
or duty, shall be levied on articles exported
from any State;" therefore,
Be it Resolced, as the sense of this Conven-
ton, That the said proposed tax is in viola
ton of the Constitution OF the United States,
and must, in its operation, be unequal, OPP
pressive and unjust.
Be it further Resoloed, That should the
bill referred to become law, the Governor
of this State is hereby instructed to test the
constitutionality thereof in the particular
specified in the Courts of the United States,
and for that purpose is hereby authorized to
draw on any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated.
Be 1T further Resolced, That copy of these
resolutions, properly certified. be transmit
ted, by the President of this Convention, to
the President of the United States, and be
also laid, by him, before the President of the
Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives thereof
Mr. Jones, of Davidson, a resolution that
this Convention consider hereafter only the
Constitution and amendment thereto.
Mr.. Bynum, an ordinance to change the
election of Governor, Legislature, Sc, to 1st
Thursday in October.
Mr.. Howard, an ordinance to incorporate
the Wilmington Railroad Bridge Company.
A resolution in favor of the principal Sec
rotary of the Convention, was adopted.
THE STAY LAW,
Being the unfinished business of yesterday,
its consideration was resumed.
A number of amendments were offered and
discussed. Some were adopted and some re-
.jected. The debate was principally upon
points of law.
Mr.. Dockery in discussing it warned the
people against the general tendency to run
into reputation, and said that before long
men would be found upon the stump advo
eating it.
MIR. Ferebee Ill reply asked Mr. D. if he
had voted at the last session of this Convcn-
ton for the ordinance prohibiting the pay
ment of the war debt. Mr.. d. replied that
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that there was the point where Republication
commenced; that he had not voted for the
ordinance and that he had never furnished
the honor of the State by so doing, &c.
Mr.. Settle replied that he was the author
and introducer of the ordinance which pro-
hibited the payment ofthe war debt and
that it had secured the support of q large
majority of this Convention. He was tired
of hearing insinuations cast upon the honor
and integrity of himself and those who acted
with him, and it was now high time that
some things should be said and understood.
Those who insinuated that he was in favor
of repudiating any honest or just debt, pub
lie or private simply said or insinuated that
which was false. No man in the State would
scorn the reputation of a just debt more
than himself, but this war debt, tainted
with treason, was not to be classed and con-
founded with just and honest debts.
He took the position that if the State had
this capitol building, full of money and moth
ing else to do with it, not one dollar ought
to be applied to the payment of any debt
incurred in trying to destroy the United
States government. That government owes
it to itself to see that money advanced in
seeking its fe-blood, shall never return to
the pocket of its owner. That is but a small
punishment to treason. To think of paying
it but invites another rebellion to- morrow,
and offers premium and reward for trea-
son. He said he would ask a question by
which every man who had taken an oath to
support the U. S. government since the close
of the rebellion, could easily test himself, so
far as this debt is concerned, and see wheth-
er he was honest, and in earnest, when he
took the oath, or whether he was deceiving
himself. or attempting to deceive others
Are you not prepared all now, said he, to
say that every dollar hereafter advanced in
any attempt to destroy this government,
shall be tainted with treason, and should
never return to the pocket of the person who
advanced it If you hesitate a moment, you
are not tit to be re-admitted to the privilege
and protection of the Union You say you
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