The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-06-27

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of Commons were required to have residence
five years in this State before election, as q
qualification.
Section 3, art III, was under considera-
tion, when the Convention took q recess to !
4 o'clock.
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REMARKS OF MIR. LOVE.
OF 1AcxsoN
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." @e So" 'u'1e, iooo' upon q" -dmen"hne"s
cr the State Constitution proposed by Mr.
MOORE, Of Wake, in these scords
.That no law shall he passed to raise a
loan of money on the credit of the State. ar
to pledge its faith or guaranty for the pay-
mcnt OF any debt hereafter directed to he
contracted, or to lew any tax upon the peo
ple. or to allow the counties to do so. unless
the bill for such purpose shall have been
read three several times in each House of the
General Assembly, and passed three several
readings, which readings shall have been on
three different days, and agreed to by ma
jority of the whole number of the members
of each House respectively, and unless the
yeas and nays on both the second and third
readings shall have been entered on the
journals"
Mr.. Love offered the following proviso, to
be added after the word Journals :"
:" Provided, That nothing in this section
shall be so construed as releasing the State
from obligations incurred by the Acts of
1854-55, and 1S5Sf59, and 1860-61, and
as preventing the Legislature from carrying
into effect the provisions of said Acts in
building the Western North Carolina Rail
Road.n
Mr. Love said, that, having resisted the
passage of an ordinance on the same subject
on its second reading, and having then NOV
ed an amendment applying generally to
works of internal improvement already be-
gun in the State, it might appear to gentle
men of the Convention that he was too per-
sistent in his opposition in moving this sec
ond amendment to the amendment, as pro-
posed by the distinguished delegate from
Wake, Mr. MoOre.) His only motive was
to promote, in his Judgment, the interest of
the State, and secure the completion of d
great State enterprise. The acts of the
Legislature referred to in his amendment.
pledged the State to build the road, and tho
effect of the amendment, without his previso,
T."
Bonds had been issued under said acts for
the Western North-Carolina Railroad, and
the credit of these bonds was being sustain
ed, like other bonds that had been issued for
other Railroads in the State, by an act of the
recent Legislature. He agreed in principle
with the restriction as required in the pro-
posed amendment of the distinguished dele
gate, when applied to new works of internal
improvements. but to works already begun.
and to the completion of which the State
has pledged. it was wrong to apply. the re-
strictions II was an indirect attack upon
the Western North. Carolina Railroad. and
other Railroads of the State, and an indi-
rect way of reaching reputation. He was
glad to hear gentlemen come out boldly
against Reputation and for sustaining the
honor and credit of the State. No man in
the State would go farther than himself to
sustain that honor and that credit. He had
sustained the unsullied name of his State
upon the battlefield, and if God knew his
heart, he desired that the escutcheon of his
State should be kept as pure and bright as
the thrice driven snow" He could not
we'll sec how the honor and credit Of the
State could be sustained without the adop::
|
| posed. Gentlemen should remember that
bonds are in existence for building of Rail-
| roads in the east and middle portions of the
| State, and the interest accruing thereon was
being paid by an act of the recent Legislature.
Future Legislatures would be called upon to
provide payment for these bonds, and unless
Il majority of the achole number of members
of each House, respectively, should favor the
payment, the bonds would be virtually re-
pudiated. He was for carrying out, in good
faith, the pledges that had been given, and
could not comprehend why additional tests
should now be required upon the Western
North-C Carolina Railroad, when they had
not been required upon other roads of the
State His amendment prevented this dis
elimination. 1t only continued what had
already been done by the State. Gentlemen
NAV DENY reputation, but in effect it is the
same.
At this standpoint in the history of the
State, it would be hard to ascertain what
combination of parties may be formed, grow
ing out of the legislation OF the State. II
would be well for gentlemen OF the Conven
tion to remember that the great bulk o
bonds now in existence, and which the peo
PIC dic DCilS soAOeA w ouSeoA'Af "SAS SAS~'eS>
to build works of internal Improvements OF
this side of the Western division OF TIN
State. All sections OF the State are nov
sustaining them in good faith.
Continue hope TO the people ol inc west
that the Acts OF looEo9' ana looo7oS, ant
iSoo-9i: VIII oe carriea :,, ou. 20 gooa .sd ,a.sd
that adoitional tcsts Min no. " ie4u,.oo J
ana you interest them 70 suslai. " o9n.s
existence ana make 'nelll an: an.iiePauia.,
put destroy tne nope pass .ntS .h. aneI =. ,,,,da,
wltaou. ms plos;sD an sss tn =" ba ,1;a
stanst tnae the ia..n VI s.,S nsae .n ~, G T.
regarded as 20 Mem, anu .iey iose ~, ~. -
ter st IN sustaining tne Dohus. nov . lh ca, ~,
teice. In tna1 event. ~ may ae ';rh. snas - :
nlnoI ana Pasiloe,s,d VI. =. 'ue INV vs. nt ~
caiiee, !or IN valn, aliu y:. .,e, ~ .,;S Nv. ~
lound IN tne nfoau ani,s u so .n,s '"i n.tr;ot
wealth. more hon9a"e ,.. = ,o pa,,.o' sans
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