The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-09-25

We learn that the worm has appeared On
several cotton farms in this vicinity, and is
doing much injury. The weather is now fine
for cotton, and picking has commenced. If
not seriously injured by theworm or an early
frost, the yield will be good. poiA
e A Goldsboro' correspondent of the New
bern Journal states that the worm has ap-
peared on several farms in Wayne County.
g, Z For the Standard.
MEssRs. EDIroRs ALLOW me through
your valuable journal to present to the voters
of North Carolina, the following articles
which should be made, a part of the State
Constitution, and which in substance will
be, if the people will consult their own fu-
ture best interests, and desire freedom with
its legitimate fruits. s
LEGIsLATIvE.- E.--ARTICLE. .s3g
3 SEc-Any voter of the age of twenty-one
years and upwards, shallbe eligibleto aseat
in the Commons branch of the General As
sembly, and any voter of the age of twenty
five years and upwards, shall be eligible to
seat in the Senate branch of the General
Assembly, provided that in either case, he
has been citizen of the United States five
years. and of the State two years, and of the
County in which he reside, one year imme-
diately preceding his election, and having
paid q State and County tax s,s,. /. d fiqla
SEo.-The present system of County Courts
shall be superseded by Courts Of reconcilia-
ton, which shall be created and established
by law with such powers and duties as shall
be provided. 3, m
SEc.-The General Assembly, at its first
session after the adoption of this Constitu-
tion, shall provide for the. appointment of
three Commissioners, whose duty it shall he
to revise, simplify and abridge the rules,
practice, pieadings and forms of the Courts
Of justice, and they shall provide for abol-
ishing the distinct forms Of action at law
now in use and that Justice shall be admin
istered in uniform mode of pleading, with
out distinction between law and equity, and
the General Assembly may also make it the
duty of said Commissioners to reduce into q
systematic code the general statute law of
the State and said Commissioners shall re-
port the result of their labors to the Legisla-
ture with such recommendations sugges-
tive as to abfidgment and amendment as to
said Commissioners may seem necessary or
proper. Provision shall be made by law for
filling vacancies, regulating the tenure of Of
fee and compensation Of said Commis-
sioners. '''i' ~ y
: SEc.-A Judge and jury Of twelve men
shall constitute a court of reconciliation in
each court district; the judge shall be
man learned in the law and shall be elected
by the people. i
SEc.-Every person of good moral stand
ing being voter, shall be entitled to admis.
sion to practice Law in all courts Of justice
The objector to these articles may in the
first place, ask as to the necessity, and even
propriety of making every voter eligible to
Office that it will most assuredly tend to
array the poor and landless or non-property
holders against the large property holders of
the State, and result in abolishing the right
to impose or levy tax Upon the head or
upon labor in any shape, and force the bur-
den OF revenue from that class only who own
the larger proportion Of the real and personal
property OF the country Now beg to diff
fer with him, ana would remark 10 the first
place, that his reasoning Is simply saying
that because one class Of citizens own larg-
er proportion Of the property in the coan-
try, that the class owning the Iessrr amount
is, therefore, disposed to legislate for q divis
ion Of the property or compel the property
holders to pay the taxes Of the eountry.-
Z This theory is just, ii propeftyss the only
subject III fprotcction But the idea advanc-
ed is borrowed from the unciyilized Of prim.
itive time, when it is likely they lived by
war and lslunlering other tincivsIized tribes.
But the people Of the United States, and