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THE NOETffl CAKOJLJINIAM GENERAL CASS ON NON-INTERVENTION. General Cast has added to the lustre of his renown by a speech delivered in the Senate on Tuesday,- of which his theme was the doctrine and policj of interven tion for non-intervention. We have read his remarks with attention, anil, admire the serene dignity i.!;.; ajanship in which he was a'' Msati.f upon this important suc ... conceive that in this t ss sustains the policy ur X ,wuth are mistaken; and such as er.ted hun to do so will be disappointed, f On the contrary, he dis tinctly avows a sentiment in direct opposi . tion to that of KLossnth. The latter claims that a-protest on our part will bind us to the maintenance of it by arms, or leave us disgraced before the world. General Cass maintains that our protest may very properly be expressed in language, and, if disregarded, we may, with honor, de cline to enforce the principle avowed. He contends that it is due to ourselves and to posterity that we should put upon record our solemn disapprobation of that flagrant outrage by which Hungary has been dena tionalized. He encounters the objection that in so doing we might be required too frequently to act in the same manner, for the sake of our consistency, by the general argument in mprmking to m cme pro minent and Mpular as im that of Hungary, we speak to all of a similar character. The speech exhibits a comprehensive and masculine expansion ot thought, and frequently commands admiration by the substantial eloquence of the distinguished speaker. The United States of America comprise a nation distinct and different from all other. Our destiny, our policy, our in stitutions, and our career, have been, and must continue to be, at variance with all others until they conform to the fundamen tal principles of republicanism. The principle avoived by General Cass, and so eloquently urged, would be irresis tible if the necessity existed fur a formal enunciation of it. But Mr Clarke, of Rhode Island, felicitously imbodies it in the series of resolutions to which that of General Cass is an amendment by a sim ple quotation from tiie Declaration of In-ilepence- And in this connexion the principle is literally reasserted every fourth of July by the whole of the people of the United States, with a reality and emphasis which no formal recognition of it by Congress can ever equal. Indeed, we live up daily to the constant iteration of the principle, and it has a force which it can derive from no other source in our national existence itself. To show that the passing of the proposed declaration would not necessarily involve this country in war. Gen. Cass cites the following pre cedents: In 1788 France protested against the invasion of Holland by the Prussians Even the old monarchy then advocated the cause of national independence. But the Prussians marched on, and put down the liberal party, while France abstained from any further actum. ' In 1814 Lord Castlere3gh protested, in the name of his government, against the fnntl extinction of all that then remained of Poland as a nation but Poland is ex tinguishedor rather 1 trust the fire of liberty is only smothered there for the present, to break out into a bright flame hereafter and England looked on, silent and inactive. "In 1820 England protested against the intervention of Austria in the affairs of Naples. But this protest did not stop the Austrian army, nor did it induce England to adopt any other measure. In like manner an English protest was interposed between the French invad ing army and Spain in 1822; and upon that occasion England advanced, in the most explicit manner, the great doctrine of non-interference for which we are now contending. Her minister said . 'The British government disclaimed for itself, and denied for these powers, the right of requiring any changes in the internal in stitutions of independent States, with the menace of hostile attack in case of refusal ' But neither the Pyrenees nor the protest stopped the French army. " It accomplished its "mission ; and the independence of Spaiu" expired as the last gun its funeral gun, indeed was fired from Cadiz. England left her pro test upon record, but she has left no other memorial of her disapprobation. Both England and France protested against the occupation of Cracow, but without effect and without war." Mr Wkbster and the Presidency. The Courier and Enquirer states that a meeting is proposed to be held on the 4th of March next, in the city of New York, to nominate Mr Webster for the Presi dency, subject to the decision of a Whig National Convention. The following case is reported in a late nmber of the English Law Magazine: At the recent assize at Liverpool, a stabbing case from Manchester, was heard before Baron Plitt, who, in summing up the jury, used these worda 44One of the witnesses tells you that he said to priso ner, Ifyou use your knife you are a damn ed coward. 1 say also, continued the learned judge, apparently in deep thought, 'that he was a damned coward, and that any man is a damned coward who will use a knife.'' This opinion, it is said, has been ex pressed before, but never from the bench. There is no truth in men," said a lady in company, "they are like musical in struments, which sound a variety of tones.1' In other words, madam," said a wit who chanced to be-present, you believe that all men are lyres" A printer out west, whose office is half a mile from any other building, and who hans his sign on the limb of a tree, ad vertises for an apprentice- He says, 4A boy from the country would be preferred." DISCIPLINE IN THE NAVY. The bill passed by the Senate a few days since for the enforcement of disci pline in the Navy, and. which is desigped to meet the deficiency occasioned by the abolishment of corporal punishments, is venr stringent in its provisions. The com mission of those offences against discipline and order which are of most common occurrence on shiD board are madecr1 uhlf. under the findineiot a court tni.3 of three commissioned officers, with the following penalties : 1st. Discharge from the service with bad conduct 2d. Solitary confine ment in irons, single or double, on bread and water for a term not exceeding thirty uavs : 3d. solitary conhnement in irons for the same period, but without depriva tion of food ; 4th. Solitary confinement for thirty days j 5th. Confinement not exceeding two mouths; 6th. Reduction to an inferior rank of seamanship; 7th. Ball and chain, this punishment not to be inflicted whilst at sea; 8th. Deprivation of liberty whilst on shore; Gth. Loss of pay for a period not exceeding three months. Other sections of the bill invest the commander of any vessel fn the Navy, or of any shore station, with authority to p lt in oireimer, unuc trial bjr Court frt!al, by diminishing their rations; restricting their diet to bread and water; by the imposition of extra duties;, and in case. of theft, by making good from the wages of the culprit the value of the article stolen, and by obliging him to wear, for the term of ten 'days, a badge with the word nhief" upon it. It is contemplated to follow this bill by another, now in pre paration by the Senate Committee on Na val Affairs, abolishing the spirit ration, the prolific source of much of the miscon duct of seamen, and establishing a system of rewards for the encouragement of good conduct and expert seamanship. Balti more American. The following interesting details re specting the royal families of Europe ap pear in a Leipsic journal : There are forty six sovereigns upon the Continent, including the Emperor of Brazil, who belongs to a European house The Grand Duke of Mecklinburg, Strelitz, is the oldest, having passed his 72d year. There is but one other who has entered his 70th year the Kins of Wirtember?. The sovereign who has reigned the longest is the prince of Schaumburg-Lippe 65 years in all, or 49 years since his majority. Eighteen have come to the throne in the last ten years, and two, the Prince of Lippe and the King of Hanover, succeed ed to power in 1851. Seven out of the forty-six have never been married, namely: the Pope, the Emperor of Austria, the Duke of Bruns wick, the Princess of Reuss-Schleitz, of Waldeck, and of Lippe and the Land grave of Hesse-Homburg. Among the remaining thirty-nine, three are widowers The Grand Duke of Oldenburg, for the third time, the King of the Belgians for th et-cond time, and the Duke uf A.nVtalt of Denmark and the Elector of Hesse, are married morganatically; and one, the Sultan, lives in polygamy. Ten out of the thirty-nine sovereigns who were married, or who have been so, have no children. Twenty-six have sons who are heirs presumptive. Two thrones, that of Brazil ant', that of Spain, will descend to daughters, as the Emperor of Brazil and the Queen of Spain have no sons. Of the twenty-six hereditary Princes, several are married. The oldest is S4 years of age, and the youngest the hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, Schwerin is nine months old. The Prin cess expectant of Spain is younger still however, having been born the 20th ol December last. Eighteen of the forty-six sovereigns have no descendants who can succeed them. " Eleven will be succeeded by their brothers; two theKii gof Denmark and the Duke of Modena by their uncles, and one the Elector of Hesse by his cousin. Four the Pope of Rome, the Dukes of Brunswick and of Anhalt-Bern-burg, and the Lnndgrave of Hesse liom burg have no descendents or collaterals who can succeed them. A Sheffied (Eng.) paper says that the venerable poet Montgomery has read the notices of his death, in the American papers, with their accompanying eulogies, with much satisfaction, and, what is more, read them without the aid of glasses. It is not generally known that Mont gomery is a native of the land of Burns, the country of the Montgomei ies. Gov. Footers Withdrawal, We men tioned, several days ago, that Gov. Foote, of Mississippi, had withdrawn from the United States Senatorial contest in that State. In a leiter to his friends in the legislature, he says : Being unwilling to participate in the responsibility of defeating the election for the station altogether, and thus permitting a vacancy to arise in the Senatorial rep resentation from Mississippi in Congress, which would have to continue fur nearly twelve months, it is my decided wish that my name should no longer be used in connection with the place in question, if it is judged Dy my tnends the friends of thetn ion -that its withdrawal would tend in the least degree to expedite the election of a United States Senator from Missis sippi." Married, In Rochester, Noble county, on the 18th Dec, by the Rev. Mr Wolf, Mr Sila Lion to Miss Edith Lamb. Our devil calls this a beastley affair, but it reminds us rather of that miilenium era spoken of in the Holy Writ: The Lion and the Lamb shall lie down together, and a little child" our bible is lost, and we forget the remainder of the quotation. Rail Road Meeting. -a oortion f the Stockholders of the North Carolina ft Road Company, representinPst26.nm of Stock, held ameeting at Newbern on the 4th of the priv month. The'obiectw the meeting wav .o take into consideration a change of the route and eastern termioas of the Road, made at a . recent meeting of the Directors. Resolutions were &ri.nt1 in which is expressed the fact, that it was the intention ol the Legislature, in grant the charter foff his Road, to connect the same with Iflle Riveras well as the Wilmington and Raleigh Rail Road and this was believed to have been definitely settled by the survey. By the recent action of the Directors, the main stem the Road, instead of going to Waynesboro passes directly on to the Wilmington Roa and terminates at a poiut near Goldsboro This is considered a violation of th Charter, which the parties declare ijr will by all lawful means resist. "f J Kossuth's Muskets. Kossuth has licly stated that he has contracted for 000 muskets at $2 each, without tf pins to inquire what quality of mustrts they must be, to be sold at such a we would jive the nrice of on "vT w how he intends to introdrj? ft iiunK.rr- if h.a-4o.a- --wWlth carry them, and the meitworuifk against Austrian cruisers while on the passage, we could imagine a way by which these muskets might possibly be carried into Hungary, or at least landedat Fi-ime. an Austrian port on the Adriatic! without the payment of duties. But Kissuth has neither means of transportation,' nor of de- fence against Austrian cruisew. Conse quently Jiis only chance is, io smuggle these 40,000 muskets into Hingary, (or Poland,) or pass them regularly through the custom house, either of Which is a rank absurdity. We" therefore express our confident belief that not ore of these muskets will ever enter Hungiry; and we much doubt if Kossuth himself ever does. But he can have a good home in the United States, if he desires to. xV. Journal of Commerce. ICT'A bill has been introduced into the House of Representatives of the Pennsylvania Legislature to prohibit the entrance hereafter of any negto or mulatto into that Commonwealth. Its in poses the penalty of imprisonment uptn all such persons entering the State, and a fine of fifty to one hundred dollars upon any person employing, or otherwise encourag ing, negroes or mulattoes to come to or remain in the State. The scenes at Christiana, and the mockerv of the trials for the outrages then committed, which have since taken place, are precipitating the adoption of a policy which the free States will soon find indispensable to their own domestic peace. The tendency of the movements of abolitionism, in all its shades, is towards reaction upon the non slaveholding States. It makes them, in the first place, theatres of such conten tions as the insane opposition - to the rpriptor, f fugitive tmutafe in.Hret conflict with the obligations oi the consti tution and the paramount law; and it draws into their borders a class of popula tion utterly worthless as citizens, to be a nuisance and a. .burthen. The evil has already grown to such magnitude that several of the Western States have legis lated to exclude Africans and their descen dants entirely, and on several occasions it has attempted to expel the whole race. Cure for Rheumatism. -Captain Cook, the celebrated circumnavigator, described a cure for this complaint, which is practis ed pmong the Otaheitans. It ought to be generally known, that in desperate cases the experiment may be tried : While lying in a harbor in the island of Otaheite, he was troubled with a severe rheumatic pain, which extended from the hip to the ankle. As soon as the circum stance was known on shore, a numerous body of women flocked on board and volunteered their services in curing the disorder. He accepted their friendly of fer, and submitted with a good grace to their directions. He was requested to lie down, when all who could get near him began to squeeze him with both hands all over the body, but more particularly in the parts complained of till they made his bones crack, and his flesh became almost a mummy. He suffered this severe disci pline for about a quarter of an hour, when he was happy to get away from them. But the operation gave, him immediate relief, and encouraged him to have it repeated before he went to bed, and it was so effectual that he found himself easy the whole night after. His female physicians obligingly repeated their pre scription the next morning, arid Ugffttl in the evening, when the cure was complete ly effected." The beneficial effect which is some times derived from the use of the flesh brush is well known. But this squeezing and pinching operation, called by the natives romee, seems to be more effective than any other kind of external friction, and is universally practised among the islanders. If at any time a person feel- languid and tired, ana bus aown, me romee is imme diately practised on his legs, and it al ways has an excellent eitect 7 ft ft Mr . - A Rent Comet. A correspondent of the Boston Traveller states it as a fact, that Bela's Comet was rent in twain in November, 1845. There is no doubt of the fact. The two pieces were seen both in Europe and America. One was larger and brighter than the other, and side by side they retired into the distant regions of space, io the same path the unbroken comet would have pursued. The Jesuits in France have received a check in their campaign against Free Masonry. Prince Lucien Murat has been elected Grand Master in France, and the President has . authorized his cousin to accept the office. I pr se. A Hard Law. It is a hard Law that permits a rich man to vote, while at the same time, it denies a poor roan that privilege: There is a clause in our State Constitution that will permit a roan to vote in the Senate, who owns fifty acres of land : and prevent a man from voting who is too poor to purchase that number of i acres. y....6 inc o.i aU..Uig the poor in the right of Suffrage. Fellow citizens, to do away with unjust distinc tion between the rich and the poor, let your motto be Free Suffrage! The man who protects the soil at the hazard of his life,' should exercise the free man, as veil as bim Halifax Republican. privileges of a who owns it. Our University. We are requested to state that Thomas S. Ashe, Esq., of Wa desboro, has been chosen, and has consent ed, to deliver the Annual Address before the two Literary Societies of the Universi ty, at the approaching Commencement. ar mm A mot excellent selection Ral Register. A Fugitive Delivered Up. A nesro 1 man, the property of Mr Jonathan Pinck r - a I" m ney resiaing in Annapolis, iviaryianu, wno escaped in May 1844, was arrested in New ork, and taken before a Commissioner, the otlVer day. The master identified his discover his master. Said that he wished to return with him, had always been treat ed kindly, and that he had been induced to runaway by the great inducements held out to him. There was no excitement whatever, and Mr Pinckney left with the Maryland without opposition. fugitive for Queer Cause of Lunacy. The last report of the superintendent of the Massa chusetts Lunatic Asylum mentions the fact' that among the admissions of lunatics to that institution the past three years, were no less than nine "mothers and wives'' who have been rendered insane by their husbands going to California. The effect of a similar bereavment has been very different in an equal number of cases. Fire Annihilator Experiment. Another trial of the Fire Annihilator took place last Monday, at 1 p. m., at Melrose, a small village about ten nines from New York. The house, was a plain boarded edifice floored and closed all round. Three ex periments were made, and were very successful, but the conditions, for a comparative result, were not the same as if the Annihilator were tried on a house on fire in our city. '' When the fire broke out on the outside, men with wet swabs put it out. The experiments, however, were fair, although the party invited to witness it was quite a select one. Child Deserted. We learn that an infant white child, apparently about a week old, was found on Friday night last about 7 o'clock by a negro man near the Poor House in Mazyck-street. It was wrapped up in flannel and had on a few articles of clothing, to which was attached a note signed A Alother,' which stated that necessity alone compelled her to adopt the couise of abandoning her offspring, and that she hoped it would fall into the hands of some benevolent persons, who would bring it up in a proper manner, and that to the care of God and them she con signed it. The negro took the child to the guard house, and related the circumstance to the captain of the guard who sent for the chairman of the orphan house, who immediately had the infant couveyed to that institution, where it now remains. Charleston Courier. - Gratitude of a Slave. There is at Tift's Exchange Hotel, in Mobile, a lump of pure gold, just as it was picked up in California, weighing about three pounds, and valued at something over g600. It is a present to Mrs. Montague, of Marengo county, Ala. from a slave now in Califor nia, who, although in a free- State, could not forget his mistress, but ent her this gift as a token of remembrance. It is, says the Mobile Herald, certainly a con- siuerauie oi a curiosity as a "specimen lump ' and the donor, every one will ad mit, is a trump. ' A Short Lecture to Youno Mes. In Hunt's Merchant's Magazine we find a great deal of practical good sense, but the following advice to vouns men. which we clip from its pages is particularly excellent : Keep good company or none. Never be idle. If your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend to the cultivation of your mind. Always speak the truth. 'Make few promises. Live up to your engage ments. Keeping your own secrets, it you have any. When you speak to a person, look him in the face. Good company and good conversation are the very sinews of virtue. Good character is above all things else. Your character cannot be essen tially injured except by your own acts. If one speaks evil of you, let your life be so that none will believe him. Drink no kind of intoxicating liquors. Ever live, misfortune excepted, within your income. When you retire to bed think over what you have been doing during the day. Make no haste to be rich if you would prosper. Small and steady gains nve competency, with, tranquility of mtnd Never play at any kind ot game of chance. Avoid temptation, through fear you may not withstand it. Never run in debt, un less you see a way to get out again. Never borrow if you can possibly avoid it. Do not marry until you are able to support a wife. Never speak evil of any one. Be just before you are generous. Keep y oar self innocent, if you would be happy. Save when you are young to spend when you are old. The Austrian Government is demand ing a tax of two hundred and twenty five dollars from every full-grown person emi grating to America. From the Journal et Conweree. THE PROPOSED EXHIBITION OF THE IN DUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS. We have taken some pains to inform ourselves in reference to this matter, about which those journals that have spoken at an, nave either spoKen in ridicule, or ex sed themselves in the guarded Ian- euaee ot doubt. We take it for granted. from facts in our possession, that this iro posed exhibition will take place in New York during the approaching season. The Committee have completed their Eu ropean arrangements, and their agents have, by recent steamers, sent communica tions from all the leading exhibitors at the World's Fair, and from a large number of other persons in different parts of the continent. The following, among many other magnifiicent works, their proprietors I a a ft . I a . nave aireauy announce! tneir determina tion and engagement to send: The great Equestrian Statue of Washington, by Marochette, the celebrated Veiled Fi gure by Monti, the colossal statues of Webster, Sir Robert Peel, and Wesley, and the Crucifiction, all by Carew, the Amazon by Kiss, the exquisite silver statue of Columbus, and over one hundred other subjects from artists of reputation in Europe. The eminent artists of Dussel dorf have likewise contributed a large t-amKm. f their valuable.jintin2S, which in the aggregate are estiiUated in value . not less than a hundred and fifty thousand dollars. It is already certain that Great Britain and Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria and furkey will send over their uchest and ! most elaborate productions lor the Ameri can exhibition. Many of our readers have seen the beautiful and appropriate design tor the palace by Sir Joseph Paxton, who has won so much reputation as the architect of the Crystal Palace at London. Already up wards of fifty thousand dollars have been subscribed by some of our New York citizens, and no doubt those best acquainted is entertained Dy aal with the subject, that all the money required can be obtain ed without any dithculty. 1 here is time enough to carry the design out, and some of the most influential, respectable and opulent citizens of New York, have manifested their willingness to become interested to any extent what may be ne cessary in the execution of the great plan, It is probable that the Exhibition will not Ue so large as the one at London, but it will doubtless lie as valuable, and brilliant, for the reason that the American Com mittee are resolved to pursue a different course from the London Commissioners They do not deem it necessary that the plan of their building should be so exten sive, for one half the Crystal Palace was occupied with dry goods, silks, carpets and articles of a like nature, which will not be admitted on so extensive a scale in the American Exhibition; the policy adopted being designed to embrace only choice samples ot those textile fabrics, with which there will be a chance for suc cess in the competition between our coun trymen and Europeans. It is intended that every article in the Exhibition shad be useful and instructve. and that it shall not oecome wnai tue urystai raiace was, little more in some of its departments than a great bazaar lor advertising hun dreds and thousands of different kinds of cloths and textile fabrics, most of which are but a repetition of each other, and none of them, with few exceptions, worthy of being admitted into an inclosure, where, to be admitted at all, implies the presump tion that there is superiority either in the senius that invested, or the skill which executed. Our participation as Americans in the World's Fair, has also been a matter of doubtful policy in the estimation of many of our most judicious country men. Nine ty-nine out of a hundred of the American exhibitors receive no manner of advantage whatever by sending their works to Lon don, although many of them may have derived great advantages from going there themselves. What would chiefly benefit this country, would be to invite the Euro peans to bring over to our Exhibition all the various products of their genius and industry, for in most instances those pro ducts would be sold and remain here; and whenever they exceeded our own would serve as valuable models to be imitated first, and afterwards surpassed. . But the great ativantage we should derive from an exhibition on this side of the water, would be to attract capitalists, artists, manufac turers, and men of taste from Europe for the purpose of making themselves better acquainted with our resources as a nation, and with the astonishing progress we have made in all the arts which embellish and ft a- -ft" auorn civilized me. in tins manner new channels of commerciaMiyercourse would be opened for the transmission and sale of our productions in other part of the world our market would be extended. we should better understand the kind of competition we had to meet in 'foreign countries, and the result of the whole doubtless be highly beneficial to every de partment of human industry on this con tinent. The city of New York, however, is mani festly more deeply interested in this plan than any other part of the country. The m. ft a American nxniumor. wouiu crowd our city with a vast number of visitors for whole months in succession. The depth of summer, which usually witnesses an interval of qoiet and a paralysis of busi ness, would become what it was last year in L.ondon, the gayest, the most bnl liant, and the moat profitable part of the year. Every hotel and boarding house in the city would be crowded, and new and vast accommodations would have to be prepared for, we might safely say, per 1 m. A 1 ft . a . naps i wo or mree nunureu inousanu visi tors who would flock in upon us. All the shopkeepers, and, in fact, everybody en gaged in the production of any thing which is made tor me consumption ot others. would bnd their hands fully occupied. And, besides, during this period New York would be able to put forth an influence upon the world, educating men living un der other forms of government in the great principles of Republican and well ordered constitutional liberty. In this manner we should be able more effectually than by any hostile intervention in the affairs of foreign nations to consummate the benefi centlnfluence which this country has put fnrth and is destined to put forth, in com ing time, by way of moulding the thoughts, the opinions and the institutions ot men. We hope, therefore, that the gentlemen who have projected and are now carrying on this great scheme, will take every step with prudence. Let the names which are brought before the world be such as will inspire confidence among mankind ; names that will be a pledge that there will be no partiality or favoritism, that there will be no trick resorted to or unjustifia ble speculation attempted let the doors be thrown wide open for the concurring competition of men from every part of the world, and if this city goes maufully and .energetically to work, this great plan will . m . a I a .a a be carried through oriuiantiy, nonotaoiy, nobly, and no one m'md can measure the beneficent influence that would on this measure be put forth by our couutry on the fortunes of the world. GETTING MARRIED. A down East Exchange says, that th country nave lately neiu a convention- t . a a t ladies's conventions are all the move just now the subject matter to be considered being the most delicate method of com- mitting matrimony. Some proposed steam and some the electric telegraph, but both these methods presented difficulties that could not be surmounted At length, one of two young ladies who had been cjuietly confabulating in a corner, rose and said that she knew when the dreadful moment of matrimony arrived she would faint. if some method were not devised in which the terrors of the dreadful trial could be aaaa - momentarily ourieu in lorzetiultiess: she. therefore, proposed the application of chloroform, and the suggestion was receiv ed with loud appjause from the assembled spinsters. This is decidedly better than the plan ot the bashful man, who wanted to slide into matrimony by decrees. A wh'rte handkerchief applied to the nose, a moment passeu in onssiui oreau, ana you are awake in the promised land Getting married by chloroform will undoubtedly become popular with ladies. ulimental young Superior Courts. The Judges of the Superior Courts will ride the ensuing Spring circuits, in the following order: 1 Edenton, Jud"e Battle, 2. 3 4. 5 6 7 Newbern, Raleigh, HilUboro', Wilmington, Salisbury, Morganton, Judge Settle, Judge Dick, Judge Caldwell Judge Ellis, Judge Bdiley, Judge Manly. ' 4 If a man has a tiger by the tail, which would be the best for iiis personal safety to hold on, ot let go f ' A PROCLAMATION, By His Excellency David S. Reid, Gov ernor of the Stuie of North Carolina. Whereas, three-fifths of the whole number of members ot each House of the General Assembly did at the lust session pass the following Act: AN ACT to amend the Constitution f North Carolina. Whereas, The freehold qualification now re quired for the electors for members of the Sen ate conflicts with the fundamental principles of liberty; Therefore, Sec. 1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of the State of JVorth Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, three-filth's of the whole number of members of each Mouse concurring, that the second clause ot the third section of the first article of the amended Consti tution ratified by the people of North Carolina on the second Monday of November, A D. 1835, be amended by striking out the words and pos sessed of a freehold within the same Hif ri-t nf fifty acres ol land forsix months next before and at the day of election." so that the said r1an nf said section shall read as follows : All free w hite men of the age of twenty-one years (except as is hereinafter declared) who have been inhabitants of anyone district within the Stat tu.lv. months immediately preceding the dav of anv election and shall have paid Dublin tavra Hafl be entitled to vote for a member of the Senate. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted. That the Gov ernor of the State be, and he is hereby directed. iu issue ma r-rociamanon to the people of North Carolina, at least six months befo r t ho nit election for members of the General Assembly. setting forth the purport of this Act and the amendment to the Constitution herein proposed, which Proclamation shall be accompanied by a true and perfect copy of the Act, authenticated oy me ceruncate ol the Secretary of State, and both the Proclamation and the copy of this Act, the Governor of the State shall cause to be pub lished in all the newspapers of this State, and a.A In I. fl . 1 1 . - . . c""1 uc vyuurt nouses oi me respective Counties in this State, at least six month, before the election of members to the i.Pit r:r..rl Assembly. Read three times and agreed to by thre-tfthi of tn whole number of member of each Hmim Mntt.i and ratified in General Assembly. January, 1851. this tejpectfrVflr. tb 24th dy of J. C. DOBBIN. S. II. C. W. N. EOWARltS, S. 8. Statf. or North Carolix, ) Office of Secretary of State. I, William Hill, Secretary of State. In ni for the State oPNorth Carolina, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and perfect copy of an Act of the General Assembly of this State. drawn off from the original on file in this office. Given under my hand, this 31st day of Dec. 1851. WM. HILL., Sec y of State. And whereas, the said Act provides for amend ing the Constitution of the State of North Caro lina so as to confer on every qualified voter for the House of Commons the right to vote also for ine oenate; Now, therefore, to the end that it rnavbe made known that if the aforesaid amendment to the Constitution shall be agreed to by two-thirds of the whole representation in each House of the next General Assembly, it will then be submit ted to the people for ratification, I have issued this my Proclamation in conformity with the provisions of the before recited Act. In testimony whereof, David S. Reid, Governor of the State of North Carolina, hath hereunto sethis hand and caused the Great Seal of said State to be affixed. . Done at the city of Raleigh, on the thirty-first day of December, in the 5fcS- J! hundred an nuy-one, ana in mm X7tX' 76th yearofonr Independence. S DAVIDS. REID. By the Governor, Thomas Sittlz, Jr., Private Sec'v.
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