COMMUNICATION.
! FOR' THE RKGI8TER.
DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIC PRIN
CIPLES. In oar opinion, Democracy is misapplied
more than any other word in the English lan
guage. The theme of demagogues, it is hawk
ed about by every man who would gain the fa
Tor of the people without comittihg himself to
anything other than a shallow name and sha
dowy principles. No suoh thing as a purely
democratio government can exist, and we very
much doubt whether one ever did exist, not
withstanding learned authors tell us of the
ancient Athenian democracy. .Even in the most
petty committee, the aristocracy is acknowledg
ed. The principle of the best rules," r,i in
out interpretation of it, he who is considered best
according to the vote of the majority of the people,
is acknowledged everywhere in action, it not in
words. What would be the state of society in
a government, where the will of the people
must decide upon every measure and every ac
tion, before it can be carried 7 it is rather in
conceivable to imagine how a government can
govern, which is vested in no one man or set of
men. out in a mass or refined and vulgar, o
.. educated and uneducated people. It must be
evident that both the ascendant and minority
. barty must have a man or a few men selected
from the great mass, to whom they look for
gmaance. it neeas no argument to prove to
any mind that there must be some in every
community, however small, who are ' more
intelligent and better educated than the majo
rity i it b natural therefore that these should be
leaders ; and here is at once an end of the de
mocracy. Viewing all these things, then, we
conclude-that, as the world is at present, a pure
democracy cannot flourish or even exist. Per
haps, if the world were all of one mind, and
all men were created equal intellectually, mo
rally ana pnysicaHy it no such thing as the
warm fire of passion glowed within th human
breast when no one would feel the bright vis-
iou wi .uioiuuu prompting mm to excel, ana,
as a consequence, every man would be on an
equal footing with his neighbor in every res
pect, then, and in that community, where such
state of things existed, we might expect to see
a pure untainted democracy. But, as nature
has constituted man with a disposition to excel,
and has endowed some with superior faculties
to others, we must draw the conclusion that
the much boasted democracy is a humbug; and
we might add, that the democratio party and
its principles, if they have anv. are a humbuo.
Yes, a humbug, a greater humbug than Bar-
nam's mermaid or Joyce lieatb. Ureater, be
cause the fallacy of the two last was soon found
out, while ages will yet pass away, ere the
cwpiy iaauiu&uoD wmcn is attached to every
thine democratio will be cast off. and the oeo-
pie, by an improved system of education and
morals, become enlightened, so as to judge for
memseives, ana pass upon things on their own
menu, ana not oy the word of another, with
out investigation or thought. Then will be the
glorious triumph of conservatism and true re
publicanism, and the American Republic wil
rejoice in an etgrnity of millenial concord and
prosperity. . .
Although we believe democratic principles
to be a humbug, yet, as that party professes to
have some, we will discuss as much as our
space will allow of what they appear to be and
what they are. Democratic are any question
or questions, which may to the leaders seem!
popular, and the uninformed mass follow with
implicit oteaience everything to which the
name of democracy is attached. We know of
many talented men, who are very conservative
in their views, but, living in democratic sections
of the country, they retain the name of Demo
crat, wnue tney, on many questions, act with
the conservative party. In this State, demo
cratio principles were, for some time past, em-
u.svcu iu twu wurua, xree vujrrage ; in Ten
nessee, it was Aim-Free Suffraee. Democrat
now, is a sort of a mixed np affair, a kind of
Bpuneu nyena, wno moves only in darkness
suited to hide his dark deeds; or rather, it is
like a criminal, who, conscious of guilt, endea.
yum u Bcretm aw crime behind an unruffled
demeanor and brazen countenance. Democraey
is made up in this State of Free Suffrage and
cti-Free Suffrage, Internal Improvements and
uM-xoternai improvements, of Distribution and
ann-wistriDution. It is a mixture of almost
everyining good and bad with a considerable
preponderance of the latter. John C. Calhoun,
one of the most talented members of 'the demo-
ivjr, iu opening it ana its principles,
-huh, 11 a we - spoils party, held together by
uoD"0 fiunor vi puoiio piunaer." And
here we might also quote from that notorious
genweman, x nomas U Uliogman. In an ex
f. "Peecb made by him in 1844, lately
published by some of the Whig press, we find
the following?
Pit it my deliberate, veil tettled, solemn conviction
mtn lot teaaert oj Vu party are held together bv no
, . - jj any maivtauai wUl only
vote with them; if he will give his influence in cam.
tng elections, and promoting them to office, he will be
considered a good Democrat, no matter how opposite
hit opinions on aU questions of public policy may be
to those which they happen to be professing at the
W might also quote from the Editor of the
Standard's views in 1842, but it is not necessa
ry .to do so here. Let it suffice to say that his
.views then corresponded exactly with those of
Ah ambitious renegade we have quoted above
Now. our views of the Democrat! rta yt nnl.
cid precisely with the two gentlemen who now
in direct conflict with their former sentiments
favor a party which according to one of them
is governed bv seven nrinnini tl t.
jit... , . , 1 mwuiiu xvan-
dolph isreported to have said of Thomas Ritchie
the five loaves and two fishes." The senti
ments of the other are not less direct fie has
said that the terms -democrat and demagogue
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I perityl We say it is North Carolina's dafy to SLAVERY IN EUROPE AND AMERICA.
raise 10 mm on ine mgnes.p u uc n i h8 sympathies of Abolitionists in Data, bem
JKidge, wbicn overlooks tne western xwiision, ispheres are excited to, the liveliest pitcb,in be
a monument, ana, on tne pinnacie 01 ium uiuu-
ument, a statue of Calvin Ouaves, bo that be
shall seem to watch over the blessing he secured
to North Carolina ; and that the traveller may
be told that yonder stands a Democrat who sac
rificed every chance for personal promotion to
the good of his country. The Democratic Edi
tors in the East, West andj Centre, have pub
lished, with hearty endorsement, the speech of
Hon. H. M. Sbaw, and sorely: they will not re
tract to-day what they said Yesterday. This
speech has been industriously circulated through
the State by Democratio Candidates and other
prominent Democrats, Editors thus endorsing
its views, and distinguished Democrats thus ap
proving and circulating them,; what other de
duction can we draw from this, but that what
ever Mr. Shaw may have said is good demo
cratic doctrine T This premise being obviously
admitted, we will make an extract from that
speech : .
"And what has been the effect produced upon
State legislation by the promises held out by our
whig mends of a golden harvest to be reaped from
the federal treasury 7 In North Carolina the legis
lature has been induced to involve the State in a
debt of $3,000,000, when she had not the means of
paying even the interest upon it without an increase
of the taxes ; and there is reason to believe that the
next legislature will feel itself called upon to in
crease the debt to probably double that sum, in
order to complete the works already commenced,
and to endeavor to render them available, and the
people of that State will be subjected to a burden
of taxation hitherto unknown.
Mr. Chairman, I feel as anxious a desire as my
colleague to see the State of 1 JMorth Carolina, in
which every earthly interest I possess is centered
and which has honored me with a seat on this
floor, prosperous and happy. I would go as far
according to my humble abilities, as any one of her
sons, in all proper efforts to promote her prosperi
ty and happiness ; but I cannot view this policy of
unuiuuuuu ui any oiner ngni man as unjust to uer,
injurious in its operations, corrapting in its tenden
cies, and disastrous in its results ; and I shall there
fore vote against it in all its forms."
According to Mr. Shaw, then, we will have
such a burden of taxation that we must discon
tinue our works of Interna Improvements
"a c at
suit, onaw, it is wen Known, lives in a section
of country which is opposed to said Improve
ments, and he is also said to be opposed to them
himself.
Democrats admitting that Mr. Shaw speaks
Sood Democratic doctrine, and such being the
octrinewhicb.be teaches, therefore we must
necessarily draw the conclusion that the Demo
cratic party is opposed, in secret, if not openly,
to Internal Improvements. But the head "or
gan-grinder" professes that the party is in favor
of Internal Improvements, and points to the in
geniously constructed india-rubber resolution of
the Democratic State Convention on this subject.
Here we plead the assumption which we made
above; the sense of the people being supposed
to be shown by their representatives.
Third, and last, we will look at the opposition
of the Democrats to a distribution of the Pub
lic Lands a nominal opposition as relates to
the New States and foreigners, but real as it
reiers to JNorth Carolina and the - other old
States. They favor it where it will produce
xl 1 1 . . ' .
mem votes, ana oppose it where the minds and
convictions of the people are not to be changed
by 160 acres of land. They oppose it because
laenry viay nrst originated a plan for distribu
tion ; they oppose it because they think by
demagogueism to render it unpopular; and
when they find the people will not be blinded,
then, thinking it a popular measure, thev will
attempt to steal the honor of it from the Whigs,
as they have endeavored to do in the case of in
ternal Improvements and other useful measures.
It is the most blind opposition we have ever
heard of. but an opposition just befitting the
character the Democrats have all along sus
tained, that is, to Jet a sort of "Cliriufi" thinfe
for them, and support whatever that "Clique"
may Btyle Denu cracy. Their onDosition to dis
tribution is a bare-faced humbugone that, to
reasoning minds, carries its absurdity on its
very front. Their arguments agaiust it are
worn thread-bare, and every one of their Con
ventions gives the lie to their action callinc- a
thing the "common property" of all and then
refusing to give even a small share to the old
States, but bestowing it in the greatest nrnfn.
sion on Territories which have hardly enough
population in them to make one pretty large
town. And we also see rrecedentn. Khi;haa
by our greatest statesmen, cast aside, and by
whom ? By a man whose greatest act, perhaps
his only act of statesmanship, has been the
pulliDg of party wires successfully in the little
State of New Hampshire.
Such is the democratic TJfl.rtv. fTaminof1 nova.
fully; it has rather a laatic'
resolutions of '98-'99, to which they often re-
' wucu J"" ass tnem lor tneir principles, the
exact meaning of which none of them can tell.
Their principles are ianus-face d
side is popular, they turn that ; where the other
side, they turn that. In the
Democracy means whatever may be popular
m the section where it exists." T rh o .f
to be trusted ? Will the people of North Caro
lina trust it on the 3d of August next ? We
think not. North Carolinians have wiped the
dust too effectually from their
ed by the sophistry of a dema nm.
cratic rule is over m North Carolina ; her peo
ple know their interest too well to support a
party, which never, excent in r,am i.
their welfare and relief from taxatin'l
HENRI.
TOLEMI REGISTER.
Unwarped by party rage, to. live like brothers."
R;A LEI 6 Hi N..C.
WEDNESDAY .MORNING, JULY 26, 1854.
Repttblican Whig Ticket.
FOR GOVERNOR,
ALFRED DOCKERY, OF RICHMOND.
ELECTION OH THURSDAY, AUGUST 3rd.
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GEN. DQCKERY'S APPOINTMENTS.
half of the enslaved African in the Southern
States of this Union. They seem to.think that J ? Outs' are (he plana of fair, delightful peace1;
i 1 '.i i .1 t j il rr. 1 i . . . 1 .F ..
slavery exists no wnere eise in me wonu, ana
that if it could be exterminated here. the earth
would present a scene full of perfect liberty and
unrestricted happiness. They forget that white
men may be slaves as well as negroes ; and if
jthey would only be willing to reflect for a sin
gle moment, they might be convinced that the
slavery existing in every State of Europe is not
less cruel and intolerable than that which they
so piteously mourn over here. No man, we pre
sume, can 'travel abroad, and witness the unre
lieved physical suffering, the social degradation,
the moral and mental darkness which every
where prevails among the laboring classes, and
Dot be struck with the fact, that after conceding
Southern slavery to be as bad as truth or even
prejudice can warrant, it is infinitely less xo be
deplored than that which grinds and crushes
the poor of Europe. Indeed, the great fact, un
til late years little understood and less believed,
that Southern slavery in the main is a blessing,
and not a curse, would stand out in bold relief
by the comparison, defying the efforts of all the
crazy fanatics and philanthropists of the age
to disprove or confute it. Slavery has been an
almost unmixed blessing to the African him
self; rescuing him from the degrading and bru
tal barbarism of his native jungles, and placing
him in a situation where the influences of civili
zation and Christianity may do their beneficent
work upon him, in improving, elevating and
making him useful. It is not to be looked for
now, but the judgement of after times will Bure
ly vindicate the wisdom and mercy of a system
which has redeemed a whole race from the bru
talities of a condition worse ; than death, and
made them intelligent, useful and respectable.
The columns of Abolition presses themselves
are filled with abundant testimony to the fact
that the condition of the laboring classes in Eu
rope, in point of comfort, morality and enlight
enment, is not to be compared with that of the
Slaves in the Southern States. A late number
of the Cincinnati Atlas a fanatical and rabid
Abolition sheet contains a letter from a cor
respondent in Prussia, in which a dark and re
volting picture is drawn of the abject poverty,
wretchedness and misery of the laboring por
tion of the European population. The writer
declares that their want has no relief that the
masses are born with poverty as their only inheri
tance, having never an opportunity of rising to
any degree of comfort or respectability ; and
that no matter what may be the character'of
the laborer for industry and frugality, the re
muneration is so small, and the outlay for the
common necessaries of life so great, that the
most which can be obtained, when all things are
favorable, is a moderate subsistence. He main
tains, also, what every body admits, that the in
stitutions of Europe are rotten in their very
foundations, and the richer portion of the people,
and especially the nobility, although they see
the danger that surrounds them, still shut their
eyes to the only remedy the feeding of the
starving millions who toil for their support.
Andh ere follows a pregnant, admission from
one who openly professes to be an Abolitionist
himself, which we give in the writer's own lan
guage : "They (the nobility) are so engaged
in schemes for the abolition df American slave
ry, that they have no time to look at the far
greater evils at home. We say gi eater, and we
say it advisedly ; far be it from one who has
Dr. Yancy'g'on Ivy, Tuesday July 25
Jewel Hill, . Wednesday, " 26
WaynesvilleJ Friday, " 28
Webster, Saturday, " 29
Franklin, 4, Monday, " 31
Murphy, Wednesday, August 2
f. WHIGS!
Next Thursday week, the third day of An
gust, is the flection ! But one week longer,
and the day for the conflict will be at hand.
Are you ready ? Have you so far done your
duty, by warning your friends and neighbours
of the great importance of that conflict ? Have
you forgotten; that the Governor the Legisla
tureand two United States Senators, depend
on 3'our exertions, your zeal, your devotion
to that cause which in times past you have
held so dear Be of good cheer I The pros
pects are bright, and if every Whig will do his
duty manfully,' the enemy will be defeated !
Be at your pof t early on the day of election
Have strong and active men at every precinct.
Appeal to the, People to remember, that on this
contest depends the question whether the voice
of North Carolina is to be heard in the Nation
al councils in behalf of their rights in the pub
lic Lands. Let not the enemy evade this issue!
They will resort to every device to escape it.
But press it upon them 1 Hold them to it, and
shew to the People how they would surrender
without a struggle the' rights of our good Old
State ! JFiwA-4-woRK like men, to the last
MOMENT !
THE MASK THROWN OFF!
We learn, through a gentleman of high char
ever favored the abolition of our slavery to jus- cter, that Col,s Asa Biggs, who is a candidate
tifyour own conduct in all things. But truth for the SenateSn the Diatrint nmnnoA e u
I f th. XT. r7iTT ctjuntie8 of and Washington, addressed
finitely better than that of the peasant popula- the Pe0Pe at Williamston, on the 11th instant,
uou uiuerniany. Burns never said a hottor 1 uruc.aimeu mat ne was willing to tm for t
thing, nor one which could be more applicable
10 tne sympatny ot Europe tor our colored po
pulation, than
"0 wad some power the giftie gie us,
To see ourselves as ithers see us ;
It would from many a blunder free us
And foolish notion."
Such are the conclusions of an intelligent
American traveler in Europe, who has no love
for the "peculiar institution" of his own coun
try, but whom truth compels to confess his
houestsentimentsasto thecomnarativeconditinn
of European and American slaves. It is not
less true of our Northern philanthropists than it
is of foreign, that they are so busilv ena
in schemes for the abolition of slavery in the '
fTti-J Cl.l A. I 1 1
tending the Central Road to Beaufort, but was
opposed to the State's giving any aid to ex
tend it West- that the West knew very well
his opinions on Internal Improvements that
he was and hall always been opposed to bold
schemes, and they hated him for it ! This our
informant sayslis Mr. Biggs' position on the
subject of Internal Improvements.
Now, it will be borne in mind, that Mr. Biggs
was the leading spirit in the late Iocofoco Con
vention, the right hand man of Mr. Bragg,
either drew the Resolution on Internal Im
provements, or iad the principal share in fra-
United States, they have no time to bestnw a i niinc it, that he supported that .Resnlntmn -
thought on the manifold miseries that surround ' and such is the interpretation, such the mean-
u cum, iueui in moiace. Uhan- ;n, b nnar r,1QMD ftT1 u .
Q ' f -
r 'wr ui uese is now.
by his own word, what he accuses the Whi?
candidate for Governor of beine, viz a dfm
gogue 1 Both of them by thdf ioriSu
party prove themselves to h . .u A 8
at present acting from corrupt motives : one or
w l 1 1 ese tney must admit
We have shown what we believe, and what
numbers of that party have said, DemoSS
principles are ; now we turn to what they prS
fees to be and how the party really stands
things which we intend to discuss, we will as-'
eume the position, (which we heard a distin
guished Democrat assume not long since in re-
Scol- Wh1Part') mauer wh"t
ih Convention declared themselves in favor of
that was a principle of the party. '
ftjftv MI democratic friends really in
favot o( Free Suffrage ? It baa been suggested
by eome one, we think, that the Democrats are
rf f!or of making this amendment to the
Constitution, but wish to keep it up as long as
possible, so that they may ride into office on it
otherwise, they would unite with the Whigs for
a Convention ae the cheapest, best and surest
mod of getting that and as many other amend
ments as the wisdom of our State may deem ne
cessary. But abler minds than our's are dis
cussing this intricate question, and to them we
leave it.
Second : Is the Democratio party in faVor of
Internal Improvements? In some parte of the
Statebey aav thev are : in nth. t,.
HL ?"AD? V ow, that in
Y, " wuo gisiaiure upon any Intern.
And in democratic Counties we see Internal Im
provement men thrown aeide on account ' thT.
eupnorting suoh measures. For aS ftn '
ynf look to Hon. Calvin Graves! of cS 5S hi
gavs the easting vote in favor of the N C n
nd in consequence of which iT v
Democratw.Counties in the State p!S W
fbr favoring a measnre which it osc"bed
the infant Lourc""? SJSl
valop them into the fullgr
Woman's Love A So nnn TJo.r t
There is many a life scene mnn tnnh;n. m
wortby-of immortality than the deeds of con
querors or the heroes of history. The following,
frnm tha Sf Tn; D 1.7- ?
" wuM it-cyuvitcun, is one :
, "We saw, says the editor, last evening, an apt
illustration of the affection of woman. A poor
inebriated wretch had been taken to the cala
boose. His conduct in the street, and after he
was placed in the cell, was of such a violent
character that it became necessary to handcuff
him. The demon rum had possession of his
soul, and he gave vent to his ravings in curses
so profane as to shock the senses of his fellow
prisoners, one of whom, in the same cell, at his
own solicitation, was placed in a separate
apartment. A woman appeared at the grating,
and in her hands she had a rude tray, upon
which were placed some slices of bread, fresh
from the hearthstone, and other little delicacies
for her erring husband. She stood at the bar
gazing intently into the thick gloom, where her
manacled companion wildly raved. Her voice
vaa Iav onI msft- ttrA l it -
u' o sue canea his name
its utterance was as plaintive as the melody of
a fond and crushed spirit. The tears streamed
;0mre7l' aDd tbere' in the dark bouse,
the abode of the most wretched and depraved
the tones of her voice found their way into that
wicked man's heart, and he knelt in sorrow and
silence before his voung and injured wifr
while his heart found rolfef in tefi woh TJfe
TD!a-n.Teep; Tbough the iron still
bound his wrist, he placed his hands, with their
heavy insignia of degradation, confidingly and
affectionately upon the brow of his fair com
panion and exclaimed, "Katy. I will try and
be ! a better man." There, upon a rud? seSt
she had spread the humble meal, which she had
prepared with her own hands, and after he had
finished she rose to depart, bidding him be calm
k,A j1i : , & inena to goon his
bond, and that she would return and take
home. And she left him, a strong man! with
s WLfe?w .upD.his very-
ty ought to begin at home, but in their case it
begins a long way off, and ends there, accom
plishing literally nothing, except the produc
tion of strife, contention and ill-wilL We con
clude, with an extract from the London corres
pondence of the New York Herald, from which
it will be also perceived that the slaves here are
far more happy, contented and prosperous than
the laboring population of Great Britain.
The picture here drawn of the condition of the
boor in Enland wduld il apply ' to the most
wretched and brutal of Southern laborers:
"Infanticide is as prevalent in England as it
is in some savage countries. A woman has just
murdered six of her young children ;she was
the wet nurse to one of the Royal children, ana
has turned out a drunkard and an adulteress.
The lives of hundreds, if not thousands, of chil
dren in England are insured in death clubs,
and nearly all these children die early. Osten
sibly thier lives are insured to enable their pa
rents to bury them decently, if it pleae God to
take them, as the phrase goes, but it is proved
that the real object of insurance is to enable the
hideous wretches of parents to make a profita
ble trade of murder. These children are killed
by neglect or slow poison. Poverty is.no doubt
the cause of this fearful depravity.
" The English working class are kept in the
lowest state of degradation, by being paid bad
ly, to enable England to preserve her manufac
turing supremacy and sell cheap goods. Some
excuse, however, can almost be found rr ;r.
cide in England, owing to the miserable destiny
that of servitude, of the children of the poorer
classes, particularly the female children Fe
male servitude here, in the families of the in
ferior classes, is the vilest slavery that can be
imagined. The English maid of all work is a
damning blot upon English morals and human
ity. -: Ine female drudge in the family of the
Jnghsh petty tradesman, or bear loding house
wnere mere is a large lamily of children
or coarse-nunded and upstart lodgers, works
harder, and ,s subjected to viler insults and
degradation, than the slavesof the ancient world
fens of thousands of these poor drudges seek a
refuge in Destitution. 6
x-nglish society is rotten te the core. No
matter how prosperous the country is, a race of
hlT&n W?7refl8t8' th0 wealth is aborbed
by the capitalists, and for want of room the low
er order of workers are ground down. But e
ven amongst a better class of persons the mise
ry and oppression that .v;o .
Ihousands of girls who are tenderly brought
upare aDDrenticed to HrOOJ
- 7 auu milU-
Zt Vl Ji v 1J' ln, order 10 enaWe them to
get a better living than by domestic servitude
lhese poor creatures are kent nin-ht anA
in a miserable workroom, where they are half
.v.-, ,u luu luey may enaDj vula-
mistresses, with their husbands, to live in ex
travagance and sensuality.
-ur oi English society is the
It was intended bv
. ..i . .
its judicious" provisions, to ,cover and em
brace the extension of the Road to Beaufort,
but not the extension Westward! What will
th friends of Extension in the West say to
this ? We have, time after time, warned them
against the game which the leaders of the Io
cofoco party are playing in reference to the ex
tension of the Central Road West. We have
told them that no reliance is to be placed on
the professions of Mr. Bragg on this subject,
that if they support him with any hope that he
will aid them in iprocuring the extension of the
Road, they will be mistaken deceived ! Be
hold now the casting off of the mask by the
man who did more than any one else to procure
the nomination of Mr. Bragg, -who but echoes
the true opinionstof : the Iocofoco party on this
question, so important, not only to the West,
but the whole State! Again we warn our
Western friends Against the professions of Io
cofoco leaders ! Oan they expect true men in
the East, those wbo are truly and sincerely in
favor of extending the Road West, and are now
staking theirall on that issue, to stand by them
and their interests in the Legislature, when thev
themselves are voiing for and promoting the
very bitterest and most uncompromising ene
mies of extension 'Westward ? We warn them
against the fatal step they take, when they vote
for Thomas BRAGGof Northampton, for Gover
nor of the State ! I
brutality, of husbands" o77h7lowerC derto
r8- ATw has just been passed esp
Englishmen are not less kind-hear ied perhaps
than other men but the oppression they enduE
diffimeBHv T W5? MVte"t of tLm, the
difficu ty they have in getting a living K'n
ard, humiliated fifo th. .1
ragi whose presence and affection had stilled
the angry passions of his soul. True to u
urn with one who went on his bond for his an-
KatnfTt,m0r,ningTwUh his haud Gasped
in that of his lovely wife, she led him away a
penitent, and, we trust,, a better man. There
were those who laughed, as that pale, meek
woman bore off her erring husband? w !c
heeded them not. nA f ,r .!Da.Dd : to she
7V' Vvl .oc" Bacnncing heart A P, . .
ur vareu iar notninir in ito l j , vairtivBnifl xixiijs. ineto hip ni
en-born instincts, but to preser Vd pro Zi S 'o a lot at San Francisool A shan
him whom she loved withall the devotion of a !fi!n y,0Ur8e1 1 lt-' with a revo1'". If the
Wife ana a woman. uevotion of a j titleneeds confirmation, blow somebody'a brains
their tlTmnar: Tl,.:. X.""",.? Bour8
. uo,, uujues, likewise Mnnnt
but be uncomfortable, where wei JS lowTnd
competition for labor so great, and the conse
quence of all this is that the st;0ng man wreaks
his irritated temper and excited passion ohe
weak woman." v ine
CANDIDATES F)R THE LEGISLATURE.
Hertford The Hon. Kenneth Rayner is the
Whig candidate . for the State Senate in this
county, and W. 1,. Daniels, Esq., the candidate
for the lower House.
Richmond.-Co1.W. L. Steele, Whig, is the
only candidate for the House of Commons in
this county. f
, i
SUPREME COURT
The following opinions have been -delivered
in tli a
win eiuce our last report
By Nash, C. J. In Earp v. Earp, in equity,
trom Johnston ; demurrer overruled with costs
Also, in the State v. Ward, from Onslow, direc
ting a venire de nofo. Also, in tie State v
Moore, from Edgecombe, declaring that there
is do error.
fij?f V?RS-mA J- Gerriah Johnston, af
firming the judgment; Also, in Jonenv. Biggs
from Beaufort; judgment arrested. Alsof in
State v. Pcarce. from; Granville, declaring that
there is no error. fa
By Battle, J. In
THE HOMESTEAD BILL HAS PASSED ?
;:' I THE SENATE ! ":r '.
v The Bitt introduced by Mr. Hunter, of Virt
ginia, has been substituted for the original
Homestead Bill, and has passed the Senate by
a vote of 30 to 11, Messrs. Badger, Bell, Daw
son, Fessenden, Fish, Foot, Gillette, Jones, of
Tenn., Pearee, Pratt, and Rockwell, voting
against it. This is the measure of thetAdmin
istration to which we referred a few issues past.
It goes back to the House, and; if the amend
ment is concurred in by that body, it will no
doubt receive the approval of the President.
We regard it as one of the most iniquitous and
unjust measures that ever passed Congress. It
has been hurried through the Senate too in a
most shameless manner. The original Home
stead Bill had been before the Country sufficient
ly long to enable the People to judge its char
acter. In all the old States it was very odious.
The Administration saw that its approval by
President Pierce would break 1 him down in
those States. What was the device the fraud,
resorted to, for the purpose of evading the issue
of vetoing or approving the original Homestead
Bill? Another measure is prepared by the Ad
ministration, differing in name, and in some of
its details, from the original Bill, but the same
in principle, and just at the heel of the Session
of Congress, after months had been spent in
discussing the original Bill, that new measure is
offered as a substitute, and it is forced upon the
Senate, at one sitting every proposition for ad
journment, so that time might be given foe its
full discussion, being refused by the majority !
We say again that a more miquitous measure, in
our humble judgment, never passed the Senate.
It has all the odious features of the Homestead
Bill proper, and has incorporated in it other
features, far more objectionable than any in the
original Bill. It surrenders the whole of the
public lands in the different States to the man
agement of the States in which they lie. This
is tantamount to giving them the whole land
thus situated. It will amount to nothing less.
And yet this is the Administration which was
to "hold" the lands, and dispose of them, like
a "prudent proprietor !" This is "prudent pro
prietorship" for you with a killing vengeance !
We knew, at the time that this doctrine of "pru
dent proprietorship" was put forth, that it was
intended to humbug and deceive the People,
and this step of the Iocofoco Party in Congress
stamps it with having been a fraud upon the
confidence and credulity of the old States of the
Union !
: The Bill also gives the right to any one to
settle on the public lands in the Territories, and,
when so settled, to procure a grant for one quar
ter section, at a price ranging from 12 to 25
cents per acre ! What a contemptible farce and
infamous raud ! The original Bill gave the
land to the actual settler ; this Bill professes to
sell it, and at a price, (to use the words of the
Washington Union,) "merely nominal, which
niakes it differ but little, if any, in principle,
from the original Homestead Bill." Every out
cast and vagabond, foreigner as well as native,
by squatting on the public lands, gets a good
home of 160 acres, at the price ranging from 12
to 25 cents per acre, though it may be worth
the highest graduation price of $1 25 ! And
this is "holding" the lands ! Such an unjust
and plundering measure as this comes from an
Administration which vetoed the Indigent In
sane Bill, and has been shouting the doctrine of
"prudent proprietorship" ever since it came
into power ! In the name of all that is j ust and
honorable, are our people to be thus deceived
and defrauded by those they have entrusted in
power, with perfect impunity ? Will they never
turn upon their oppressors ? Will they remain
silent and inactive, and allow a set of corrupt
and trading politicians and office-holders at
Washington to filch from them their just rights
to perpetuate themselves in power ? We call
on the honest Democrats of the State to make
good their opposition to this scheme of plunder !
They denounced the Homestead Bill. This is
its twin sister, far more repulsive in some of
its features ! What right had Congress to give
up the trust and control of these lands confided
to it by all the States, to any other trustee,
without the consent of all?
The friends of the original Homestead Bill i
Cass, Douglass, Bright, Pettitt, Gwin.atf, voted
for this measure jumped at it, and do not hesi
tate to declare that it suits their purposes much
better than the original Bill ! This proves the
character of the measure, beyond all cavil !
jnow the &outh may look out! Under the
clause in the Kansas and Nebraska Bill allow
ing foreigners to vote in those Territories, and
this new Homestead Bill, giving them the right
to ouy up tne pest lands for 12 or 25 cents
per acre, thousands and tens of thousands of
foreigners will pour into that region. In a few
years Oregon, Washington, Kansas, Nebraska,
iumnesota, ana a number of other territories
i .
carved out ot these, will be knocking at the
door of Congress Jp be admitted as States free
States, hostile to slavery, filled with a foreign
population, holding all their new fangled and
disorganizing doctrines ! What then? Where
will the safety of the South be ? We shall be
at the mercy of an overwhelming and unscru
pulous majority both in the Senate and House !
Then every patriot and lover of the Union will
look back with regret to the movements which
are now going on, and curse the rashness of our
present legislation !
HARD RUN!
The
Standard" labors hard to friiri ,
The Standard7 vis indeed hard piesseu i j msi witn the idea that a Cinventi(n
It has discovered another reason why General cannot be restricted, so as to preserve the b.
Doekery should not fee elected Governor, viz: sis. How was it restricted in 1835? Experi.
" He voted in the Convention of 1835 against ence is the best teacher in these mattera. There
amending the Constitution, so as to require , Was nothing in the Constitution as it then storH
Major Gaston II. Wilder, (the valiant
gentleman who volunteered to go to the Mexican
war as a soldier, but backed out,) is going round
the county , (having noopposition for the Senate,)
preferring the most unjust charges.against Gen.
Doekery, and assailing him in the most violent
manner ! This is bravery for you well befit
ting one, who was "to whip Mexico before
breakfast," but took care to step into a fat of
fice, where he could neither smell gun powder
nor hear the whistling of a bullet !
members of the Legislature to vote viva voce,
or by word of mouth, for Senators in Congress,
Treasurer, Comptroller, &e." (See Debates of
the Convention, page 181.) If the " Standard "
had looked a little further on, it would have
discovered that Messrs. Charles Fisher, Cal
vin Graves, and other leeding men of its par
ty, voted with General Doekery. J udge Gaston
also voted against the change in the mode of
voting by ballot, and spoke as follows :
"Mr. Gaston of Craven, did not approve of
the departure from the usual mode of voting.
He feared that the innovation would produce
much evil, and he feared that it would be fol
lowed by little good. It is true, as stated by
the gentleman from Wake, there is a marked
difference between a vote given by a man in
his private capacity, and one given in hia legis
lative capacity. A representative is responsi
ble to his constituents, and they have a right
to know how he voted on any particular sub
ject. But while he should be responsible to
his conscience and his constituents, he should
be free from oil improper influences. Suppose
the Legislature were about to make an appoint
ment of great importance, would it be right
that members should be left to their own free
choice without control from any quarter? It is
essential that representatives should be respon
sible to their constituents, but to no other per
son. Now, direct them to vote viva voce in the
appointment of Speaker, Clerks, Doorkeepers,
Militia Oflicers, &c: they will be liable to be
operated upon and controlled by every one
about them.
We cannot tell what will be the effects of
such an influence. At present, he believed no
member ever refused to inform his constituents
in what manner he voted on any particular oc
casion. To deny an answer to a question of
this kind, would place a stain on his reputation
that he could not get off.
But the power might be improperly used to
effect party purposes, on agitating political
questions. It would be uaed to carry points on
particular occasions, more with a view of keep
ing up party feelings than to effect any good
purpose. This consequence may also result :
Whenever an appointment is to take place, dis
cussions will follow as to the fitness and unfit
ness f the applicant for office. Member will be
heard to say, as now, when the yea9 and nays
are called : " Being called to record my name
for one or other of certain persons for office, I
must state my reasons for the course I shall
pursue. I havo heard such a report against
Lone of the candidates, and winh to linow whether
there be any foundation for the report." The
consequence will be, that the Legislature of the
State will become a school for scandal, for ban
dying to and fro the characters of men.
" lie was unwilling to make any change in
existing usages, without a moral certainty that
the change will be beneficial, and he was con
strained to say, that he was very far from per
ceiving the advantages which were promised
by the alteration now proposed."
Thus spoke Judge Gaston, and well might
any one, after such reasons as he gave, doubt the
policy of the change ! Nathaniel Macon also
spoke, and though he favored the change, yet
he declared expressly, that " there was bct
little difference between voting by ballot
and viva voce." (Debates of Con., page 180.)
Was not Mr. Macon of some consequence in
the estimation of the " Standard " party ? If
he thought there was but " little difference " be
tween the two modes does any one care for
the noise which theStandard" is making
about General Dockery's vote? Had Caltin
Graves been nominated, instead of Thomas
Bragg, would the " Standard " have thought of
bringing up this vote against General Doekery ?
would not its Lditor have supported Graves,
and deolared him, in all respects, a marvelously
proper person? Most arsiredly he would !
What brazen effrontery, then, to ask the people
to vote against Gen. Doekery on this account 1
Lame and impotent conclusion ! Hard run,
hard run, Mr. " Standard I" Your eye sight
is growing dim. You have seen the hand wri
ting on the wall. It has alarmed you, Regain
your self-possession ! Hold up your head, and
cease your impotent rage !
TRUE TO ITS PRINCIPLES I
On the 11th instant, the "Democratic Repub
lican General Committee," of New York, held
a meeting in Tammany Hall and adopted the
following Resolutions. Read them 1
"Whereas, It is this day officially announced
that John McKeon has been appointed United
States Attorney for the Southern District of
New York ; and whereas, he is notoriously des
titute of the professional ability and standing
which is essential for the proper: discharge of
the highly responsible duties of the office ; and
whereas, he has for many years denounced the
democratic party, and refused , to be bound by
its nominations, even while it was entirely uni
ted ; and whereas, while a member of the House
of Representatives, in the Twenty fifth and
Twenty-seventh Congresses, he voted and sum
pathized with Giddings, of Ohio, Slade of ter-
mu,H, urtu uvtcr uvounonisis ; and -whereas, he
opposed the twenty first rule, and the resolution
in censure of Joshua R. Giddings for introducing
incendiary and abolition documents into ihe
House, of Representatives; and whereas, he hna
constantly maintained the propriety of extend
ing to negroes in the State of New York unquali
fied suffrage, and the constitutional concession to
tiern of all political privileges exercised by the
whites; and whereas, he has been
justly denounced in Congress and in the State
oi new I orx as an abolitionist ; and whereas,
he has been expelled from and repudiated by
the democratic party, and refused a hearing in
Tammany Hall by the democracy of this
while yet united ; and whereas, he is now, and
has been for years, without the confidence or
respect of any portion of the democratic party
--and consequently is totally unable to perform
r . . Ui wringing to the support
... ; . : . ww"" or tne aemo
to Pin rtnnroi tia T.ioln ... ,A 1 ; : r
r " ircgioioimo iu nuiu a v.onven
tion. But it was done. TJoes the Standard
suppose that if the members are required, bv
the act calling the Ccnveution, to take an cath
to abide by and carry out in good faith the pro.
visions of that act and not go beyond it, as they
were "required to do in 1835, they will Vi
late their oaths and commit moral perjury?
But it says there is no provision in the ConHti
stution to submit the amendments to the People
What of that ? There was none iu the Constf.
stitution prior to 1835. Yet, these amendments
then made were passed upon by the People
Does not not every dunder-headed schoolboy
know that the Legislature, in the very act call
ing a convention, can make ample provision for
submitting the amendments to the People ? Xo
Convention can be called without the consent
of the East, at least in part ; and is any n.aa
fool enough to suppose that tbey will neglect to
have all these safe guards thrown around the
act calling a Convention? Away with such
stuff! It may frighten old women and children,
but can have no effect on grown up men with
half a soul !
With defeat staring him in the face. Km
Editor of the "Standard" is becom'mgtinow, ;
He deals his blows at random, at friends as
well as foes, in the midst of his rage. He dis
courses most pathetically thus :
"Democrats of Wake ! Beware of Whiter?
and the "Know Nothings !" Stand to your
places! Waver and fall back and defeat will
overwhelm you I If a Democrat here and there
turns traitor, let him go I
"Democrats of Wake I Your imnciples are in
peril I Let every Democrat do his duty ! If
necessary, mount and ride through your neigh
borhood see the people and converse with
them, and induce all to go the ticket I"
Yes, hurrah, boys ! close up ! eyes right !
eyes' left ! front ! Touch shoulders 1 All mi.
tors, two paces in the rear, backward march":
Now, ye unterrified ! stand up to the rack, "fod
der or no fodder." Charge bayonets 1 Now,
gallant fellows ! the woods are on fire tha Whips
and "Know Nothings" are about ! Mount your
horses , "every mother's son of ye !" Scour the
country ride through the neighborhood! If
you catch any "democratic traitors," let them qo!
Came back as soon as you can, boys ! We must
meet these Whigs at Phillippi!
Now, we would most respectfully inquire of
the Commander in Chief, the Editor of the
"Standard," "if all mount and ride through the
neghborhood," who will be left home "to see?"
The General is frightened. Like Davy Crock
ett's man, "be is coming out of the same hole
he went in at !"
'Keep it before the veovle. That Alfred TWt.
ery admitted in a speech in Moore county, that
it was not probable North Carolina rwould get
any Public Lands or Proceeds." Standard.
Keep it before the People, That in this' state
ment the Standard departs wilfully from the
truth !
Keep it also befvre the People, That if North
Carolina should be unjustly deprived of her
ehare of the Public Lands, the blame therefor
will rest on Hhe heads of the Standard and its
unscrupulous party masters I
"Let us, then, brother Democrats, sfand firm
and close together, so that each one can feel Hie
other's elbow against his!" Standard.
Whew! Too thick to thrive, General, this
hot weather ! Why hot tell us to hug each oth
er, at once ? You know they say too much fa
miliarity breeds contempt t
We learn that Major Gaston H. Wilder,
the Iocofoco candidate for tn'Senate in this
County, opened upon the "Know Nothings" the
other day most furiously. He proclaimed "that
any Democrat who joined them was a Traitor !"
From what we hear, there area goodly number of
traitors abroad, then !
"Gen. Doekery wants votes more than he does
knowledge, or cormt ideas of pronunciation 1"
Standard.)
If so, the "Pee Dee Farmer" is quite a know
ing old gentleman, and has much better "ideas
of pronunciation" than his competitor!
"Our cause is one. Our principles are a unit,
and immortal." Standard.
True ! 5 Loaves plus 2 Fishes 1 a unit !
Q. E. D. Locofoco principles are a unit! As
to their being "immortal," that depends alto-
geiner on tue length of time the loaves and fishv
es last :
.Roll mr U-lt
from FrnVi;n AZl c37
, --.rr 'y pisununs S. Willi
ams' children entitled p capita. Also n
Wn v. Hussey.froni NeTHannvr fill':
a ventre de novo. A3sor i Riddle v Ho, t in j ' " "
llsi ynC?n P;,dl8,i9i"S the bill with costs. I i The division in the ranks of the Demo
.Wng&K Caswell, dis-j cratic ;Party in New York seems now tot
wv.vf.v.., nidcr, man ever; ana, in other
parts of the country, th same thing is eeen.
Let the true Whigs, discarding sectionalism
and agitation, now hold together firmly, and
act for their country and its interests. If th
are faithful to the Conttitution and the Laws
1 they are already at tne dawn, of a bright day
The Court adjourned on Monday, the 24th.
crattHj party which is now opposed to it ; there
fore Be it Resolved, That we deeply deplore the
appointment of John McKeon to the office of
United States Attorney for the Southern Dis
trict of New York, believing that it equally
outrages the connections of the democratio re"
pubhean party in all its div:sions, and is calcu
lated to increase its existing differences, and
contribute seriously to impair the conSdence
heretofore reposed in the President and the ad
ministration. Resolved, That a copy of the above preamble
and resolution be furnished to the President
and be putliehed. " '
EXTRACT from a letter to the Editor, dated
Bertie Co., July 24, 1854.
"I write a line to say, that every thing here
promises well forx Gen. Doekery and the good
Whig cause. I think we shall give him an in
creased vote over that given for Mr. Kerr.
Some of our friends think from 50 to 100 votes
more in the Uountyi If our friends have only
done their duty in other sections, as our noble
old standard bearer has done his throughout the
entire State, then I believe the victory is ours.
Success to the noble-hearted and gallant old
patriot, say we all down this way !
Through the hot and acorching summer's
sun, and amid more sickness and mortality than
I have ever known in this region, his friends
here, having many prejudices to encounter and
overcome, have stood firmly by Gen. Doekery
and the cauAe he advocates.
As yet no avowed opposition to the candi
dates in the county has made its appearance;
tbough our opponents, guerriJla-like, are fight-
"'mu.. xnis Janus-laced
game of Mr. T. Bragg will not Jo. To wear
two faces under one hat is a bard feat to per
form. Who- now makes one speech for the
Last, and another for the West? Who is try
ing to ride both sides of a sapling ? Who is
for internal improvements in the West, and
dead against them in the East ? Mr. T Brag-'
knows who is. He can answer.
We are extremely curious to hear him make
an internal improvement speech down this way,
as we have heard him so often on the other side.
1 hough I am but little acquainted with gaming
of any kind, jet, I must think, that to hurra
for a thing in one section, and to curse it
in another, is what is generally known as the
Bragg game I
Call upon our Whig friends, and all liberal
minded people in the State, who love the place
of their birth, and who wish' to see her future
career onward and upward, to rally around tho
time honored banner of the glorious old Whig
party, held and borne aloft, as it now is, by the
brave heart and the strong arm of as pure and
indomitable a patriot as ever lived."
We
FREE BkRBECUE!
are requested tot give notice th - r..
tiful Free Barbecue will be given at Eag!e RoCfc
m this county on the dy of Election.
And pray, what will the "Standard," and the
unscrupulous leaders of the locofoco party,
reply to this act of the Administrating ri
pointing to the high and responsible office of NOB IF SFNTfMBVTS
District Attorney of the United States for th o t, ,OBLE SENENTS.
State of New York a man K , ! Ge-ery. speaking of Rail Road Improve-
oiate or iew lork, a man who is proclaimed ments throughout the State, makes use of the
by its own political friends to bo "a sympatic following noble sentiments : :
zer with Slade and Giddings," and "an aboli- ) ' "The end of a11 tno8e imPrvements is not
TiONisT? Does it not prove conclusively the I l? ke ."r8el! 8 ncher-but they tend,
Dronensities and nf;nn;niM ,u - J i fe8'de that aud far above that, to unite the two
propensities nd principles of those in power? actions of North Carolina, the East and the
in the tace of such acts, the locofoco press have j We8t sufficiently acquainted with each
the hardihood to declare that the Administra k' D tDe "ds of a fraternity that can
tion is true to the Sooth! Will that neIer b! brokfn-"