Mm v Patriot-
riERTATW VOTSS OF CIRtXlN lSNJN
Mean. Ibrou: ThxJfohai$
wish to drnwthe attentkmof ft phil toe
;n ts tut Assembly. If r u the tune
for raters to look after the conduct and TOtos of
those thai represented went in us use uegisior
(m the 18th day of January; 1831Genersi
James M. Leech, of Davidson, introduced in the
Commons" the following preamble and resold
tion, to wit: '
"Wnereeir wepMty&)aahrtrfth United
States if the common property of all the, States,
purchased and procured by the' jrtmmoa efforts;
and common treasures of hose States, and in
which pack and all are fairly entitled to pertio
i Data and any appropriation of the public lands,
to particular .States for special and particular
purposes , in those States is creative of unequal
unjust and improper discriminations in the use
of a. eonmoQ fund : and, whereas the precedent
has been made. and. the practice recently ob
tained in the Congress of the United States, of
gTtnar rtnmatiniis or Uu pnhiia immu
to particular states tor purposes of uaprore
meat; and, whereas, the State of North Caroli
na in the spirit of generous patriotism and fra
ternal feeling ceded to the General Oorerameit
a ksrre and valuable portion of the public ter
ritory, and is therefore upon erery principle of
jusuob, equity mm sound poucy javiy una e
. aitimately entitled to heY equal share of the pub-
M Therefore, resolved, That our Senators and
Representatives in Congrees be "requested to
make application to that body for an appropri-
non to tae scan ox norm u&rouna 01 a iair ana
equitable portion -of the v-ubiio lands, which.
when' so appropriated,. shall be applied to Pur
pose Ul lUHinUU UBpiVTUDBDI U1U piMHMI, vww-
cation, in relief of the Treasury and public bur
dens to that amount." doe Journal page w.
When the vote on the passage of this resolu
tion was called for, the following gentlemen
roted for it, to wit :
Messrs. Adams, D. Barnes, Bogie, Brasier, D.
F. Caldwell, A. Caldwell, Campbell, Cherry,
Dargan, Davidson, Drake, Dunlap, Eure, Erwin,
A. M. Foster, A. G. Foster, Harrison, Hackney,
G. 'Hays, J.Hays, J. Hill, 8. mil, Jerkins,
Johnson, 8M. Leach, Locke, Maultsby, McKay,
McCleese,' McMillan, N. McNeil, Montgomery,
Parham. Pirrott, Pool. Earner. Russell, Scott,
Sherrard, Shimpock, Siler," Sloan, Stubbs, Tay
lor, Thornburg, Tripp, Walton, Webb, Wiley,
B. Williams, Winston 51.
The following gentlemen, all locofocos, vot
ed against this preamble and resolution, and a-
gainst the equitable rights of a. v., to wit :
Messrs. Arery of Burke, J. Barnes, Bridges,
Broeden. Cockerham of Surrr. Cotton xf Chat
ham,- Durham, of Orange, Eaton, Flynt, of
Stokes, Gordon, of Wilkes, W. Hill, Holland, of
Clearelajod,. Kalln m, of Rockingham, Kelly, A.
J. Leaeaf Lore of Haywood, Marshall, of Stokes,
McLean, of Surry, MiseU, Newsom, Pegram, of
Cumberland, Patterson, of Orange, 8. Person,
Powers, Rankin A Reinhart of Lincoln, Rollins,
L. Sanders, R. M. Saunders, Sharpe, of Bun
combe, Sheek, of Surry, Sherill Stowe, of
Lincoln, Stephenson, wanner, Thigpen, Thorn
ton, Waugh of Stokes, J. Williams 4a
Among those who roted for the resolution
are the following Democrats, to wit:
Harrison, Samuel Hill A David Johnson, of
Caswell, Montgomery, of Orange, Sherrard, of
Wayne, and Taylor, of Nash 6.
The following locqfocot dodged this rery im
portant rote, for the benefit of party :
McDowell, Bond, Jarvis, Mathw, Sanderson,
Sutton, Fonrille, Cad. Jones, of Orange, Wilsrfn,
of Perquimons, Winstead of Person, Fkamming,
Herring. Ruffin, of Rockingham, Wm. McNeiL
of Robeson, and Diekerson of Pitt 15 toco fo-
oo codgers. ' nee Journal page mod
In the Senate, the following Loeo Focos roted
againscsaia rqeoiuBon, cq wit;
Barrow, of StokeaT Berrr, of Orange, Bower,
of Ashe; Bunting, a W. Caldwell, Clarke, Col-
line;' Drake, Herring, Hester, ef Person, Hoke.
of Iineoln, Jones,' of Wake," Nixon, Rogers, of
Nrthamtton. Sherrod, SneighC Thomnson.
Watson, Williamson, of Caswell,' and Watt, of
Rockingham. oee Journal page 411.
The following Loeo Foeo Senators roted for
Secession the rignt ot a txagU tstaU, on its own
rppnn, jo oreas up. me union, to wit :
Barrow, of Stokes, Berry, of Orange, Bun
tine. G. W. Caldwell, of Meclenburg, Cameron,
Cannady, of Granville, Clarke, Collins, Ilar-
Sare, of lJaridson, llemng, ileeter, of rmon,
oke, of Lincoln, Jones, of Wake, McMillan,
of Onskrw, Nixon, Sherrod, Rogers, of North
ampton, Speight, Thompson, Watson, of John-
f?w m r i, nr.u T- i
son, 17 uuamsoo, oi vasweii, tt tu, oi ivocx
inghain. ' See Journal, page 237.
- The following Senators reted against the right
of Oeyjeopfeto be consulted, on eo grare a mat
ter as Dseolnng tnls glonons Union, to wit
Barrow, of. Stokea. Bower, of Ashe. Berrr.
of Orange, Bunting, G. W. Caldwell, Cameron,
Canady, of Gran rule, Clarke, Collins, Drake,
Hargrare, of Davidson, Herring. Hester, of Per
son, Hoke, of Iineoln, Jones, of Wake, McMil
lan, Nixon, Rogers, of Northampton, Sherrod,
Speight, Thompson, Watson, Williamson, Woo-
ten and Watt. See Journal, nngeS.
The same locofbeos roted against Mr. Madi
son's definition of the government of the United
States. Journal, pages 221-222. But roted that
ia their opinion there is no yotm aniif f the
Mr. Bynum offered the following resolution,
to wit:
Reached, That in the opinion of this Gene
ral Assembly, there is aUorernment of the Uni
ted States, baring a Constitution adopted by the
people of the several States, acting in their high
est sovereign capacity
The following loeofoeo Senators roted against
.1 1 . i A
wis resotuoon, to wit;
Barrow, Berry, Bower, Bunting, G. W. Cald
well Cameron. Canady, Clarke. Collins. Drake.
nargrare. Herring, Ileeter, Hoke, Jones, Mc
Millan, JNixon, AOgen, Speight, l bom peon.
Watson, Williamson, Wooten and Watt See
Journal, page 234.
As much as the Loco Focos may pretend they
are in favor of the compromise, the following
Loco Foco Senators in the last Assembly roted
against it, to wit:
JJarrow, Berry, Bower, Bunting, G. W. Cald-
weil, Uameron, Uanadr, Clarke, Collins. Drake,
IZargrare, Hernng. Hester, Hoke, Jones, Mc
Millan, Nixon, Bherrod. SoeiehL Thorn neon-
Watson, Williamson, and Wooten. Mr. Watt of
Rockingham not voting and Mr. Thomas of
Cherokee dodging, as he usually did on all these
questions. See Journal, pages 243-244.
Of these things I may hereafter speak more
fallT. and rire lurtber references, I will nrov
all this andmore too on the Locos and diaunion
ist of the last Legilature bj the journal, if de
nied. UNION,
July 1st, 1852. '
Elder Orson Hyde, the Mormon prophet of
these latter days, Has larorea tne puouc oy a
statement of his riews on " spiritual manifeeta
tioas." He says, in a manifesto: "If all peo
ple will repent and be baptised in water for the
remission of their sins, and be confirmed by the
laying on of the hands of the , Apostles at the
.Church of God, the rappers will cease their
noise, and the Misses Foxes will go home, get
-mmea, guiuu wnamw nousenoia acairs,
.rear ire fiunilie to honor their country and
iC-ir God, neither of whifth or of whom will
eaU upon them to lear their homes to encoun
ter the opposition of the-world, or expose their
lair forms and features to therulgar gase, or to
thf rongh passage of an itinerant life, and their
jbec feelLigi to the mortification' to which their
public' career most subject them, if. they pos
sess thai retiring modesty which is so ornamen
tal to their sex7
A.. M
Ule; oujthe
WrreJ. Ej we esJed to the Chair, and
XT. Y.JargJwa.ajfpoic.3d SeorcUrjw v i V
The chair thereupon expiainea that the object
of the meeting was to respodl tothe actioorof
it. wl! mm t i " , .
uu tt nun oi vnowan, in me nomination oi
candidate to represent this Senatorial District
ia the next General Assembly and also to nom
inate a suitable person to represent the County
of Gates in the House of Commons.
On motion it was
,"T5Ilfca! rebmmfttee id eonstrt of five
persons, to be designated by the Chair, be ap-
pviuK pqpvr n;soiHHuas. tor wao action oi
this meeting, and to nominate candidates to be
ruubTthe Whigs sioreeaid. Whereupon the Chair
appouite tae reuowmg persons to serve on the
said committee, riit, W. J. Baker, Dt O. B.
Sarage H.E. Raaooe,,T. EL Lassiter and Dr.
Jw H. xJaxer, who aooordiagly . retired a short
timet and mported through their Chairman, the
fbilo wing resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted r - I h a.r . r
B-otced, That the thanks of this community,
and of the whole country, are eminently- due,
and on our part "are hereby tendered to Millard
FiDmdre, for the justice, purity, Integrity and a
bility with which he has administered the Gor
rament of the United States since his deration
to the Presidency ; and that the Peoplebf North
Carolina, for his manly and upright course as
Chief Magistaate, will ever cherish him in their
hearts, with the most affectionate lore and grat
itude. Resolved, That although Millard Fillmore
was beyond all question the first choice of the
Whigs of this County for the Presidency, and
upon whose nomination to that high Office they
had fixed their hearts, yet, as that distinction
has been conferred by the National Conrention
upon Gen. W infield Seott, in whom we recog
nize a distinguished patriot and statesman, who
has in his letter of aceeptanco fully endorsed
the finality of the Compromise Measures ; and
as we believe that upon the maintenance and
supremacy of the great conservative principles
of the Whig party, depend the prosperity and
perpetuity of our Republican Government ; we
therefore hereby rmhfv the said nomination, and
pledge ourselves to all proper exertions to pro
mote his election.
Resolved, That we hail with pride and exulta
tion the nomination of our pure, distinguished,
and patriotic fellow cttuen, William A-Graham
to the Vice Presidency ; that we regard it as a
just compliment to North Carolina for her un
wavering support of Whig Principles, and as an
earnest of success.
Re iced, That our gallant standard bearer,
John Kerr, carries with him in his arduous but
brilliant campaign, our warmest wishes for his
success in redeeming our old State from the
thraldom of Democratic misrule, under which
she has accidentally fallen.
Resolved, That the thanks of the people of this
Senatorial District and County are doe, and on
ourpart, are hereby tendered to HENRY WIL
LET and MILLS H. EURE, Esquires, for the
seal and ability with which they hare respresen
ted the interests of their constituents in the
Senate and House of Commons, and that they
are by this meeting unanimously nominated
and earnestly recommended for re-election.
Henry L. Rascoe and Timothy IL Lassiter
were then, upon motion, appointed to advise
Messrs. Willxt and Ecu of their nomination,
and request them to accept the same.
. Mr. Willkt, a few minutes afterwards, ap
peared before the meeting and in a short ad
dress thanked his fellow Whigs of Chowan and
Gates, for their continued confidence in him, ac
cepted the nomination, and pledged himself to
enter at once upon the canTass with an active,
animated and efficient teal.
W. J. Baker, Esq. then read a letter from
Mills IL Eras, who was temporarily absent
from the county, authorising him as his friend,
in case of his nomination for re-election, to ac-
I cept the same for him, and to assure his friends
that all his energies both of mind and body
should be exerted to secure the success of the
Whig cause, in the coming campaign.
The letter abounded in patriotic sentiments,
expressed great devotion to the Union, and to
the principles of the Whig party, and whilst it
was being read elicited much applause..
It teas Resolved, That the proceedings of this
meeting -be published in the "Albenaarle Bul
letin" and "Old North State," and that the
"Raleigh Register" be reqested to copy the
same.
The meeting then adjourned.
S. W. WORRELL, Chm'n.
C. Y. SirAOX, Sefy.
From the Baltimore American.
TOOMBS & CO.
These gentlemen, it would seem, like Iago,
are nothing if not critical. There must be agi
tation or they die. They hare ascertained that
the slavery question involves a sore point, irri
table and sensitire, and they take delight in
striking continually upon the raw. Tbey may
possibly suppose that some enhanced degree of
consequence may be obtained by this exercise
of' a power wantonly to produce mischief ; but
whether any degree of notoriety thus procured
would be worthy the ambition of patriotic men
we leave it to themselves to consider, when
calmer reflection shall have induced in their
own minds some misgivings lest, instead of a
high and independent course, they hare been
pursuing one of puerile fastidiousness, fit sim
ply for the comments of ridicule.
It was no matter of surprise that the fanatical
school of abolitionists at the North should hold
off from the support of the regular nominees for
the Presidency -both of whom occupy ground
in reference to the slavery question utterly ab
horrent to abolition ideas and proclivities. But
we were not altogether prepared to see Southern
gentlemen of influence start forth in a race of
emulation with those rivals in the game of agi
tation. It is true there might be found ia the
antecedents of some of these Southern champ
ions of extreme doctrines certain symptoms of
flightiness, certain quixotic tendencies, a prone
ness to hallucination, that might indicate a large
capacity for absurdities in general and an in
herent congeniality with the impracticable and
the preposterous. It must be admitted that
this capacity does not lack the faculty of devel
opment, and that progression is not confined
exclusively to the democracy of manifest destiny
or to the ardent school of Young America.
It is scarcely probable that this sectional re
volt will take from Gen. Scott a single electoral
rote which under any circumstances he would
hare obtained. Virginia and Georgia were not
expected to rote him. Tennessee we may still
count upon, notwithstanding the defection of Mr.
Gentry. The thing to be chiefly regretted is
that the movement ia calculated to throw a dis
turbing element into the canvass, which both
parties and the country at large believe to hare
had influence enough already in distracting the
public mind and in fomenting bitter feelings
and sectional jealousies. It is quite time that
there was a cessation of that unprofitable agita
tion eren although demagogues should be there
by made dumb, and many noisy politicians
should find themselves of lest importance than
they had supposed.
AvxcooTX or Gxir. Scott. The Tecum seb.
(Mich.) Herald relates the following anecdote :
" A citisen of our town gives a remark made
by Gen. Scott at Fort George, in 1813. A Bri
tish flag was sent to the American army. The
carrier was sent to Gen. Scotf s tent, and said
to him : ' Our General has sent me with this
flag to request that you surrender to him, for if
you do not, he, shall be compelled to storm the
fort, and he will" not be responsible for the In
dians.' The reply of General Scott was this :
Tell your General to come on and storm the
fort, and I will be responsible for the Indians. "
Fntai. Onsaocixs or Ms, Clay. The bodr of
Henrr Clar reached Lexington on Saturdar.
and was interred in the cemetery with unusual '
cereTflonles.' A dispatch says :
M Tha tarninr eat was never eaualled. The
stores were mostly closed, and the whole city
vlraped in mourning.
IWIllWINaiN GATES. !
A a
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SV 9S VI ti
sr res TtBTflTrf " awn -ffmTnTrricTNrt.
1 Under this Caption, yesterday'p Enquirer -
nauste nearly two columns,' in a labored enon
ioxhIbit individual dissatisfaction, in' certain
Quarters, at' the nomination of General, Scott.
We hare nd obiection to this mode of warfare ;
betrays a want of confidence in Democratic
strength, while it Srill only render more ener
getio and determined 'the organisation of the
Whig party, upon the purely national and well-
inea principles OI ooowmuaia, wu
devotion to the local and federal interests of the
Union and the States.
In view of all this reliance of the Democrats,
n the few and comparatively unimportant de
fections in the Whir ranks, we call upon erery
true and good Whig to rally to the snppport ef
their men and measures, im toe organisation
' in each county, district and corporation, be at
ones made and judiciously srstematixed. The
campaign is now fairly opened. .The flag of
each party 1S hoisted, with their emblems, in
dicative of the issues involved in the contest.
We proudly point to the Whig Piriform as a
plain, manly, patriotic derelopment, unmistak
eable ;' in erery word distinctly arowing that
1? r I f l a a1 Cjj
line oi poucy wnicn is w cuaracteriaa wio ucvu
Adminxsiation. We say the Scott Ann iirtsri A
tiox, for we entertain no doubt of the issue in
the general electoral ' college. Had we erer
doubted, the course of the Enquirer and its ad
juncts would remove erery misgiving. When
we witness the singular fact, that by the Dem
ocratic press and orators all the old issues are
forarotten. or allowed to sleep in the silence of
death, all past differences which denoted the
Federal and State politics of the two great par
ties merged in a single sectional issue in the
South ; all old feuds healed, and past vitupera
tion recanted : that Tan Buren men. Free Boil
ers, Secessionists, Nullifiers, and Abstraction
ists may join, in one common, unmeasured, reck
less, and unauthorised (by truth) abuse of Gen
eral Scott, we feel a proud consciousness
of the virtue, strength, and inrincible position
of oht Platform and candidates.
Why this solicitude as to the precise phrase
ology of Gen. Scotf s letter of acceptance f
Where is the peculiar rirtue in the letter of Gen.
Pierce ? What offence, in act, word or thought,
has Gen. Scott erer committed, which places
Aim direct practical conflict wilh the institu
tions of the South t Compare its entire course
throughout a long and brilliant career, with the
actual, ascertained, admitted position of Govern
or Johnson and those Democrats who sustain
him, and what a contrast ! When, where, or
how, has Scott (patriot, hero, statesman, as he
is,) ever betrayed a trust, deserted his post, or
forfeited a confidence reposed in him 7 The
Enquirer is defied to point to or designate a sin
gle instance. But a Democratic Governor of
Virginia violates, in principle, the highest con
fidence, betrays the most sacred trust, outrages
the most delicate and vital rights of the slave
holder, promulgates the most dangerous and in
surrectionary doctrines, and yet a Democratic
Senate and a Democratic press allow the offence
to go "unwhipt of justice while they are en
lightening their readers and the public upon
"Whig defections," on verbal criticisms and
metaphysical refinements.
We wish this campaign to be conducted on
the fair, bold, undisguised principles avowed
and endorsed by each party. With this view,
we mar be pardoned for reminding the Enqui
rer and its readers of a few gross deflections from
principle by Us party upon matters of the high
est moment.
How does the sound, honest, plain dealing
Democrat relish the two-thirds rule by which
the " will of the majority" is stifled ? True re
publicanism is based on the fixed principle of
Jair representation and that the will of the
majority" shall always prevail and yet Pierce
was nominated in the open violation of this
the cardinal principle or true Republicanism.
now does the true Democrat relish the prin
ciple of action which tends to convert the great
issues of that party into the mere breath of cal
umny freely spent on the mirror of his coun
try's history that it may sully the image and
mar the true proportions of one of her greatest,
purest, beet tried, and most faithful public ser
vants f And yet Pierce's election is placed on
such an issue f
" now tnts World is Girxw to Lnwo." "In
1848, they (the Whigs) found the Democratic
party distracted and divided ; and with Gen.
Taylor fresh from his victories, and the war
spirit raging throughout the country, they con
quered by a few hundred rotes in the single
State of Pennsylvania."
" A few hundred rotes in Pennsylvania J"
In 1848, in Pennsylvania, General Taylor re
ceived 185,730
General Cass received 172,186
Majority for General Taylor 13,544
V an Buren received 11,197
Taylor over Tan Buren and Cass 2,367
During that campaign the Democracy were
powerfully organised and united everywhere
out of New York. The Whigs were divided and
distracted throughout the North, and through
their disunion lost Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa,
and Michigan. All of which States will walk
up triumphant majorities for General Scott.
Cleavelsmd (O.) forest City.
The following article from the Eufaula (Ala.)
Shield is in the right spirit :
Our Flag. Wo unfurl to the breeze this week
our banner, with the names of Scott and Gra
ham inscribed thereon as candidates for the
Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United
States.
In doing so, it is useless to say that General
Scott was not our preference for that distinguish
ed and honorable position. Erery one who
knows our sentiments is aware that we have
from the first advocated strenuously the claims
of our worthy and patriotic Chief Magistrate,
Millard Fillmore. The Convention which has
just closed its labors, in its wisdom and discre
tion, has deemed it impolitic to nominate him,
and we hare determined to abide in good faith
the nomination of General Scott. We will sup
port him
1st. Because we believe him to be more of a
statesman than General Pierce; equally sound
on questions of vital interest to the South, with
more experience and capacity for the station.
2d. Because he has planted himself upon a
platform manufactured by the hands of Southern
men a platform guaranteeing erery tiling claim
ed by the South and a platform of such sound
timbers and constructed in such an elegant
style of workmanship as to be ample and capa
cious enough for the North, South, East, and
West, as a common brotherhood.
. 3d. We will support him because he is a. man
of unquestionable ability, unblemished charater,
unflinching patriotism, of high and noble im
pulsesand a man who, when convinced that
he is right, goes ahead.
Lastly. rVe will support him because we are
convinced that the re-organiiation of old parties
at the South is inevitable. He is a Whig, has
always been one, and expects always to be one;
therefore we would prefer defeat with our friends
to triumph with our enemies.
These are some of the reasons why we will
support the statesman, hero, and patriot fully
confident that if the Whigs will unite, as they
should, in the sustainance of such a and
such principles, one of the most brilliant victo
ries will be ours that was erer recorded in the
history of our country. Recollect the language
of him who said, Untted we stand Divided we
fall."
GEN. SCOTT IN KENTUCKY.
The Louisville Journal, noticing the ratifica
tion meeting held in Louisville, on the 26th ulL,
remarks:
"If there hare been any doubts hitherto as to
the reception which Kentucky, glorious old Ken
tucky, would giy to the Whig nomination, those
doubts are now dispelled and annihilated for
ever and erer. We do not forget the overwhel
ming majority which Kentucky rare for Gen.
Harrison in 1840, but we confidently believe
that she will rive becrier majority for Scott
and Graham than she has given for any candi
dates within the last quarter of a century. A
spirit is aroused in the hearts of the Kentuckians
that nothing can withstand."
TPffllGD JIEGITOR.
"Outs' art the plans of fair, delightful peace z
Unwarped by party rage, to live like brothers."
RALEIGH, N. C.
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1852.
REPUBLICAN WHIG TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
GEN. WLNFLELD SCOTT.
or kxw jixsxr.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM,
Or NOETH CAKOLIHa.
FOR GOVERNOR,
JOHN KERR, of Caswell.
ZXaZCTIOY OV TETJXSSAT, ATJOUbT 0th.
FOR THE SENATE,
JOHN W. HARRISS.
FOR THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
SION H. ROGERS.
Maj. WILLIE D. JONES.
Maj. WILLIAM F. COLLINS.
ELECTION TICKETS.
We are prepared to furnish gratia, any num.
ber of "KERR" tickets for the August Elec
tions. Send in your orders, friends.
THE CANDIDATES EOR GOVERNOR.
We learn, from the Ashrille papers, that the
Candidates for Governor will address their fel-low-citisens
at the following times and places,
rii:
At Rutherford ton,
In Rutherford Co.,
At Hendersonville,
At Asheville,
At Burnsville,
At Jewel Hill,
At Waynesville,
At Scotts' Creek,
At Franklin,
At Murphy,
Monday 19th,
Tuesday 20
Thursday 22
Saturday 24
Monday 26
Wednesday 28
Friday 30
Saturday 31
Monday, Aug. 2
Wednesday 4
WHIG RALLY.
There wns an enthusiastic and spirited meet
ing of the Scott and Gkahax Club, on Tuesday
evening last.
After the transaction of some necessary busi
ness, the meeting was addressed, in kind compli
ance with a previous invitation to that effect,
by B. F. Moo ex, Esq. Mr. Moore spoke nearly
two hours with masterly ability and force. We
would that every doubting Whig aye, that
every voter in North Carolina, could hare
heard that speech and especially its conclusive
and unanswerable demonstration of Gen. Soott's
perfect soundness upon the question of slavery
and his entire approbation of the Compromise
measures. If he had not been convinced there
by, as well as warmed by the eloquent and
glowing euloguims pronounced upon our Can
didates by the speaker, and his just and with
ering denunciation of their rerilers, he must be
a more callous man than we supposed could ex
ist any where. Mr. Mooek's remarks we're listened
to with profound, attention, and, we have no
doubt, made ah equally profound impression up
on every hearer. We have the pleasure of
informing our readers that, at the urgent solici
tation of the Club, be has consented to write
out the substance' of a portion of them for pub
lication.
After Mr. M. had concluded, there were loud
and repeated calls for Got. Moexbiad, who
had entered the room a few moments before,
and whose presence had been greeted with great
applause. Got. M. made a few remarks in his
usual happy rein, which were enthusiastically
received. He begged to be excused, however,
from making a speech, both on account of his
fatigue, (having driven from Goldsboro,' a dis
tance of fifty miles, that day,) and a rule which
he had lain down, since his connection with the
great State work, of which he is the head, to
make as few political speeches as possible.
The President of the Club appointed the fol
lowing " Executive Committee," vis :
Dr. R. B. Haywood, J. G. M. Buffaloe, Jno.
D. Cameron, Jackson Moss, William D. Ashley,
William H. Harrison, Hamden S.Smith, Henry
D. Coley, James J. Litchfurd, W. M. Boylan,
Isaac Proctor, H. L. Evans, W. R. Pepper,
Sion H. Rogers, L. W. Peck, W. W. Smith, Da
vid Roygter, Jr., James F. Taylor, A. M. Mc
Pheeters,Dr. E. B. Haywood, T. W.Dewey, C. B.
Root, S. W. Whiting, W. H. Jones, Henry J.
Brown, Jacob Mordecai, T. J. Utley, A. M. Gor
man, Henry W. Miller, W. S. Mason, Wm. II.
Hutchins, B. F. Tant.
And the Club adjourned with cheers for Scott,
Geaha and Kxee I
REMEMBER WHIGS,
That the next Legislature will hare a United
States Senator to elect for six years 1
; Ran xmbxe, that the next Legislature will hare
to remodel the Senatorial Districts of the State
for twenty years !
Rxxkubxe, that the next Legislature will hare
the Congressional Districts to re-organise !
RixxMRix, that many other highly important
measures will be brought before that body, af
fecting the interest of the State 1
Rxxiiibie, that you hare sent forth a gallant
champion to defend your cause, who has been
nobly performing his duty, in defiance of the in
famous and unfair means which hare been ad
opted to defeat him I
! Remix bxe these things, let eveet Whig
SO HIS PUTT AWP THE DAT WILL BE OCES 1
We shall hare to
cum the Patriot in our
next. Standard.
And get well kicked, if you attempt it. I
THE GREEIO DISCUS-
sued from the Standart office,- o weuuey
in whkhWTaltomptlli by the pub
Ucation df a '"Certificate" from eleven persons,
(who profess to hare been present at the discus
sion in Greensborough, on the 29th of June) to
sustain the statements in the " Standard" of the
7th instant. We were authorised by a number
ofgentienMn'of
discussion, and were is this place on business,
at the time the " Standard" of the 7th. was is-'
sued, to pronounce them " m wilful and corrupt
perversion of r acts, and also that Mr. Knan as
sumed the same positions that he has uniformly
occupied elsewhere, and as reported in the Regis
ter." - '
This we did ; and now appears this " Extra,'
with its " Cartificate," which, so far from sus
taining the material charges and inferences of
the Standard's" Correspondent, goes far to
disprove them.
Let it be borne in mind that the object of tho
" Standard" and its " correspondent" was, to
make the impression, that Mr. Keee assumed
a different position (in the discussion at Greens-
borough) on the subject of the Basis of Repre
sentation and the School Fund, than the one oc
cupied by him in the East Here, and at every
other point at which he spoke until he reached
Greensborough, the " Standard has admitted,
that Mr. Kerr avowed himself opposed to the al
teration ofiht-Basis and of the mode of distribu
ting the School Fund. About this there is
dispute !
The charge which waa made, at least by im
plication, by the Standard of the 7th, was, that
Mr. Kerr had, in the discussion at Greensbo
rough, declared himself in favor of altering the
present Basis of Representation, and distributing
the School Fund according to White instead of
Federal population.
Now this we knew was chtecx, and for several
reasons. In the first place, even in the absence
of direct evidence, the character of John Keee
for honesty, integrity and fearlessness, in the
avowal of his opinions, was sufficient to induce
any fairminded person to believe, rather that
his accusers might be mistaken than that he
would be guilty of such an act of Baseness,
AN EFFORT TO PRACTICE DECEPTION ON THE
East and a fraud on the whole People. We
did not we could not believe it, knowing well
what was the character of John Keek as a gen
tleman and a christian !
In the second place, such a charge was ab
surd. Even were itr. Kerr a man governed by
no moral principle, but deterred from a base
act only by a dread when exposed, of public
opinion, would he have thus acted when detec
tion and exposure were so easy and inevitable 1
His competitor was present who had been with
him from the time they left Greenville. Was
it likely that would be silent and not expose
him ? Did not that competitor have in his pos
session Whig. Journals by which Mr. Keek's
former opinions could have been shown ?
But we were not without positive evidence,
and with us, proof, that Mr. Keee not only did
not avow opinions, in Greensboro,' different
from those he avowed here, but that he openly
and boldly declared the same opinions as here,
and elsewhere, and particularly, that he declared
himself of the same opinion with his competitor
on the subject of the Basis of Representation and
School Fund. There were as we have before
said a number of highly intelligent gentlemen
of Greensboro' who heard the discussion, who
happened here on business, as is well known to
this community, at the time the "Standard"
came out with the letter of its anonymous Cor
respondent, and they, without an exception, ex
pressed astonishment at the charge which, by
inference at least, had been thus made against
Mr. Kerr : and they also said that there were
numerous Whigs and Democrats who would
confirm their statements.
But let us see how these certifiers sustain
the charge that John Keek changed his opin
ion on the Basis and School Fcnd at Greens
boro'. They say :
" Fourthly : That in speaking of the basis of
representation, he employed the term " mixed
basis," and did not say whether he intended
thereby the present basis of representation or
not."
Well, really, this is the most lame and pit
iful conclusion, that erer a set of men ar
rived at ! And is it upon such as this, that the
reputation of an upright man is to be destroyed,
and his prospects blasted 1 Will the honest
People of North Carolina suffer it f Willathe
Whigs of North Carolina permit a gallant de
fender of their principles whom they have sent
forth, at every personal sacrifice to himself, to
be beaten down by charges based on such a flimsy
pretext as this f " Whenever he spoke of the ba
sis of representation he employed the term mixed
basis I" With great deference to the very crit
ical certifiers for the anonymous correspondent
of the "Standard," we humbly submit that this
rather goes to prove that Mr. Keek is roc the
fexsskt basis 1 The House of Commons is now
based on Federal population the Senate on
taxation. This is surely the "mixed basis."
The "unmixed" basis is that founded entirely
on White population. The contest has always
been between the " White population basis" and
the "mixed basis," and if Mr. Keee, whenever
"he spoke of the basis of representation, em
ployed the term mixed basis," how it can be in
ferred, that he is, therefore, for the white basis,
is too deep for our comprehension ; and we believe
the honest thinking men, all orer the State, will
consider it an exhibition of as little charily as
logic, to draw from it a conclusion which is inten
ded to convict John Kb of a base attempt to
practice a fraud on the People 1
But now to the School Fund. They say :
"Fifthly, that in his speech of two hours in
length he did not say a solitary word about the
School Fund."
The inference from this is, that John Kerb
was in favor of changing the mode of distribu
ting the School Fund. With all due respect
again, to these certifiers, it strikes us that it
rather proves he was for letting it remain just
as it isl If one wants to alter any thing he
will most likely say so if he desires it to remain
as it is, why say any thing about it ! Suppose
Got. Raid had failed to say any thing against
calling a Conrention, would these logical "cer
tifiers" hare concluded that he was therefore
a Convention I ' i
Besides, Mr. Kike, is a polite, gqUUmanly man,
and must hare known, that he was addressing a
highly enlightened audience. We hare always
understood the people of Greensboro to be a
A reading, thinking psop1af7h Candidates for
Governor had spoken perhaps fifty tunes, before
reh?tha?iUK!ei$nJ mverf, newspaper.
is we t sate jd jiruaVicoww x wb
msa'sipeecX NXiieir poaiucwRoniu suojecw
were well known- throughout the State. Gory
Reid in his speech proclaimed to the people
there assembled, time after time, that he and
his competitor did not differ on the subject of
the Basis and School Fund was it neeesary for
Ma. Keek to re-proclaim it, and act as if he
were addressing men who knew nothing- what-
lerernboorhls-riews tr'-'t'!
Wo trust Mr, K. will not neglect at aU times,
to declare, his preference for Scott and. Ua-
hax, for if hehhould fail to do so at any poinAy
some logical "Certifers" or "Correspondent of
the Democracy will be trumpeting it abroad.
that he has gone orer to Pixece and Kino, and
if he should happen not to call Got. -Reid 6y
name, during the discussion, they wffl certain
ly hare it, that he has turned Reid man I , a
But in all conscience, this is too small n pre
text, upon which to base an argument, from
which to draw an inference against the sinceri
ty of any man : an inference too which debases
him, for it seeks to convict him of double deal
ing and fraud! John Kerr is not the man to
conceal his opinions ou bquitocatbI- His po
litical opponents know it, and the JPST amongst
them will admit it 1
Of the falsity of this charge against Mr. K.
of having changed his position on the Basis and
School Fund, the last " Standard" itself con
tains proof in the account there given of the
discussion at Salem, which took place on the
1st J uly, being subsequent to the Greensborough
discussion : and we refer the reader to the sub
joined communication sent to us, by a highly in.
telligent gentlemen of Salem, and also to the ar
ticle we published in the last Register from
the Greensboro' Patriot, an Extract from
which we republish, below.
Let not our friends be under the least alarm.
These slanders upon the integrity of John
Kerr wiU.be put to rest. PROOF ample and
full will be had in due time.
There are several other points in the Certifi
cate, and some also in the vulgar and abusive
commentary of the "Standard," which we would
like to speak to, with particularity, but we must
defer it.
In conclusion, we would say a word to each
Whig who may peruse this. You friends,
what efforts hare been used to defeat the elec
tion of John Keee, who has been laboring with
so much zeal and under such great personal sac
rifices, to defend your principles and uphold
your banner. This is but the beginning. We
have said before, and we repeat, that if misrep
resentation and falsehood con defeat him, it will
be done. His enemies know that itcannot be done
bjfair dealing, i Wherever he has gone, by his
open, candid,' social conduct -and his thrilling
eloquence; ho has been able to rally his friends
around him with an enthusiasm never surpas.
sed ; and he has ever been successful in extort
ing admiration even from political opponents,
for those high qualities which he possesses.
That he will serve his State with ability and fi
delity looking to the interests of all sections
no one can doubt. He cannot be beaten or de
graded, eren by the falsehoods and slanders of
the locofoco'Press, ir top and all good- Whigs
WILL DO TOUR DCTY CNTIL THE CLOSE OF THE
election I We appeal to you, then, for his sake,
for your own sake, for the saka of the cause,
which we know you would not wish to go down
for your supineness or neglect, to kallt all
Wbios who hat be within tock beach to the
polls on the rma or Auqvst next, and the
DAT WILL BE OCRS 1
EXTRACT.
From the "Greensboro' Patriot."
The last Raleigh Standard oontains an article
prepared carefully according to thisloeofbeo rale
It purports to be an account of the discussion
between Kerr and Reid in this place, written
by "A Democrat" and dated "Greensborough,
June 30, 1852." It is thus headed and intro
duced by the iwiitor nimseu, m the most con
spicuous type, and most prominent part of his
paper, to wit : "important lJeveiopments. Lns
cussion in Greensborough Mr. ' Kerr changing
his tone on the Basis, and refusing to answer on
the School Hundl"
The label put on by the editor indicates the
contents of his correspondent's . production.
ouch is indeed the impression made upon the
mind of the reader by this communication, and
if such was not the intention of the writer, he
has made a failure in the application of languag
That such impression is ABOMINABLY fal
it were unnecessary to declare to any intelligent
man who was present. There IS just one plain
short way to counteract this Jesuitical lalsenood
and that is, by calling Governor Reid himself
upon the stand, lbe uovernor said that Jrr
Kerr and himself occupied the sane ground em
the Basxs and the School tuna. This he pro
claimed and repeated with every inflection and
variety ot emphasis which ne seemed capable of.
It was not denied or questioned br Mr. Kerr or
any body else. As to the "refusing to answer
on the Scool Fund," we presume this is the first
watch any body present has hour of the matter.
Every reading man in the crowd nand it was a
r l n a ww .
reaaing erowa xnew air. jwerrs position ; ana
the idea of catechising him upon it was so pre
posterous that it did not even occur to uov.
Reid himself. It was not pretended or insinua
ted by Got. Reid at the' time, and has not been
so pretended or insinuated since, by bis friends
who were present, that Mr. Kerr in any particular
or anyway changed from the positions which he
took nt the Beast, (except that he was for Scott
instead of Fillmore, since he learned the result
of the Whig Covention.)
tor thi KioisTxm
' Ml Editor. According to appointment' the
candidates for Gorernor addressed the people in
Salem on yesterday. ..
- The assembly was unusually large. Not only
the cituens of rorsrtn turnea out m urge cum
bers, but many from the adjoining counties of
Davidson, Surry, Mokes, ana Uavie, together
with a considerable delegation of the good and
tried Whigs of RockingbmnV warq -present to
witness the triumph of our gallant standard
bearer.
Got. Reid commenced the discussion in a
speech of about two hours in length. He
touched upon a variety of topics, of both Na
tional and State politics, consuming much time
in a fruitless effort to inform the people who
Franklin Pierce is, but, after he had told where
he lives, and what offices he has filled, the Gov
ernor's stock of information seemed to be ex
hausted, and he abandoned the General, without
showing a single act whieh he has erer done to
entitle him to the confidence and support of the
American people.
He next attempted to show, that the platform
adopted by the National Whig Conrention was
not the tame that had been previously agreed
upon by the Southern Members ef that Con
vention ; but finally, with seeming reluctance,
admitted thai ' it was substantially the same ;
but, insisted that in the one, some word which
we do not recollect was " italicised," and that
such' was not the ease in the other. To such
miserable subterfuge was he driven in his effort
to draw a distinction, where there was really
no difference.;- The Gorernor also spoke at
considerable length in opposition to the Con
rention mode of amending the Constitution.'
Mr.vKerr naxt tnAA th .j.. ,
strain, of lo5eIoquence, soon recall ln
ntiea of iV"W bli
beoowearied frith tSe monotonous W4
JporernorSfJNeret has it beenm
fortune to hear amore jnasterly expo8itinng0o,J
defeneeof Whjgprincinlc, andVhKel
In Irarnng a contrast between Gen sK!Ure-Rercey-erery
eye kindled with e
hearing of the brilliant achierements of T 00
ran hero, who had won imperishable lnVets
for himself, and added so much to our
character abroad, by a whole lifetime
the service of his country. While Gen.
in his crusade for glory in Mexico hi f ;
and ftUrfrom hifhoL, Gen SH
Woody battle .field, had repulsed Se IS
and in the sanguinary conflict at Lundv'a t y ;
field. During this portion of Mr. Kerr1
from the
8
vp- mmbb, a soiuier unuer Scott in tf. i '
war with Great Britain, unable longer to
trol his. feelings of lore and affectfnn rl
gallant old chief, cried out, "THAT'S tpJX
MR. KERR, I SAW IT MYSELF " &it
In speaking oT tfie Compromise meaurM
and tinr happy adjustment of the difficult
vindicated these great and patriotic Whir 1?
era, from whom Got. Reidrainlv endr.JjT
wrest their share of honor, in particinnnJ ,
the.strugglefor ,the restoration of peace g,!l
happiness to the country, and the preserf;
of our glorious Vnlon. .And abovfauSe"
how much, said Mr. Kerr. An 0Ul?rs
how much, said Mr. Kerr, do
. . .....
e to that
o j r., T """J- a low mur.
mur pervaded the crowd, as yet ignorant of tv
mournful fact of Clay's death, which had reach
ed in a telegraphic despatch in a Raleien
per, only a few momenta before Mr. Ken com"
menced hie speech. Henry Clay is no more-L
Tho Hero, tho Statesman, the Patriot lies coin
in death. , That great light, so long the beacon
blase of every lover of American Liberty, and
of Constitutional freedom throughout the whole
world, is extinguished. That noble form laid
low, and those eloquent lips on which listening
Senates have hung, are hushed in the silence of
the tomb. But, though he has ceased from
participation in the great drama of hU coun
try's history, his fame shall last forever. Hi,
monument will be in the heart of the American
people. More durable than the pyramids of
Egypt, time shall not crumble it, the peltings of
the storm shall not wear it away; in their heart
of heart it shall endure, down to the last sylla
ble of recorded time. But it is needless to fol
low him farther in this noble impromptu tribute
to the memory of -(he great departed Statesman.
The distribution of the proceeds of the public
lands by the Federal Government, next engaged
his attention. He clearly demonstrated that it
had king been a cardinal doctrine of the Whir
Party, that the old States were justly entitled
to a portion ef this inheritance, and to the
question asked by Gov. Reid, why the Whig
National Convention did not endorse the doc
trine, Mr. Kerr aptly replied, that so long and
so firmly had this been established as a part of
the. Whig Policy, that the delegates to the Con
vention might with equal propriety have pass
ed a resolution endorsingtheir own names, and
the fact that they were Whigs.
In discussing the Convention question, he
triumphantly vindicated the wisdom of avoid
ing amendments to the Constitution by legisla
tive enactment, as the means of rescuing it from
the hands of political stock-jobbers, who, for
party purposes, would never cease to tinker
with that sacred instrument, the asg of our
liberty, which above all things should possess
the euarantr of stabilitr. and ne elevated above
all party bickerings. Mis position relative to the
basts question was equally dear and explicit. He
was opposed io any change, and on this question
there was no difference between him and Governor
Reid.
The above hasty sketch was written shortly
after the discussion, with the intention of for
warding H for publication immediately. On
reflection, we were however impressed with the
fact, that besides occupying too much space in
your columns, to the exclusion of more impor
tant matter, it was but a mere rehearsal of sim
ilar discussions elsewhere, which have already
appeared in print, We, therefore mid it aside.
But on seeing the char res preferred bv the
Standard against Mr, Kerr, accusing him of
a change on the basis Question since his arrival
in- the West, we hare forwarded it as testimony
against the assertions of that journal and its
correspondents. The discussion at Greensboro'
took pjaee two davs nrerious to the one at Sa
lem, and if Mr. Kerr bad swerred from the po
sition occupied by him in the East, Gov. Reid
would scarcely have failed to charge himwithtiis .
change in his policy 1 A WHIG.
Salew, Jly 10, 1852.
A YOICE FROM GEORGIA !
Hear what the Georgia Constitutionalist, the
leading locofoco paper in the State, says of the
"Democratic Platform," so far as the Compro
mise measures are concerned :
We hare refrained, fiitherto, from comment
ing on the action of the Democratic Convention
on the Compromise measures, because we did
not wish, at this juncture, to provoke a profit
less controversy among Democrats differing here
at home on the merits of those measures. But
since' some who approved "those measures, and
even went so far as to consider them "wist lib
eral and just," are disposed .to insist that the
Democratic Convention indorsed and approved
them, we feel disposed, once for all, to deny the
posUipn. The language of the Conrention can
not be tortured into any such meaning.
There it is now, frankly and plainly stated by
a locofoco southern organ, that the Copromise
measures, with the fugitire slave law, were not
endorsed or designed to be endorsed by the Con
rention, but simply accepted for the sake of
succeeding in tho coming campaign. Is that
the understanding of Gen. Pierce f It seems to
be the construction of the Northern and South
ern wings- ggr Somebody is to be deceived ?
Who is it ? People of the South ! a deep
game of. political, oorruption ia being played,
and if Pierce is sleeted, the South will be the
sufferer., ,
Gexekal Scott ajto Father Ritchie. The
following extract from the Washington Union of
1848-shortly after the Whig nomination for
President will show what opinion "Father
Ritehie" entertained at that time of Gen. Scott,
the Whig nominee in 1852.
"Gen. Scott is an older soldier than Gen.
Taylor, one who is at least equally, if not more
accomplished, and who bos distinguished him
self bj more, and as brilliant battles, during
the war who captured Vera Cruz and the Cas
tle, and the capital of Mexico, and one,' too, who
has more qualities of a civilian, and is better
known as a Whig."
We expect. in due time to give a number of
much better eulogies, even than this, on the
old Hero, from that paper which is now doing
all it can to break down his reputation with his
Countrymen, riz : that celebrated locofoco or
gan, " the Standard."
g- We see that Scott and Graham Clubs
are being formed all orer the Country. Push
along the ball, boys ! We hope to hear that one
is established in every county in the State.
What are our friends in Oxford in. Warrenin
TTalilWv and in Smithfeld doinir! that thev do
not establish Clubs, and " circulate the docu
ments?" A New York letter in the Philadelphia Ledg
er says:
"Decidedly the quickest railroad tune ever
made in this part of the country was that accom
plished by a train on the Hudson River Boa
on Wednesday. Running time from the depot.
Thirty-second street, to Albany, two hours sua
fifty-eight minutee 160 miles."