The Charlotte Journal

In the canvass now going on in the State for the election of Governor, this question has been broached, and it is attempted to make a party question of it.

The Raleigh Junto directed, in the first place, Mr. Reid, to introduce the subject in his speeches, so as draw off the attention of the people from more important issues. The Censor to the Commonwealth—the Standard man—writes a long, and on the whole, a very fair article on it, and immediately it is caught up by the Democrats, with all the avidity of hunger for something to go upon, and treated with the importance of a political tenet, about which, parties are to vary.

This being done, the Editor of the Raleigh Register, stultified by something, or in a gale, that we cannot account for, seizes hold of the bait flung out by the Junto, and pleases them by doing the very thing they wished him to do—sets down and writes a philippic against free suffrage for Senators, and instead of avoiding so unfortunate a course, endeavours to spring it also on the part of the Whigs, as a party issue.

Mr. Gales should not have given it such a cast, for there are many Whigs who are in favor of the property qualification for Senatorial voters being abolished: while again, there are many Democrats not in favor of any alteration in the present law.

He should then, studiously have avoided making it a matter of dispute between himself and the Editor of the Standard.

By doing as he has, he invites premature discussion, arrays many Whigs on the same side he advocates, without mature deliberation on their parts, and who advocate it, merely because he does, and thus give it somewhat a political complexion, when it should have been left as a matter about which individuals might differ, but not as partisans.

While we agree in the main, with the views on this subject expressed by the Editor of the Standard, we give him, no credit for bringing it before the people as this particular juncture. After the contest between the candidates for Governor is over, we will unite with the Standard in any honorable effort, to have the present, law rescinded, or that part of the Constitution having reference to it, expunged: but ten to one, you will not hear him say any thing about it after August.

The other Editors through the State, Whig and Democratic, should take this thing in hand, and not allow the "High Priests,"—Gales and Holden at Raleigh to make a party question of it. We shall recur to it.