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Excerpt from Speech Delivered by Ed. Graham Haywood, Esq., Of Wake County, on the 6th and 7th December, 1858, in the House of Commons of North-Carolina, on His Eligibility to a Seat in That Body
But, sir, let me call your attention to the manner in which this investigation has proceeded from its initiation. A few days after the organization of this body, the gentleman from Stanly, introduced a resolution, directing the Committee on Privileges and Elections to inquire and report whether a Clerk and Master in Equity was entitled to hold a seat upon this ?oor. This was directed at me alone, but on the next day a more general inquiry was instituted, involving the rights of several other Commoners now occupying seats on this ?oor, as to whose qualifications, (with one single exception) there could be no doubt, but still I am put at the head and front of the offenders, and the Committee on Privileges and Elections, is directed to inquire whether E. G. Haywood, amember of the House of Commons from Wake county, is not now and was not at the time of his election a Clerk and Master in Equity for said county, and if so whether he is entitled to a seat in this House this resolution was also introduced by the Commoner from Stanly, and was immediately referred to the proposed Committee.
N ow sir, it has not been my good fortune heretofore to have known that gentleman, nor am I aware that he has so far identified himself with any important matter of State policy, or so intimately connected himself with any subject of para mount legislative importance, as to have made it generally known that he has ever before been a member of this body.
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