The Greensborough patriot [July 6, 1860]

              By SHERWOOD & LONG.
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VOL. XXII. GEEENSBOROUGH, 1ST. C, JULY 6, I860. NO. 1094.
The CrccnsborougH Patriot.
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From the Iredell Express.
DISCUSSION AT MORGABTTON!
^...kfi County Aroused!—John Pool Tri-umphant
!!
^tended the discussion of the candid-
, (,r (J ivernor—John Pool and John W.
u inch took place between them at
ton on Saturday, 23rd instant, and
11* no;es <>f the speeches that were
■th gentlemen,
lyf. Ellis opened the debate, and the fol
•^ ~ about the substance of his remarks:
- the nominee of the Democratic
I ' ihittiked the people ot Burke for
, lioh they gave him at the last eecl-ll.-
had endeavored to discharge his
gcUldnties'to the satisfactions of the pub
and <"igratulated the people of the West
be prospect fur the completion of their
rt- ot internal improvement at an early
av. thai- would prove so beneficial to the lav
lastry of the West. He said that
jiuhtion, surprising in its nature, had
I -.rued by the Oppasition party be-people
ot the Stale for public favor,
bjch was overlooked since 1782, and now
his opinion only brought forward for po-i
proposes; and that if adopted it would
calculated oppress the interest of
untry. That it would array one class
-i another class, and break down the
• promise which was entered into in 1835,
n the Baat and West. Gov. Ellis ad-
1 an argument to show that the East
.xi'il heavily already for the benefit of
H eat, without receiving anything in return
and that it would be very unjust to
impose a heavier burden on the East by tax-
% their slaves, over fifty and under twelve
I'age, or taxing slaves between those
WATERS-SON.
WESTERN HORSE TRADERS.
I know the West; they will not do to trust. They are horse traders—keen and shrewd.
The Wer-t had no "round to complain, but LIKE THE HORSE LEECH. WAS EVER CRY-ING
GIVE! GIVE!! AND LIKK THE Git WE. MOKE! MORE!! AND THERE IS
AN INSATIATE AND INEXORABLE CRY FOR MORE. The Eastern people should
consider before they place a weapon in the hands of their ENEMIES of the West with
which they may destroy them.—Ellis at Gatesville.
most valuable negro, owned by the wealth-1 thing. He says to discriminate >». an«to tax.
iost man. The poor white man's head isI No dictionary gives that defition. It means
thus a shield between the taxing power and ( to make a difference. The best way to make
slave property. I insi-t that it is the poor a difference in favor ot labor is to exempt from
white man's head, however much my com-petitor
may object to mv referring to the
wealthy man's head too. For the wealthy
man's head would be no shield. The Legis-latuie
would not hesitate to tax the rich
man's head, but when the poor man's head is
in the way, it is obliged to besitato and for-bear.
It is asked, why is this worse now
than in 1835, and where is the necessity lor a j does
change? I will answer. In 1835 the whole
tax ot the State was only about 875,000 a
year. Then slave property could be made to
pay its proportion by placing ahuut 15 cents
on the noil, and that could be borne, and
taxation those things necessary to carry it
on. The best discrimination in favor of the
labor ol the Carpenter, or farmer would be
to exempt their tools, and implements, and
the necessaries of life from taxation at all;
and the Legislature would have a discretion
to say how far this exemption should go.—
Bit admit, for argument, that discrimination
mean to tax some. Apply it. Tax all
hsving voted for anv Railroads In the West.
The charge is FALSE! I voted for every
Railroad charter in the West, I drew the sec-ond
bill forth * We-st< r > N. C. Railroad, which
runs by my competitor's do r, and used every
exertion to secure its passage through a sec-ond
reading in the Senate. I HAVE NEV-ER
VOTED AGAINST ANY WESTERN
IMPROV EMENTor Appropriation for one.—
I \M IN FAVOR OF RUNNINC THE
WESTERN N.C. RAIL ROAD TO THE
TENNESSEE LINE. IN THE EARLIEST
PRACTICABLE TIME.
My competitor never -•' t • d a cent for any
Improvement in histi'e I—and he is the stin-giest
man in the world I He voted even to
strike out $2 GOO from the Buncombe Turn-pike,
after it had been given.
1 voted against aid to the Coalfields Road
because I had previously voted for $300,000
for the River Improvement, and I was iinwill-ine
to draw so lamely upon the public money
for a rival line, which I then believed would
destroy tho success of the first enterpriz", be-fore
it had time for development. I voted to
tax Railroad Stock, and think I did right,—the
money to build most all the Railroads in the
State was taken from the pockets of the peo-ple,
and it is just that this st .ck should bo
taxed for the support of government.
I have proclaimed it in the Ea-t, and I pro-claim
it here to day—the East has expended
$2 for Railroads, where the West has expen-de
<l 81. Of the 684 miles of Railroad in tbo
Stato, 480 miles are Eist of Raleigh, and on-ly
£04 miles VVest of Raleigh. The East has
more than twice as much Railroad as the
West Mv competitor has talked for the
East and voted all the time AGAl N ST the West!
and such missionaries as he sent down to the
East, would stop all further Appropriations
entirely for the West.
The Constitution should be amended as to
remove the tax from the head of the poor
man—this cannot be done otherwise. Siaves
ought to be taxed upon their value—and that
cannot be done before an amendment shall
have been made in the Constitution. My
competitor is opposed to making a change in
the Constitution ; and he is opposed to taxing
slave property upon its value. I take no po-to
his own pocket some $700 for printing the
address of the Democratic Executive Com-mittee
and the speech of Gov. Ellis before the
convention, he was sehding out copies of an
address to neutralize <e> efforts of the friend-of
Democracy f.nd to injure the election of Gov.
EUis."
There is not the first word of truth in that.
I never sent out any thing to "neutralize the
effects of the friends of Democracy." As to
the $700 charge, 1 have not "pocketed" it.—
The bill of the office against the Executive
Committee anvwn is to about that sum; and
tho office is .responsible tor, or has already
paid ou», ahoiU 8000 of that amount for pa-
Kr composition, ink ioldirg and sti.bing.—
r, John Spe man is I printer, and he knows
there was but imall profit in the jobs alluded
to. Mr. John Spelman knows they were ex-ecuted
for less than regular rates; and yet
Mr. John Sp< Iman would make the public
believe that I had made a nett profit of $7000,
He has actually convinced hunest, unsophis-ticated
old "Senex" (who of course is no
printer.) that uuch is the tact. Yet Mr. John
Spelman taunts me with special pleading, un-fairness,
disingonousness, 4c! A pretty fel-low,
he. to do it!
But what if I had fairly earned WOO or $7,-
000 for the office? L» that a crime to be de-nouueed
? Is tbat a d}ason why I should sink
soul, principle and self respect f Oihers may
measure by the rule they censure me for not
measuring by—I will not do it,
milter of one to call at the Standard office and
"enquire" into tho matter.
The dastardly flings at Mr. Holden I pass
by. Whenever Mr. Holden loaves his po-t
tor a week, certain snakes crawl forth snd
bi*s. When be returns they retire.
The fact is eeriain one* in power and place,
and their hireling myrimidons, are arrayed
against Truth, and they know It. They as-
-ail me for base purposes. They conceal
truth or pervert, sod wrap themselves in false-hood,
as with a mantle. Why d> they not
publish Mr. Fowle's letter to me, published
in my Card of June 2nd ? Bee -use they do
not intend to do me justice. I dare them to
publish it. They will not do it. Their souls
are too little A thousand snob, suspended
by a horse hair over the mouth of perdu on,
. ou!d be secure from falling into fiery depths.
I fear the horse hair preserver will not be
granted them.
In conclusion, I have a word for the Tress
itself I should have sent it this communi-cation,
hut I ones asked bread of it, and it gave
me a itone. I then asked for a fish, and it
gave me a serpent—in other words I asked
tor justice, and received injustice. Let the
public decide whether it is not the intention
of that sheet .o do me injustice. I bring no
"railing accusation" against it, but as Michael
told the Devil, when striving for the body of
Moses, "May the Lord rebuke it." I further-more
give it notice that if it. after having
closed its columns to me, continues its attacks
a"Senex" nays: ' It behooves the Democra- upon me, a private citizen,either in editorials
slaves were made to pay their full proportion. I would be sufficient to satisfy my competitor's
But now we have to raise between *600,000| definition of discrimination. Yet it is upon
and 8700,000 a year, and the value of slaves ! this that all the capital is attempted to be
has greatly increased—and in order to make ] made against equal taxation as proposed by
them nay their proportion now, by a capita-1 our platform. Ho says the East understands
tion tax a tax would have to be placed upon that everything is to be taxed. He is mista-
3 more than the present rate—80 cents on I the j^^ds of poor wlrte men beyond their ken.
poll. He charged the Ad valorem party aojiity to bear, a tax that would bo tyranni- j No paper
itli a design to tax every species of proper cal and oppressive
v. notwithstanding their platform makes a j debt Qe the Stato becomes actual debt, and repudit;
mination in favor ofnative products of the , tne jntorMt has to be met, the difficulty will ner's ni
state and industrialpunuOs of her citizens."— kecorLe ereater and greater. The last Leg- j proc
nor any man in tho East, ot our
And as the prospective I party has taken such a position. They all
"ate the tin cup slander. But Mr. Tur-motion
in the convention is referred to
eg-1 as proof that wo mean to tax tin cape. The
raise near $700,000, or the i proposition was to change the constitution
credit of the State must be ruined and her and to insert in it a great principle of equal-
Ho endeavored to frighten the pep-! honor forfeited. They put 20 cts. on the ! >ty and justice. -Mr. Turner moved to insert
8100 valuation of land; 24 cents on money at a provision that tin cups should not bo taxed,
interest, and on slave property 80 cents on : To exempt them from a constitutional provi-tho
poll, which is only 6J merits on 8100 val-|sion. How would It have looked in the con-become
greate
said that it was palpable if this were not ' j8|atur0 had to
one section or the other would be dis-'
Bed.
bat were present by saying it would
-I n large sum to send around and assess in
Bruks county, and that it would be an iriqui-vhich
the poople would not like. He
wer. t into the usual ridiculous calcula-
;ionof billiard tables and threshing machines,
I iw-horae and racer, liquors, pianos and
wheat fans, interest on money; lawyers', doc-d
clerks'fees, ladies' watches, Ac.
Ellis said that slaves now pay nearly
: b of all the taxes ; and ad valorem
thoso aricles in Burke county which the Leg-islature
desires to exempt, one cent. That
answers my competitor s hairsplitting defini-tion,
and amounts still to an exemption—for ' sition here tbat I did not occupy in the East,
one cent divided among the people of Burke which all my speeches will show ; but my com-petitor
has changed his tactics, and now
blows two ways.
Mr. Pool referred to the letter of the noto-rious
J. Parker Jordun, and denounced Jor-dan,
for what most persons know him to be,
an unprincipled man and infamous LIAR.
Gov. Ellis said Jordan was •« gentleman. Mr.
Pool asked, "Do J ou endorse Jordan as a gen-tleman
?" (Hesitating) "I do sir." Mr. P.
said, "If you endorse thoso principles, I say
that he (Jordan) has lied and any ouo that
endorses them.
Mr. Pool con'-luded his remarks by saying
that if elected he would bo the Governor of
the Stale, and not of a section—knowing
nothing but the whole Stato. He would use
no deception for the purpose of obtaining tho
voteol any man and desired the suffrages ot
The East understands no such thin;'
to enquire into this matter." Certainly,
1 private mutters and public mail bsgs must
be enquired into by a certain clique. I hope
"Seuest" will appoint himself a special com
or communications I shall seek redress by
oilier means than ihrouirh the columns of a
newspaper, FRANK I. WILSON.
ue. But thev knew that 80 cents was all the'stitution ? Yet, because the convention re- the people only upon the belief that his claims Tl
poor Wl
not plact
bite poll would bear, and they could ' fused to propose to insert a constitutial pro-ce
it higher on negroes without put- hibition of tin cups, my competitor says, it is
STEALINO GOODIES.
Tho Gov. said that under ad valorem taxat-on the East would be placed in the power of the
West and be taxed to build wester.I railroads. The West would all the time have its hands
in the pockets of the eastern people, and would have a hank down here, and all the drafts upon
that bank would be lion trod, for the sheriff would have the control and coMe-iion of them.
The Bast was to the West what the fabled gose w is to her owner. EASTERN MEN
were fouiided'upon the immutable principles
of Justice and Truth.
From the Suliil.uiy Watchman.
Taxation.—Injustice done
He appeared before
ting it also on the poor white man. His head proof positive that we nient to force the Leg-! them as a man coming from the cxtremo
was in the way, and they did not daro to op-' islaturo to tax them 1 And this is the whole East, but one who could comprehend the
press him. His head was the shield that j argument. But my competitor says the tax whole State, and to aid to her glory, whether
protected 81S0.000,' 00 of slaves from more on merchants of 50 cents on the 8100 value, is . he was elected her Chief Magistrate or not,
than 6i cents on the 8100, while land had to | paid by the purchaser, and is. in effect, on the ; would ever bo his high ambition and chief Equal
raise no more. He asserted the strange i bear gg ccnt8t ar(l the money ot widows and j goods. The Democratic Legislature passed j pleasure,
and absurd theory that, to encourage the in-1 orphan8 at interest 24 cents on the 81o0.1 this law. Tin cups ara purchased from the Tho conclusion of Mr. Pool's speech, after
wtrv of a country, all leading property j T[Je Legislature was forced into this ineqaal-, stores, and are therefore now under a Demo- he had finished the details of the debate, was
'iiy constitutional of 50 value. So j a display ofas lofty and patriotic eluQuence as said : discussion of ad va
' head. I propose i my competitor and his party already tax in j we have ever heard drop from the lips of the»j " Ho hadM
to take his head out of the way, so that slave lii cups 50 cents on the 8100, while they tax j mi
i |slaves 01 i in I hit
to the
West by Qov. Ellis.
In the discussion between the candidates
for Governor at Gatetville, Governor Ellis
should not be placed upon an equality with , - by tho con*titutional provision interpo- j cratic tax ofoO cents on the 8100 value,
regard to taxation. Gov. Bills made no a1- ■ 8J lhe whit0 mal,.8 head. T propose . my competitor and his party already tax in j we have ever heard .trop ""™ V»'r "'. a"j .- ""^O0ld"«prove dry," but its importance I Stale has expended $500,000,the annua
to the platform npon which he is run- j tQ g^ jJT" head out of tho way, so that slave |i ii cupsoO cents on the 8100, while they tax | most distinguished orators in the Lnion , and I,,, s i | . ,-V.. _., E- .i..... „,
R, I D1 endeavored to find much fault with : , l)(J made to pay taxes equal ! slaves but 0* cents on the 8100. If tin cups < his speech "left no doubt upon the minds of
were taxed ad vah rem, my competitor admits any present, of whatever political faith, that
it would be only 10 cents, on the $100. So if Mr. Pool, fur intellect and SOUud_judgment IS
. we are for taxing them at all, it's only 10 c«-nt j one of the foremo--t men in the
■x applied it only to the Opposition leaders in diffe'rent kmda of properly. It was not ne-! and that will save 40 cents on
est. Bat no one can believe that G)V. Cu(isary ;n 1335—but is now—and will con-1 tin cups But they intend thi
* did not design to compare all the West ■ tjna„ to be more and more so. I hope never j ter to mislead the people from
; a Horse-Leech, "ever crying Give ! Ghve._.. tf> mf lhc gtate in the same dilemma it waslsui
"t w,tn property may be made t
He recurred t<. his Gates- £.J| o,^or pro.„.rly. jt is necessary thai
lie speech, and endeavored to palliate the ^ 8hou|d bo do:.e to enable tbeSia»eto
Horse Leech" by say nig, | 8UKt!|in ils credit, ind to equalize taxes upon Stato. With
the 8100 on ! such a man occupying tho Executive Chair,
whole mat- j North Carolina will march steadily onward to
the true is-
:•: Ui.remi" He'had"aided ihe W.
x C Railroad and endeavored to get tho
taken but did nut do much. The Gov
nugh I to have slated how much, and the
time when be did a-d the Road; but he .id
Dosocktbing; and no one hasa recollection
•' mch aid. Mr. Pool drew the bill for the
1—worked hard with the Eastern
members to gel it through a second passage
in the Senate—and but for Mr. Pool's exertion
in re b> half the bill would havo been lost!
<'0V l".i!is repeated he thought it VERY
: " '.! WRITABLE IN THE WEST TO IN-SIST
FOR EQUAL TAXATION!!! He
ithe restriction in tho Constitution«xerup-
2 -lives irom taxes, would operate as a
check npon all man, against extravagant ap-ationsfor
internal mprovemonts. VVe
here put the question. Is there any sentence
required plainer to show that Gov. Ellis lias
no friendship for the Railroads now building
in the .State or tbat thereafter shall b-i projec-ted!
VriJ the only conclusion which we could
di-Juce from the remarks of Gov. Ellis
upon the subject of Railroads was. that if
' • '• can be built, without money, then con-
-' " t them.
t>ov. Ellis's speech, as may bo supposed,
••'•>!. in deed, was tho fact, was made up of
falsa issues—unblushing misstatements of
M? Pool, throughout—and dodging of perti-
' • I questions passed upon him by his com-
I •" tor. We will recur to our notes next is-f
—we have not room for more now.
VK. POOL'S KEPI.V.
Mr. Pool said : I am pleased to sec so many
• . v ti How-citizens of the county of Burke
assembled to hear me, and l'desire to express
my thanks to the ladies for their attendance
—and while doing so, 1 feel authorized to re-
' "1 t» them the thanks of my competitor
1 • ', for I know he thanks them, although he
orgot to say so before taking his seat. The
discussion of the subject of taxation is one in
which the people of the State seem to take
great interest, and 1 take great pleasure in
repressing my views upon it before the peo-
«e. There is a proposition to change the
Constitution of the State, and this change
Should not be made without the full urder-standing
and consent of the people The cuu-
-'tutiun .brines and limits the legislative
■— When it forbids the Legislature to
°0 ai ything, it cannot be done, even though
people may desire it. The only way to
■rry oui their wishes, is to change the Con-
• '•• At present tho Constitution torbids
■ Legislature to tax slaves under 12 years
or over 50 yean at all, and when it comes to
ax those between those ages, it compels the
islaturo to place the same tax on the head
w Ue poorest white poll that is placed on the
and that it
thesuinmitof her glory—the sun of her pros- to tlie East
purity will shine forth in meredian splendor, seventy m 1
demanded that it should be heard. He then
went into a long argument to show that tne (the tax she pays !
measure vas peculiarly 01 i- MEA8UB
g™ and that that plank in the platform of: UP PRESSED I '
the Opposition
would result
any impeachment .>f my truthfulness in ;i; in-,
terest of any party.
1 presume that my own declaration, without
corrohoration, is enough for nil who know ip*. .
If ueeded, however, the testimony of others
can be adduced in its support .
C.H FOSTER, Rd -citizen."
Read what Gov E Is *aM at Tarb »r •*. *■*
reported in the Tsrboro' Mercury, a Demo-cratic
paper:
"The White basis would give control of
both houses of Legislature to the West. It is
from the East that the money comes, and he
believed that the peotih* o die West coe«ceo- -
tiously would spend ONE HONDHED MIL-LIONS
OF DOLLARS in building up their
railroads, cutt'ng down their monntsius, and
filling ap their valleys, and it is the Eastern
people that mast furnish the money. The
mischief resulting from this, would be incal-culable;"
Mr. Pool has defended the West ."rom these
charges. At Newbern, Mr. Pool said:
My competitor has compared the amount
paid into the treasury by this district, with the
amount paid by the Nth Congressional district,
and has been comparing the amount paid by
each county in which we hsve sp -ken, wi.h
the amount paid by Burke county, and hat
based upoD th<*se data an appeal to Eastern
men against Equal Taxation, upon thocn>und .
that the East has contributed largely to Wes-tern
Railroads, and that the West is already
largely indebted to them. Such is not the
fact. The East is rather indebted to 1 In-
West for a large proportion of the Railroad*
of the Slate. I have had au investigation '
made of this subject which I believe to be ac-curate,
and 1 do not believe that my competi-tor
or any one else, will deny its accuracy. Of
the 684 miles ot railroads completed in the
State, 480 unles are East of Raleigh, and only
204 miles West of Raleigh. The East has
more than twice as much railroad as the West,
and two dollars has been extended for Eas-tern
Railroads where one has been expended
for Western Roads. If this, then, i» B ques-tion
of sectional indebtedness, we of the East
are already largely indebted to our Wesiern
friends. But there is another mai.er in this
connection to which 1 desire to call th"» atten-tion
■{ slave owners. Railroads are especial,
ly for their benefit, for by increasing the fa
cility of getting the products of slave labor to
market, they increase the value of that labor,
and add largely to the prohts of slave proper y.
The railro ds of the State run through many
ot the largest slave holding Couni.es, and three
fifths ofthcichoU'. slave population oM he State
is in in those counties through which these
Rai.ro-ids run, to say nothing of the adjoining:
counties, which are also greatly benefited by .
them.
The black polls of the counties traversed by-
Railroads sum up as follows :
Raleigh and Gaston Rail Road, 23,384
Wilmington and Weldon Rail Road !6rV»3
North Carolina Rail road, 16.178
Atlantic and Noith Carolina Rail Road 7.1WI
Western North Carolina Rail Road, 5.120
Wilmington and Charlotte Rail Road, 1077
"■"TtMAi^
Showing three fifihs of the blark pools in
the State in the counties through which the--
railroads run.
If we should count also the counties ndjo.ii-
East is already taxed heavily for the benefit \ »ng these, this proportion would be greatly in.
of the benefit of the West. By the report of creased. Isthere any roason, then, why slave
he Siate Treasurer, it appears that the First property should not contribute its equal pro-
Congressio-ial District pays 892.9J1 State tax j portion to the bu'ldimt of these roods T Bui
and the Eight District $43,000. Gates county even railroads in the Wes:. while furnishing
pays into the State Treasury $5,5000; Burkt! facilities for getting to market, are of equal
county only 84,400; yet in Burke county the 1 benefit to the East by furnishing freights to
I inter-! our roads, and pouring into the lap ofour bas-est
on which is 830,000, or nearly eight times ' tern ports the rich products of the fertile lands
THE EAST PAYS HER ' 0** the West. I said in Curmuck and stse-rlv
Western in its Oil- FULL MEASURE OF TAXES, "HEAPED
during the last Legislature. After taxing! B H h-snys much wi'l be lost by the tax and her sons and daughters love their hills
polls all- ihey would bear, Und 20 cents and \ on silver plate, gold watches, pianos, &e., if mid valleys more than yet they havo done and
money 24 cents, there was still a deficiency. ' taxed no higher than land, &c. 15ut my com- : cease from wandering as strangers seekiu.i
taxed Lawyers, Doctor*, Mechanics jpetitor says our platform means by d scrimi- | borne in foreign lunds.
where, and 1 say here to-day, that I am in fa-vor
of running ihe Western Extension 10 the
was' made of mountain oak., OVER." STILL THE CRY FROM THE I Tennessee line at the eorliestpracticable time
n pecuniary injury j WEST IS LIKE THE HORSE LEECH,; [Hew. HHis says be is also in favor of this.]
Wnen the Siate taxes were but j -GIVE ! GIVE '."
My thousand doll trs they were , In a subsequent paper the Editor of this
j,ul ., .,„;.. malt.r, but now that railroads ' same Democratic paper said:
through the mountains of the | "PERSONAL.-The Editor of this paper would
r debt in consequence thereof reaffirm the substantial correctnees of his
j are to- be run
VVest and heavy
to be paid, it was important to
that is purchased from a store, 50 cents OH I fni-in is correct his argument tails—for they
$100 value, and many other unjust and une-' might be taxed higher than land, &c. But
qual provisions were put in the revenue bill, j he says wo would lose on Bank stock, billiard
which made it the most iniquitous measure I tables, circuses, lawyers and doctors, &c. Is
that ever was passed. Bui the Legislature ■ there any man here who does not know that
was forced to it because they could not reach ', because we tax property according to value,
8180,000,000 of slave property, and make it I that is no reason why we should fail to tax
pay its fair proportion. This difficulty ought I Reclusive Privileges and Licenses'! We do
to be removed so that tho Legislature may j not permitevery man to Bank, or sell Li. m >r
protect the credit of the State withou'. doing , by retail, or keep a billiard-table, or practice
such injustice to tho C't-zens—and I leave the • law or medicine. Ifouo
Equal Taxation and the paramount necessi- :,nles through the
ty lor completing the Railroads ii..w progress- some 1
ing Westwiirdly at an early day.
GRAVE
beforo the people Every ' privilege, which is refused to others, he ought ■ nameless
From the Register.
"SENEX,' SHAKES. &C.
Mr. Syme :—Only under peculiar circum-stances
would I notice the imperti.nent and : CRY
maliciously conceived interrogatories
man is allowed a any known individual, much less those
the Congressional Dis-trict
ge.s nothing in return for all this. 'Hie
Woo* had 10 around to complain, ti.it L.lrvr.
THE HOlR!LEECH. WAS EVER CRY-ING
GIVE! GIVE!! AND LIRE THE
observe the | report of the Gatesville discussion
between
rd to the! Gov. Ellis and Mr. Pool. The remark att ibu-
. Ellis, to the effect that the East paid
measure of taxation, heaped up, ores
nd runnintr over, while the West
HORSE-LEECH, STILL CRIED
• IVE!"was made by that Gentle-mjn;
and it is a piece of impertinence and
i bad laste for any body at a distance, and not
' present on the accassion. to deny it. The Citi-zen
is as "accurate" as mint papers-the Char-lotte
Democrat to the couutary uotwiiustan-proposition
now-wise
Legislator and Statesman will look to | to pay lor it; and because we tax ins prop-present
wants and necessities of a State in [erty according to value, is no reason why he
passing and proposing laws for its goveri
ment.
But let tho people understand the proposi-tion
distinctly. My competitor has read the
words of our platform correctly ; but you
must have noticed that ho sat down without
and my competitor
le continues to put
of
of a
correspondent to a newspaper
conducted without regard to justice; but
the circumstances surrounding mo are BO
very peculiar that I choose briefly to reply-to
an article signed "Senex," puldmhed m
tho Democratic (?) Pros of the 20th inst.
Seuex" asks : ''Is it true that the organ
of your party belong* to Frank 1. Wilson ?" wc
It is not true. "Senex" no doubt knew it j Tli
was not true when he asked the question.— | with tax on
But what ifit were true "C Am I to be not
only deprived of the privileges of the mails,
should not pay for it
must know this. Yet
forth the argument for the want ot something
better to say. He speaks of playing cards,
pistols and bowie-kniefs—ihey are not taxed
now. The men who sell cards are taxed
ever reading his own. There was a good ; for selling them and rightly, and those who
reason for this omission. His speech was a ! wear unlawful weapons are taxed for wear-much
stronger one against his own platform '. ing them. This is all right, and has nothing
than against ours, and it was well that he did . to do with taxing property according to
not read it before this assembly. But he has, value. •■-,,-,. ,..„„,,„
not represented our platform correctly. Be But my competitor makes much noise a- and deprived of rignts allowed to oiner ciu^
says : it is contended here that we propose ! bout foreign liquor, and say s ad valorem would zens ? "Senex," you are a funny old dog
to tax only tho n.jgro. Certainly no honest! tax that no higher than'land,
man in Burke or any whore else has ever made
such a proposition. If my competitor has
ever heard any man take that position, let, brought from abroad higher than those in
him name the man, and the time and place,! the State." Foreign liquor is brought from
and I will prove that this man had been ' abroad, then how does he say we must put
land, &c. which
blows
but am 1 also to be denied lhe right of hold-ng
property? Why am I to be singled out
&c. But
member my competitor's construction of our 1
plaltorm. He says, it means "to tax articles (
t least, as mm h so as baseness will admit ot.
Senex" quotes from the Salisbury Banner,
drinking somo of the foreign liquor of which j the same tax on thai as on c,
he speaks so loudly. All property is now suo-' is not "brought from abroad." Ho
jeet to taxation, except slave property. The two ways on this question,
change will make slave property stand on' Tho government protects every man in the
tho same fooling with all other property.—' enjoyment of his properly and every man
And it will require the Legislature to tax \ should pay in proportion to the protection he
slaves and lund and money at interest, and [ recieves, tor the support of governraet.1. My-all
the loading subjects of capital according to competitor objects to this t«ir schemo. He
vulue but leave it to the discretion of the ■ would strike from the American Banner
Legislature to discriminate in favor of the na- '■ Florida, which taxes little negroes from tho
live products and industrial pursuits, by ex- cradle to the grave—Georgia, Kentucky,
empting things counecled willi honest indus Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas. All slaves
try from taxation. But many objections are of all ages are taxed upon their value in those
raised, and based mainly on misrepresents States. My competitor says thai liltlo ne-tiuu.
My competitor says, the discrimina- groes yield nothing to their owners—although
tion in favor of native proa acts was meant! they increase in value—875 eacn year. But
only to allow the taxing articles brought from how much land has the farmer which yields
abroad higher than those produced iu the hun nothing! upon which he pays taxes,—
giale"—ai,d not noticing tne part ir. reior- swamps, oldfields, gullies—that never will
ence to industrial pursuits, proceeded to say , increase in value, as the little negro.
tbat we would compel the taxing of every- i am charged by my conipelitoi for never
edited by MV. John Spolman, who says 1 am
I '-virtually the owner" tho Standard cstab
lishmeiit. This is an assertion unworthy of
: Mr. John Spelman, for it is not the truth.
As foreman In the Standard office up to about
ihe middle ot List November, 'Mr. John
'Spelman learned much ot its private arrange-ments.
These he can put forth it he ch<x>ses.
: but let it be done truthfully, and -on his own
i account; and not prevaricatingly. insidious
I |y, and with the .Weld of "Wesui ih run
what is publicly known.
I man, in the extract quoted by
MORE! MORE!! AND THERE Ming."
fa"AN INSATIATE AND INEXORABLE And again, he published a latter in the Al
FOB MORE. The Eastern people . h. marie S .uthron over his own signature, as
should const ler beiore tnev placed a weapon folluaa:
„, .he hands of ibeii ENEMIESot the West ; Orricr OETHE "CiriZEN," 1
with Whfeh they may destroy them.. ine Murfreesboro,' N. C, May 29,18(50. J
C'i-r and £vZ£m%u!**Z lie would ; T. J. GARNER, ESQ., Editor ALbemarle South-at,
as tar as any on, t> equalize taxation -it ^on:
It indiust There were two ways! R. pent ed absence from homo during the
JTf.H.nu-thinifsequal. Mr. Pool wauled to Ipresent month has prevented my replying
onZfire t"v increasing the tax on s'ave. ; he j publicly to sundry charges of inaccuracy in
would eoualiw bv decreasing tho tax on land, the report I.saw fit to give in my paper.
The tax .... land'was too high in comparison of the opening discussion, at Gatesville, b^-
aves If we desired to amend jtwetn the two candidates for Gov. of N. C,
, Uiu'n, why did we not-loi. by leg- Hon. Jm..W\ Ellis and Jno. Pool Esq. In your
le consttuiio 3 „f by an open con Journal—oi May 3d, I think—I o .t.ceda |«ra-
•Wla -Vr It would .'e »aler for the E.ist. jor , graph from the Charlotte Democrat, a paper I Creator-hut I have a •.eart large e*
JfrJ West had several Ultlc things they wanted to do not exchange with pronouncing my stato-
. r-#L institution Some politicians iu the , ment thai G.v. Ellis said al Gat.-sville, that tho
iSSSSSSSwS^ that it by ad va i East paid her full measure ..f taxation L.the
fc»*t cun^" . » C), lhe East w3re in- j State treasury, pressed down and rumng over,
lorsm thean umm u,. ,„_ |^ lhatlh- West. LIKE THE HORSE-LEECH
STILL CRIED, "MORE ! MORE!"
voted for it in the Legislature, workidfor it
and talked for it, and intend to continue to do j
all I canto accomplish it, whether in the East
or West, whether in the legislature or out of
it, or whether elected Governor or not elected
Governor. It is no quest'on of East or West ,
it is a question involving the interest, the
prosperity and the glory of my native State.
South Carolina and Virginia have had the
credit and benefits of the products of North
Carolina. This should be permitted no Ion
ger. North Carolina should be united in in-terest
and feeling as it is in the glory arising
from the memory of the past. I deprecate
such sectional appeals as 1 have heard here
to-day. We are one people—we havo a com-mon
interest in the deeds and tame of our rev-olutionary
fathers—a common pride in the bat-tle
fields of liberty. We are linked together
by the glories of the past, and by the hopes of
1 the future, let us also be linked by the interest ,
j of the present. I am an Eastern man, and
I am speaking to Eastern men, and I tell them it 1 J
am elected Governor I shall be no Governor of
the East, no Governor of the West, but a Gov-ernor
of North Carolina. I was born 10 the Reel
and reared in the E 1st, and I cherish the 11-1.0- I
ciation-«ofniy early days lam attached toher,
plains and her sea cost to the sluggish stream
that winds by the place of my humble birth
and washes the playground of my chilr.hood .
—to the broad rirer whose swelling tides pass
by the scenes of the labors ot myiiiaiurer man-hood
But while 1 cherish these, I thank my
or em taxation •"«"•—- -—-,
ere»sed -hat the East would thereby have a ;.jnd
UMM re-jresentatioii in the Senate; but they , LEE
larger "gfj^y^f^ G ,ve, nor. thi,t the , n inaccurate
b'' 'ot mlhu.it to the less of a single ; ermore that Gov. EUis has himself publicly de-worked
nieil, on several occasions, that he ever made
sa 11 remark.
account t hsve heard forth
might be ast
West would
Senator, even though their resistence
t.l,.,:on The Governor said that under ittiiy
^ C-ix nil Eas. would be plat-, Reg., ding as I do, the vindication of a man •
^ ta he nowS■ d?the West, and be taxed to ! persona, honor and truthful^., as . coo.-dcr-l
• 1»wrn railroads. The West would all ation high- r than any demand, of pantaaa
build WJJW™™^the rockets of the Eas- expediency, snd knowing re-st p-.s.t.v-ly that
"" """ «„Ii wo f sS, d,m-„ here, GOV ELLIS DID MAKE THE REMARK
'"^u' ^ithsui. atba.ik would be IMPUTED TO HIM IN MY REPORT 1
e 5lJ» e „..o ..— - and all he dial .up- n ttjjj ,T My DUTY TQ UEAFFlRM MY
Mr^fofc. Sgl^^'SiSSJ^l^^^ was STATEMENT IN THAT REGARD; and
"SeneX' of be- T^vSnTlSnTSZM tr-se was to i I ask you. injustice to me, to publish the a-money
Well, lhat'a a fix to be
the same extract air. John Spelman
Whilst he (Mr. Wil»on> was receiving in-ed
to make
in.
In
says
\ TBAP.—Albemorte Southron.
Tho same speech was reported by the I him in August. I am
u„rfr. esboro' Citizen, a Democratic paper as; best services in behalf ef the Democracy. M " • to make any sacrifice that may be legitimately
illing to contribute my
and
° "The Governor proceeded to show that the demanded of me. But I cannot consent to
desire the prosperity of every p->rtion of my
native S ate. I give no ear 10 sections' u ■
peals—I acknowledge no s. ction" lathe 1.. •••'
old North Stale, bjt shall continM M I
for the prosperty of every portion ol it frond
the inonnlains to the seaboard.
Peple ot the West, Soetsin the men who Ii ■'
detendtd \ou ag»inst unju-t ch-rjes 1. -1
agninsi you ttyGov, Ellis in E islern couir. 1 -
As a proof that ihe kccount given b) '->■■ I
rid it or of the Citiaeu is correct. wc<-",\ th
following from tne "Rileigh Press" ol ill
17th April, Qov. Ellis Organ. This cxm.<
shows that on the 17th April. G.>\ EHl* hs
seen the 'Citizen's" report and erfavtted
correctneos except ** to ONE ITEM ONL 1
"IN AS Eaaoa—In an article which a)
posr.-J in our Weekly issue < f the 16l'
copieu from the Murfreesboro' Citizci
Uov. Ellis is made to say "that betwet ,
him-elt and Mr. Pool no difference upon n .
tinnsl politics existed." The Governor r]
quests us to state he was misunderstood.-.
What he said was this: "Between Mr. l*o
and himself no personal diffxrji'e existe
yet on a question of State policy, as well
on Federal affairs, they stood widely a»*i:
der." This correction comports with t
account given by tho Southron.—Rale. '
Press, nth April.
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