The North-Carolina standard., 1845-11-26
THE REaIsTER-LrTERARY BOARD

The Registerof Of Friday alludes 10 our remarks
last week in relation to The appointment Of. Mr.
Gales as a member of the Literary Board; and
charges US with the a4indelicacy" of intermed.
ding in "privote" matters. This it must be
confessed, is most singular charge. Is the Edi
tor of the Register "priuate" member of the
Literary Board? Is he private printer to
the State, or grivote" Intendant of the City ?
If he be all this, well. as pu61ic officer and
public printer, then we admit we have been some
what indelcate, and we hasten to make all the
atonemcnt we can for our error, by asking that
gentleman's pardon, and promising never again to
allude to private printers, "priyate members
of Literary Boards, or "private" Intendants of
Cities, Will that do? AS to the g malgnity3"
of our article-that is all in the imagination of
the aforesaid 'tprirate" member of public Board !;
for we assure that gentleman in all sincerity and
good faith, that we would not hurt hair Of his
head. The world is wide enough for US both !;
and we freely concede to him what he must con-
cede to us, to witt liberty Of opinion and of
speech. a<'o,71 ~ -: 11e3 - =
The Editor says, that as he had been proscrib-
cd from the Literary Board to make room for Mr..
Stone it was the most natural thing in the world
for Governor Graham to put him back, after
Mr.. Stone had resigned. We admit that it is the
"most natural thing in the world" for Federal
leaders to take Office whenever they can get it !;
but we mostemphatically deny, that the possession
of office at one time by an individual gives him
claim to it at another, especially when that pos
session brought along with it easy services and
good pay. But we did not last week, nor do we
now, enter any particular objections to Mr.. Gales.
We object TO the political complexion of the Board,
welding as it does so large and so sacred fund.-
We object, because this fund belongs equally 10
democrats and Wings because all the people, of
all parties, concerned in its prompt disburse-
menI and faithful management; because the Gov
ernor has acted unjustly towards the Democrats in
appointing a Whig, when one of the opposite par
ty might have been appointed without difficulty
and with credit to HIMSELF because that officer
has played the par;zan, and not the States Execu-
tive 1t is no answer to these objections (and to
others, which might be urged) to say, it was the
most natural thing in the world !" TO appoint Mr..
Gales; nor shall the latter gentleman be allowed
to plead in behalf of his friend the Governor that
the appointment was not conferred by the Govern
or, but by I" the Board ITSELF" Pray, who COM
posed the Board2 Who but Messrs Manly and
Myers, and Gov. Graham2 And was Mr. N.Y.
ers present2 If he was, we knew nothing of it
and we are thus left to infer with all fairness, that
Mr.. Gales was nominated by the Governor and
confirmed by the Governor and Mr.. Manly. Fine
doings at your State Capitol, people of North
Carolina -
But Mr.. Gales endeavors to justify his unfor
tunate position by charging the Democrats with
prescription. He says the Democratic Legisla-
ture Of 1912 prescribed all its faithful officers"
down to the door-keepers. Is this an argument?
If it be so considered, we can answer it in its own
coin. Did not the Whig House of Commons of
1914 do tAe same thing2 Were the door-keepels
spared then? No. But we shall take up this
part of the subject in due time, and we promise
the Wing leaders in advance that they shall have
enough of 1t ere we lay it by.
The Register comes next in his article of Fri
day to the Printing for the State and City and his
salary as Intendant. He says:
The whole patronage of the State and City
exclusive of the Intendant's salary) does not ex-
coed $500, and of this sum, the f" Standard"
though all the State Officers are Wings, gets a
very fair part. From one Department we have
reason to believe that the Standard" has the Lii
on's share, while the balance is pretty equally
divided between the ' Star" and ourselves And
we venture now the assertion that the Standard"
received during the two years that Col. WHEELER
was Treasurer, larger amount from the State for
printing, than ever we got from the same source |
in the same period. Did we complain then
No nor would we ever descend to such contemp- /
tible warfare"
Let us examine this matter The record is be-
fore us and avail ourselves of the facts it f1rn
ishes BY reference to the Comptroller's Report
we find, that from the lst of November, 1841, to
the 1st Of November, 1912, Weston R. Gales re-
ceived for Printing for the State Departments
Sl6o IS; for Printing for the LITERARY Board
S169 So; for advertising and Printing for the
State $I02 So; and for his services, as member |
of the Literary Board, from July, 1s4l, to Octo-
Der, 1912, the sum of S369-making in ALL for I
about one year, the sum of eight hundred and
one dollars and twenty-five cents! For the fiscal
year ending October 31st 1843 he received from
The Departments and for advertising for the State
gill so; and for Printing under contract for the
State, $ll24 20-making one hhousand tsco han
dred and thirtysfve dollars and serenity centsy
nd during the fiscal wear ending November lst