The North-Carolina standard., 1850-07-24
LooK Ar .rIR REsULTsI


LOOK Ar THE REsULTsT
VA hast paas Soa,ir cal<z ps on sihs sshjec,,
md ve think We may. saSsly assume tbat Gov.
Aanl3's propesiton u abolish HE biack ~ federal
basis In our Shte Conssituton should PREVAIL the fol-
lowing Counties would each lose ons member Of the
House of Commons, to WIT:
Norihampton, Bertie, Halifax. Wake. franklin,
Johnston, Warren, Ngecombe. Wayne, Pitt, Beam
fort, Craven, Granville, Cumberland, New Hanover,
Duplin, Sampson. Robeson, Anson, Orange, Meek
lenburg, Chatham, and Caswell.
According 70 the Comptroller's !" Statement Of the
Revenue of North Carolina, Of November lst, ls4s
and which will be found attached 10 the printed
Lave of the last session-the nett amount of public
taxes for lS47, paid by all the Countess was $780,
644 40. Of this amount the above twenty-three
Counties paid forty-three thousand hundred and
sesenty-sir dollars, nearly " ONE-HALF OF THE
ENTIRE REVENUE OF THE STATE. In
1910 the whole number Of slaves in North Carolina
was 245,s17; and Of this number the above twenty
three Counties contained l3s. .100leaving only lO7.
TIT in all other portions of the State. There be
no doubt of these facts. We have made the calcua-
tions with some care, and Tie records will show that
we are right.
By our State Constitution, as revised in 1885, the
Senate is based taxation of all sors that is, three
hs of the slaves added to " all other persons.
Every County is entitled to at least one member OF
the House., and then three-ffths of the slaves are
counted with the whites in apportioning the remain
ing members. The slaves thus counted for three
reasons First, because the same principle has been
established in the Federal Constitution, and prevails
in Congressional representation secondly, be-
cause the slaves taxed and thirdly, because they
are human beings. One illustration will be sufficient
to show how Gov. Manly's proposition, if carried
out, would operate: Ashe and Beaufort Counties
contain about the same number of whites; but
Beaufort contains some 500 slaves, and Ashe only
500. Ashe paid into the Public Treasury, in ls47,
$773 taxes, and Beaufort paid in 81 and yet in
the face of these facts and in utter disregard of the
great principle of taxation and representation on
which our Constitution is fixed and bottomed, Gov.
Manly would give to Beaufort no more weight in the
House of Commons than he would to Ashe; but
would take from her of her members, and trans
fer that member to other County, paying no more
revenue than Ashe, and containing but the ninth part
of the number of slaves possessed by Beaufort!
But Gov. Manly is likewise opposed to the taxa
ton basis of the Senate. 1t is stated in Whg paper
that he took issue with COL Reid at Salem, because
the latter did not oppose himself to what he was
pleased to term the 'gross ijusiee' of that basis
and hence we are left to infer that if he had his way,
he would strike out that basis also. We leave it to
the people of the Counties mostly deeply interested
in this matter, look into it and make calculations
of results for themselves.
1t is notorious that Gov. Manly, proceeding in the
same course Of hostility to the middle and East. is
also opposed to the present mode of dividing the
School Fund. He advocates distribution of that
fund according to white population, which would
work agains, the heavy ax-payfng Counties the same
results as to money, which he would produce against
them in political power by an alteration OF the pre-
sent basis in the Commons.
Upon all these issues Col. Reid is sound. His
published Address to the people Of the State-his
speeches in the West two years since and now-his
votes in the Legislature, and his whole course as
public man-all prove the fact. Western man, he
is vet Just to the East and if elected Governor, as
believe he will be, section or portion of the
State will have cause to complain of his recommen-
dati ons or his policy.
And can it be possible that the twentythree Coun-
ties above mentoned-not to name others materially
interested with them in this important queston-will
cast single vote for Gov. Manly! We deprecate
sectional strifes, and shall make no sectional ap-
peals but we have hesitation in saying that these
Counties, and the whole middle and East, ~ owe
it to themselves to their vested rights, and to their
dearest interests to 60 to the polls and in selde-
fence, cast unanimous vote for David S. Reid. "a
The time for argument has nearly past. We have
laid the facts before the people, and it is for them to
consider and decide.