Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-05-04

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any reason to doubt but you have listed all the prop
erty you were bound by law to list.
Truly yours, ROB'F E. RIYES. Sheriff.
shall notice but one other fasehood on the part of
this father of lies. In his late communications he
says that when charged by my cotn3etltor Tor the
Senate Mr. AlbHght9 with this failure to give fuli
list OF my property in 1851 virtually acknowledged
the truth OF the charge by isting in 1859 all had
held back IN 1872 Tie very communication in
which he utIers this wiIful and deliberate fasehood
contains a certificate from the Clerk of the County
Court in which the If silver plate listed by
me in 1852 is precisely the same as that listed in
1851 If / listed two carriages in 1852 than
did in 1851 it was because owned two more
the lst of April 1852, than did the lst of APRIL
1851, and not because committed any in my
tax list of 1851. My money at interest for 1852
was listed upon precisely the same principle that
for 1851. The income from the purchase of Bills of
Exchange in the Spring of 1852, not listed for
that year for the that similar profits made
in the Spring Of 1851 listed till the follow
ing year. These things were known to Mr.. Waddell
the moment he uttered the above fasehood, for all
though he skulked from the campaign after our first
meeting, he had friends both personal and political
who everywhere heard my vindication of myself. az
| well as my exposure OF him. AS my tax list was
made out in 1851 so it was in 1852, and will be In
| 1853.
So, too, of these Bills of Exchange 1t is utterly
! untrue that have ever made, or wished TO make,
any concealm of these transactions. Their PuT-
chase and the price of them open as the pur-
chase and price of cotton in the Mobile market, and
II tnere is any uSuTy In them Inc Stale VIII get neT
portion of it. When therefore, the penR statutes oil
this State against usury shall be enforced in another
State where such statutes exist, has been
threatened by This great luminary of law, hope The
State will be generous enough 10 contribute her por
ton of the penalty, which she may we'll afford TO do
as great legal discovery would no doubt place
its author high on the list Of tax paying lawyers
and she might perhaps reap rich harvest of reve
nue. from quarter whence now unfortunately {" The
record furnishes evidence that she receives The small
est naOdicum.'
! Such is a simple statement Of the very gra
matters put at issue by portion of the Chath an
Wings during the last summer, and now revived By
the known author of them. l condescended tn n o.
| tice them then as do now, expose them and the
author to the just contempt of every honorable man
l do not do so with any view to vindicate my own
character. should but little for the good opin
ion of any who could believe, upon the testimony
of such man, that in matters of this kind could
act unjustly towards my government. Maurice q
1 Waddel stands before the public in the unenvlable
attitude, not only of having made charges against
another which he knew to be false, but of having
made them when he knew himself TO be the gnilty
wretch he falsely charged others to be and when thus
detected and exposed, he has had the shameless eff
frontery boldly TO deny the truth, although no on
knew better than himself that what he pronounced
an - unnrifigafed lie - was recorded fact A mai
SO wanting in irulh and yet shameless in false
hood, is worthy have lived in the days of Jeffreys
and have played the part of a informer be
fore that corrupt tool of despotic power.
A. RENCHER.