Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-07-18
For the Standard.
epEAKING AT YADKINVILLE.

MrssRs EDITORS: Yesterday had the pleasure
of bearing Messra Scales and puryear ca9a as
lille After early dinner, large assembly OF the
neonle collected in the Court House, where it was
Announced that the speaking would take place. Ine
Court room was crowded to its utmost capacity Inc
countenance of people plainly showed that every
one present was anxious to hear every thing that
would be said
Mr. Scales rose, and after announcing himself
candidate to represent this District in the next Con-
gress of the United States proceeded to notice the
charges that have been made against him by the
public press, and reiterated by Mr.. Puryear. He
briefly reviewed his course in the last Legislature;
showed the falsty of the charges; referred to the
Journals for his votes told the people that by his
vote, and that of others who stood with him, they
had been relieved from the penalties which the law
imposed upon them for passing and receiving one
and two dollar bills.
Having placed himself right before the public with
regard to these charges-and no honest man will
attempt to say that he did not clearly prove himself
right-he next took up the subject of the public
lands Mr.. S. told the people this was old song.
1t had been sung in their by prating politicians
and intriguing demagogues as an electioneer'ng
humbug for the last twenty years: that they had
again and again been hattered with fair promises
and fond hopes that the booty was at hand but that
so often as they had been promised the lands so Of
ten they had been deceived He then showed that
distribution would not be right that when we draw
the proceeds from the treasury to the amount Of
$500 OOO we would be taxed indirectly to the amount
of$3 900 and upwards by the operations ofthe ia.
riff laws that it would require hundred years to sell
the lands and get the money. He next showed that
distribution would be impossible. He asked Mr..
P. for plan to dispose of the public lands. He
said Mr.. P. was for distributon-heh had shown that
to be impracticable He told Mr.. P he would give
him the correct plan: He would reduce the tariff,
thereby removing the burden of taxation, which all
the consumers of foreign goods were bound to pay,
then put the proceeds of the lands in the treasury,
and after paying all the expenses of the general
government and leaving the nation free from indeb
edness if there was surplus left in the treasury he
would deposit that with the States that such de-
post had been made in 1886 under Gen. Jacksons
administration; that there was not schoolboy in
the State ten years old but what could testify to the
happy effects of such deposit He asked the people
if it was not more reasonable to expect something
from party that had given it to them without
such loud promises, than it was to expect anything
from party that had always been promising, and
had never given anything, even attempted to re-
deem their often.volated pledges. Mr.. S. said thai
this old hobby had been laid aside everywhere else;
that Mr.. P claimed distribution as his fast horse
that to-day it was molehl with him; tomorrow a
mountain but, said Mr.. S., the old horse is broken
down, spawned, and bellowsed. He said Mr. P.
charged him with squanderng the public lands; that
there was not one word in the old Wing platform
against squandering. Mr.. S. then turned to Mr.. P.
and asked him why the Wings had not given US this
darling distribution when they were in power? He
said they had the power in 1910; they passed dis
tribution act and by the session of Congress
they had also passed tariff law, which, by the
strictons laid upon their distribution act had rem
dered that nullity.
Mr.. S. then came to Mr.. P's course in Congress;
told the people that Mr. P. had pledged himself to
them to Introduce bill for distribution that he had
been in Congress four years. and not one single word
had ever been heard from him on that subject He
said that Mr.. P's was that he afraid the
President would veto it. But says Mr.. S., you knew
the President there when you made the pledge
and having made it, you ought to have redeemed
that pledge if forty Presidents and forty thousand
devils had stood in your way He arraigned Mr.. p,
held up before him the public gaze and convicted him
ofhavng proven false to his own pledges that he had
sworn to the people to carry out.
Mr.. Scales having thus disposed of his opponent
on the land question, now came to The Know Moth
ing party. He said it was first heard of at the
North that it Matched in the holes and dens of
abolitionism that it was a proscrptve party from
its BIRTH that had started out by saying that the
old Wing and Democratic parties we're corrupt"
Mr. s. said this new party was an oath-bound, secret
conclave, dark.lantern, subterrenean alley party;
but that they now said that the oaths and secrets
were abolished. He called upon them for the proof
He asked them what the oaths and secrets were He
could find none of their party who would reveal He
then said they stood before the world as they ever
had stood they we're yet party bonnd together by
oaths and secrets. He charged Mr.. P. as being al
lied with this party; that if he had never been
member of the order, two years ago he was nomina-
ted by Know Nothing Convention that he ac-
copied the nomination at their hands, with the un.
Outstanding that he would advocate their principles.
Mr.. S. said the Know Nothings had started out to
put down the Catholics and foreigners. He said
that he had been born and educated in the Protest
ant faith that he had no sympathy for the Catho-
lies, further than a common feeling of humanity;
but, said he, while / am an American citizen while
live in land of religious and civil liberty while
live in country that guarantees to every equal
freedom-iet me stand or fall by it-this hand OF
mine-this tongue of mne-ths heart of mine shall
never be raised utter word or conceive thought,
against constitution that secures to every the
liberty of worshpping God according to the dictateso
his own conscience. Oppose religious liberty who
may, but never will. As to foreigners, we had reared
and established great and glorious government;
We had invited the oppressed of the whole world to
come and enjoy equal freedom with us, and yield
equal obedience to our laws. We still invite them
on the same condition. Mr.. S. believed that that
was what every patriotic american ought to say;
and they refuse to do this-i the time should ev-
come when they would be dangerous to our insti-
tutions then he would say drive them back. Mr..
Scales referred to the riots in Washington City,
Louisville, Baltimore, New Orleans and other places:
said that American blood had been shed around tn,
ballot-box-the sacred buwark of American free
d"m-and that it had been done by the influence
Of this proscriptive Know Nothing party that
only carrying out the principle Of dsfranchisin,
American citizens which lays at the bottom of K
Nothing secrets. Mr.. S. told the people that Mr. P
had done nothing to save the country from the rui
he talked so much about; that there was no DANCE,
or he (Mr. P.,) did not believe wba: he had said
Having thus far completely demosh ed his oppe
nent, and stormed his fortress at every point Nj
S. now turned the guns Of the fort upon the enemy
and poured volley after volley into the broadsde
his adversary until he was completely dismantlec
and lay almost lifeless hulk. He arraigned NJ,
P. for his vote on the Kansas-Nebraska bill point,
to the storm that had been raised at the North tn