The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1858-05-26

plauslple name OF strict CONSTRUCTION, we Saw
The strange spectacle Of people glorying in
. system Of fraud and robbery. and aiding and
abetting the bitterest enemies. the apti.sla-
very powers Of the North and Northwest, in
cheating their own children ont Of the very in.
heritance forwhich they had split their blood,
and poured out their treasures. and enabling
them (the auti.slavery power) by princeiy
TO build up mighty enemy to
crush ont their most sacred rights. lie could
uot understand that sort of reasoning which.
whilst is strained at gnat would gulp down
camel--which could find constitutional
scruples in fair and equal distribution
among all the tenants in common, and. at the
same time, could see no constitutional 0bjec-
ton to partial, unfair, and unequal division
amongst part. That to give the common
inheritance Of all 10 a favored few, and that
too the least deserving few, he could only
characterize as system of fraud and robbery.
Ii was strange maxim in political economy
for a State to impoyerish and rob itself to
build up an opposing and rival power. He
contended that such was no part of Democra-
cy as he had learned it. and he thought, when
the people Of the country, not only the De-
parties, reflected up this question, that they
too would come to the same conclusion with
himself, and that they would come up like
freemen. regardless Of party drill. and plat.
forms made BY effice-seeklng politicians Of
various grades and political stripes, and as
sert their rights like men.
As to the convention which nominated his
competitor, Judge Ellis. )if you had seen that
assemblage you would have doubted ifhe was
a Democrat. There was Gen. M. G. Avery.
Of Burke, its President, renegade Wing.
There was John Kerr, whom you well knew,
another Of the same stripe, and who was one
Of the most active in introducing the resola-
tons for the action of the Convention. James
W. Osborne, one OF its chief speakers, whom
you well know to have been Wing. and who
said in the Convention he had nothing Of all
his former life to take back he was one Of
its chief speakers, There was Walter L.
Steele, and Gen. John Winslow. too. active
participators in said Convention. and all old
Wings, and nearly every one Of them for
merly belonging to the Know Nothing party.
Indeed, paper published in Virginia said
the old line Wings had met at Charlotte,
N. c., and nominated as their candidate
John A. Ellis for Governor
JupeE Ellis Nominated whoi
MIR. McRAE-Juhn A. Ellis. installing NOT
only the party who nominated, but also the
name Of my competitor.
Jupor ELLIs-And that shows that the Ed
itor knew nothing about il at all.
Mr.. McRAg-i'ut il shows he very well
knew the men who nominated you.
Why. continued Mr. McRae, person to
have dropped in here TO-DAY and heard the
speech OF nv competitor, would have imagin-
ed that he was running in 1874 and against
John Kerr. Three fourths Of the speech oil
my competitor was made up Of old issues
which am sure DO not intend TO contro.
yert-there is no difference between Us on
these issues, and they are not now before the
public. ! 90 as far as he or any one else IL
maintaining all that be asserts, as far as those
old issues are concerned. My competitor
seemed as il he had been asleep for the last
ten or twenty years, aud had woke up in q
dream, imagining that he was in campaign
sometime in 1914 or 1913. He merely glanced
at the only subject between Us. as il II was q
matter OF minor Importance-Shenl II IS the
sole question at issue in our controversy, and
that Is, as hold, whether we shall have Q
fair and equal distribution Of the public
lands, or their proceeds, amongst all the
Siates-the old as well as the new; or,
whether we will suffer these lands, and their
proceeds, 10 be squandered away upon the
new States alone, which is the position my
competitor must maintain: That they are
thus squandered, intend to prove, and il
cannot be denied. And il il is uaccnsiitu.
tional 10 make fair, equal. and just distri.
button, il mist be much more unconstitu-
tional 10 make an unfair. unjust and partial
distribution. " 1t is not constitutional and
Just TO take the revenue Of Government
arising from the public lands. and distribute
II equally 10 all the States. il must be much
more unjust and unconstitutional TO rob the
treasury Of its revenue and give il 10 only I
part Of the States.
Mr.. McRae then proceeded TO show the
effects Of this unjust distribution upon The
prosperity OF North Carolina, and asked whal
u was that constituted the capital Of a State
] nat il was It's population. the development
Of It's agricultural, manufacturing and min
era! resources, its educational facilities, &c.
&c.
lie then proceeded to show that the popu.
lation Of North Carolina in lS4U was abou
757 900, and for the next ten years unit
1850 II had only increased 10 $50, 1000; and
that since that time the increase had beer
very small--no,hing to compare with the ney
States. That her educational resources wer,
100000, Cd aud that she derived from ID,
General Government, BY distribution IN ef
feet, nearly all that she has, to wit: 400
i 900. and that was whs, she 20, by the system
] advocate. Bat for that, where would ",
! be! Nov, By even that much, edueationa
facilities were carried to the very doors o
every child Of the State.
i lie said that by means Of that distribu
ton of the surplus, new life and sigo
we're infused into our internal improvement
i that they were aided very materially b.
means 81 the loan given bs this system, an
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