Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-07-26
From the Salisbury Banner.
The Candidates for Governor at Newton
IrinnnDh1nf 8peech of Coo. EUiS


Triumphant Speech of Coo. Elias!
We attended the discussion between Gov. Ellis and Mr.
Pool at Newton Catawba county Friday last and heard
the candidates for the first time The attendance was quite
large and the speeches listened to with much atten
Gov Ellis opened the debate He thanked the people of
Catawb for the large majority with which they bad honor
ed him in the last election and said that the best manner IN
which he could show his gratitude by faithful impair
a and aborious performance of his duty He had heard
complaints of his administration. In whatever of error
he had committed nothing would be found but what had
sprung from upright intention and purity of mott e, and lie
believed be would get credit for his efforts in promoting the
welfare and honor Of the State and the prosperity OF the
He stood before them the representative of the great
Democratic party of North Carolina not individual
seeking his advancement the empty compliment OF
respectable Gov E. then spoke of the principles OF
the Democratic party length and then reached the
Lord 1860 unusual, he said, to be opposed by
new issue. The Know Nothngs never come before the
some of these hobbies Dockery with his g sheer "
of the public lands but the people did not agree with him.
Gmer with his detesble Know Nothngism and that
and repudated by TIE intelligent of the
charged that this political humbug gotten for
sonal advancement They say designed to benefit the
poor exclaimed Gov En- but he would show now that was
before he done.
Gov Ellis proceeded to dissect the humhug in most
mercess The K. Ms. say that slave property paid
little nothing Gov. Ellis took the position that slave
property considered with other property paid It's 1u ana
fair share of taxes He showed from the Comptroller
port that slave property constituting about OF
the property of the State paid about fourth OF the tax
that slaves now u nav nearly half
taxes than whites Slaves taxed from IL to 81
than slaves Slaves were taxed both male and female
white males only taxed By this computation 5O blacks
whites paid only $780, during their full axe Of "a years
04O less than the blacks and yet it was proposed to
And now, said Gov. Ellis, let us examine little further
this proposed change The advocates OF this thing bit
s as that he Se2 Tsc o
gu and ere species OF property according TO us Vaue IN
equal proportion of taxes If you ask them he continued
what they are going to taxif they mean to tax horses
cows, sheep, hogs, &c? 30, no. they excaim What
for taxing the niger Now, said Gov E. you will observe,
fellow citizens thai the word niger is not anywhere to be
found in their platform, any word that can be made
to signify it, All and eueTy pec'es Of properly is in the
platform. admit continued the Governor, that that in
eludes the niger, but 1t also includes horses cows,
sheep, hogs, farming tools and implements, household
and kitchen furniture, and your ducks and chickens,
and even your tin cups. They can't get out of this,
dodge and wriggle they may. If all and every spe
cles of property means Niger means also every other
article of property worth bearing the This is and
they can't they shant get away from it, it be not their
their platform people The truth is they
with system to them through to office and finding
the people will not stand it, they dodge It, They propose
merely in going after all the property dscrimnateo
make dierencen favor of the native products of the
State and the industrial pursuits of the citizens That is
said Gov E. they for making difference between what
brought into the State and that which raised
duced in it. 1t intended make this difference and
none other and it intended to tax every particle of
property in the State subject only to this difference
Again ne would ask this was not the fair meaning OF
the platform, what kind of property do they
ad gotore2 His competitor, Mr. Pool says he would tax
hundred dollars would enough
near enough And If the system of al Uaor be good for
species of property why good for all Why stop
short and carry out this good principle the fullest p
Fellow citizens, exclaimed Gov. Ellis this lodging wont
do-this deception shall be practiced upon you Gov.
E. proceeded to read Know Nothing au,horte' t. show
that the broad application Of the system intended. He
read from the Raleigh Register Greensboro PATRIOT Al
bemarle nd Nothing 10
the race horse and the pillow horse to be taxed
boast of the right to be taxed even UPON their tin
cups See of these under editorial head
He to 1he proceedings in their State Conven
ton show that they refused even to exempt tin cups
he did this how far the system intended to
things was an after thought He npted to the
PTl0 which gave the position of Mr.. Pool and his party
after Just having consultation with Mr. Pool in Raleigh.
De taxed according to its value not only land and negroes
precisely the posit0n Of Mr. P9o the position which he
has taken in the East and the position he will maintain in the
Inc pan1ot IN the same article declared it was
that The position of the Opposition merely to the
niger! In this exposure OF Mr. POOLS lodging, Gov Ellis
read only from Know Nothing newspapers.
But, continued Gov E., there is a much objection
able feature in this affair than the lodging of its advocates
and its horizontal application The operation of the
would take The burdens off the rich and put them upoI
the labor OF the State The policy of the Democratic party
had always BEEN and is to lay heavy tax Injuries
lucrative professionals and he proceeded to show how the
proposed system would work He nstanced the articles
jewely Watches Except ladies' pianos. These paid
into the treasury last year 900 This falls upon the rich
Now, said the Governor apply the Gd 0aore tax of ter
cents the sOO to this and it will produce 500
of $36 OO0-a loss these few Of 1872 400 He nex
tolls and knives, di1ks and canes, playing cards, &C.
which loss of $27 900 would be suffered Doctors anC
lawyers paid Sl2OOOall of which would be lost. Mr. Poo
says now, continued the Governor that we might continue
to tax these though he had been denouncng
days. The whole amount paid salaries fees was
OF which lawyers and doctors paid OO leaving
only little over 81 eco as the tax all other saaries
Gov Ellis saw no reason why Clerks of courts sheri
presidents of railroads. and State officers should
salary and right should DO So Coming to the tai
on foreign liquors, he said Mr. Pool had acclaimed against
the treasury for foreign liquors would be this
year, and ct Mr.. Pool was for striking that off
Gov Ellis continued to illustrate the working of this ys
tenn He showed by calculation that the whole amount to
be raised on the additional proposed to be laid young
from money lenders would amount $45 O0O He contend
ed it was war between money side and labor and
to the people, particularly the owner for all nova
BILE property could be carried off when became
Gus; but land was staonary bound by mortgage
pay the State debt AS another instance of the working
the dd Uotore system he nstanced the merchants
for the merchants of the State made the
there was to be made This would be reduced at tel
cents IN the hundred dollars, to $500-causing Of
900 than you raise on young negroes
On the illustrations he had given tax paid of s28
0OO which would be gain of money lenders banl
stock holders carriage riders and such like and which
oe ne loss OF the man whose property could not b
S because it was pledged and mortgaged for it.
Gov Ellis asked If the people ready with one dasl
OF the pen to make such change this competitor
(Mr Poop would not tax private billiard table more thai
any other property of like value Private billiard table
pay SIS They worth $500 Land of the same
value pays now but 81. Mr. Pool would tax them bot
alike. Gov f. asked there man in Cataw ba conn
prepared to sanction such system of taxation
$500 billiard able and $500 worth of land on the SAM
oohng 1t was useless to that the such
tcles small 1t did not maer-it illustrated the nrn
cipe of the proposed scheme of taxation His competto
was in favor of that principle, he Gov Es) opposed
to It, he was opposed to system which would ncreas
the burdens on labor and industry would bring down tn
tax on men who lived off bank stock and such like fourier
cents dollar they owned Foreign liquor now nav
ten cent. whilst coffee hnt