Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-06-21
From the Western Sentinel
The Discussion at Winston

The gubeFnatorial candidates. agreeable to appoint.
ment, visited our town edneslay the l3h instant
Both of the gentlemen in good health and looking
we'll Both seemed enthusiastic and to all appearances
hopeful of success MIR. Pool opened the discussion
He said that it the first time he had been permitted
to visit this portion of the State He was comparatively
stranger. tie appeared a candidate to fill the high
est office in the State. 1t had been the custom of him.
self and the Governor discuss the question of taxation
in connection with the Charleston Convention but as
that Convention had failed to nominate candidate for
the Presidency and he had no idea that the Balt
Convention would do between this and August
next, he would leave out entirely that idea. He
said he differed with the Governor upon the great
principle of equal taxation He was in favor OF taxing
all property OF every species according to its value
That had been the position he had taken in the East
and he would maintain it 10 the West. He said that
there was OdOus and unjust restriction embraced in
the Constitution of the State prohibiting the Legisla
tuIe from taxing negroes in the same proportion as
Bank Stock, Dividends Merchandze and other sources
OF revenue This restriction he proposed to remove by
calling together Convention of the people to alter the
Constitution. He argued in support of his proposition
that the slave interest OF the State was one peculiarly
favored; and that it outrage ousy unjust for this
system to be continued. The whole burden of his
speech amounted to effort to array the preiudcef
OF the non-slaveholding against the saveholdinp
portion of the community He said that the time NIGH
come when the hordes of the Abotionsts and fanatics
of the North would stand In battle array against the
South when Southern men might be called to defenG
their hearthstones and their property when fraterna
blood would be shed and the country precptated into
desperate In this hour, he told the people, thai
the shareholders of the State would not be able to mus
ter above twenty thousand to protect their proper
y that it would have to be done by the poor-the non
slavehollng portion of the community who could rais
at least eighty thousand soldiers 1t was about slay
property that the country disturbed so much anl
1t was unjust that this species of property should no
bear Its equal proportion of the burdens of taxation
He said that the Democratic party had ever made tn
negro question subservient to their ends That whel
Mr. Fillmore was before the people, four years ago. as
candidate for the Presidency-a man who he regarde,
as being pure and spotess the rven snow the Demo
Gratis said that to vote for him to aid the Black Re
publlcans. That when the old Wing party wanted t,
establish protective tariff the Democrats said that
would work to the injury of the institution of slavery
He attempted to defend himself for having sat as re
sponsble member of the Assembly for two successive
sessions when the question of the revenue was mooted
when propositions to adopt the ad valorem system
made and discussed and never once opened his ou
IN favor OF IT. but when the question was put deliberately
III every instance recorded his vote against it. He
up his speech by telling the people that he was as good
w mig as ever lived. That no man need vote for him
supposng that he was anything else but Wing H
was an American he belonged to the Know Nothus
tonal ODlon party that had nominated Bell and Ever
EFT, and that had for its platform, The Constitution
and the Union of the States"
Gov Ellis In reply, and said that he most cor
daily united In the sentiment which his competitor ba
OF gratitude to the people for so large a
assemolage coming up even from different counties
hear them discuss the issues involved in the
lie appeared also candidate to fill the Office anot6e
term OF Ohief Executive Of the State. To the peopl