Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-03-21

shall print large edition Of it in pamphlet form.
Copies can be obtained at 81 per hundred
Coz. Eli. and Mr.. Pool. @
The Greensborough Patriot has already COM
menced the unpatriotic and dangerous work Of ar
raging class Of our people against another. That
paper of the 10th says:
Judgment is already pronounced against John
W. Ellis-the man who has proved recreant to the
best interests of the West and who in all his feel
ings is identified with the aristocratic wing of the
Eastern Democracy"
This allusion by the Patriot to Eastern slavehol-
ders is unmstakable. The people Of the West,
where there are Shareholders than there are in
the East are told that Eastern shareholders are
aristocrats, and that Gov. Ellis, because he stands
upon the platform erected by the late Convention,
has "proved recreant" to Western interests What
must be the effect ofsuch appeals as theseY Would
any good citizen make such appeals, especially at
time like this? We tell the Patriot that it will la.
Dor in vain to excite the feelings Of the Western
people against Eastern shareholders. The Western
people know that domestic slavery is common in
terest-that if the Eastern people own more slaves
than they do, they are themselves more generally
interested in the institution than are their Eastern
brethren and that if it follows because an Eastern
man owns one hundred slaves he is aristocrat it
also follows that the Western man who owns twen-'
ty-fve fifty is, to that extent, much aristo
crat as his Eastern brother They are just such ap
peals Horace Greedy is making every day, in the
New York Tribune to the white laborers fthc North
against the shareholders Of the South In the Tri-
bune Of the 18th Mr.. Greedy, noticing Mr.. Curry's
late speech in the House, says:
"Like all men of his class, he makes the South
identical with the institution by which it is cursed
In other words, he appeals to the compassion and
sympathy of the free laborers Of the country in be-
half of the arstocratic class who oun their labor
ers"
The Greensborough Patriot of the 18th of March
makes an insdious attack on Eastern shareholders,
calling them aristocrats; the New York Tribune of
the same date characterizes slavery as course"
and speaks of the "arstocratc class in the South
who own slaves.
We leave the Patriot where it has placed Itself
that is, in company with Horace Greedy William H.
Seward, and Charles Sumner.
But Ohen or hoso has Gov. Ellis "proved recreant
to the best interests of the Westg' A Western
man himself, having served the Western people in
the Legislature and in the Executive chair he is
charged for the first time with recreancy to his own
section. The charge has no foundation in fact. All
his votes in the Legislature and all his acts Gov
ernor give the lie to the charge. He was the fast
friend of the N. G. Railroad which goes by the door
of the Patriot. and which has contributed so much
to improve Guilford and the regions beyond while
John Pool was doing all he could to thwart and Grip
pie it. Largely through his efforts, and the efforts
of the great State party whose candidate he is the
mountain or tunnel division of the Western Exten-
sion has been placed under contract; that tunnel
which Gen. Dockery, the Patriots candidate for
Governor in 1856 promised to bore, and which he
refused to bore in 1867, John Pool as member
of the Senate standing by and saying, we'll done
and will produce them in due time. The truth is
John w. Ellis, if he were capable of such bad faith
as Gen. Dockery exhibited in the Senate in 1856,
could "prove recreant to onehalf the great inter-
ests of Western Carolina, and then show more real
evidences of devotion to that portion of the State
! that John Pool has ever shown or ever will show.
The difference between Gen. Dockery, the Patriots
candidate in 1856, and Mr.. Pool, the Patriots can
didate in 1860, is about this: Gen. Dockery prom
ised and did not perform; Mr.. Pool has never even
promised as far as Western interests are concerned
All Mr. Pools votes in the Legislature, as far W.
have been able to examine Them prove that he acted
in that body as if there were Western interests
He voted with Gen. Dockery to cripple the Western
Extension-he voted against the tunnel, which
the Democratic party with the aid of Gov Ellis
now engaged in boring; he also voted against thu
Fayetteville Coalfelds Road and he then dodgeG
the vote on the revenue bill to raise money to pay
for improvements and without the passage of which
the State would have been driven to reputation
He did this, too, without hesitation and most un
gratefully. Yes, most ungratefully; for in 1867
though he voted to defeat the Western Extension
yet Messrs. Thomas and Coleman, Of the West at
terwards voted for the appropriation for the Abe
marie and Chesapeake Canal, . measure to bene6
his own constituents; and though in 1859 he op
posed every effort to obtain appropriation for thu
Fayetteville Coalfields Road, yet Maj Gilmore, thu
Senator from Cumberland and Harnett voted, q
Messrs. Thomas and Coleman had done at the pre-
vous session, for the Albermarle and Chesapeake
Canal He also voted 10 1856 against the bill t.
establish the new County Of Allegheny and MOI
content with voting, SO Indifferent was he to West
rn interests that he moved on one occasion to post
pone the bill indefinitely. And this is the champion
Of Western interestsi Gov. Ellis has "proved re
creant" to the West; but John Pool, who has new
pr treated the Western people with common justice
much less generosity, is all at once their friend ant
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