Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-05-30
Mr.. POOLS Professions of Devotion to the West
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Mr.. POOLS Professions Of Devotion to the West
thoroughly Exposed.
The following letter from the Hon. ]. P. Jordan,
of Perquimans thoroughly exposes Mr.. Pools re.
cent declarations of devotion to Western interests.
Read it and then hand it to your neighbors. Mr..
Jordan shows what Mr. Pool said when he had no
idea of being run for Governor. Then he thought
only of his own section, and was hostile to the West
now, when he wants Western votes, he is loud in
his professions Off regard for the West Let the peo
pie of the West beware of such friends
WAYNEsvnLE, Haywood Co., N C,l
May 10, 1860.
Editor of the Standard:
SIR: Enclosed send you a copy of letter which
received few days since from the Hon. j. Parker
Jordan, and it contains facts which. in my Judgment
every patriot and genuine North. Carolinan shosld
know before casting his uote in this approaching GU
bernatorial election. We ought to know the views
of candidates upon all questions affecting the honor
and welfare of our good old State before we vote as
duty requires.
Gov. Ellis's record presume is familiar to every
voter in the State, and shows him to be statesmen
of enlarged views who regards the citizen of Cher
okee as much his brother as the citizen of Curri-
tuck; and whilst member of the Legislature, so
acted and so roted upon all questions which came
before him. to leave no Just cause for doubt upon
the mind of any person that he regarded any one
portion Of the State with more favor than another,
but acted with eye single to the advancement Of
the interest Of the whole State.
1t appears, however, that Mr.. Pool is not so for
tunate in having sound and liberal record and in
addition to that he will find that the positions which
he took in the campaign between himself and Mr..
Jordan, for a seat i'm the State Senate will not be
received by the liberal and conservative of the
mountains, as he might imagine. We cannot at
tach-no people ought to attach much importance TO
a mans professions, whose whole life, both public
and private, is at war with them. He will also find
when he comes among us, that at this peculiar juno
ture of public affairs there will be but few who will
join him in his efforts to spread the flames of sec
tional strife and discord which, unhappily, for the
State and her cherished interests, have already
spread too wide.
We ought to be of one mind as our interest as
citizens of the State is the same, knowing no East,
no West but one common country. Wonder if Mr..
Pool thinks if Convention should be called no
move would be made to change the basis of repre-.
sentation both in the Senate and House Of Com.
mons, and to fix in the fundamental law the princi-
pie that hereafter the school fund should be dis
tributed according to the number Of white children,
as well as to give the Legislature the power to tax
slaves as property If he does not, then he has
most wofuy mistaken the character of the people
of the State.
In fact some of his followers here in the noun
tains are already advocating his Convention propo-
sition with view of effecting these changes; and
as an inducement to the freemen Of the mountains
to swallow, they propose to take all the tax off the
white poll, and place 1t on the negroes of the East
We think this all wrong, and are willing to let
we'll enough alone, and arc opposed to creating sec
tions feuds and controversies, and are in favor of
preserving and handing down our latest posterity
unaltered and untouched the Constitutions with
each and all the compromises of 1885, as we re-
ceve1 them from our fathers.
Hoping that you will, for the benefit of the cause
publish Mr.. Jordan's letter, / subscribe myself,
Your friend,