Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-03-21
Coy. Ellis and MIR. Pool.

Gov. Ellis and Mr.. Pool.
The Greensborough Patriot has already COM
menced the unpatriotic and dangerous work of ar
rayng one class of our people against another That
paper of the 10th says:
Judgment is already pronounced against John
". Ellis-the man who has proved recreant to the
best interests of the West, and who in all his feel
ngS is identified with the aristocratc wing of the
Eastern Democracy"
This allusion by the Patriot to Eastern slavehol-
ders is unmistakabe. The people of the West,
where there are more 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 these ? Would
any good citizen make such appeals, especially at a
time like this We tell the Patriot that it will Ia
Dor in vain to excite the feelings of the Western
people against Eastern shareholders. The Western
people know that domestic slavery is a 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 an aristocrat it
also follows that the Western man who owns twen-
tyfve or fifty, is to that extent much aristo
Graf as his Eastern brother. They just such ap
peals as Horace Greedy is making every day, in the
New York Tribune to the white laborers the North
against the shareholders of the South. In the Tri
bune Of the 10th Mr.. Greedy, noticing Mr.. Curry's
late speech in the House, says:
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-
halt of the drst0crdtic class sehO o,cn their labor
ers"
The Greensborough Patriot of the 10th of March
makes an nsidious attack on Eastern Shareholders
calling them aristocrats; the New York Tribune of
the same date characterizes slavery as a "curse,"
and speaks of the "arstocratic class in the South
who own slaves.
We leave the Patriot where it has placed itself
that is, in company with Horace Greedy, William e.
Seward, and Charles Sumner.
But rhen or hOW has Gov. Ellis "proyed 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 as Gov
ernOr give the lie to the charge He was the fast
friend of the n c. 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 doing all he could to thwart and Grip
pleit 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-
SIGN 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
fthe Senate standing by and saying, well done
Dockery! We have the proofs of this in the Journal
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
eSS 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 1885, and Mr.. Pool, the Patriots can
uldate in 1860, is about this Gen. Dockery prom.
Sed 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 as we
nave been able to examine Them prove that he acted
IN that body as if there were no Western interests
heVoted with Gen. Dockery to cripple the Western
hStensiOn-he voted against the tunnel which
@e Democratic party with the aid of Gov Ellis, are
now engaged in boring; he also voted against the
fayetteville Coalfelds Road and he then dodgeO
.e vote on the revenue bill to raise money to pay
iOr improvements, and without the passage of which
.ne State would have been driven to reputation
lie did this too, without hesitation and most un
gratefully. Yes, most ungratefully for in 1856
NiOush he voted to defeat the Western Extension
yet Aessrs Thomas and Coleman, of the West at
"'eards voted for the appropriation for the Abe
~ 4Srie and Chesapeake Canal, measure to benef
1N own constituents and though in 1852 he op
P'Sa every effort to obtain appropriation for thu
c!etteVille Coalfelds Road, yet Maj. Gilmore, tn
"a'or from Cumberland and Harnett, voted, a
'SSfs Thomas and Coleman had done at the pre-
us session, for the Albermarle and Chesapeake
"a"s. He also voted in 1867 against the bill t.
s~onsh the new County of Allegheny ; and no
0".eht with voting so Indifferent was he to West
interests, that he moved on one occasion to post
rue the bill indefinitely. And this is the champion
western interestsl Gov Ellis has proved re
@"' to the West; but John Pool, who has nev
Neated the Western people with common justice
champion - ~ " '