Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-06-27
$4,000

This amount the Governor showed would have to
be made up by taxing other species of property not
now taxed, and principally found in the hands of
the poor and the laboring classes of the State and
which upon investigation will be found at the rates
Of ten cents on the one hundred dollars valuation,
will require that every mans farming tools, house.
hold and kitchen furniture, crops, stock and every
thing else will have to be taxed.
He believed in the doctrine of General Jackson
and others of the ustrous fathers of the Republic
who have given to their country their views upon
tax bill. They had laid it down as principle of
equality and justice that if determinations were to
be made, they should always be made in favor of
the poor Mr.. POOLS system was at war with this
principle. 1t was efort-a cunningly devised
trick Of the Opposition to throw the burdens of the
State from the shoulders of the rich upon the poor
They did not propose to remove the poll tax from
thJa;o man, but TO lay tax upon his crops his
wagns, horse, his farming tools and his stock gen.
orally; and this too for the relief of the capitalist
and the man of luxury.
III thought it a strange circumstance for his COM
pettor to endeavor to make votes by creating pre-
udce in the minds of the non-saveholder and slave
holder. He had supposed in this country all were
equal and all interests were common. II his COM
petitor succeeded it would certainly to that extent
weaken the institution of slavery and strengthen
our enemies at the North.
He thought it circumstance passingly strange
IHdt fOOl COuiu udfe SuCL uUly uOTEOT Ol tuc
present revenue law when he becomes candidate
for political promotion after having set for two
cessve Legislatures and heard the question discussed
and as many as five different bills proposed to
change the Constitution that particular and
once made suggestion or opened his mouth, ex-
cept only to say no upon the passage of each. He
could not understand how it was that Mr.. Pool, en-
tertaining the views he now pretends, could keep
his seat for two successive sessions and move
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able features, which he afirms, bear SO hard upon
the poor working classes.
He charged his competitor, as politician and as
legislator of extreme selishness in that he inva-
riably voted for beneficial to his own Sec
tion and against such for the interest of the
West He pointed to his opposition to the creation
of Allegheny county; to his vote against the appro
priation to the Western Extension and to the Will
mington and Rutherford Railroad.
Here Mr. Pool interrupted him, arose and denied
his statements The Governor offered as evidence
to sustain his position the following extract of the
letter of Mr. Jordan which appeared in our last is
sue:
ITO the first nterrogatory answer: Mr. Pool
aca, and undertake to say, still is the uncomprom-
Using foe of Western Extension, and in the canvass
alluded to, bitterly opposed my election upon the
ground that had voted for the Western Extension
Of the N C. Railroad, Allegheny county, and other
measures which had for their object the develop
ment of the of the State and particularly
those measures which had in view the Improvement
of the mountain region. He declared time and again
on the stump that he would never support if elect
ed, any measure which in its nature would benefit
the mountain region of this State, which required
af, appropriation of the public monies. He also ur-
ged that the West exorbtant in her demands and
rdicued the idea that any in the Eastern section
should so far forget his own home to vote for q
Western measure; and / may add, his Eastern
friends now glory in the fact that he voted for
any measure to benefit the West which required an
appropriation of one cent on public monies"
In reply to this Mr. Pool proceeded to denounee
Mr. Jordan as an Infamous liar and scoundrel, ;"
and called upon Governor Ellis to say whether or
not he would defend his character
The Governor stated emphatically that he would :;
that he supposed Mr.. Jordan like other men had his
enemies; that he had gone into the neghborhoOd of
Mr.. Jordan and Mr.. Pool; that he had heard both
the gentlemen spoken evily Of; that he had found
them both prominent members of the bar; and that
he had paid attention to evil reports concerning
either of them
Mr. Pool made the point that he did not oppose
Mr. Jordan, when candidate for the Legislature,
upon the ground that he had voted for Western i'm.
provements, but because Mr.. Jordan was pledged to
his constituents to vote against them, and with the
hope of being elected Judge, he had violated his
pledges 1t was to show that he was untrustwor.
thy that his votes upon the railroad we're brought
into the Canvass.
Governor Ellis replied that he had other evidence
besides the letter of Mr. Jordan to prove the truth
Of what he had said, and referred to the Journal oi
the Legislature to sustain the fact. Here after q
few random shots in reply the discussion closed.
| The Democracy were cheered at the triumph o
their standard-bearer on the OCCASION Forsyth will
do her whole duty in giving him at least one hun
dred majority in the county.