Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-03-22
From the Rala;oL

s<s- T,alL about 81 ,.a,o FROM the Raleigh Pres,
calculated 10 Cypress tne poor as this humbug and
expect to demonstrate the fact in future aud We
Raleigh Pro-.
You had better commence your numbers With .t Ss
ticle 10 favor Of ad CdLoYem which you wroto ne ar
Live Girafe.-Ral. Register -. 10 The
Our neighbor of the Register shall be accomuo,
provided be will commence his advocacy of nd "o1
with the following extract which we Gin from o~ore
rial columns of the Raleigh Register, published edtO
2lst day of January, 1861 just one month hafOn the
meeting of the Opposition Convention which oS the
ad udlorena and made convert of our neiehhosu opd
italics are our own: lhe
The words at this time in the Standard.
graph have double significance, as they refer para
past, when the editor in favor of Gd rolor tne
the future when he will be- But why not now T and
not at this time I? Simply because the STANDARD why
that the Abolitionists aOoud make capital out of HuOsS
cussion achtch the ad Ualorem proposition aro,d u.s.
and If they could do at any time If Is nm .
ent to show that as long as the products of so,s !.
co" Stthe the principal sCealh of North Gqronn uo
proposition should not be brought up an the Sota lie
Yes neighbor, we are willing to reprint orr o..
of 1858, written nearly two years ago, and wbon e
Harpers Ferry raid had distracted Southern oo 10
try upon the question of slavery but what can sO
noaD, to controvert argument so forcibe and tr
the paragraph quoted above, written by uourssIf
two short months ago? Ouy
Two mO0LnS ago, Tue heglSteT aulrmed that Al
Aboitionsts would make capital out of the dscnssu
which the ad valorem proposition would excite :" snS
yet strange to TELL the Register is to-day DISCUSSING on
favorng ad vaore which, according to its own tea u
ings, Twill make capital tor Abolitionsts?" No. =;
that all. The Register give no excuse for itq ,
ent position upon this question: for in the same nss
graph, quoted above, the editor took position Not
clinched the nail firmly, be can't draw it out noU
when he pleases Hear him: ~"
"lf they, 1.-THE Abotionists) could do so now Or q,
any time ii. e. make capital out of the discussion ~
ad vaiorem.-ED. PREss) it is an argument to sboU,
that long the products of slave labor copstitno
the principal wealth of North Carolina the proposton
should not be brought up in the State.'
That is what the Register said only one month bef,
the meeting of the Opposition Convention, before tbo
editor brought to the confessional by cousin Sar
billiard and received the judgment of the court from
Judge Badger Before the Convention, it said the dis
cusson of ad Ualorem would make capital for the Aho
tlonists, now and not content with that the Reois
went still farther, and declared that so long as the nro
ducts OF slave labor constituted the principal wealth
North Carolina, the proposition should not be brougb
up in the State.
Has our neigbbor changed bis opinion or is he en-
gaged-against his will, of course in making capita
for the Aboitonists, knowing at the time that be
doing what he should not do long the products
slave labor constitute the principal wealth of Nor
Carolina?
Reconcile this little matter neighbor, before you IN
derake to taunt us for avoring ad gaiore two wear
ago. Ii you can turn somersaut in one month it
not astonishing that should cary little in two years
he planets do that, In their revolutions but no othe
save John Pool has ever turned so complete some,
saut as has oar neghbor Syme, upon this question
Gd UGtOrem.