The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-06-05

in looking back upon my record unsustained as L
have been at home even by many OF my own
party. I feel proud that lent my feeble aid to
accomplish this purpose; and hold the man who
takes the narrow, selfish view that because he may
live in Pasquotank, which has facilities OF export,
Cherokee or Haywood has no interests In common
with the county which gave him birth, is unde-
serving the support of people whose interests he
has tra:npled, and whose cause he has dispised.-
To unite and bind together, in bonds of fraternal
peace. the discordant elements of State, and
foster system which shall make commerce the
handmade of agriculture, protecting alike the IN
terests of ALL crushing out, by broad national
platform, sectional prejudces and sectional feel
ing making the inhabitants of the extreme East
feel proud that the hardy of the mountains
are their brothers, having the same interest in the
prosperity of the State and in the success of her
cause, ought to be the aim of every member of
our political community; but that man, be he who
he may who seeks to array section against section,
and Cato1ne-like, arrays class against GLASS; pand
erng to preiudices, which unhappily too widely
exists, deserves not to be cherished among those
who have lived for their country's good.
But YOU further ask: "In the event Of Mr.
Pools election, would he be likely to cooperate
in good faith, in developing the resources Of the
State and particularly in expediting the compile
ton of the Western extensionT
l answer: If his past life, political, is an index
of his future an earnest of what be will do, then
it is clear that unless he violates every pledge he
has given every speech he has made, and gives to
every act of his life unqualified contradiction,
he cannot support and sustain any measure which
may look to the prosperity of the State, and which
may require the fostering hand of material aid.
But the interrogatOry suggests rather than puts
the question, can you rely upon his promises-of
course mean politically? answer, let the record
speak If Mr. Pool could sit in the Legislature
two successive sessions, and hear the question dis
cusseG upon five different bills to reform the Con-
stitutiOn, and strike out of its fundamental
principles, and not offer suggestion, not open
his mouth for or against except to say no upon
the passage Of each; and further, if he could thus
keep his seat for two successive sessions and never
move to amend the tax bills in those particulars
which now seem so Objectionable, and which
bears, as he now afirms, hard upon the poor
working classes; if he then felt not fer the one,
nor advocated the other, what confidence, | submit
to you can be placed in promises, which his vault
ing ambition conjures up only at the moment
when the splendors of gubernatorial Office loom
up in the distance?
| need hardly tell you that that man is scarcely
to be trusted, whose practices are at war with his
professions, and who seeks by ndrection, not by
a manly, consistent course, the accomplishment of
scheme which must necessarily create social
feud, which divides people contented and happy,
and which seeks to pull down the very pillows of
constitutional security
Yours respectfully,
j. PARKER JORDAN