Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-06-06
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eager expect ti6n Of crowded audience and such
scast on kas perhapA never administered to the
oppcNtiQn hector - ht 4hst day received His in.
PRODUCTION 10 general politics vas eloquent lie
dealt blows hard aud heavy upon the Charleston
secederA and IN "a eloquent e0logium; upon the
bound Cabinet boz suneed for Douglas high
honors sttAe hand q Che people At This point be
was frequenq Mr.. Jordan spokeof the
racy; and be declared that no man, now living had
contributed mcrH to orr success than Judge Doug
las; quoted fop his Alton speech TO show, his
soundness on tie slavery question, and declared that
he had fought Iofe battles for the Democracy than
any Southern man living, and that he deserved at
our hands the highest rewards, urged his nomina-
ton and said justice to him required that it should
be doneby reclamation.
The speaker then passed to State interests, and
gappled at once with the monstrous proposition of
eastern men to change the Constitution and adopt
the ad calorem system Of taxation. He dashed off
in an eloquent euiogium upon the sacred compro-
misses Of the Constitnton evoked the names of Gas
ton and called his disemboie spirita witness upon
the. stand and, pointing at the opposition eector,
declared that were the fathers OF the compromises
present. they would rebuke him and his party into
silence He called upon the living to bear witness
toSths truth Of his proposition; he asked where
stood Outlaw and Rayner, whose thrilling eloquence
was heard above the din of party in the Convention
which framed the Constitutionl Scarcely twenty.
five years have rolled away, said the speaker, since
the adoption of the Constitution and few issatis
fled politicians the ossilerous remains of an eete
party are seeking to tear it into fragments and scat
ter it to the winds. The speaker Intercepted the
audience and asked them If they were prepared for
it Who asked for itl Who wanted it i? He then
went into the motive Of the opposition, and showed
that it was the want Of power which stimulated
them to action; asked what the people were to gain
by the change, and characterized the movement as
little less than moral treasonthe arraying of class
against class and instng into the masses the poison
Of hatred where our duty should be to cultivate
brotherly love, fraternity, union harmony, and all
the elements Of social strength!
The speaker then graphically went into an argu-
mentative computation to show that the rich and
the poor alike would be the losers by the proposed
change; that the taxes, under ad raloreua, would
be stricken from Injuries which would benefit the
rich, and be made up by taxing the chattles Of the
poo, their horses, buggies, cows, hogs tin cups
all all would be burdened with heavy taxation. He
reasoned that this was wrong; these we're the nee
essaries Of life, the poor mans staff He here de-
.picted, in glowing colors the utter poverty Of the
poor, and declared that to tax his bread and meat
was sin against high heaven. Mr.. Jordan said the
rch,would feel the ever knawing tooth of this new
taxation. They might feel relief, indeed from the
excess of taxation upon their silver plate and other
articles of luxury which ministered to their pride
but heavy and still heavier year after year. would
the remorseless taxgatherer thin the ranks of their
material wealth embodied in their young slaves If
none were to be benefited then why pass the mon
strous proposition! Was this the time? He allu-
ded to the approaching contest when foot to foot
and face to face, in serried ranks for the first time
in the history of this country the two great parties
stood in undsguised hostility The heart beat fast
er, and the pulse stirred quicker the mission of
each flashed upon his. soul. He asked the opposi-
tion in, tones of thunder, why give aid and comfort
to their northern allies? He apostrophized patriot
ism, and INTERCEPTED her abode. ---'
The speaker closed the effect was electric l
have not been able to do justice to Mr.. Jordan
Converts were made I learn that one of the lead
ing oppositionsts. Mr. Mills Roberts, declared that
he would 60 with his party no longer. Several 9TH
ers might name For his great effort we will long
feelindebted to Mr.. Jordan.
Allow me to say, that there is no disaffection in
our ranks in this part of the State The most of us
are opposed to ad ralorem Those in favor of it are
opposed to Mr. Pools plan.