The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-07-25

nays were not even demanded. Does ne not
know. that said bill was ordered to be en-
rolled Does he not know, that 1t was the
Chief Clerks duty to hand the bill to the
enrolling Clerk for enrolement? Does ne
not know, that this duty was not performed
Does he know and will he be kind enough
to tell. why it was not performed Was 1t
because it was for the benefit of a Western
enterprise which lay so near Col. FereDees
heart +? Or was it because an individual was
President of the road, who was opposed to
secession and who did net feel himself de-
graded by walking along public street IN
Raleigh, where the flag bearing the "Stars
and Stripes WASH uttering to the breeze =
Does he not know, in word. that II the
Chief Clerk had discharged his duty that
bill would have become law OF the lana,
by Legislative enactment, and that there
would have been no need of troubling the
Convention with it
"Now we say this not in any spirit OF I'M
kindness, personally or politically, to MIR.
Caldwell. but simply to state what we learn
to be facts and to justify the course pursued
by Messrs. Eaton and Ferebee, who have
been held up to the Western people as in
imical to their interests" Oh shame, where
is thy blush Oh, Rev. Father Pell, where
is thy piety, where is thy religionY Why
mock thy Creator by going into His holy
temple on the blessed Sabbath day, and with
long face and sanctimonious looks make pre-
tence of worshipping Him, while in thy heart
thou art meditating ISLANDERS upon thy fellow
man9 Do you expect to deceive your God,
with the fimsy devices you are using to de-
ceive your fellow mortals? Don't you know,
that He can pierce through the veil with
which you seek to envelope yourself, and
look into the inmost recesses of your deceitful
soul? You well knew that did not wait
"nearly year" before exerted myself to
extricate the Western N. G.. R. Road from
the almost helpless condition, into which it
had been sunk before it passed into my
hands. Why then not tell the truth about
it, if you have any thing to say? You knew
that Col Ferebee did not vote for this relief
of the Western N. G. Railroad, in which our
Western people are so deeply, so vitality in
terested, when it was before him as Senator.
You were obliged to know it, for the Journals
shows the fact, and you printed the journals.
Yet now you pretend to give as an excuse
for his opposition to it, in the Convention,
that it was put off to the last hour OF the
session, when there were not fifty of the one
hundred and twenty members present.
Suppose that to be justification for his ac-
ton in the Convention, how do you account
for his conduct in the Senate? Pray do en-
tighten us on that point. You, hypocrite,
you know the falsity of your insinuations.-
You know that the ordinance was introduced,
when the Convention was as full as it gen.
orally was during the ternl-that it passed
its first and second readings, when there were
ninety or one hundred delegates present;
that several days before the adjournment,
made two or three Intellectual efforts to have
it placed upon its final passage-that DIR.
Grissom of Granville County, who lives
nearly as far East as Mr.. Eaton, and who
am pleased to say is much better friend to
the West than either Mr. Eaton or Col. Fere-
bee, also made an effort to get my ordinance
upon its third reading. If 1 am not
much mistaken, Gen. Patterson, of Caldwell
County, also exerted himself, and in fact
nearly all the Western delegates did what
they could by their votes to forward its final
passage, but Col. Ferebee and Mr.. Eaton,
whom Mr.. Pell and Mr.. Gales would have
the people believe are such good friends to
the West, and whom they have 50 graciously
volunteered to defend, thwarted all our
efforts, and the Western N. C. Railroad has
been left to languish and perhaps to die, be-
cause in the first place the chief clerk of the
House of Commons failed to do his duty r;
| and because, in the second place, the Western
N. C. Railroad happens not to run through
Camden or Warren Counties and therefore
could not enlist the sympathies of Col Fere-
bee or Mr. Eaton, but on the contrary invited
their opposition, no doubt partly on account
of the section of the State in which it is
located. Now if these two gentlemen, Col.
Ferebee and Mr.. Eaton, are such valiant
friends of Western North Carolina as the
Rev. Mr. Pell and Mr.. Seaton Gales would
have us believe, why, would most respect
fully enquire did they vote in the late Con-
vention against the proposition to apportion
the representation in the House OF Commons
according to the white populations Did
they vote against allowing the Counties of
Clay, Pennsylvania, Madison, Mitchell, Polk
and Allegheny to have each member of the
House of Commons until 1872, because they
were so favorably inclined and SO full OF love
for the West? This question of representa-
ton was not postponed till the last hour OF
the session, when there were not more than
| fifty of the one hundred and twenty mem
bers present" Oh fe, Father Pell Why
persist in face of facts so easily established,
in trying to palm off either Col. Ferebee OF
| Mr.. Eaton as friends to the West2 "Tis
| Loves labor lost" You cannot humbug us
in that style. The people of the West will
! never vote for either of these pets of yours
| for Lieutenant Governor or for any Other
office. You well know that neither of these
| gentlemen are friendly disposed to the West
and it certainly is not right for preacher Of
the Gospel to attempt to make Others believe
what he does not believe himself
Fortunately for the State, he QMr. Cald
welD was not made President of the North
Carolina Railroad. That great interest W.
are glad to say, has not been SO badly man
aged, nor so nearly bankrupted as the West
ern N. c. Railroad" Now, gentlemen, it i:
very easy matter to make very grave
charge; but. when it is made, especially by
man in sacerdotal robes, the one preferrins
the accusation ought at least to have tb'
| proofs at hand to sustain his allegation
Here you make the charge that the Western
N. G. Railroad is nearly bankrupt, and in
sinuate broadly that this is owing to the BAG
management of the present President de
ny the allegation, and assert, on the contra
ry, that the road with its fixtures, rolling
stock, &c. &C., is worthmere than two million
-of dollars over and above its debts. Nov
march up to the point you have made, ant
make good your idle Observation-Disclosures
the fact you have asserted, and your conclu
sion drawn from your false premises.
challenge you to do SO. Have an impair
tial committee appointed to investigate til
charge, if you dare. All ask is that hon
est, upright men be appointed. Is the Roat
bankrupt THAT is the question. If it is