The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-07-24
For the standard.
Mone.SroN, N. C., July 14th, 1855.

met in which is an editorial under the cap
+;on Messrs. Eaton and Ferebee" In "incn,
among other things, is contained the follow
ino to wit: "There is an uDproyoked at
tack made upon the above gentlemen IN tne
last issue of the Radical organ of this city
r. r Caldwell, Esq, the Holden appolntee
to the Presidency of the Western n. c. X. X.
is now, after nearly twelve months trlal;
called by the Radical organ the able ana
indefati9able President of the North-Caro-
lima Railroad Fortunately for the State ne
was not made President of the Nortl-Caro-
lima Railroad. That great interest, we are
GLAD to say has not been so badiy ihahase1'
nor so nearly bankrupted as the eS'ein ~
c.. Railroad" o-,,o,,,, IN
No better evidence of Mr.. Caldwelis IN
capacity to manage Railroad need be re-
ouired than that after Il years experience
he seeks to borrow only 1000 for the hall-
road and fails What does he want IL 1or,
except to pay balances due himself and otner
officers and employees OF the road, ana whicn
the bad management of the road renders II
unable to pay? Now we say this not IN any
spirit of unkindness, personally or politically,
to Mr.. Caldwell, but simply to state what we
learn to be the facts, andto justify the course
pursued by Messrs. Eaton and Ferebee, VINO
have been held up to the Western people as
inimical to their interests.
1--WE saw that Mr. Caldwell wanted only
$50 600 and the credit of his Road was not
sufficient to obtain it in New York He
then comes to the Convention. in which his
peculiar partizan friends predominated, and
Of whom he is reputed to be leader, and
after a thirty days session, finding his pro-
position to be rather ignored, 1t Is put on
fill the last hour of the session, when there
were not fifty of the one hundred and twenty
members present and he proposes then to be
allowed to borrow 900 upon the credit
and faith of the State. MeSsrS. Ferebee and
Eaton very justly opposed the proposition;
Whyl Was it because they were opposed
to Western interests The charge Is made
by those who know better
Who arc the authors of the foregoing e1-
tracts from the editorial columns of the
Sentinel of the Srd of July. 1866 Why of
course the Editors. Rev. William E Peli and
Seaton Gales. Esq, are Who are " Iiilam
E. PeI and Seaton Gales The former is a
man who processes to De minister OF the
Gospel who Is Commanded by the Holy
Scriptures, which he has set himself up TO
teach. Snot to bear false witness" The
latter is co-editor of the Sentinel, and Is the
same individual. who sometime during the
summer of 1865 was so intensely loyal 10 the
Q. S. Government. that he would not walk
down Fayetteville Street in Raleigh, because
the flag of his country was waving over II.
and he was not willing to disgrace himself
by passing under its shadow, - He Is the
same individual too, who was principal clerk
of the last House of Commons, and by whose
negligence, or something worse, this very
proposition to borrow money failed to become
q law; and who now. together with his
Reverend pious co-labourer, has the eHront-
cry in order to cover up his own short-com-
ings and delinquency, TO endeavour to stig-
Matte one who has never given them cause
of offence. would most respectfully inquire
of the junior partner, II the blush OF shame
did not burn his cheek, while he was assist
ing in the concoction of this hbellous
article2
after nearly a years experience Mr..
Caldwell seeks to borrow only $4,000 and
fails" Now Reverend Father Pell and most
loyal Gales, did not each one of you know
that YOU insinuated falsehood, if you did
not tell one outright, when you penned this
sentences Did 1 wait till l had nearly a
years exper ence'' before 1 sought to borrow
the $50,000l Does not Mr.. Gales know,
that at the last session of the General Assem-
bly, a bill, in the exact words of the ordinance
which offered in the Convention. was into
duced in the Senate2 Does he not know
that l, myself, drew up that bill Does he
not know that l remained in Raleigh while
said bill was pending in the Senate, and used
what influence l could to ensure its passage;
that it did pass that body by handsome
majority, the yeas and nays being called, and
that his friend, warm advocate of Western
interests, Col. d. d. Ferebee, who was a
member of the Senate and present in his seat
at the time, did not vote for the proposition 7
Does he not know, that the bill was en-
crossed and examined in the Senate on the
23rd day of FEBRUARY, 1866, and On the next |
day sent to the House of Commons, of which /!
he himself was Chief Clerk, and passed its |
first reading? Does he not know. that on !
the 3rd day of March, 1866, it was referred to /
the committee of internal Improvements. who /
it with favourable report on the /
9th day of March? Does he not know, that !
on the 7th day of March it passed its End |
and 3rd readings by large majority So |
unanimous were all for it. that the yeas and /
nays were not even demanded. Does he not ;
know, that said bill was ordered to be en- /
rolled Does he not know that it was the !
Chief Clerks duty to hand the hill to the !
enrolling Clerk for enrolementl Does he |
not know, that this duty was not performed
Does he know and will he be kind enough |
to tell, why it was not perforrnedl Was it |
because it was for the benefit of Western |
enterprise which lay so near Col. Ferebee's /
heart Or was it because an individual was |
President of the road, who was opposed to |!
and who did not feel himself de- !
graded by walking along public street in |!
Ralelgh, where the flag bearing the Stars |
and Stripes" WASH uttering to the breeze 3 |
Does he not know, in a word. that if the !
Chief Clerk had discharged his duty that |
bill would have become a law of the land, |
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 un-
kindness. personally or politically, to Mr.
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
!mical to their interests" Oh shame, where |
is thy blush Oh, Rev. Father Pell, where |
is thy piety, where is thy religion9 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
man. Do you expect to deceive your God, |
with the fimsy devices you are using to de-
celye your fellow mortals2 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 deceitfnI |
soul You well knew that did not wait !
nearly year" before exerted mvseif to |