The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-07-25
For the Standard.
MoReANToN, N. c., July 14th, 1866.
MEssRs. PELL 6 GALES, Editors Of Sentinel


MEssRs. PELL 6 GALES, Editors Of Sentinel:
GENTLEMEN A friend has just called my
attention to the Weekly Sentinel OF the 3rd
inst. in which is an editorial under the cap
ton :" Messrs Eaton and Ferebee" in which,
among other things, is contained the follow
ing, to wit: "There is an unprovoked at
tack made upon the above gentlemen in the
last issue of the Radical organ of this CITY,
T. r. Caldwell, ESQ.,, the Holden appointee
to the Presidency of the Western N. G. r. r.
is now, after nearly twelve months trial,
called by the Radical organ : the able and
indefatigable President of the North Caro-
lima Railroad Fortunately for the State he
was not made President of the NOrth-Caro
lima Railroad. That great interest, we are
glad to say has not been so badly managed
nor so nearly bankrupted as the Western N.
c. Railroad"
"No better evidence of Mr.. Caldwells in
capacity to manage Railroad need be re-
quired, than that, after years experience,
he seeks to borrow only $4,000 for the Rail-
road and fails What does he want it for,
except to pay balances due himself and other
officers and employees of the road, and which
the bad management of the road renders it
unable to pay9 Now we say this not in any
spirit of unkindness, personally or politically,
to Mr. Caldwell, but simply to state whatwe
learn to be the facts, and to justify the course
pursued by Messrs. Eaton and Ferebee, who
have been held up to the Western people as
inimical to their interests"
We say that Mr. Caldwell wanted only
$4,000 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 predetermined, and
of whom he is reputed to be leader, and
after thirty days session, finding his pro-
position to be rather ignored, it is put off
till 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 $4,000 upon the credit
and faith of the State. Messrs. Ferebee and
Eaton very justly opposed the proposition.
Why9 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 ex-
tracts from the editorial columns of the
Sentinel of the 3rd of July, 1862 Why of
course the Editors, Rev. iliiam E. Pell and
Seaton Gales, ESQ.,, are. Who are William
E. Pell and Seaton Gales The former is
man who processes to be minister of the
Gospel, who is commanded by the Holy
Scriptures, which he has set himself up to
teach, mot to bear false witness" The
latter is a co-editor of the Sentinel, and is the
same individual, who sometime during the
summer Of 1865 was so intensely loyal to the
q. s. Government, that he would not walk
down Fayetteville Street in Raleigh, because
the flag of his country was waving over it,
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 effront-
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, if the blush of shame
did not burn his cheek, while he was assist
ing in the connection of this libellous
article2
After nearly years experience MIR.
Caldwell seeks to borrow only $4,000 and
TAILS" 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 / wait till had :" nearly a
years experience" before sought to borrow
the $50,00O9 Does not Mr.. Gales know.
that at the last session of the General Assem-.
bly,, bill, in the exact words of the ordinance
which offered in the Convention. was intlo-
duced in the Senate2 Does he not know
tlat /, myself, drew up that bill2 Does he
not know that / remained in Raleigh while
said bill was pending in the Senate, and usec
what influence I could to ensure its passage
that it did pass that body by handsom,
majority, the yeas and nays being called, and
that his friend, warm advocate of Western
interests, Col. D. D. Ferebee, who was ,
member of the Senate and present in his sea
at the time, did not vote for the proposition
Does he not know, that the bill was en-
crossed and examined in the Senate on th
23rd day of FEBRUARY, 1868, and on the mex
day sent to the House of Commons, of whicl
ne himself was Chief Clerk, and passed it
first readings Does he not know, that o,
the rdday Of March, 1865, it was referred t
the committee of Internal Improvements. VIII
returned it with favourable report on III
9th day of March2 Does he not know tina
on the 18th day Of March it passed its sn