The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-07-12

4 GUAR cases tor comparison. 1have Deem fa
more general. But to put the matter beyond
doubt, beg to submit that the white popu
lation of the east is almost two-thirds that o
the west, while the aggregate stipulation il
about equal, Giving to the west the centra
counties, each white person in the east pay
about $3.50 to the head, in the west about
IS cents. Dividing the aggregate taxation
OF the east by the aggregate population, it il
discovered that each white person, negro
mulatto and quadroon in the east pays more
! tathe support of the government than each
white person in the west. And yet it is
seriously proposed here to exclude the whole
colored race from representation, not only
depriving the east of the representative ben
efts to be derived from one-third of her pop
ulation, but also depriving her OF all repre-
sentation for her taxation. To consummate
such measure would violate every princi.
pie of Justice.
We have been cited, Mr.. President, to the
example of other States. Does my friend
from Lincoln desire to follow their example
Would he exchange the Old North State to-
| day, the general contentment and happiness
of her people, their public and private vir-
tues, for any one of them in her wealth and
prosperity? Can he, looking to his poster
ity, ask fo- them any better fate than to live
| in land such as North Carolina, with con-
sentative principles which preserve her peo-
whose example we are asked to emulate 3
Yes, Mr.. President, many of them have given
up the conservative principles OF their con-
stltutions and, with them, their public vir-
tue also. Politics with them is now job,
and the public servant has become the pub
lie peculator. Does he desire to see implan-
ted here those principles which have there
contaminated the body polite 1 know he
does not. know he has an eye single to
the honor and interests of his State. Of all
men in the western delegation noted for their
conservatism and ability, it is to him 1 would
have appealed to stay the progress of radi-
callsm. But when even he approaches, with
uphtted dagger to strike the life out of the
constitution, in an agony of despair 1 am
forced to exclaim Et tn Brute %
1 have no purpose to cripple the resources
OF the west. My bosom never glows with a
warmer feeling of patriotism, than when con-
templating her unboundcd treasures and the
generous character of her people. My voice
shall never be raised against any practicable
and honest effort to aid her industrial ener-
gies, and l hope to live to see the day when,
starting at Weldon with my children and
friends, l can go on IA picnic excursion to
the Blue Ridge, there to enjoy the hospitali-
ties of its people and inhale health from its
lnvlgorating atmoshere. The whole State
requires our whole exertions-every section
of it needs our aid in its further develope-
ment While picture to myself the subl-
nifty OF the mountain scenery of the west and
her exhaustless mineral resources, when l de-
sire to aid her people by every advantage
that internal improvement can give, turn
my eyes also to that section of the east, for
which comparatively little has been done
lying on the shores of a vast inland sea, in
terspersed with fine rivers, the lower Roam
oke, the broad and deep Chowan, the Per-
quimans, the Pasquotank and the North
River, all capable of floating ships of heavy
burden, flowing into the Albemarle Sound
and yet almost shut out from the ocean. Let
me hear the echo of the steam whistle in the
tunnels of the mountains but let me see,
also, the commerce of the Albemarle region
make its way in ships and steamboats,
through magnificent canal, into Norfolk
harbor. and pass the capes across the broad
Atlantic.
Let us unite our energies, let us do equal
justice; but let us spare the Constitution
spare 1T, beg you-touch not single con-
sentative feature, and a generation passes
away, you will thank God that you resisted
and retained those principles
which, in their operation. preserve this good
old State from the demoralizing radicalism
of the day.