The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-02
Tri- Meeklw STANDARD.
Hon. John Pool-Dr. p. T. Henry-The
Sentinel-J. p. III. Russ.

Hon. John Pool-Dr. P. T. Henry-The
Sentinel-J. p. HI. Russ.
We copy to-day from the Sentinel and ex-
traordinary speech from that very extraor-
binary individual, J. P. H. Russ, delivered
in the House of Commons, in which he states
that in voting for Hon. John Pool for United
States Senator he was deceived by that gen.
tleman The gist of the complaint made by
Mr. Russ is, that Mr.. Pool told him he was
opposed to the Howard amendment, and that
on this ground he, Russ, voted for him. Adj
nit this to be so, does Mr.. Russ attempt to
he is now for that amendment? Not at ALL
There is no proof that Mr.. Pool has changed,
and Mr.. Russ offers no proof. How, then,
can he complain that he has been deceived2
1t was well observed by DR.. Henry, who
defended Mr. Pool in a manner to which Mr..
Russ did not attempt reply, that MIR. Russ
did not possess the capacity to fathom the
statesmanlike views of Mr. Pool on the state
of the country. We do not believe that Mr..
Russ has correctly stated what occurred be-
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referred to-; but conceding for arguments
sake that he has done so, he does not tell US
that any reasons were given by Mr.. Pool or
himself for being opposed to the amendment.
1t simply appears that both were opposed to
the amendment, and on this ground Mr.. Russ
was ready to vote for Mr.. Pool. That is all.
If Mr. Russ was deceived he was deceived
with his eyes wide open; and he can not
now, without exposing his own verdancy and
ignorance, claim that he was mistaken as to
Mr. POOLS real views.
We repeat, there is no proof, and no proof
can be produced that Mr.. Pool has, on any
occasion, urged or advocated the Howard
amendment. The assumption, therefore, by
Mr.. Russ that Mr.. Pool has deceived him, is
alike false and ridiculous.
Mr.. Russ did not have the candor to say
that the real reason why he assailed Mr.. Pool
was that he is one of the authors of Mr..
Stevens first bill. This bill proposed only
qualified negro suffrage, and did not exclude
any man from the balot-box. Mr.. Russ and
his friends, if they had been wise, would
have sprung at once to the support of this
bill, and urged Congress to adopt it. There
is no proof that Mr.. Pool has favored general
negro suffrage coupled with the distranchise
ment of any portion of the whites. But as
Mr.. Pool is friend to the government and
an unconditional Union man, he will deserve
no censure from Mr.. Russ even if he should
take ground for Mr.. Stevens last bill, or for
any bill to re-organze the government, mas
much as Mr.. Russ voted for him solely, as he
says, on the ground of his opposition to the
! Howard amendment.
But we go further and say that Mr.. Russ
was bound to vote for Mr.. Pool any way, as
against Judge Manly, an avowed secession
ist. Mr.. Pool is a Union man. Mr. Russ
professeG to be SO when he was elected. The
people of Wake County would prefer Mr.
Pool to Judge Manly, as Mr.. Russ we'll
knows, by at least one thousand majority. If
Mr.. Russ, therefore, had not voted for Mr..
Pool, Howard amendment or no Howard
amendment, he would have GcceiEei
misrcpresented his constituents.
sorry to find that in this vote-the onl
perhaps, that he has real cause to be proud
of, and in which he did not deceive his con-
stituents-he rccedes from his position and
takes ground substantially with the seces-
sionists and traitors who supported Judge
Manly.
But the Sentinel publishes with much gusto
the desultory and vulgar remarks of Mr..
Russ, and takes up the cudgels Extensively to-
wards Nh Pool 1t declares that Mr.. Pool
and DR.. Henry are destitute of honor
These gentlemen will not be apt to take les
sons of g honor" in the Parson Pell school.
But the Editors of the Sentinel are officers of
/ the House. They have reflected grossly on
member of the House, Dr. Henry. They
have not done so in the ordinary style of po-
iitical assault or disputation, but they have
deliberately, maliciously and falsely reflected
on the honor" of member We have no
idea that DR.. Henry will think it worth
willie to call the attention OF the House to
this gross and unprovoked assault upon him
by two of its officers, but if the House pos
sessed proper self-respect, and if majority
of that body were not hopelessly blinded
and misled by passion, it would promptly
order these two officers Zone of them State
Printer and the other Clerk of the House,
before it, to be censured for their arrogant
and impudent violation of its rules.
The Sentinel repeats its stereotyped charge
that Mr. Pool acted inconsistency and dis
honoraby in taking a seat in the Legislature
of 1S64-'65, with the view of embarrassing
the Confederacy." 1t thussets up " the Con
federacy" as something too sacred to be even
questioned; but above and beyond this, we
assert and can prove that Mr.. Lewis Hanes
one of the pets of the Sentinel and of Gov
Worth, Jonathan Worth himself, and Gov
Vance, Gov Graham, and others of the lat
ter-day war saints, all embarrassed the Con
federacy" in 1868 and 1864, to as great ar
extent as Mr. Pool did. Mr.. Hanes occupied
a seat in the same Legislature in 1864. HI
came to Raleigh with an deliberately pre-
pared speech, which he submitted before it
was delivered to Mr.. Pool and others, in
which he boldly and openly took ground, as
the printed speech will show, for immediate
reconciliation on the5asis Of the Union. Wha
was that but embarrassing the Confedera
cy" in its most vital point9 That speech
was approved by at least fifty members O