Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-03-31
POOLS DuplIcIty.

John Pool. who seems to stoop at all SORTS
of business to injure his native State IN
renlyipe to a statement of Senator THUR
MAN, in regard to the number OF "hlte
Radical votes in North Carolina maze the
following disingenuous statement
There were not less than $4,000 white Kepub-
oIina The vote was between $4,000 and 33,OOO.
/ think it did hot exceed $4,000 That is the true
abatement of the case. There were from "a. OOOto
IS OCO colored votes cast in the last electlon.
Won will obserVe sir, that there 10 very wide
difference between my statement anu the state
ment of the Senator from Ohio Say there were
from 3a D. O to IS coo white Republican votes in
North Carolina at the last election he says only
5000. have not had an opportunity to go en-
tirely through the ist, but will ask the senate
and the country to say whether it is not fair for
me to make this statement. Will commence
alphabetically with the counties IN North Oaro'
lima. will commence with the county y OF msnG
q stats of instruction, and OF course that would
not be fair test. l will take four counties
Ashe, Buncombe. Cherokee ana thago 1 nIe
registered 50 co ored voters aud there
were cast 6G8 Republican votes. find
in the county of B1ncombe there were All
colored voters registered and there were cast
98l Republican votes. In Cherokee county there
were 35 registered colOred voters and there
we're cast 4O4 Republican votes. In the county
OF CLAY there were 10 colored voters registered
and there were cast III Republican votes. In
The aggregate there wore in those tour counties
$50 registered cOlored voters, and there were
caat 2157 Republican votes. BY q simple sub
traction you will observe that IN those four coun-
ties there must have been 1,6l0 white Kepuollcan
votes. There is moro than ono half OF the Eona-
900.
Now, sir, in ordor to DO perfectly fair, go
down to the bottom Of tho list alphabetically,
and take four other counties, and see what got
there; and take the last county on the list, not
having had time TO run through the whole ninety
counties. take the county OF Yadlnn. There
In ~ n IL
ored voters, and there were 245 Republican votes
cast. In the county Of 1ancey there were 252
colored voters registered, and 511 Republican
votes cast. In the county or wayne there were
1904 colore6 voters registered ana l, 1S6 Repuoli-
can votes cast. In the county of Wilkes there
we're 26l colored voters registered and 9ll Re
publican votes cast making in the aggregate IN
those four counties 1868 colored voters regis
tered and 3,452 Republican votes cast; showing
that in those four counties there were 5S6 white
Republican voters.
Then sir, in eight COUNT 8 Of the State it ie
shown that there were ,205 wbls3 Republlcan
voters, and the Senator from Ohio Gays that those
were all there were and more than ell there were
in the whole ninety counties OF the state. You
will see that have commenced alphabetically at
the top OF the list Of counties and gone down four
counties 1 have, then, for fairness, gone to the
bottom of the list and gone up four counties, and
in those eight counties there were cast by white
Republican voters more than the number OF votes
that the Senator says wac cast in the whole
ninety counties by white men for the Republican
ticket.
in the middle for one county, and L take the
county OF Rutherford. In that county there were
458 colored voters registered there were cast
1,134 Republican votes; showing that there must
have been ia that county GIG white Republican
voters, l only mentiOn this Q show how per.
fectly reckless such a statement IS on the part
Of the Senator. it is not much more 80 than
many statements l have heard, and to which be-
fore this debate closes l hope 10 have an oppor-
tunity of calling tho sttenton of the Senate.
Mr.. Pool knew, as we'll as we do, that
this statement was false. He knows that
there were not from thirty to thirty-fve
thousand white Radicals who voted in this
State at the last election. He knows that
there were more than fifty to fifty-fve
thousand negroes who voted at that cleo
tion. Why Governor Holden acknow-
lodged to Rev. Mr.. SMITH that he had
eighty thousand on his muster rolls ready
TO aid Grant to make himself Emperor.
Even the seemingly fair selections of coun-
ties made by Mr.. Pool was q pitiful fraud.
His selections were every one made with
q special view to their white Radical
strength, except Wayne, where indeed at
the last election, it is said upon good au-
shortly, a very large number of illegal ne
gro votes were cast, which serves POOLS
purpose on this occasion very well.
"You will see, says Pool, that have
commenced alphabetically at the top of
the list of counties and gone down four
counties have, then, for fairness, gone
to the bottom of the list and gone up
" four counties" It would have probably
been as we'll for Mr.. Pool to have done
something for the sake of truth, even at
the sacrifice of some fairness. He did not
begin at the top of the list, and did not go
down four counties alphabetically. He
skipped over Alexander, Allegheny, An
son, Beaufort, BERTHE, Bladen, Brunswick,
Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Camden, Car
taret, Catawba, Chatham and Ohowan-
fifteen in all. skipping over four to each
one selected. Among these are Eastern,
Western and Middle, white and negro,
Conservative and Radical, counties. But
they did not serve Mr.. POOLS purpose.
Had he gone down tho list, embracing the
entire twenty counties from Alexander to
Clay, he would established facts and
figures approximating those of Senator
THURMAN.
In selecting the four counties at the
bottom of the list, which accidently suited
his purpose better, he was forced to skip
the county of Wilson. And to keep up
this miserable deception he adds, "Then
"as a matter of curiosity, I make a strike
" at the middle for one county, and take
+" the county of Rutherford" This was
very bad strike for the middle but very
good one for Mr.. POOLS argument. Out
of the ninety-two other counties in the
State, Rutherford stands about the SIG
tieh in the alphabetical order. Hartford.
Hyde. Jones and Lenoir, large negro
counties, and Iredell, Jackson and john
ston, large white counties, comprising the
seven In tho middle of his list, would have
been fatal to his attempt at deception
Even the average of one in five, which the
first twenty caunties afforded, will not be |
sustained throughout. His selection of !
nine counties comprise fully one h alf of
those upon which he could rely to prove
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