Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-05-31
Governor CaIdwelI-RadieaI Mlsrep"
reSentRtiOn.


Governor CaldwelI-RadicaI MisreP-
resentatiOn.
1t is<no new thing for Radicals to mis-
represent facts or to manufacture state
ments. They do it both .ignoramly and
wilfully. We regret to say that Tod IL.
Caldwell, although he is the Governor of
our State, is no exception to the rule.
Whether he makes false statements from
ignorance or from design, he is equally
unfit to hold the highest position i'll the
gift of the people of North Carolina Gov
ernor Caldwell had every educational ad-
vantage in early life, was graduated at our
State University, is a lawyer by profession,
has at various times been Legislator, was
Lieutenant Governor for moro than two
years, and for more than one year has
been Governor of the State. 1t requires
very broad charity to think that such
man IS this could, from ignorance, make
palpable misstatement as to matter OF fact
within both his personal and official
knowledge. The palpable misstatement to
which we refer this morning is one in
reference to the purposes for which the
public debt of the State was contracted.
Governor Caldwell is reported by the Or
gan of the Radical party in this city to have
made the following statement in his speech
on Thursday last to the people OF Will
mington:
"You have heard about the heavy taxes
from all the Democratic Stump-SpeakerS.
| desire to remind these gentlemen about
what happened in this State a few years
ago. | ask them to 60 among their old
papers, and hunt up their Confederate tax
receipts, and know what they paid then.
The Confederacy not only taxed you, but
after getting all the money you had, they
sent a tithing officer around who took a
tenth of your corn, your meal, your bacon,
your -four or anything else for the benefit
of the COnfederacy, and that wasn't all.
Men and wagons came along for the pur-
pose of impressing the balance you had.
They would ask you how much stock you
had, and how many persons in your family,
and then take what they thought best, and
| sometimes didn't leave you tenth of what
| you had made! They brought on the war,
and the debt was incurred to put down
rebellion. and then they tell you they are
ground down by taxes"
| To show how utterly untrue is this public,
deliberate statement of Governor Caldwell
in regard to the debt Of the State, it is only
necessary to publish the following extract
from the official report of the Radical Trea-
surer Of the State:
TABLE D.
/ Classification Of Debt.
| LIST "OId'' or ante-war bonds. S9,37S,2OC
I'd Bonds issued for Internal Inn
provement purposes since close CT
the war-not special tax. ......... 4,S65, 200
Sd Bonds issued for funding since
close of war Abs, 800
4th Bonds and registered certificates
since close of war for other
purposes. 4s3, O4:
! 9th Special Tax Bonds. ............ II, 4OT ,OOt
Total SOS, 772, 04;
| 9th Add Bonds issued after May Goth
1861 and prior to May 1865, for IL
ternal Improvement, not mar
ketabIe. observation-disclosures. 1,128, OOl
! IotdI. -Sc-5,JOu,V7I
Interest.
Interest due l&t class of Bonds s 0O5 1874 O(
Interest due on % class of Bonds. 514 SOC OF
! Interest due on Sd class of Bonds. I36,C5G Oh
, Interest due on 4th class of Bonds. 69,456 !,
| Interest due on 9Th class of Bonds. 2,430 OF
| Interest due on 9th class of Bonds. 315,S7O CT
Total interest due on entire debt So, ia 596 Z;
The above is the official report of the
Treasurer of the State, himself a Radical
OF the entire debt Of the State and the i'll
terest thereon Oh the 2tst November 1870
And yet Governor Caldwell tells the people
of Wilmington that it "WaS incurred to put
down the rebellion 1t is a shame and a
disgrace for truth-telling and a truth-lov-
ing people to have such a man for theil
Governor. This mode of electioneerine
may avail something with an audience OF
ignorant, unlettered cOlored men, OF
whom few can read, and fewer have access
to the records but before the white people
of the State its only effect will be to insure
the ignominious defeat of the party whose
candidates resort to it.
| Western North Carolina Railroad.
We have just learned through G. NJ.
Roberts, Secretary of the Western Division
Of the Western North Carolina Railroad
that Major Rollins, President Of the Road,
has arrived, and reports that he has closed