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Statesville, N. C., Friday, May 25, 1860.
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To a Distant Friend.
ST lAUa M . MtYAX.
W left ecene of light,
Where all teemM calm and fair,
Whore mnaic lull'd the night
And perfume ateeped the air;
Where while nwwt dreanie and aoft
JVltHm my heart would rise
I'd gazed perchance too oft
Down in thy dark-bine eye,
i
When black the midnight frowned,
fiercely the rreea were tossed,
And wildly wailed around
The winds, like npiriu leal
I ihuddered at the cluuige
And itrore to iviile In vain,
For ahadowt, cold and ati-anga,
Opprcst my kewrt and brain.
I looked into the loom
And thought of ; Pleasure's glare,
And the eternal (loom
Of thoee whose IfU wi thire.
How, when they tctt itt light,
I La moilc and its dower,
To enter Death Ijoui; night
Thev'dntu-inkfmotn it dark hour !
" - . s
I toW thee ah, too truo
Ifad been the thing I feared 1
For, by it tones, knew
Thy iplndid life but sneered,
" Wguldst khou tljen waste each breath
Wlere uch Illusion gU-ftnii?"
Ay for the niglit of Dath
It without dawn or dmima !"
, PtranjEe that a oul so hlli
Can deem 1U fale to low !
For in thy mysticieye
The fire of k''H'uh glow;
And to Ita nhaded ihue
The tears ac niii k can ruih
A rain-Uropi from the blue
Bf April-skie wJill gu-'h.
Oh,' far-off oue an bright,
. Though wii niay meet nn -more
''Tlii ldo to gUrylight
Of thoeU-rn.il ulior'
:; Aiwl though thoujHcarcv bat given
i: Otoe ray of Hp to mn
i Well there's a uid iu Ilearen,
A ud I can piay 'fir th; i
Love's Philosophy.
tt S n E L L I Y .
The fountains mingte with the rier,
" And the riv-rn with the ocean.
The winda of heaver mix for ever,
With a sweet 'mention ;
Nothing in thf world is single.
All thiiigf by lHw divino
In one another's bejng iniuglo
Why not I with thiiii;?
See the mountainti kis high ht-avi-n.
And the wav-Mi clasp one another ;
No sister flower wold le forgiven
If it disdained its brother ;
And the euuli&;ut clanps the earth,
And the moonlx aiiiB kis the oea;
What are all the.- kwing worth.
If thou kiss not nte ?
We then went: in to see all the curiosities of
what used to be Barnura'a museum, I could
not tell you one out of a hundred of the arti
cles' of interest. I will mention tlie one of
special note juet for the present, bejng some
thing new under the sun. They have a little
negro boy, that was found in a wild State in
the interior of Africa, to" which they have
given the title of "Nondescript." True he
cannot talk, (but could talk if they would
;ive him a chance, and it would spoil the fun)
as arxish motions, etc. . iJreople go and look
at him in utter astonishment. I remarked
to some one.8tanding by : "that nigger would
bring a good price in my State, and ne would
be put to a plow or in a cotton field to act,
instead of where he now is." Their ardor
seemed to abate, and one said, "blame it all,
they fool us like the nation, he is nothing
but an African." Well, I will not trouble
you to read any more of things as they ap
pear to us i.i the Metropolis.
Yours, &c - C. M.
For the "Iredell Express,"
Messrs JEklilors : Week before last being
Commeucement at Davenport Female Col
lege, we concluded to be on hand, as we ever
tftel an interest as well as a pleasure in at
tenditig a literary .festival. In our trip thith
er we saw much that was interesting to us,
i i i , i ...
out a renearsai nere mignt not interest your
readers. We cannot forbear, however, to
mention the Chalybeate Spring, ome ten
miles above Tavlorsville. This beautiful
summer residence has been fitted up in a su
perb styh; foj the accommodation of those
who wish to test the excellence or this metii
cinal water!
Having pleasantly spent an hour in this
lovely spot, we started cn-routc lor .Lenoir;
after traveling bcveral miles over quite a hil
ly road, in which we noticed every thing in
a backward state, we emerged from these'
hills and found ourselves in a beautiful vaK
ley a lew miles from Lenoir, which place we
soon reached. As this was our hrst visit to
that place, we were directed to' the"Ballou
House," the proprietor of which we found to
he quite a cleveijinan. 11 is table was sup
plied with every thing a hungry person
could desire. It would be dying great injus
tice lo Mr. Ballou not to recommend his house
to the l.tvor ot tl)e public, simply because he
belongs to the "tin cup party." Politics
there seem to engross the minds of the. peo
ple ad vMlorem,,the chief topic. The moun
tain people seem fully aroused to the impor
tance of this subject, and why should they
not'f hy should not selt-interest prompt
them to throw off' the shackles of partv, and
to stand boldly up in defence of their rights
as freemen ? are no prophet, but we
think Caldwell will answer for herself next
August, in' deafening tones of thunder that
will shake democracy as well as the "tin
cups." Lenoir is a small town, but we be
lieve a religious and moral one. We were
led to this opinion from the number of her
houses' of worship ; no les than three with
their rising eplre attracted our notice. Da-
iort female College, under the direction
i ' For the "Iredell Expretu. "
St. Nicholas, Mkw York, )
j May 11, I860. , j
ME'ssitk'EbiTORs-i-Z)cur:"SV4: Would you
like to htar a little news from this great Me
tropolis' Really we do not know where to
inakea begriming $ ior mere jo inutu wi
tercet anv one who
nearcd Jersey City,
veniiort female College, under tne
of the South Carolina Conference, is located minisheel, and in that way
would lose one or two benator
ivisits this 'city. As we
west of New York, on
.the. right bank of the Hudson, we could now
and tViPh rw.oni7.e'a familiar place ; but the
advance of improvement has been so rapid
and so extensive. as to render many points
strange. The new! and spacious Depot at
Jersey City, spren(?uig its roof over seven
tracks, is the largesi. we have ever noticed.
Here passengers tbi New York City must
take a boat, and patiently (?) listen to a mo
notonoiis harranginJ from hack-men and por
ters, both on leaving this side of the river
and also on landing .at the foot of Courtlandt
Street. '!..,, ,
We were untrammelled by baggage and
took a walk up liioadway, more lor observa
tion than for recreation ; and really New
York City is a w6rd in a miniature. Une
would suppojse that the immense throng
passing up and do win these broad side-walks,
would soon pHs's anil there would be a vacant
pace in the street or side-walk where the eye
could rest for a rnoAieirt. But as a general
thing this business thoroughfare is peopled
"from early morn till midnight hour" with
vjjersoris, coaches, oninibuces, carriages, carts,
i,r,riMR. does and this rest of mankind m uencral.
You may take a position where you can have
a view of the lengtltt and breadth of Bioad
wav from Trinitv church, or even lower down,
to Union Par'k,(a distance of not less than
'!.. miles) and all vou sec is this mixing,
mingling, twisting, tingling, hurrying, push
ing, noisy conglomeration oi neierogeueouo a
makamation of men and things. This city
U lomethinz over eight miles long, and as
wide aathe waters of fcast and Hudson rivers
Tormit:and in ! fact, one may say the
wlinl. Island is a city.
A lew venings ago we walked over to the
Cooper Institute, to hear the women epeat.
'ih "woman's rights convention" was in
.Jiaion. Entering the door and purchasing
. ticket for "one hundred mills," and Uescend-
two flights of stairs we landed in the larg
eJt hall ever seen by us. The exercises liadj
commenced and a tew hundred people had
taken seats- near the platform. The great
body of the hall waB vacant. By degrees it
was filled up with whites aud blacks man
mtn and women-mml till it was supposed there
were not less than twenty-live hundred pei
ions in the meeting! Mrs, Kose, Miss Jones
and some more of a similar gill of gab, to
gether with Wendell Phillips, U6ed up the
evening in saying something, to get cither a
hifls or an applause irom that mixed multi
tude. We were satisfied in ten minutes that
' we had the worth of our dime (?) and would
have given two dimes to had not entered the
hall and seen the females so disgustingly
bold. It is to us perfectly forbidding, and
in our opinion, a breach of the bounds of the
sphere of woman lor one thai might be far
; better employed at home,, perchance nursing
' a sick child, patching a garment, sewing on
buttons, or darning bocks, tor thibse females
looked to us as if such migh t be their calling,
when not engaged in public speaking !1J who
havine the irarb of a female, to coat her face
with brass, promenade up and down the stage,
put on aire, utter expressions and make ges
tures, that we would moat cordjially.believe a
truly refined lady would not witness nor hear,
if the door could be found. Yesterday after
noon we passed down by the park, and saw
a steam pre engine for the first time. The
company were rolling it along and halted be
fore we reached the place. We soon saw the
smoke, in a few minutes heard the. .whistle
and before we had yet reached them a stream
of water, the, size of A man's arm was water
ing the tops of the trees in the This
was all done in Jess time than e'ght minutes.
here, fo describe 'this beautiful spot would
require a genius far exceeding mine. Iftheie
is any one 6pot on earth more beautiful and
romantic-than all othens, this certainly i.-
the one The examination was largely at
tended. These mountain people seem to be
deeply infused with the spirit of education.
We did not arrive in time to hear any of the
i' classes examined, but were informed that
the voting ladies, acquitted themselves ad
mireably. Un Tuesday night we were pleas
antly entertained by the "compositions from
the young ladies of the junior class, and with
music from the Salisbury Brass Band. It
is evident to all that music has a charm, but
never did we so. forcibly feel its power for
seldom it is that we her 6uch music. The
gentlemen of the Band are a fine looking set
of fellows, and must win applause wherever
they go. Wednesday forenoon was occupied
with an address to the young ladies of the
College, by the Rev. Asbury Mood, of South
Carolina, whose speech was spoken or in
complimentary terms as 'being every way
worthy of this talented man. In the evening
there was an ' educational address WV liev.
Mr. Puekel. which we' did not have the pleas
ure of hearing, a9 we were absent from the
College. At night the gradnating exercises
came off three young ladies received diplo
mas, whose names stand enrolled as the first
clatii daughters of this vouthful Institution.
We cannot close with justice to our own
feelings, without giving the beautiful Hi-Briton
a passing notice. Some four miles east
of town may be seen tit is beautiful moun
tain, rearing his towering peaks high above
those of his less fortunate neighbors. In
company with several others we paid the
"huge monster" a visit. The ascent, unlike
that of most mountains, was easy, and the
top was soon gained, ior we drove our horses
upon the. highest peak. The day was smo
ky and unfavorable to a fair view:; but when
the eye wan lost in nature's beauties in the
distance, we would 6teri recall it to our mind,
to view objects of nature no les9 attractive.
Having satisfied our-jcuriosity for the present,
we returned to town highly pleased with our
mountain excursion. But our time being
limited, we bid farewell to Lenoir and her
mountain scenery, aljid shortly took up our
line of march for oldj Iredell ; God bless her.
L'ong may she remain as the Banner; County
of our glorious "Old orth State. J.
The San Juan Difficulty.
,We learn through the New York
Herald that on . Thursday last Lord
Lyons had a protracted interview with
the Secretary of State in regard to the
San Juan aft'air. It is pretty evident
that the matter is not so easy of solu
tion as Lord J. Russell supposed.' The
proposition of the English government
has been peremptorily and positively
declined by our government, and the
final settlement is remote to-day as it
was in the" beginning. Our govern
ment, as from the first, maintains its
undisputed right to the island. What
new position England will next assume
in the matter the next mail will proba
bly disclose.
Another Convention at Chicago.
A separate convention of German
radical republicans, consisting of three
delegates from each State in the Un
ion, is to be held at Chicago on the
14th of May, two. days prior to the
General Republican convention.
Lynch Law.
John Taney, said to be a nephew of
Chief Justice Taney, was killed in the
court-house of Travis county, Texas,
Discussion at Goldsboro', between
Messrs. Fool and Ellis.
Large and Attentive Audience- Pool Glorious
ly Triumphant hills own rrtends'Ad
nxitting his utter Dcmolitijn.
Reported for the Raleigh Register.
The discussion opened at 11 o'clock,
26th ult., at the Court House.
Gov. Ellis made the opening speech.
He commenced by complimenting the
Democracy of Wayne, and congratu
lating himself upon the vote he receiv
ed two years ago, saying it was an in
dication of their adherence to the time
honored principles of the Democratic
party.
He said that the Opposition Con
tention which met in Kaleiim and
nominated his competitor, had present-,
ed a new issue to the people of this
State, which was no less than a change
in the time-honored Constitution,
which had been adopted by "ourItev
olutionary fathers in 1784, and that
this proposition had been made the
main point between his competitor and
himself; that it was a proposition to
annull a sacred compromise between
the East and West, to which the Con
vention of 1835 had given form antl
shape that this compromise was put
in the Constitution to secure the Enst
against paying an unjust proportion
of the taxes,-- that the proposition tp
tax slaves according to value instead
of taxing them as polls, would increase
the taxation of the East, - which wa?s
already paying its full proportion. Il'e
said this was the 2nd Congressional
District, and that it paid into the treas
ury one Hundred and five thousand
dollars, whilst the 8th Congressional
District, where they had large appro
priations to build Railroads, paid only
forty-three thousand dollars into the
Treasury ; that the large county qf
Burke, which gave many more ,votqs
than the county of Wayne, had 500
000 expended in it for Railroads, the
interest on which, was 30,000 a year,
and that it would take the taxes paid
by that county 7 years to pay the irf
terest for a single rear on the amount
expended in it from the Public Treas
ury. Ife said, by ad valorem taxaj
tion the taxes of the East would be
increased, and those of the West di;-
the est
bui
that his competitor advocated an open
Convention on the federal ' basis, an
when that Convention assembled, the
West would have the power in it, and
that they would change the basis of
representation in the Senate to pre
vent the loss of Senators that he was
'a Western man and knew their vieWa,
sand that they would not consent tb
the loss of a'Senator, He then wenjt
on to show that Mr. Pool had voted
against Gorrell's Bill for a Conven
tion, and also Turner's Bill in the lasjt
Legislature, which he said was incon
sistent with his present position. Hq
said the Opposition Platform would
tax everything and exempt nothing-fin
proof of which, he would call atten
tion to an amendment offered by Mrj.
Turner, of Orange, in the Opposition
Convention, proposing to exempt tin
cups, &c, which was voted down!,
showing that they refused to exinpt
tin-cup, and thaMf they would go
down as low as tin-cups, he supposed
they would go as low as anything, and
a party which would do that ought to
be called the "Tin-Cup Partv ;" that
any government that would tax a poor
man s necesearies was tne worst spe
cies of tyranny ; that ad valorem would
break into the corn crib and the-smoke
house; that he himse.f was a poor
man, and that he did not want an ad
vnlorom tax : that he was in favor of
taxing luxuries more than necessaries;
that the private billiard table argued
luxury and ought to be taxed more
than a man's lantl of equal value. He
then went on to refer to Mr. Pool's
votes on the subject of ad valorem,
and said if those propositions were not
the same as that which he now advo
cates, why did he not introduce his
present proposition in the Legislature:
supported assertions, and ;talen up
his time in skimishingj on the out
posts of the'question that he had in
volved himself in contradictions which
he should take pains to point out to
the audience. His competitor had
said that there was a proposition to al
ter a compromise which had been ef
fected between the East and the West,
which had been made for the benefit
of the East. He (Mr. Pool) did not
see any ground for asserting that this
was a compromise for the benefit of
the East that the East had voted a
gainst it by overwhelming majorities
in every county, and he proceeded to
show the votes of the various counties
on the subject. Wayne county gave
for it 28 votes, againstjt 966 ; Beau
fort county, for it 90, against it 639 ;
Bertie, for it, 96, against it 385 ; Cur-'
rituck 22 for, and 115 against it ;
Camden, 65 for it, against it 333;
Chowan, for it 7, against it 322 ; Col
umbus, for it 3, against it 391 ; Edg'e
combe, for it 29, against . it 1324;
Franklin, for it 85, against it 617;
Gates, for it 12, against it 502 ; Green,
for it 9, against it 423 ; Hertford, for
tr
otter ' property. ' My competitor did terest of the people. But the cmo- j ling to pay their just proportion - o
sacrifice the land owner's protection cratic platform is ai very differl af- j the taxes. My competitor will appeal
for the sake of equality at the ballot j fair. Undertaking to "prescriirthe to their prejudices in Vain, unlesa I
box, and gave him nothing in its place, j duty of the legislature-in pas$fg a j much mistake them. Equal taxation
but an increase of his taxes, and now revenue law, it holds on to the f irolii- would give to the non-slavehblder an
he is unwilling to take equality at the j bition in the constitution which Ijids : interest' in the institution of slaYert.
tax oox, oecause ne iears tnai some j tnem to tax slaves according tojr$aiue, oecause taxation on staves wouiu je?
protection to the negro will be taken
away ; and even when the proposition
to gain that equality contains a pro
vision of ample protection to the ne
gro
and at the same time to restore
it 7, against 376 ; Hyde, for it 2? a
gainst it 431 ; Johnston, for it 73, a-1 pie of justice that one shall
gainst it i i b; Lenoir, for it 04, against
it 320 ; Martin, for it 14, againstit895:
Nash, for it 8, against it 757 ; North
ampton, for -it 12, against it 286:
the last guarantee and protection which
the land owner enjoyed under the con
stitution of '35. My competitor has
misled the crowd to-dav, into the be
lief that we would strike out and, in
sert nothing, whereas Ave propose not
only to strike out but also to insert,
so that under the constitution, when
tax is raised upon one species of pro
perty, it must also be raised upon oth
ers, compelling every man to pay for
the support of the government which
protects him in the enjoyment of his
property in proportion tio the value of
the protection which he enjoys. If
one man is protected in the enjoyment
of 1,000 and another in the enjoy
ment of 10,000, it is a clear prmci-
pay ten
times as much as the other towards
the support of the government. Who"
says it is right that the man who has
Si. 000 worth of land should pay as
Pasquotank, for it 6, against it' 443 ; ! much as the man who owns. 10,000
Pitt, for it 32, against it 710 ; Per- i worth ? No earthly reason can be as
quimans, for it 10, against it 421 ; signed why there should be a differ
Tyrell, for it 1, against it 459 ; Wash- ence when you come to apply this rule
ington, for it 14, against it 409. These ! to the owners of slaves. But my com
werc Eastern comities, while Western petitor will not come up to this point,
counties voted as follows : Anson, fori but runs olT into a long talk about tin
but in regard to every other speOes of ; sen his tare. This would strengthen
property
words :
teaulatun
raisinq of revenue, so to adiugMetxt- 1 this way, and it, is time North Caro-
tion as to bear as practicable i j'thtii lina had followed their example. J3he
the limits j)f the constitution upti the J taxes slaves as persons theyiaa pfo
various interests and classes of ptpper- perty.' .-Let her unite with' them in
Uj in all sections of the State? It making ho difierence between slave
and other property, that tne aoutn
may present ah undivided front against
the abolition doctrine, that' slaves
should be treated' as persons. ' But
would bear then upon every spetjesof
: ii LAt c it. fi4.
piupcitjr iu an acinous ui imc jiati:,
and it asserts thi 'duty' of the legis
lature to make it do so
I ask my competitor, if tiivcu. are ; ray competitor is endeavoring' to mate
iot one species olf property ? If U an- j this a sectional question in the 'State
not one species ot property : Li e
swered yesterday that they pferei
Then let him tell us how mih''he
would bear upon a tin cup. Are-ioose
eggs a species pf property? hen
how much would he. bear upbn,t'$e eld
woman's goose eggs. He nluslbear
upon them some if he would bea&upon
every species of property., ltfVould
seem that my competitor is tbe,' tin
cup" man, and his party. Heeems
to have been awalre of this unfbrhate
position to. which his party hasjjaeed
him, and can find no way to gi;t out
of it, except by taking the startf us
and endeavoring: to put it upf a our
shoulders, whenj it was relyiipon
his. My, competitor is not the riga-
it 815, against it 44 : Buncombe, for
it 1322 against it 22; Burk, for it
1359, against it 1 ; Davidson, for it
1034, against it 33 ; Haywood, for it
481, against.it 8 ; Iredell, for'it 1494,
against it 18 ; Lincoln, for it 1887,
cups, the old woman s goose eggs,
chickens, &c, in order to prejudice the
mind of the'poor man against a sys
tem of taxation which is clearly and
justly for his benefit. He pretends
lnmsell, calls
that he is a poor man lnmsell, c
it o2 ; Mecklenburg! for it ! himself a poor man, and says' he is
against it 67; Rowan, for it i one of them, arid he does not want Ad
1570, against in 24 ; Rockingham, for i Valorem. I am now talking to poor
against
1097,
it 612, against it 68 ; Rutherford, for
it 1557, against it 2 : "Surry, for it
1 .1 It 1 I . I .LA,
' ..t t il"
men, and it lie is one oi tnem tet mm
sit there and hear me talk to him.
Stokes, for it 1061, ! But I understood him to make some
against it 71; Wilkes, for 1757, against ; strong appeals to the interest and pre-
it 8; Yancev, for it 564, against it I iudices of the rich slave owners. He
13. How then could his competitor said I would increase the taxation of
say that this was a compromise tor the ' the Last, because the great slave ln
bencfit of the East ? and urge before terest is in the East, and increase the
an Eastern audience that it was adop- j tax on slaves so much as to drive them
ted for the protection of.their interest, ; from the Statue. As we have only a
wheri it had been forced upon them so I certain amount of revenue to raise to
plainly against their wishes? that his j the support of the State government,
can he explain to the poor mn here
how an ad valorem system of taxation,
which he says would so largely increase
the taxes of the rich, would also in
crease the taxes of the poor ? He
must know that to raise a given amount,
if the taxes of the rich are increased.
put nothing in its place ;,that the con-1 the taxes of the poor must be decreas-
competitor M as raising the cry of East
and West ; that he deprecated appeals
to sectional feelings upon a great, ques
tion of justice and equality; that his
competitor had represented his plat
form as proposing to strike out a pro
vision of the present constitution and
stitution'of North Carolina permitted
the legislature to tax everything ac
cording to value except ; slaves; that
it permitted no tax to be placed upon
slaves under 12 or over 50 years, and
on those between those ages it permit
ted no .higher tax than that upon
white polls ; that the proposition was
nowT to-strike out this restriction and
put in its place a provision that every
species of -property may be taXed ac
cording to its value, with power in the
legislature to discriminate only in fa
vor of the 'native products of our State
and the industrial pursuits of her cit
izens.' That this would not only al
low slaves to be taxed according to
ed. To raise a given amount, a 6ys
tern that would tax a rich man accord
ing to his wealth, would certainly tax
a poor man according to his poverty.
He plays awliile to the rich, and then
turns around and plays to the poor,
and says that he is one of them. He
has two strings to his bow, but unfor
tunately for him, when he uses one he
is obliged to break the other. He
seems to have been aware of this, and,
therefore, finds it necessary to claim
personal fellowship with the poor man,
and throw dust in his eyes about tin
cups, goose eggs, &.c. He says, any
party that would tax tin cups ought
to be called the 'tin cup party.' lie
value a3 property, but compel the leg- does not state directly that either my
islature so to tax them, and at the j self or any member of my party pro
same time to tax all the leading sub- ' pose to tax these things, for he knows
jects of taxation in the same w;ay, giv-l that it is distinctly disclaimed in every
ing it power to. discriminate only in I section ; but le says that is an infer-
He said ad valorem woulddrive slaves j , ,
, r-,.'. .1 ..1 1.1 . Xie lit
favor of 'native products and indus
trial pursuits.' That this would give
a substantial guarantee and protec
tion against unequal taxation, not on
ly to the slave owner,' but also to the
land owner, to the owner of bank stock
and of monied interest, and all other
leading investments of capital. Much
has been said about protection to the
slave owner. Where is the protection
in the constitution to the land owner?
and the owner of other property ?
,,,i'i ii
ence wnicn na uraws irona our piai
form. Then let us examine the plat
forms of both parties, and see which
is the 'tin cup party and who is the
tin cup man. lie seems to mistake
that our purpose is to put a revenue
bill in the constitution, when it is sim
plv to insert a great principle ot e-
quality and justice, and to compel the
legislature to observe it in passing re
venue laws, lhe Legislature now has
power to tax tne tin cups and goose
from the State that the wealthy man . , , , - , 0 , , j Jf , , , ,
1 ,1 li 1 n nl.ifna Vi r T? 1 1 1 yr O rl ' 1
UUlllU IfUVU 1113 SlllltO Oil lilt, nuuiuuu .
nator of this system of taotics. MIt is
not original with him. It is lipiji the
old principle of thief crying stop-jhief !
In his Raleigh speech behind my;tack;
and when my friends were not avowed
to correct any misstatements my
position, he raised; this unjur cry
his owns; shoulders, and. then pried it
in pamphlet form, and has beerivsend-
ing it by thousands, to the .fecum
brauce of the mails, all over thet&tate
into all the cross roads and darkorn-
ers, wherever it was calculated de
ceive the people as to our relatw.se po
sitions. Let it be understood Hereaf
ter that my competitor is the' ti CTip'
man and his rvartv is the tin cud iartv.
But this game of my competitoroufd
serve only to throw dust in thasVeyes
r . , -1 . 1 1 .
ot tne poorer and more lgnorancias
ses, and deceive them into oppcition
to a measure calculated for theirood.
But my competitor is evidently pach-
ng. principally tor the voted thctlave
owner. ie says tnat equal taction
drives slaves from the State M! say
hat any man who would lea the
State because he pays his iust pt-ypor-
tion of his taxes, would leave hisqun
try for his country "s good. But inhere
would he carry his slaves? ifvery
Southern State," except North iaro-
ma, and perhaps Yirginw, taxes f laves
as property and; not as persons," jOrth
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Uaroiina aione goes j upon tne, -fjiaK
Republican idea and taxes elavia as
persons, equally with the poll afnot
as property, like the other . southern
States. South. Carolina taxes yery
negro old and young, valuabland
worthless, one dollar a piece. Hsfcer-
tainly could not carry tnem tnery ior
that would be a much higher ta'than
he pays in IS. Carolina, lhe. statis
tics now show that there is note less
than 700,000,000, property 'inthis.1
State. If 100,000,000 were atten
ded under the discriminating clae in
our platform, which - would be rirly
1,000 in the hands of every volr, it
would leave 000,0U0,O00. . Thiipro
perty, taxed 10, cents on 100 ,Sua"
tion, would raise the amount of .eve-'
nue at present necessary for the $,ate,
viz: 600,000. These figj&.fare
admitted by my competitor to Ijcnear
enough correct for the argument of
this question. Slaves, in the , aggre
gate, do not now pay quite 6 certs on
100 valuation, whilst land paji 20
cents and some other property n0re.
It ought' to be equalized. It: Vonld
increase the aggregate tax on 8lacs.4'
cents on 100 valuation, and decease.
it on land 10 cents on the 100 valua
tion certainlv Avould not drive slaves
ty preaching up East against the
.West. It is not a question uf vEast
and West, but of interest azainst in-,
terest. There re no more slave own--
ers East than West, al though there are
more slaves. I deprecate raisin? an
issue between the sections. I do not
know; which section has the greatest
amouni oi property, diu wmcn ever
section does have the greatest' amount
of property, that section.ougb.it, injus
tice, to pay the greatest amount of
taxes. But my competitor is endea
voring to frighten Eastern men with
the imaginary horrors of a convention
on the federal basis, lie says 1 atjr
for a Convention on the federal basis.
My platform does not say whether it
is to be an open or restricted conven-
and carry them to Arkansas, where
dred dollars valuation, while the slave i slaves of the rich. We declare no du
rtH -rr-rvn I I nn vir mrrA thin - TnOT Ii f . . O C
yic uu. ; There was a protection in the consti
in North Carolina
He said there were two wavs to e
qualize taxation one- by putting it
upon negroes, and the other by bring
ing it down on land ; that Mr. Pool
was for increasing taxes on negroes,
whilst he was for decreasing them on
land ; that the Public Treasury would
permit a decrease in the present a
mount raised. Here ended Mr. Ellis's
first speech.
MR. POOL'S REPLY.
He said this was the first time he
tution, as amended in 1835,. to the
ty of the Legislature. We speak on
ly of power. We wouldgive the legis
lature the same power to tax slaves
land owner, for the Senate was elect- according to vallue which it now has to
ed by and represented none but the I tax other property m that way, and
tion,. but I have no objection to an
open convention pu the federal basis.
There is no danger in it to any sec
tion. He says the West would grasp
after power and would change. thebat
sis of representation in the Senate, by
which they could put their hands in
pastern men's pockets and build, theio
railroads. The Convention would l)e
on the same basis as the House of ;
Commons, aud the opinion of that body '
on the subject of changing the Senate
basis, will show what will be the opin? t
ion of the proposed convention. The
proposition to change the Senate basia
has beenseveral times before the House
of Commons, but never received a res
pectable vote. It came up distinctly
twice in tfie session ot 50- and ou
On one ballot it received only 25 votes,
and on the other only 19, out of the
whole number af 120 members. iTho
West does not propose or desire &
change in the Senate basis. Their
newspapers are sayingso, and then
speakers are saying so from the stump.
This is a scarce cow of my competi
tor 'manufacture to frighten the East :
against equal taxation. He says he
is a Western man and knows Western
men, and I say Western men. know
him about as well. Here is an extract
from the Ashevillc Advocate, published
in. the extreme West. It makes a. cor
rect prediction of my competitor's
course in the East. Hear it : ri .
.- We-would call the attention of our
Eastern friends to a remark of -.-Qol."
.Gaither's in his speech before our
County Convention. He said no doubt
it would be used against Mr.. .'Pool in
the East, that if the West got a Con
vention, the Constitution would be
torn to pieces. The West simply
asked that the Constitution be so amen
ded tKat slaves may be taxed accord
ing toyalue She' would be content
with that amendment. And; this,. we
believe to be the view of all thinking
men here.' . -,"'
. Since I have been in Goldsboro'I
have received letters from several
prominent Western men which I have
before me, complaining of the imputa
tion wnicu my coiupuuior i casting
upon t rieir purposes. They ask me to
assure the Eastern people that they
have iff such purpose or desire,- and
spurn the imputation of such,. sinister
motives, and it is my purpose, to do it
before every Eastern audience. My
competitor says I voted against,, two
Convention bills in the last Legisla
ture and that it is inconsistent with
mv nresent nosition I voted to lav
out of the Statel But my 4cqrapytkor Turner's bill upon the table, becauae
says the discussion f this quegtion ;t proposc(fto submit the Legislative
would increase the jealousy ofiion-1 S(lt t " Heiaion of the m-orilp n.4
jr1-"1 ; hath objectionable teaitures in refer
slaveholders against slaveholders
is an imputation on the honertnon
slavcholders of the State. But I liink
owners of land. Free Suffrage an
nulled this provision of the constitu
tion and left the land owner without
protection. My competitor and his
party did all in their power to effect
this, having none of the sacred rever
ence for the compromise of the consti
tution, so ostentatiously, paraded here
to-day. They talk much of protection
hav
to tne slave owner, out nave no re-
had appeared before the people of i garfj tt interest of the poor land
Wayne that he knew they were op- owner. I voted for Free Suffrage be
posed to him politically, but that when J cause'it gave equality at the ballot
he appeared before thepeople of North: box. and I deemed that eaualitv of
Carolina, of whatever political faith, more importance than the protection of property may be-taxed according to
he was appearing before his country-' w"hich was sacrificed to gain it. its value, icit power to discriminate
in giving that power, we would com
pel the legislature to tax all leading
subjects of capital upon one uniform
rate value, so that one can be taxed
no higher than' another ; but at the
same time, our; 'platform proposes to
discriminate and to only in favor of
our native products and industrial
pursuits.' This is the plain letter of
the platform puit in print for the world
to read and yet our opponents persist
in misrepresenting it. It is in the
following words : that the constitution
may be so modified that every species
ence to the mode for taking the vote
upon it,.- and proposed a Convention
the best way to remove jealousy is to l various purposes objectionable .'to
remove tne cause oi it. xNotmnn so ; me i voted against UorreJl bill be
well calculated to beget. thjs. jealosy i cause it did not .specify that the Con-
as aor the non-slaveholder to see; that i ven'tioii was to be called on the federal
only in favor of th4 native products of
our State and industrial pursuits of
her citizens, pow the best way to
discriminate in favor of industrial pur-
the slave owner is not paying hh just
proportion of the faxes, and thaie is
paying his taxes for him. It iyaid
that slavery is in danger, and thA we
are upon the verge ot actual war w ihm
the abolitionists in the def
gro property. Who is to
deience oVsne-
figbt;the
battle ? Slave owners liave'scaely
men who cherished the principles ot ' T am now in favor of eaualitv at the
American libehy, that every man had . tax box, and I am met by the cry that
a right to entertain and express his jt will annul the constitutional protec-
political opinions, that he knew the tion to slave owners. But the propo-1
people of Wayne county, though op- sitiea of our platform while it would ! suits, is to give the legislature, elected
on the 24th ult., while his trial for the j posed to his pontics, were iortri tar-; break down the present mode of pro-j by an industrial people, power to ex
homicide of John Edwards was going j olina gentlemen, and were willing to tection to slave owners in order to gain ; empt from taxation those articles ne-
hear ootn sides ot ine question iairiy that equality at the tax box, it at the j cessary to carry on tne operations oi
discussed that his competitor, instead same time proposes to insert in the .labor. This is. a question of. power,
of coming up fairly to the issue be-; constitution another and a better pro- ! and the legislature, fresh from the peo
tween them, and discussing it upon . tection to the slave owner, as w ell as pie, can, from time to time, exercise
facts and principles, had dealt in un-! to the land owner, and the owner of it in accordance with the will and ih-
f . -. , ; l . I i.
on. it appears tnat as ne was auout
to be taken from the court-house to
jail, a mob surrounded the sheriff and
shot Taney dead. r SeVeraTbf the mob
were arrested.
W.vw lighting men in JNortb mro
Una, according to the census, tvi'ife
the non-slave owners have near 1OCC000
fighting men. Slave owners mus &eall
upon them to fight their battles, tfteir
families must be left ! and reduc ed to
distress, and their bosoms mna be
bared to the bullets of the enerr in
defence of the slave owner's property.
1 appeal to the. magnanimity of jreaU
thy slave owners if it is right and&bn-
est in them to cling with a mber'aasp
to a constitutional advantage iuch
they, have: over these poor men.; by
which they force them to pay the taxes
which slave property1 ought to py"
Honest slare owners ought to bewil
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basis. I would vote against both those
propositions now. But my competitor
says if I did not like these, proposi
tions ana those ot 31 r. Bledsoe and
others, about Al valorem taxation,
why did I not introduce roy present
proposition to change the Constitution
of the btate t . I will answer him. I
Mas sent to the Legislature tojjass
statutes, and not to change the funda
mental law ot the land, upon points
that had never been , brought to the
attention of my constituents. Any
meinberof the Legislature who would
vote to change the Constitution c-n a
point that had never been mooted be
fore his constituent's would betray the
trusts confided in him, and be; unwor
ththe confidence of those who sent
him there. Does my competitor dare
to deny the truth of tjua proposition!
before this audience I .He does not.
Then his question is answered. Jle
says he would bring down the tax on
iana anq noi put u upon nej
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