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EQUALITY AT THE BALLOT-BOX: EQUALITY AT THE TAX-BOX. ' . B7 Sherwood & Long. GREENSBOROUGH, N. C, JUNE 16, 1860. NumberX" HEJLITTLEAD M. 8. SHERWOOD. JAMES' A. LONO. SHERWOOD & LONG PUBLISHERS. Published Weekly, and to be Continued Three Months. PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. ADDRESS Sherwood & Long, Greensboro'., IV. C. nominating them '-the West," wo'must show that Mr. Cantweli's figure are still very far from being correct. Let us deduct the half of Wake and five largest ta-paying counties, so as to leave only 42 Counties. Thus: Wake () Caswell Guilford $13,028 37 13 613 06 13,571 28 Mecklenburg Cumberland Rowan $16,009 03 17,73 43 15,009 59 $89,039 i6 followin r From the FayetteYilIe Observer. PACTS AND FIGURES. These arc "edged tools" which politicians whould handle with great care, provided they have a rcgacd for their own safety. Yet De mocrats in Norih Carolina appear to have the most supreme contempt for their own re putations, if wo may judge from their care loss handling of these same edged tools. We have corrected many glaring errors of the Wilmington Journal, the Newbern Enquirer the Salisbury Banner, the Raleiga Press, the Winston Sentinel, &c. And now wo find some equal to any of them in a speech deli vered at Salisbury by a very respectable gen tlaman from Raleigh, (Edward Cantwell, Esq.) and published last week in the Raleigh Press. His statistics abound with errors, but we proposo tonotice but one or two of . the' most glaring. Wo copy the paragraph : . "Mr. Cantwell then asked what had . the Vest to gain by the change? lie showed that 42 conties of the West had paid last year into the public treasury 3175,000 a little over one fourth of the entire revenue. It might bo a delicate matter for an Eastern man to say this, but coming from the centre bf the State, he, Mr. C, thought it might be received from him, who might bo considered an impartial observer of these thin ss. Ho showed that the West had paid but 3175,000 into the treasury, while she had received, in the same period, 3491,128, tor her Western works." Mr. Cantwell has not named the "42 coun ties of tho West," and thus it is not so easy to show which thoy are. But we copy from the Comptroller's last annual Report a list of all the counties in the West, with the amount paid by each. Thoro aro 47 of these coun ties, and we add the half of Wake, as being noither East nor West. The couaty of Mc Dowell was not returned last year, and we take tho amount from the year previous. Tho following is the exact statement : Take 389,030 70 from 3303,882 05, and still there remains 3214,842 29, instead of S1J5,0 00, paid by the 42 smallest counties. But we insist upon it, and prove from the Comptroller's Report, that "tho West" paid into the treasury last year 3303,882 05, out of the whole amount of SG33,432 97. This lacks but 312,834 43 of being one haif, instead of being "a little over one-fourth of the entire revenue," as Mr. Cantwell Bays. This most extraordinary mistake probably led Mr. Cantwell into another equally glar ing. In a previous part of the speech, "Ho showed(so it ay6) that the proposed change would give tho East 37 of the Senators, leav ing but 13 for the West." Representation in the Senate, as our rea7 ders know, is based upon taxation. As the East pays more taxes than the West, it now has 27 Senators to 23 from1 tho West. But if Mr. Cantwell's assertion that tho West pays only "a little over one-fourth of the entiro revenue" were true, it would need no "change"' to give the East 37 Senators and the est t -i c rr lit . oniy L6. inat wouia do tno exact propor tion under the existing system of taxes So that, taking Mr- Cantwell's statement as cor rect, the proposed change would leave the sections exactly as they now aro entitled to be tho only wonder being, that, with a Sen atorial representation based on taxation, the East should be content now to pay nearly three-fourths of the taxes land only have a ycry little more than halt the Senators. But Mr. Cantwell's figures aro altogether erroneous. 1 he Jbast pays a little more than half the taxes and has a little more than half the Senators. And under "the proposed change" tho East can scarce lr by possibility gain more than one bonator, lor its increase of taxesvill not bo one fiftieth part of tho whole, or 312,000. How far Mr. Cantwell redeemed his pledge to "leave flights oflancy to the Opposition," the readers can judge. To us it appears that - ne arcw on nis iancy ior on nis ngures, and he evidently has a very lively imagination. Alamance $7,317 98! Ashe 3,545 53 Alexander 2,247 10 Burke 4,472 57 Anson 9,400 36 Caldwell 2.900 2G Uuncombe 0,172 11 Catawba 5,196 21 Cabarrus 8,769 15 Cherokee 2,178 09 Caswell 13,613 06 Cumberland 17,753 43 Chatham 10,278 97 Darie 5,127 05 CleaTeland 4.770 54 Gaston 4,748 86 Daridson 8,722 53 Harnett y,012 31 Forsyth 8,720 57 Henderson 4,667 86 Guilford 13,571 28 Jackson 1,551 95 Haywood .. 1 682 00 Macon 1,711 12 Iredell 9,048 62 McDowell 2,326 94 Lincoln, 6,255 43 Montgomery , 3,157 72 Madison 1,419 17 Orange. 12,946 05 Mecklenburg 16,067 03 Polk , 1,418 10 Moore 5,119 76 Richmond 7,725 17 Person 7,881 03 Rowan 15.009 59 Randolph '7,418 01' Stanly 2,967 89 Rockingham 11,262 44 f Surry 3,738 34 Rutherford 5,40 03 Wake (J) 18,023 37 Stokes 4,438 '27 Wilkes 3,977 55 Union 5,381 89 Yancey 1,589 32 Wataug 1.460 79 , Yadkin 4 015 52 $303,882 0 mous against such change; and we would be found to resist it as strongly as the East. All the West asks or desires is to equalize taxes. At a Convention of tho Opposition party of the 7th District, among others, tho follow ing resolution was adopted : Resolved, That taxation and representa tion should go together, as now provided by our organic law ; that the Whig sentiment of tho West is unalterably opposed to any change of tho basis of representation in ei ther House of the General Assembly; and that all we seek or desire is to secure the con stitutional recognition ofta eystom of taxa tion, which shall operate justly and equally upon all tax-payers, and both sections. At a convention of WThigs of tho 6th Dis trict, held atGreensboro' on the 24th of April, tho following resolution was adopted: Resolved That 6hould a Convention of tho people be? called' we are in favor of the pres ent basis of representation in tho Senate re maining just as it is, and that wo will not fa vorany change of our organic law vn this re spect, and that wo understand such to be tho sentiment of tho West. In the facoot these facts, by what authority do Gov. Ellis acd his Eastern friends assert that tho West is playing a double game, and under pretence of going tor a Convention' in order to get ad valorem or equal taxation, is in truth after an increasoof political power for that section of tho country. Upon our word, the West will bo a magnanimous peo ple, if after being called horse leeches, goose egg thieves, prodigals to the tune of millions upon millions of dollars, smart horse traders and false pretenders, they help to mako the bestower of these compliments Governor of this Slate !! Particularly magnanimous will they be when they do so in the face of the fact, that Gov. Ellis is a Western roan,andin the face, too, of the proverb, that"it s a dirty bird that befouls its own nest." Raleigh Register. Now here it will bo seen that "the West' of which Mr. Cantwell speaks in the closing sentence we have quoted Irom him, pays303,- 882 05, instead of 3175,000, into the State Treasury. This is an extraordinary discrep ancy. But if any one wishes to satisfy him self whether Mr. Cantwell or wo are right, let him examine -the Comptroller's Report for himself, and he will be satisfied. But Mr. Cantwell will probably tell as that ho did not moan to include tbe eutiro West (though he says distinctly at the close that "the West had paid but $175,000." In anoth er place he says "42 counties of the West." Now without admitting the. propriety of this selootion of 42 smaller counties, and de- Basis of Representation. In thoir desperation at tho idea of being defeated the anti-Fair Tax party in Eastern North Carolina are raising a hellabaloo that in the event of an open Convention being called, the West would change the basin of representation in the legislature. I his charge is as utterly without foundation as any charge can be conceived to be. It seems to have been the policy of Gov. Ellis and his strikers persistently to misrepresent the West. The West is by turns, according to their logic, a horse leech, a goose egg a prodigal that woald spend "one hundrer millions of dollar," and a greedy grasper attcr an undue amount ot power. V o have noticed heretofore all tho30 charges, except tho last, and we now propose to show that the est docs not design to disturb the ba sis of representation. At a Conventioh of tho' Whigs of Watauga, Ashe, Yadkin and Surry on the 10th ult. the following resolu tion was adopted : Resolved, That the declaration of Gov Ellis that "the West will revolutionize be fore it will submit to the loss of one Senator," is a slander upon the conservative masses of our section, and ' finds no sympathy among us; for we hereby declare no change in the basis of Senatorial representation. The Charlotte Whig of April 24th, says : Basis of -Representation. An impression is sougt to be made that the West desires a Convention for the purpose of changing the basis of representation In the House of Com mons and in the Senate. -The West Yeas Chase, DOUGLAS, Hamlin, Sew ard, &c. 21. Nays BELL Hunter, Masont&c. 33. Again, in the Senate on June 6CB. 1860, Mr. Baldwin moved the following i "It being hereby intended-and declared that tho Mexican laws prohibiting slavery shall be and romatn in force in; said territory until they shall be altered or repealed by Con gress." Yeas Chase, DOUGLAS, Hamlin, Hale. Seward, &c 23. Nays BELL, Clay, Hunter, Mason; &c. 32. The Right Spirit. A gentleman in Ala bama, nearly three score and ten yeWs of age, writes to the Montgomery Mail as follows: "If Bell and Everett got but two votes in Alabama, 1 expect to ivo one of them "1st Because I believe they are as pure,' an defiled and uncorrupt statesman and patriots, as any two citizens of tho United States. "2d Because their whoIoTiie and actions are now and always have beon, broad, and as wide, as the whole Union. "3d. Because they oppose Abolitionism, Black Republicanism and Disunionisin every where. . k "4th. Because they oppose Squatter Sov, creignty and other disturbing elements, grow ing out of sectional and party platforms. "5th. Because the Constitution is their shield and guide tho whole Union their couu try and home and tha laws their, and our pro tection. "6th, and lastly. Because now in my feeble old age, I expect it will bo the last vote 1 shall ever give for President of tho United States, and I f ?el it a conscientious duty I owe to my country, 'fwiio, children and friends," to voto for John Bell and Edward Everett." Bell and Douglas on the Nigger Read the Record wno is sound ? In the United States Senato, June 5th, 1850, the Utah and New Mexico portion of tho Compromise Measures being under con siderationsee Congressional Globe pago 1134 Mr. Chase offered the following : Provided, further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as authorizing or permitting tho introduction of slavery, or ine noiaing oi peisona as property wuuiu said territory : Yeas Chase, Douglas, Hamlin, Seward and Hale &c. 25. Nays Bell Clay Hunter and Mason &c 30. Mr. Swan then submitted tho following : "Neither slavery, nor involuntary servi tude, otherwise than conviction for crime, shall ever be allowed in either of said Terri tories of Utah and New Mexico." Yeas Chase, DOUGLAS, Hamlin, Seward and Hale &c. 23. Nays' BELL. Clay, nunter and Mason, &c 33. Mr. Berrien then proposed to make the 10th section read as follows : " But no law shall bo passed interfering with tho primary disposal of the soil, nor;os tablishing or prohibiting slavery." Y'eas BELL, Clay Hunter, and Mason, &c 30. Nays Chase, DOUGLAS, Hamlin, Sew ard, Hale &c. 27. Mr. Halo then proposed to amend the above bv adding after "prohibiting' the words "or allowing!" Mr. Underwood said : " To sustain the provision as it is now in the bill is to sustain the Wilmot Proviso and it is wonderful that tho gentlemen from the r reo States should not be content to take it as it is." Tho question was then taken on Mr. Halo's amendment and resulted aa follows : Yeas Chase DOUGLAS, Hamlin, Hale, Seward, &c 24. Nays BELL'. Clay, Hunter, Masoo, &c- 3b. wants no such thing. The sentiment up here among ) Mr. Douglas moved to strike out the worda, n uigs io utiuuok, ii uvt aiwgcviier, uuaui- -nor esiaDiisaiDg or pruuxuiuug slavery Murder. Wo learn that an Irishman- by tho name of Dale, was killed by a man named Samual Taylor, at Battleboro', on Friday last. It seems that Dale, who was intoxicated. staggered against Taylor, who thereupon drew his knife and cut the deceased in sever al vital places. r The murdered man was a soldier in both tho Mexican and Florida wars, and expressed a regret before dying thtzt ho bad survived honorable contests, and escaped a soldier's death, to perish in an affray of that kind. Taylor mounted his horse and escaped. Tbeso are the circumstances as currently reportod here and as generally accredited. W e trust t heist rong arm of the law will search out Taylor and bring him before tl e tribunal of justice. Wilson Iredger. Rich Letter from -Millard Fillmore. The mond Whig of the 5th instant says: "We have it in our power this "morning, upon tho authority of Millard Fillmoro himself, to announce to Whigs, Democrats, Republican, and all tho rest of mankind, that "there is no foundation" for the report in question. On the contrary, he will sup port Bell and Everett with pleasure, regard ing them, as he does, as good and true men, after his own heart ; worthy to be trusted in any and every place, amply qualified, by talent and experience, for the high . position for which they have been named, and feeling an assurance that the country would be safe were they elected. "Let us determine as one man to hold op the hands of our candidate for Governor." Standard. Yes, do, for Heaven's sake do ! In conse quence of his opposition to ad valorem and the prospect before him they have fallen heavily by his side. "Let us hold them op"! if possible. But it is a heavy load more than we shall be able to do; but then, "let us all bold,, for hocant longer HoMrOni Campaign Advocate. When does Ad Valorem shine most bril liantly 7 When mirrored in ito Pool.
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