Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-10-21

From the Marlborough nv. co. Free Press
Z 1t is Notifying to witness the efforts oi
North Carolinians to ridicu!e and disgrace
any portion OF their own State. No mat
ter what motive urges such unhallowed a.
iempts, or what object they have in view,
such conduct is condemned by every prin.
ciple Of fair and honorable dealing, and de.
rogatory to every profession Of State pride.
Such are the attempts to degrade this
Country, by publishing to the world such
statements as to induce the citizens
Of other States to believe that the people
are semi.Larbarious and ignorant them
selves, and opposed to the diffusion of
knowledge and education. Such conduct
Qhough unpardonable) we miyht expect
To see in the columns of the North State
Wing and Wing Carton, whose editors
deal habitnaily in such vulgar wit and
misrepresentation; and not beng natives;
are supposed not to entertain much partial.
ity for North Carolina. But il is particu
iarly Notifying that sub q paper as the
Raleigh Regis,er-whirh claims 10 be a
standard paper, and conducted on high and
decent grounds, whose editor, being ma
tive N"r,h Carnnian, Processes SO much
pride-shoud give currency to such dis
graceful charges. If they were true we
should suppose he would blush 10 expose
ocfnrmiiies to the public 'gaze-woult
rather seek TO palliate and conceal them
yet, fal,hless to his profession Of State
pride, and still more failh!ess 10 his mott
: --"unwarped by patty age, to live like
, broihers"-he, to-, has discharged at ths
fair fame Of Edgec ,mbe the poisoned ar
rows Of party malice because she mob,
>. sustained the principles she has Away
: been attached to, by defeating the election
e of the favori,e Wing candidate, Edwar
e Stanly.
}, We have every reason to believe ,ha
= the censu. in this State was very imperfec
!, " taken IN many counties. The dut
e was badly performed in this county, pal
y ticularly. The census of many othe
e counties bears pnlpable errors on its YER
!. face. The number reported IN Edg'
combe WIN cannot read and write we b
r. l,eye TO be excessively large, and inco
n rect; and we charge so on the TACT, tn
lie the very moment the census was publisht
er many respectable citizens declared tn
u the marshal put no such interrogatorle
IN as to the ability Of persons to re'd al
IS write; and consequently, must have CUES
s. ed at most Of his returns under that hce
n And though we regret that the nnmh
n is as large as it is, yet we have no hest
Sc lion in saying that the census overrates
at number. And yet the same census
n h,bits other counties in this State with
larger number, and much larger proP'
? ton who cannot read nor write; yet I
" shame is not blazoned forth to the wor
f. because they contain a large wa
- population. And the census shows til
VS. The county Of Sampson, strong Dem
~ crat county has but thirteen persons
i'd is borders who cannot read or writ
Or Why is not that fact heraldei forth to 4
r.. world with such encomiums as it deserve
n Unfortunately, Sampson is Democrat
IN therefore she is denied justice by tho
n, processing "to live like brothers," '
oil claim tina, such publication is disrePutat
r. in North Carolina editors, even if it W
n, fact; but fair investigation will prove
Ii false, leaving no possible ground for ev'
lis disappointment or malice to forget
al shafts.