Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-08-10


be made the specific for improbable dangers and
the solace for idle and feigned hepidation No
circumstances have come up from California to the
government complaining of dangers, probable pos
sible No demand has been made for protection by
the objects of this newborn anxiety and solictude
And none will be more amazed and thunder-struck
at the new and ingenious pretext for the measure
proposed than the bold intrepid of California
They fear enemy. They cover at the thought of
no hostile feet They quake at the apprehension of
invading foot of unfriendly gum They do not
demand protection and they would scout the profer
even of such measure, upon such pretext.
The argument in favor of the Pacific Rail Road, as
military work. has not the merit of candor, and is
not urged bona 16 That is at last the objection to
it; and which it cannot possibly withstand. Col Ben
ton rests the project such sham justification.
He is too plain spoken and straightforward for that
He calls the road highway, and " highway it
is intended to be and will be. 1t will be nothing
else. Military road " it is not intended to be-
will be, can bo. 1t will be a highway " thor
oughfare, and nothing else Troops may pass
it military stores may be transported by it. but these
will only be incidents of its existence, and will no
more be the object for which it will be constructed
than they have been the objects for which the - 900
miles ofrairoads already built i'll the Union have been
constructed.
1t would strike the plain thinking, plain speaking
trainers of the Constitution, with great deal of sur
prise, if they were alive, to hear this railroad, of
continental dimensions, classified among the imple-
ments of war; which they intended to authorize the
procurement and manufacture of by the General
Government in that plain, straightforward, intelli
gible instrument 1t is a wide departure from the
simplicity and directness of the old republican hab
its of thought and speech, to call railroad, and
such railroad, military work. 1t is in sad
fict with all commercial notions and all ordinary
uses and purposes of railroads, to hold out the OBJ
Ject of the great work proposed peculiarly militia
ry This attempt to invest the monster project
with military character, is contrary to fact contra
ry to intention contrary to possibility, contrary to
common sense, contrary to every principle either of
the strictest the most lattudinous construction
and contrary to that direct blunt practical sentiment
of the American people, which despses subterfuge
indirectOn and palliation, which makes them march
right up to any object look at it without spectaces,
and call spade spade, and shovel shovel in
defiance and contempt of what enthusiasts, hair
sptters, dreamers or romancers may say to the con-
trary. 1t will require great many speeches, and
an immense expenditure of sophistry and rhetoric,
to make the sensible, practical American people
gard this road as any thing else than what Col Ben
ton calls it: HIGHWAY, PEOPLES ROAD continent
tai THoRoUGHFARE: and we only commisserate
the deluded statesman who undertakes to prove to
25,OO0OOO of the most shrewd, practicable and i'm
practicable people in the world, that it is any thing
else. We pity the honest men who are striving to
persuade their own honest minds to accept and to
support so mOnStrOus delusion.
The measure proposed for the National Govern
ment is evidently one tending to Capitalization and
consolidation. If the people the Democratic par
ty IN the United States, are prepared for such a
charge In the federal policy, they cannot naugurae
the grand innovation more felicitousy than by the
construction of the Pacific railroad in the manner
proposed. If such be their determinations let them
change the constitution so as openly to tolerate it.
and not rely upon forced constructions and artificial
interpretations for for doing that which is
contrary to the spirit and letter of that instrument
Richmond Enquirer
PARsoN BRowNLow's OPINION HARRIET BEEcuER
Stowe. The redoubtable Parson is out upon Harriet
after the following fashion:
This longtongued visionary woman, and calum-
nator of the South, is in Europe. where she is
being honized by the haters of American institu-
tions and Republican liberties She is the daughter
of old Lyman Beecher, Presbyterian minister and
has two brothers who are ministers of the same
church. Her husband is also minister, and at pres
ent, we believe, is Professor in Andover College.
They are all Aboltionists, both male and female and
the lying book STYLED Uncle Toms Cabin is believed
to be the joint production of the entire family
ufactured for the occasion, and means for rails
ing the wind. Her Ladyship, it is well understood
is the most talented member of old Lyman's family.
But, merciful God! she presents to the world the
most hideous physiognomy ever gazed upon by the
eye of man! She is ugly Original Sin-an
abomination in the eyes of all civilized peoplel A
tall, coarse, vulgar looking -stoopshoulder-
ed, with long yellow neck, and long peaked
through which she speaks-an abomination in the
sight of Southern negroes who instnctively turn up
their fiat at the idea of using the nasal organ
to aid the organ of speech A daguerreotype of her
Ladyship, which have seen, the stomach of
Southern gentleman but lay aside art and present
the reality, and big black negro is affected with the
intensest horror! Pigeon-toed with big foot and
ankle, added to her long broad sides and fat chest
and other personal charms, she may pass through
southern negro kitchens at all times, without inn
pressing rude negro that he will offer the in
dignity sometimes offered to white women, who trav-
ell beyond their proper limits ~
RUNS MORMON TEMPLE AND THE IcAR1ANs.
correspondent of the Dover On. H. Star, under date
of June 17th gives interesting facts in relation
to the city of NauToo, Mormonism, &c:
Before the temple was burnt it nearly finish
ed. Now all that remains is the end facing the riv-
en- and this is for few miles back in the coun-
try, and at distance the river, below and
above. 1t was built of limestone; the outside hewn
and carved, exhibiting some of the most beautiful
figures that made on stone. The location
for the city is considered of the best the river
1t is a point of land formed by great bend in
the river, overlooking quite portion of Iowa. A
considerable part of the city is below the bluff yet
so high that it is inundated. The present
number of inhabitants is about 5000, and there is
but evangelical meeting, and this is the Metho-
dist. The Catholics have meeting in the place.
The ruins of the temple not the only ruins.
Many of the brick houses in the back part of the city
are deserted, and the remains of many burnt houses
continue upon the grounds. Had the Mormons, even
with their humbug, conducted little BETTER this
would have been great place. Most of the villages
n this county under their control.
Joe Smiths widow has married, and lives in the
city, She and her husband keep the Mansion House.
Her Oldest son is about twenty years of age. They
nave fellowship with Mormonism. Boynton, who
irst preached in Maine, Mormon, and induced