Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-06-11
Correspondence Of the Standard.

PHILaDELP HiA. June 5.sIs53.
TO The Editor Of HE Standard.
From the way the wind is now Blowing, we are
Obliged to conclude hata change Of startling mag
nitude is impending over the governments Of the
earth. The rebellion in China is the side of eis-
il1zaton, and whatever The issue will be felt the world
| over. This, however, can scarcely be enumerated
among the cardinal elements which ing "a
bout the changes referred The tide of emigration
setting from Europe 10 other countries, aud mainly
TO this, will prove the more irresistible. England
has wealth, money, well as the labor which that
money is said represent, but both stealing i'm
PercePby from her possession, at least, from her
CONTROL Granting that she may in any event. and in
spite of circumstances, retain large proportion of
her money, what will that be worth her gov
eminent : 1t may iced and cothe its possessoTs,
but will it necessarily give her either subjects or SOL
ders Besides. may not the production OF gold IN
otheS countries, reduce, day by day, the value OF
money? Things look dark for England. The newer
portions OF the world are sdPping her to the foun-
daiion. ..
do not know that this will give US, hat we have
had yet, key the decline OF other npires
but il will inevitably prove to us how England may.
| and will be destroyed. have never yet received.
from the luminous pages Of Gibbon, idea. or
apology for the decline Of Rome, except that ought
to have declined. / think / can how pos
ierty may sometimes De bewiidered. Philosophers
tell US that money is labor; single idea will show
that this is only true when the TWO side by SIDE
Suppose community of an hundred persons had
half the money in the world without the existence
Of labor, and the convenience OF Intercourse, what
would that money be worth Did not the earlier
days of California well nigh establish the faIsy of
this old theory :?
But neither England Germ1ny asks an argu-
ment upon this point; both these lettering govern
ments have gone seriously 10 work to arrest the
mistakable tendency OF events; but II is no go-ihey
dooh ed, and the noble monuments of civilization
and art, which adorn their territories, will ere long
be quite as little regarded those OF the Tiber
and Helespont. The w ords Fair in Hyde Park
step, bold one and not unwsely concei we'd
but like the proposition of Louis Philippe, it
too late. Besides. it did not work with single le-
it advertised the workshops of England, but il
introduced the people Of that country to thousands
Of intelligent Americans, and have understood that,
contracts entered into there, being daily fulfilled
by large parties OF English arriving and settling in
the western portions Of the Unlled StaOS. This,
then, is the way the wind is blowing; and arourd
the tree of liberty the fragments of their power ill
congTegate, in spite of Fucy and in defiance Of for
tune.
But what will we do, or what are we doing l
hear hints of the annexation oil Mexico let The winds
blow on; we have already presented front on the
far bank of The Mississippi of fifteen hundred miles
extent in fifteen or twenty years this will reach the
Pacific leaving in its wake Rail Roads, Teegraphs,
Manufactures, and Farms. Who, then, what power
will annex Mexico !-The wind that is blowing.
What handful OF half and halves exist in the
neghborhood of such nation Money, the gold
which is operating in favor of this result may,
and probably will, down half it's presen;
value but who cares we shall have the labor, and
neither medium nor measure will effect we'll be-
ing The immense mmi grafton which showed
itself last week, in this city and New York, though
the immediate cause of these remarks, only
continuing link in the chain which counts back by
years. When il will stop cannot tell but thing
is certain until the contamination of what
have barely limited at-Libery, prosperity, land Anglo
Saxon dominion. s. Fl.