Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1853-05-25
OBSOLETE ISSUES AND NEW ISSUES.

OBSOLETE ISSUES AND NEW ISSUES.
The Washington Republic of recent date con.
tanned an article headed obsolete issues, F" from
which we make the following significant and i'm.
portant extracts. That paper, after alluding at
some length to the measures which have heretofore
divided the people into parties, and after showing
that the issues of 1874, ls4s and 1850 are obso-
lete having been settled by Congress and the voice
Pierce, says:
In the same spirit of party dscord, the practicals
and pursists fought over Distribution. The Sonih-
ern Democrats forced to receive millions Of
plus revenue under protest, and with fefocous aii-
nations of their right to return the money-wtenev-
er they chose TO do SO; they sometimes maintained
that, though the appropriation Of public lands to State
improvement was, in their opinion, iniquitous, Con-
gress ought, in justice, to force upon the maconien
States an equal share Of the public pnnder.
Even this question Of distribution seems in fair
way of settlement. The lands wisely given away TO
railroads absorb the current demand. The Govern
ment is undersold in market This reduces the
public revenue from that source. The proposed
grdduations, the grnnt of lands the landess and
the land States, renders it too probable that by the
time we shall have enhanced the value Of half
the national domain by giving away the other, the
balance will be relnquished. There is. therefore,
very little prospect that there will be any thing to
distribute, and still! less prospect of an equal ds,ri
button if there was.
Such is the position Of all the which have
for some years past divided parties. The people,
seeming to anticipate The administrative sagaci.y Of
Mr. Pierce, have waited for the adjustment of pa:v
squabbes until, their patience being exhausted,
they have decided them sometimes to the dissa,isfac-
faction of both parties"
We call particular attention to the opinion of
the Republic that there is "uery little prospect
that there riU be anything to distribute, and still
less prospect Of an equal distribution if there scas'
This is the language of leading Whig newspaper,
recently the organ of President Fillmore. What
will the Raleigh Register say to that! Are We to
pay more regard to the partizan appeals of the
Register on the subject of distribution and the pub
lie lands than to the dispassionate statements OF
the Republic-of paper published at the seat Of
government, where the facts can be had and ex-
amined they are? In other words, can the
Register be right and the Republic wrong in this
matter9 The Register calls upon achat was the
Wing party to rally; the Republic says Wing is
sues are obsolete, and that the people have conf
dence in the administrative sagacity" of Gen
Pierce.
What are Whig principless Mr.. Fllmore's late
organ says they have not died out, but that this is
no time to assert them.
The Republic, however, in concluding its article
presents the following issues:
" Blu, in the life of nation every day has its issue
! New questions must arise. They have arisen. Shal
We be excluded from their consideration
| Should the United States consent to- reciprocal
trade with Canada !! Have we a r;gh, 10 participate
iI the British fisheries?
| Should the navigation of hest. Lawrence, like
that Of the Mississippi, be free to the producers whc
inhabit its head waters?
Ought to take the iriparlte pledge never to ac
quire another foot of a.d upon this continent! Ough
| the Monroe doctrine to be maintained
Ought We TO unite co-pfoiectorate copart
ship upon lslhmisn America :?
Should the great railroad to the Pacific be con
struced with the common means for the common
beneftt
Such questions as these must be met. 1t is ihe
duty Of all men TO form and express opinions in re
gard to them.''
These questions, says the Republic, must bt
met. :" 1t is the duty of all men,. continues thai
paper, to form and express opinions iu regard te
thcm." We invite the Editor of the Register te
consideration of these questions, and shall lool
for response from that paper in due time.