Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-05-21

readers agalnsb zen. Pierce, ana tnaC 100 at tue
very time he was confronting vile Abolitionists in
the free States for the benefit of his slayeholding
brethren Of the South. But the Registers day is
over. No one will be deceived or misled by its
allegations or insinuatons. The confidence of the
of North Carolina in FRANKLIN PIERCE is
as fixed as fate. They voted for him at the polls,
and they will stand by him as long as he adheres
to the sentiments announced in his Inaugural, with
that frmness for which they are proverbial, and
which no partizan assaults can shake or even i'm
pair.
OBSOLETE ISSUES AND NEW ISSUES.
The Washington Republic of recent date con-
tanned article headed I" obsolete issues, :" from
which we make the following significant and i'm
portant extracts. That paper, after abiding at
some length to the measures which have heretofore
divided the people into parties, and after showing
that the issues of 1914, 1849 and 1850 are obso-
lete having been settled by Congress and the voice
of the people as expressed in the election of Gen
Pierce, says:
In the spirit of party discord the praccals
and pursists fought over Distribution. The South
Democrats were forced to receive millions of sur.
plus revenue under protest, and with ferocious af
nations of their right to return the money-whenev-
they chose 10 do so; they sometimes maintained
that, though the appropriation of public lands
improvement was, in their opinion, iniquitous, Con-
gress ought in justice. to force upon the malcontent
Stales an equal share of the public plumber.
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 undersod in market. This reduces the
public revenue from that source. The proposed
grdduaons the grnDt of lands to the andless and 10
the land States renders it DrObahla that bV the
time we shall have enhanced the value of one hall
the national domain by giving away the other, the
balance will be relinquished. There is. therefore,
very little prospect that there will be any thing 10
distrbute and still less prospect of an equal dlsl-
button if there was.
Such the position of all the measures which have
for some years past divided parties. The people,
seeming anticipate the administrative sagac!Y OF
Mr.. Pierce, have waited for the adjustment of party
squabbles until, their patience being exhausted,
they have decided them sometimes the dssatisfac-
faction of both parties"
We call particular attention to the opinion OF
the Republic that there Is g very little prospect
that there aOiU be anything to distribute and still
less prospect Of equal distribution # there acas
This is the language of leading Wing 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 Oh the subject of distribution and the pub
lie lands, than to the dispassionate statements OF
the Republc-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
matter! The Register calls upon Chat aOas the
Wing party to rally; the Republic says Wing is
sues are obsolete and that the people have conf
4 Il r n.
Pierce.
What Wing principles? Mr.. Fillmore's late
organ says they have not died out, but that this is
40 time to assert them.
The Republic, however, in concluding its article,
presents the following issues
But in the life of nation every day has its issue.
New questions must arise. They have arisen. Shall
We be excluded from their consideration!
Should the United States consent 10 reciprocal
trade with Canada Have right TO participate
il the BRUSH fisheries!
Should the navigation of the st. Lawrence, like
that of the Mississippi, be free to the producers who
inhabt its head waters 7
Ought we to take the lripartite pledge ac-
quire another foot of laad upon This continent. Ought
The Monroe doctrine to be maintained!
Ought we TO unIIe on co-protectorate or cOPart.
ship upon Isthman America
Should the great railroad TO the Pacific be con-
strucled with the common means for the common
benefit
Such questions as these be met. II is the
duty of all form and express opinions in re-
gard 10 Them"
These questions, says the Republic, must be
met. 1t is the duty of all men, continues that
paper, "to form and express opinions in regard to
Them We invite the Editor of the Register to
a consideration of these questions, and shall look
for a response from that paper in due time.
EE The rumor that Santa Anna has applied
to Spain for help against the United States, would