Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-01-04

stAiJ SSltiASu Str0ng minus OF the
poor boys as well as of the richare coming out in
to the light the school house. the privilege to enter
It for instruction, without money price, is right
which all can claim, and which, in its results for
good upon posterity, cannot be overstated or over
estimated. The system of Internal improvements
now in existence, will be maintained; and other
works will, in due time, beadded, until the blue
ters of Beaufort Harbor andpf Wilmington shall be
united by Railway to the blue mountains of the
West and until all portions of the State shall either
directly or Indirectly realize thbenefts of these i'm
provements. The work bcforesthe public men and
people of the State howeven issas arduous as it is
important and noble; our Con,na Schools must be
still further improved-our rivers; where it is prac-
roads, rail and plank, must be Constructed
mineral wealth of iron, gold, silver, copper, coal,
marble and the like must be developed; and the pri
mary interest," Agriculture, all its branches, will
demand, heretofore, and trust will receive, the
encouragement and fostering aid Of government. In
word, the new year, as it approaches with bless
ngs upon its wings for the aborious and deserving,
calls upon all men every where within our borders,
to themselves to their duties and responsible
ties, and to bear partan active and heartfelt part
in the work of enlightcning and elevating mind,
and of advancing, by all just and feasible means, all
the industrial interests of the State 10 attempt to
stand still is at once to fall behind indeed, we might
well bid the cataract pause in its fall to expect
our sister States to wait for us in the Of pro-
gress. Let US then, on profting as best VIC may
by their experience. If they have made mistakes
committed errors, let cndeavor to avoid them;
if they have built up markets within their own lin
its, and given their preference always for works ten
ding to tn .ir own seaboard let us do the same,
sured that like must produce like effects and
that policy which contributes to the prosperity of
any one Southern Atlantic State, cannot be doubt
full one for
The writer speaker, good reader who may ad-
dress you on the commencement of the year 1864,
will find his subjects greatly enlarged compared With
those only briefly alluded to here and not the least
bright in the SERIES and not the least grateful to his
feelings, will be that of the past progress the condi
tion and future prospects of North Carolina
And now, if our kind readers will pardon us the
apparent cgotism VIC may add that this issue closes
the tenth year of communings, chats, converse
tons with and communications to them: Our du-
ties have been responsible and aruous but labor is
not unpleasant especially when it brings with it the
rewards of friendships which we have enjoyed, and
a sense that we have been, in some degree not alto
gcther useless in place during this period We
enter the year with light heart and with strong
faith in the people and in cherished principles
The past so far as this press is concerned is the
only pledge we offer to its future We
do not fear the people, because have dared to tell
them the truth, as we shall do again, if occasion
should require it; but we of them, and our
first duty is to them. We shall stand by princ-
pies, by party organization, by FRANK PIERCE and
the Federal Constitution and in relation to State
affairs we expect to maintain the positions occupied
in the last campaign. In all things indifferent, as we
observed some weeks since, we are ready to conc-
late and compromise; but principles and organization
we never surrender. Principles is the ship, organi
zation is the anchor; when the storm beats there
can be no hope for the vessel if the anchor should
fail to hold.
And now, good rcadcr-we mean that ono who
hath borne with our imperfections and our errors du-
ring past years, and who is ready to go with us
through the vcisstudcs and struggles of tho next
"'ts to thee that We would drink"
overt the last drop in The well,
Al g4sily Oh the b:ias,
-, Ere my faintng spirit fell,
IT'S to thee that / would drink"