Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-03-15
G!t Stan0ard*
RALEIGH, SATURDAY, MARCH IL, 1854.

WHY CHANGE DEMOCRATIC MEASURES?
When in by gone days we were toiling by the dim
sht of the midnight lamp, we'll do we remember
! he discouraging prospects which surrounded us on
very side and the painful anxiety we felt for the
uccess of the principles of the great Democratic
artv. Our State government was in the hands of
blOated Arisocracy, reckless and proscriptive be-
Cnd our powers of description. Every Wing mca-
re was laudcd to the skies, and every Democratic
Eeasure represented to be fraught with the most
binous consequences to the people. The people
ere told that without a National Bank we could
either collect revenue nor successfully prosecute
war; that commerce and exchanges could not be
fely conducted; and, above all, the credit system
oud be destroyed, property sacrificed, and general
hin ensue If Democrats were elected we were
bid the public lands were to be iven away to the
w States; that if the Independent Treasury and the
|emocratic policy of reducing the Tariff prevailed,
hen all the great interests of tie country would be
esuOyed. Reader, do you remember the awful nc
res of ruin which were the theme of Wing orators
nd Whg newspapers? Democratic principles were
lot only abused and misrepresented, but prominent
hembers of the Democratic party were tiercely as
allied with fasehoods, with view to prescribe them
rom society or force them to surrender their long
cherished principles If the Democrats started
candidate for Governor the Whig press and the lea
ders of the Wing party would affect to treat him as
presumptuous upstart and raise the cry of dema-
gogue." This Aristocracy bccame arrogant from
succession of trumphs, that during the existence
Of war, commenced against the United States by
Mexico, they actually declared their own country to
be in the wrong The Whig candidate for Govern
or declared he would not give old pencil for Cali
ornia. Under such a reckless warfare had the De-
mocratic party of North Carolina to contend. No
party could have triumphcd under such circumstan-
ces, excepta party whose principles were founded
upon truth and justice.
But brighter day has dawned, and victory has
perched on our banner Error has fed before the
lights of truth and experience; and the Democratic
party is in power. We would ask, what prediction
Of the Wing party has been fulfilled? Has the want
OF National Bank ruined the country? Have the
public lands been given away, as the Wings prcdc-
ted twenty years ago would be the case if Democrats
had the power? Has not Democratic policy made
treasury ruined the country? Has the Democratic
policy in regard to the Tariff luned the manufactu
rer and impoverished the Farmer? Is not the coun
uy happy, prosperous and free? AS if to show the
madness and folly of the Wing party in declaring
'alorna to be worth nothing treasures gold unex
ampled in the history of the world have been pour
l's into our midst to enhance the prosperity o
this great country.
again. we would inquire at what period in tn
history OF North Carolina has she been more pros
perouS than under the present Democratic State ad
'n'S'rauon? What interest is less prosperous thai
N was under any Whig administrations? Have no
!Ouf puollc improvements increased? What admin
l'Aa'lOn has done more to produce reform and ad
a"ee equal rights? Under what administration di
~' ". people ever receive as much School money
'''f What administration did your State Bond
'i sell 1or premium, or when did the credit {
-' o'ate ever stand SO high? Under what admir-
'Dau0n OF the Wing party has so much been don
r. 1''eope the wealth and resources of the State
~ usr what Wing administration has the prosperit
.., ue State increased so rapidly as under the pre-
~, Denoeratic administration of State affairs Ft
n.r len, we ask, do the Wings wish to change OIL
,,oH:, Ihe answer must be for power and off
WI the people forget their own interes
s' w. 70 crafty the ambition of Wing politicians
70, answer, they will not They have been too 0
NJ usceiVed BY the promises Of Wing politicians.
81 II'l brother Democrats we have the facts on o,
ous Our cause is just; let US take courage, and
bs ~ u'y In the coming contest, and our efforts y
vii, Avsned Wv, with glorious victory victory th
,gh.s slll I'LL iarther advance the prosperity and d
snts Of the people.
W,.,. 0l.clan from rural region, being told
,stsa nston last week, that g consuls had decline
Office s0''sus, s'ol 'le " l1t 191s 'lAe :