Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-09-23
THE NoRrncARoIrsA srANnARp.

Two MY SUBSCRIBERS AND FRIENDS have
made arrangements by which have secured the ser
bury Banner Associate Editor Of the Standard and as
the, business partner of the establishment Mr. Wilson
printing and publishing department. and will also write
Ios me paper as require This win leave with
the heavy in5ors Incident to the printing publishing
will be thereby enabled perhaps render the Standard
more useful friends and acceptable to its readers
for some time effect indeed it had become almost
owing to the increased subscriptions bust
Mr. Wilson is will known to the Democracy of the State
as CONSISTENT and unfnching Democrat and orcble
secured his services He joins to fine abilities as writer
seldom q md Isl ana labor and of attention to business
not when they shall come til know him as we'll as do
VIII eordaiy concur in the estimate formed of his
have been engaged for eleven years in pub
the signs favorable Democratic success but
nave had the qualification of recording these columns
locng with friends the useful and benecent results of
.hese rumphs to North CAROLINA and the Union. trust
have made mistakes and committed errors am free to
confess but have constantly srren to do what believed
10 De rght and have, at rate adhered to principles
without " regard to men, have uniformly regarded It
circumstances the great principles Of the Democratic
to the rights of the Stases and strict construc
serving the Union of e sa as ss only bpr pre-
and as its founders intended should administered and
secondly insist organization the party as nds
pesable and the only carrying out its prin
epies Nor have been Indifferent the prosperity of
North Carolina have the qualification knowing that
the Standard has been The decided Common
Schools of internal improvements and measures
calculated to advance mining agricultural and con-
lnercia nceress and that it among The first not
the very first next to Gov Reid to take ground for the
great principle of equality between free white men at the
baiIobox The course of the paper scarcely need say,
Will not be changed 1t will continue be a defender and
exponent of Democratic prncples-the unwaycrinc avo-
cate OF organization in the Democratic party devoted
to such measures shall give promise bringing the
beloved State.
To the friends who have stood by through abors
and strfes OF eleven and who have me and
honored me with their confidence far beyond my merits
take this occasion to return the homage of my most hearty
thanks and gratitude My highest ambition shall be to
retain such friends, to make friends
une stamp, and toproVe myself worthy of support
and confidence. : Fi :
have procured Power-Press to be worked by steam
and shall be thereby enabled supply number of
scrbcrs My Weekly list numbers time nearly three
thousand and trust that by the aid of friends in all por
tons OF the State it reach four five thousand
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