Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-09-27
''Of whose true, fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the armament"

az We learn that the circulation of Northern
newspapers and periodicals through the Raleigh
Postoffce has diminished during the last five six
years; and this with the reduced price of postage
and the large increase Of our population. This fact
proves two things first, that citizens extend
ing better patronage to home newspapers; and
secondly that the feeling of resentment among them
towards portions of the press and of the people of
the free States account of their injurious and Of
fensive course towards the South is stronger than
many have supposed. In one respect we are graft
fed at this, for desire to own publica-
tons sustained and improved; but the political as
pect of the matter is by means such could
wish. But the fault is not with the South. If Har
per and Putnam and Greely and Raymond think i.
their business their duty to assa and maign the
South, Southern men, out of common self-respect
even, will cease to patronize their publications. Alb
clifton literature must depend the purses of Abo
litionlsts for support
How many Northern men or women read South
ern newspapers? With the exception of the Ricl.-
mond Enquirer, no Southern newspaper, we pre-
sume is to be found in out of fifty of the cities
and towns of the free States; while Northern jour
nails are nearly as common at Southern Posoffices
Southern ones We are too dependent on the
North for opinions, well as for the articles we
and with which we furnish our houses; and
this dependence will not be broken until we learn
to print and to manufacture for ourselves If the
relations between the two sections such they
should be-if the North would let the South alone,
and if that feeling of concord and affection which
once prevailed could be restored, mutual dcpcn-
dence might exist which would tend to the benefit
and to the exataton in every respect of the whole
country reciprocal advantages might be realized in
arts, SCIENCE and literature, and might have the
pleasure of approving and app!auding where we now
denounce and resent.
The truth is, there Northern newspapers cir
culating to extent in the South, that might
we'll be presented by our Grand Jures as incendiary
publications Some of these newspapers are incen-
diary others are insulting in their tone, while most
of them are injurious to Southern interests from the
manner in which they discuss slavery as political
question. We trust the circulation among us of pc
riodcals and papers of this stamp will continue to
diminish. They are missiles Of evil and evil only
Then again there are few that are true to our Con-
stituonal rights, an4 just towards US as people;
and among them We may mention the Boston Post,
the Pennsylvania, the Albany Argus, the New
Hampshire Patriot-all Democratic. There are 9TH
er Democratic prints equally sound with those we
have mentioned: but we call to mind no Whig
paper of the free States which deserves Southern
patronage, except the New York Express, and that
is at tmes-though evidently disposed 70 do us JUS
tce-more or less pervaded and warped by the anti
slavery feeling New York City, though constantly
and greatly benefited by Southern staples and Sou
thern trade, and professedly friendly to Consti-
tutonal rights cannot does not support even one
newspaper with the exception above 'mentioned)
disposed to award justice to section, willing
even to utter word in our defence.
~ The last Fayetteville Observer contains
brief but intensely and lying article about the
Editor of this paper. 1t written by the Junior,
Master Peter as the Senior Mr.. Hale absent
| a visit to the North. We admonish this young gen.
tleman to restrain his bile if he will get into
pet to exhaust his indignation in shooting at frogs
| or tomtits in the marshes of Cape Fear. He owes
the respectable position he occupies entirely to
cident The Senior Mr.. Hale deserves credit for his
abilities and for his success in the world but if Pe
ter had been left himself it is doubtful if he would
now be able to write his name -.
We feel complimented by abuse from such con-
Germ as the Fayetteville Observer.
SALES OF REAL ESTATE. The property known as
Guions Hotel, in this City, was sold at auction on
Wednesday last for se,7Oo; the purchaser, Mr..
| Khgsbury, OF Oxford. -a
Mr.. J. M Lovejoy, we learn, has purchased the
Meredith place, near the City, for 50, leo.