Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-07-01
WHAT WILL BE GAINED?

The Democrats have had control of public affairs
this State since 1851, and during that time every
interest has prospered and been advanced. Who
will deny this =?
Our internal improvement system has been going
forward-the plank roads and the Wilmington and
Raleigh Railroad have been and are now paying
handsome dividends. The Raleigh and CASTOR Road
has been reconstructed and placed a solid basis,
and will soon pay good dividends
Our Common School system has been improved
State Superintendent has been appointed, and
more money has been distributed per annum for the
education of the children than was ever before dis
tributed
An agricultural and geological survey of the State
has also been ordered, and has been progressing
greatly to the benefit of the people of the State and
much more attention is being paid than hereto
fore to the bringing out of agricultural mineral
and industrial resources.
The credit of the State, while making heavy loans,
has been nobly sustained, her bonds having COM
handed from four to five per cent.
And now, what is to be gained by change of
parties in the administration of State affairs? If the
Democrats have done well, all seem disposed to
admit why put them out and put in Wings? Would
such a course be wise? Would sensible farmer
turn away trusy overseer, who was devoted to his
interests to put in his place one who had been tried
and found wanting, or a stranger2 We think not.
Again: The fact is now APPARENTLY the course
of the Wing party in the late Presidential election,
in relation to the fugitiveslave law, and especially
in view of the fact that not Wing from the free
States roted for the Nebraska bil while majority
of Democrats from the same quarter voted for it
that the Wing party, as national organization is
dissolved. This fact is felt, seen, and well under
stood at Washington City. 1t is further shown by
the late Address, to which referred in our last,
Of those members from the free States who voted
against the Nebraska bill; and we have reason to
believe that those Southern Wings who supported
the bill WILL at an early day, take occasion to de-
clare in their places in the Senate and House, that
the Wing party, as national Larty, has ceased to
exist In addition to this, the Wing or Federal
leaders have abandoned all their former issues of
Bank, Tariff Bankrupt Law, and the like, and cling
only to their distribution policy, which, by the way,
they did not deem proper to allude to in their
last National Convention. Democratic measures are
now the laws of the land and under their operation
the country is enjoying prosperity and renown
never before attained. What, then, is to be gained
oy Southern Wings by adhering to their old party
organization? What can they, as Whigs-as Henry
clay Wings, for instance-hope to accomplish
Their great leaders, Clay and Webster, are cold in
oeath-their measures have failed and their living
leader, Mr.. Fillmore, was sacrificed in 1852 to ad-
vance the interests and policy of such as Wade
and Seward.
VIII Southern Wings again go into National
convention? Are they not sufficiently warned by
Tue experience of the past? Mr.. Fillmore's nomina-
N0n is out of the question, for the Freesoil infu-
suces now aIprevalent and allpowerful in the free
D'a'es' will prevent it; and we take it for granted
lucy cannot and will not support Seward or his
" The time has, therefore, arrived for the masses
the South of the party lately called Wing, to take
uew position and that position, it seems to us,
Sust De- in the nature of things, the side of
SOu'nern rights and with that organization which
Passed the Nebraska BILL and which was aided in
ue work by majority of Northern Democrats But
1Iuuppose' what is highly improbable, that Southern
W.T. mugs should continue in alliance with Northern
,n,eS-what can they effect? Can they divide the
mus or distribute the proceedsa Certainly not
niue den Pierce is President. Could they do it.
,.s ne would sanction it, without giving to the
of the free States an increase of Tariff
we think not North Carolina already