Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-09-23
"Of whose true, fixed and resting quality
There is nofellow in the armament"

| newspapers and periodicals through the Raleigh
Postofice has diminished during the last five or 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 are 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 on account of their injurious and Of
fensivc course towards the South is stronger than
many have supposed. In one respect we are graft
fled at this, for desire to our own publica-
tons sustained and improved; but the political as
pect of the matter is by no means such as we could
wish. But the fault is not with the South. If Har-
per and Putnam, and Greedy and Raymond think l.
their business their duty to assal and malign the
South, Southern men, out of common self-respect
even will to patronize their publications. Alb
ot:on literature must depend the purses of Abo-
litionsts for support.
How many Northern men women read South
ern newspapers? With the exception of the Rich
mond Enquirer, no Southern newspaper, we pre-
sumo is 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 Postofhces
as Southern ones We too dependent on the
North for our opinions, as well for the articles
wear 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, a mutual DEEPEN
dence might exist which would tend to the benefit
and to the exaltation in every respect of the whole
country reciprocal advantages might be realized in
arts science and literature and we might have the
pleasure of approving and applauding where we now
denounce and resent.
The truth is there are Northern newspapers cir
culating to some extent in the South, that light
well be presented by our Grand Juries as incendary
publications. Some of these newspapers are ncen-
diary, others are insulting in their tone, while most
of them injurious to Southern interests from the
manner in which they discuss slavery political
question. We trust the circulation among us of Pc
rodicals and papers of this stamp will continue to
diminish. They missiles of evil and evil only.
Then again there are q few that true to Con-
stitutional rights, ane just towards 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 Wing
paper of the free States which deserves Southern
patronage, except the New York Express, and that
is at tmes-though evidently disposed 20 do us JUS
tice-more 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
tutiona rights, cannot does not support even
newspaper with the exception above mentioneO
disposed to award justice to section, or willing
even to utter a word in our defence.