Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-08-01
Correspondence of the. standard.

5--- BosToN, Doth July, 1856. z
letter from this not visitedb by South
The men of New England certainly deserve infinite credit
for the industry by which they have made of
natural advantages over your own town of Beaufort not
marshes raised spanne b Seen sxse
and now from the city itself for miles in every direcos
The prosperity of Boston began from the carving ads
the country nothing ITSELF but long before the
tobacco and naval stores and brought us West India
sugar and slaves The Yankees commercially fond of
cestos they many and county saear
magazine devoted exclusively to geneaIogy; but of the
isence is utterly ignored suggest to their
this subject and how much it would the truth of his
tory The prosperity which trade founded manufactures
productions market Massachusetts, began to manu-
facture them into finished articles and this is her great
all her appliances of agriculture not enough food for her
people importing every raw material she makes
WOODEN CLOTH boots shoes coats shirts and ploughs and
prints books for half the Union Boston has naturally
New England States and Canada Portland has
ages over her for the trade of Maine Nova Scotia New
advantages for the trade of vermont western Mseeb1
setts Connecticut and Canada Aer natural circle small
productions market throughout the world and make the
most distant regions of the Union some degree her rih
exists where the bounes of are 50
great and artificial advantages few it may be useful to
ZIONIST unhesitangly says to savery-showing thereby
his superficial and his entire ignorance Of Social res
1or there are several sorts of slaveryhe condition
OF the aborng classes of England and France mot to
is 1ae o Of New
you ana YET not essential to high state of manuac-
ought to know that southern slavery in its ndusa
relations is agricultural simply; its industrial nfu
OF the whites The abotonst with all his pretensions to
Improvement 1 IN social economy and philanthropy, is
bunderer IN both, and his panacea the prescription of
quack
What then? Observe first that this New England pros
Pery SO much vaunted by its orators which strikes
the traveller forcby first is not really greater than
that of the South though different kind The wealth Of
the community is not greater, man. nor the nro
ducton; this has been demonstrated, many times The
prosperity of New England is essentially mechanical and
manufacturing it exists in nuclei of cities and is only r
raj as overhows in suburban market gardens orchards
The late Of h % State he a Milk Likely to
shows that its rural population has absolutely declined in
tent all the North Eastern States In all cen4 ce e1
neccu and Rhode Island large poor land are de-
used only for sheep walks. Secondly the New ENGLAND
people, inclined to mechanics and manufactures from the
vantages which tariff policy from 1916 to 1910 secured
to those branches of industry The South equally inclined
ness could readily do So It is to be reeted b
ever that small part of the talent zeal time which
were devoted to wang against protection had not
been turned into the channel of establishing
tor which the South is as well adapted the North
For in essence it was contest of classes which, ncden-
tally only sectional Had the South done that the
crisis of 1882 would have been the system
would have its course and died death After
these considerations, we prepared what con-
hnung causes the North is indebted for its prosperity-
Emigration and Education. The first gives it cbeap labor
the second skill You have little idea of the cbeann ess Of
labor here, and the advantages it confers The general
opinion IS that labor cheaper at the South but It is
true Field labor is worth, the agricultural districts of
the Northern States IS per month with board$2 dollars
without In the cities the wages of ordinary labor barely
suffice for living the laborer lay up nothing In North
Carolina aborers commanded last year $3.50 with board
and clothes superadded 1t is needless speak of the ad
Tanages which unbounded supply cheap labor gives
in every pursuit is the foundation and Indispensable
condition OF profitable production With an ever inflow
ing sream OF cheap labor quckenipg than California
gold how would North Carolina shake her apathy
The tangled forest of her Eastern swamps would fall as if
by magic and give place to the rustn maize Railroads
would spread her plains wind among her noun
talns This is the greatest and signal Northern
prosperity We hear sometimes from their prints their
plants OF the pauper immigrants It is the pauper labor
OF Europe which keeps alive the hum industry in their
workshops and cities and the surplus which required
here sent West to till the fields and supply the raw ma
terla OF industry. All this is well known and felt here
There not and has been any sincerity in the Know
Nothing cry for prescribing foreigners here 1t was
show and delusion from the first The last Legislature
OF massachusetts, which immortazed itself every other
description OF folly took step looking restriction
Immigration 1t was too wise for that the EMPLOYERS of
labor would have swept them into nonentity They might
worry for their faith protect stolen slaves
but they dare not trouble the cheap labor
the production of its wealth.
have occupied much space already that have no
for other subjects that designed to touch upon At
another time, if you pease will resume. R.