Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-09-24
Some Hard Licks.

The Richmond Enquirer thus notices PROPOSE
ton in the New York Evening Post, to purchase and
coonize portion of Eastern Virginia:
1.-THE New York Evening Post informs us that
company is forming 1--WE suppose in New York, on
the principle of the Boston Emgran Aid Society, to
purchase and colonize large quantities Of land in
Tide Water Virginia, with view of propagating
aboltonism in this State.
Yankee impudence and impertinence are only
equalled by its want of pluck and chvalry and yet
it boasts of intending to perform feat quite dar
ing as Don Quixotte's challenge of the Lyons. The
gentlemen, the Christians and conservatives Of the
North never make such boasts, and never bully,
buster and, back out The term Yankee is not ap-
plicable to this class of men.
The Post well knows that such an enterprise as it
speaks of it is not contemplated by sane men, or If
contemplated will never be executed No respecta-
BILE people would or should submit, to an immigra-
ton protesting reasonable roguish purposes in
tending to revolutonise our institutions and take
away our property The North has its hands quite
full in the attempt to colonize and abotionze Kan
sas, and, with the warning in the ears of Smith of
Wheeling, and Underwood of the Rockingham dis
trict, will no: be likely soon to make an open de-
scent on Virginia.
Lands rise in price Tin the generaD in exact pro-
portion IS labor falls in price, and worth moth
ing when the whole products are given to the labor
err The high price Of lands is evidence of the large
tied and civilized countries the price of land, almost
universally exhibits the true condition of the labor
ing class. They are best situated and freest where
lands are cheapest worst situated and least free
where lands are dearest
You cannot take up a Yankee an English book
or paper that is not unconscousy Boosting that free
laborers are less free than negro slaves. In other
words that free labor is cheapest" Yes it is
cheap cruelty cheap, dog cheap; nay, there is not
animal that works half as hard, or fares half
bad, on an English farm as the FREE laborer.
The Post brags that it is following very hand
somely in the wake of England, and wonders we
don't follow its example.
All the ills of Pandora's box, all the wars, earth
quakes, plaques and pestiences, that have afflicted
humanity triAes light air, compared to cheap
labor and dear lands. They have alternately de-
vastated Western Europe with famine and revolution
for seventy years. They have produced ant-rent.
ism, strikes riots and Trades Union in New York,
and general spirit of agrarianism. 1t is because
lands are cheaper in the South, than in any other
settled and civilized country, that our negroes
tile tlees happiest, best situated common h6orers in
the aoortd. The freest, because they work more for
themselves, and less for the land owner than any
other laborers and hence the profits OF slave labor
less than those from $50 called) free labor. The
happiest because besides having less work to do for
theit employers, they are taken of, governed
and provided for, by those employers-ther mas
ters.
Your slaves to capital, at the North are ten times
more of slaves than our negroes. You boast offree
society, because it ensaves, more cheats more
defrauds labor than Southern slavery. We admit it.
But say the laborer is worthy his hire, and
that that society is not best where the labor cheap
est but sohere 1T is dearest!
We do not expect Yankee brains to comprehend
this, or if they did, Yankee morality would never
approve system that proposes to give laborers a
| just part of its own earnings. You have but one
idea one single idea, and that is, that the system
| of society is most perfect which most robs honest
labor to reward dishonest thrift, and cunning and
bargain making. You worship money and mann
! mon, and no other gods.
The Post would teach the South farming. y.
are by far the best farmers in the world, orsswhon
the world has ever seen. We have much largel
agricultural surplus than any other people treat
| ed, on thin, sandy and Indifferent sod. Yan
KEGS truck it, but don't farm at all. Qps iti
| us, makes more wheat than all the susie Aassa
i 4chusetts. We furnish the Yankees with haat fhe
food all their cotton clothingfmuc ofsheir sugar
&c., and get back in return counterfeit notions thai
] we were better without" r. .--.s