Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1857-05-06

"S u uSlNOTtHy rs tue Olu wings! w e think not.
And if the latter deceived the people in this respect
in 1912, how can we trust the former? But the
"irreparabe folly" of rth.Carolna, which we are
thus called upon to mourn, is greater than that
OF Delaware New Jersey, Massachusetts, South Car
olna, Virginia, and the other old States The lands
belong to the genera! government. They should be
held and used for general purposes. They should
not be squandered wasted, any than other
public property. If there be indeed any net pro-
ceeds. let them be applied to the support of the
general government; and let the taritEtares on the
people be ,educed to that ertent Is that rejection
OF the benefit in these lands? Is that unwisc, or
mpracticablc, or unusual? Surely not. Is it sir
reparable folly" to devote common public property
to common public use and thereby reduce our
taxes? We think not But the Watchman of the
same date, in another article says:
1.-The New York Legislature before it's adjourn
ment adopted resolution requesting the represen-
tatives of that State in Congress- to their best
endeavors to keep the public lands frem the hands
of spectators, and to secure that distribution Of
them among the old States to achich the latter are
entitled! ! What will North Carolina do? The
Standard cries "hum6ug!" and if let alone will
humbug the State out of its rights"
"What will North Carolina do?" She will not 60
with New York The same New York Legislature
passed resolutions denouncing the decision of the
Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case, and setting
at naught the federal Constitution and the law of
the land. The same New York Legislature passed
a law which imposes the penalty Of imprisonment
in the penitentia'y upon any gentleman from the
South tcho carries lis Stare into that State. The
State CT New York, at present controlled and gov
erned, is more hostile to the rights of North CARROLL
ma than France or Great Britain. We would not
trust the black Republicans, who now have that
State under their control as SON as we would the
States of Europe; for the former have Deliberately
had no opportunity of accepting and maintaining it,
New York contains many sound and patriotic cti-
zens, but they are in minority. We respect Mr..
Dickinson, Mr.. Marcy, the Albany Argus, the New
York Day Book, the New York News, the Journal
of Commerce, and New York City, and we can go
with them; but go for nothing which is
proposed and advocated by the majority in the New
York Legislature 1t is pcrjured hostile, a for
eign, belligerant, disloya, and an namously de-
praved majority. 1t respects neither the rights OF
the South the federal Constitution, nor the sa-
credness of compacts. If all the fee States were of
the same mind with that maj ority, the Union would
dissolve, and the ploughshare of carnage would
through this country from Maine to California
1t may suit the Watchman, and other K. Ms in the
South, to go Nth the Neoo York Legislature; but
go not in that direction, with that company. The
black Republicans of New York-themselves land
grabbers and -speculators-themselves purcha-
sable human wares in the market, as the late inves-
tigation in Congress proves-themselves the infer-
ors in character in manhood, and in morals of many
of the slaves of the South-these men come forward
to keep the public lands from the hands of specu-
| lators," and to demand distribution in the name OF
the old States! And the Watchman says amen !
and calls upon NorthCaroiina to 50 with them