Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-05-13
For the Standard
"NORTH.C AROLINAIL LUSTRATED"- PORTE
Ha1.r CRAYON-THE REGISTER st

- EssRs. EDITORS IL have always heard It raid
that "a man is known by the company he keeps"
If this be so, Porte Crayon must be very low
character. But, gentlemen, who is Porte Crayon
Have patience and will give him an Introduction
to your readers: He is said to be traveller and
that he has been in the eastern portion of the
Old North State in order to obtain facts illustrating
the character of her people, for Harpers Magazine.
In the May number of this Magazine find No. II
Of North Carolina Illustrated" which cannot fail
to arouse feelings Of indignation, Of contempt, in
the breast of every true Caroinian against the man
who would deliberately publish such vile SANDERS
upon the good name of his native State.
The following is a specimen of his compliments of
North Carolina:
"In a country endowed by nature with such I'M
limited plantations, yielding their products for
small an amount of labor, one might expect to see
some signs of wealth and prosperity yet here all
appearances seem to indicate the reverse Human
habitatons are few and far between; and when
found are but little better in appearance than the
huts of our western borderers."
We are a very poor people, indeed according to
this statement. There no " signs of wealth and
prosperity" in North Carolina The houses of her
citizens are but little better than the huts of our
western borderers'!
Crayon takes the trouble to explain the means
which employed by the Caronian to obtain the
turpentine from his pines; and in this explanation
you may see his ignorance or his disregard of truth
(Which of the twain do you think, Messrs. Editors
without the aid of microscope. After stating thas
the resinous matters obtained by cutting boxes and
hacking above them, he says I" the same process is
commenced on the opposite side of the tree" Now,
Mcssrs. Editors, don't you kn0ao that this is not
true. Every man that knows anything of turpen-
pentine-getting Enoaos that boxes cut on every
side of the tree at the same time
His next illustration of North.Carolina is that of
old woman after her husband with broomstck,
and the daughter of this loving couple on a gray
pony "astride, without saddle or bride, driving
up couple of COWS" l venture the assertion that
Porte Crayon has seen more-if, indeed, he did see
it, which do not beeve,-n this respect than nine
hundred and ninety-nine-one thousandths Of your
readers
The next thing that is mentioned by Crayon as
an illustration OF North-C Carolina, is cock fight
the parties stalking from twenty five cents to one
dollar: Picter$" arc gotten up the better to illus
trate North Carolina.
l was both surprised and mortified to see that
your neighbour Mr.. Syme, Editor of the Register,
has been "pufng" this disgracetul batch of false
hoods and predicts that they Twill be read with
interest by every North Carolni.n." Why, Mr..
Syme, thought you were better Ca-olir'ian than
this. You sit in your sanctum and cry "w without
ceasing" for North. Carolina s share of the public
lands; but when an impudent Yankee wishes to
make the 10000 readers of Harper laugh at North
Carolina you advise your readers to purchase the
number containing the libel; for it is amusing"
But Messrs Editors, you may ask what mean
by saying man is known by the company he
keeps?" mean to say that if this be true, Porte
Crayon must be no better than those twenty five
cent cock-fshters of whom he speaks; for he ac
knowledges himself that he mixed in" freely with
the motley crew.
would advise Porte Crayon to return to his
Yankee home and look and laugh at his own swim
ding. lottery houses, mock auctions, bogus railroad
ticket offices. pick pockets prize fighters, gamblers
traitors iorgers, defaulters, &c, &c. &C., ad infni
tum. s,l5,l5,4.
May II, 1857.