Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-02-21


munion with their Eastern brethren, and they feel
deeply these deprivatons, and have represented in
various ways their feelings to the General Assembly
Of the State Will they be heard 2-and uiM justice
be done to Western Carolina? We trust so. We
cannot doubt that most liberal spirit exists in the
Assembly towards our Western brethren, and that
something will be done to meet their wishes the
subject of internal improvement"
We Still entertain these views, and expect to con-
tnue to entertain them. We at least shall not re-
consider and change, as Gen. Dockery has done.
And though not authorized to speak for Gov Bragg,
we may take the liberty of expressing the belief,
founded ON knowledge of his character as public
man, and of his opinions and feelings the subject
that he would have voted, if he had been member
of the Senate, fol Mr. Averys bill, and against Gen.
Dockery's motion to reconsider.
We trust that the ns-montane people will bear
their disappointment with patience and still confde
in the of justice of their central and eastern
brethren. Other portions of the State have been
disappointed with them, by the failure Of cherished
schemes; and among these may merton the
Fayetteville Coalfelds Road, the Beaufort and Fav.
etteville Road, the Wilmington Charlotte and Ruth
erford Road, the Greensborough and Danvlle Road,
the Rockingham Coalields Road, the Milton juno
ton Road, and the Cape Fear and Deep River
Navigation Company. Three of these were ap-
plications for bare charters without any State
aid; and yet they were refused. Let our wes-
tern friends recoect that the Albemarle, the Cas-
we'll and Rockingham, the Surry and Ashe and
the Richmond and Montgomery regions of the State,
have yet enjoyed, in any considerable degree.
(and of them not to any extent) the aid of the
State; and that these regions have uniformly paid,
and paying taxes literally and with COM
parativc chcerfulness, for the immediate benefit of
more favored sections. Let them look at the thrift
ty and time -honored town of Fayetteville, in the
centre of the State, absolutely declining in business
and wealth, and her appeals for State aid, session
after session, disregarded. And let them look too,
at the progress which has been made in internal i'm.
provements since 184S. Then we had plank
roads, and railroads but the Wilmington and
Weldon, and the Raleigh and CASTOR Since that
time the Wilmington and Manchester Road has
been completed; the Raleigh and CASTOR Road has
beer reconstructed; the GAINESVILLE Road, feeder
to the Raleigh and CASTOR, has been built and by
the year 1858, line of central Railroad will have
been completed and in operation, reaching from
Beaufort harbor to the town of Charlotte three hum
bred miles. In addition to this, the work is going
| forward on the road from Salisbury to Morganton,
with an assurance that it aoU and shall penetrate
the mountains and let in the light of the far western
vallies through the Blue Ridge. Stout hearts, hope.
full men, unflinching friends all the State are
aoih you, bl ethren of the west Take courage
then-be of good cheer, for those "rocky ramparts"
shall fall and the East and the West shall be one in
interest, in intercourse, in communion, they are
| now one in name as North. Carolnans.
| ECONOMY OF A DEMOCRATIC ADMINIsTRATIoN.-
When Gen. Pierce, in March, 1858, entered upon
the administration of the government, the public
debt was 69,876,937. Forty.fve millions of this
debt has been paid, leaving about thirty millions
only-"all Of which" says the President in his late
message, "might be extinguished within gear
without embarrassing the public SERVICE but not be-
ing yet due, and only redeemable at the option of
the holder, cannot be pressed to payment by the
| government"
The merit of this reduction is due to the admins.
tration. Gen. Pierce, on retiring from his post
the 4th of next month, will leave to his successor
overlooking treasury, and a country prosperous
beyond all former example. There is only one fea-
in the picture calculated to occasion forebodng,
ana that is the slavery question: but if the principle
of intervention the result of Democratic actor,
should be regarded and carried out, We shall have
nothing to apprehend on this score.
Gen. Jackson commenced by his vetoes the good
work of arresting general system of internal i'm
provements by the federal government, and Gen.
Pierce has followed it up with fidelity and nerve
every way worthy of disciple Of the "old Hero"
Mr. Buchanan, we sure, will take the course
Economy will be prominent feature OF his admin
istraton, and, under President Pierce, rigid
countabty of all public officers and especially those
who receive and dsburse the public moneys.
The recent Legislature-yes the Democratic Leg
isature of North Carolina the aoeakest body of
men, ever convened under similar circumstances
Elizabeth City Sentinel
The Editor of the Sentinel was member of this
Legislature and the above ausion to it is therefore,
in capital TASTE We differ with him, however, in
his estimate of the body referred to. We have been
an observer of Legislatures and legislative action for
twenty years; and we can truly say that the late
Legislature, for ability and honesty will compare
favoraby with any which has preceded it during the
period mentioned.
No Democratic member so "weak" as to move
for the erection of a monument to Louis D. Henry,
of Edgecombe. The Editor of the Sentinel did that
thing and he boasts in the article from which the
above is extracted that he kept the House of Com
mons for five or six hours" from voting on Mr..
Reeves expungng resolutions. The Editor, then,
according to his own showing, acted tactious part
We do not, however, propose to censure him for
this, inasmuch as he was true to his Know Nothing
training, and acquitted himself faithfully follow
er of "Sam."
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