Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1857-02-25

WHAT THE DEMOCRACY Is DoING.-We regret to
learn that effect fthe failure ofthe late Legisla
ture to do any thing for the welfare of the State will be
to cause large numbers ofour best citizens to egrate
to other States, whose legislation and governments
are more LIBERAL and where their interests will be
better protected and provided for.
Salisbury Herald.
Now, we do not believe the Herald has "learned"
any such thing-it is fiction Of its own imagina.
ton. The Legislation and government Of North.
Carolina will compare favorably with that of any
free State of ancient or modern times. With Col.
Outlaw, of BERTHE, tired of this perpetual de.
probation of North Carolina by her own The
old State is not Ignorant illibera parsimo-
nous, nor debased. Far from it. She is an honest,
high.minded, progressive State No man goes be-
fore US in devotion to internal improvements; yet
before would see North Carolina so embarrassed
with debt as to be tempted to postpone or repud.
ate her liabities-before we would see her credit
blasted and her fair fame tarnished, we would sink
every Railroad within her borders.
But the secret of the Herald's expressions above
given, may be discovered little further on in the
same article. Speaking of those whom it says it has
"learned" " will emigrate, it says
"They will find in their homes enlighten-
ment, fbcrality and approximation to wealth and
uAuTiouS edSc WHICH can never nope 10 TeaIiZe
in the old North State so long locofocoism bears
rule and blights with the spread of its Upas wing
the prosperity of her sons. We part with them in
regret but doubt not their WISDOM m seeking among
the fertile praires of the far West an asylum and
home, free of the tyranny and oppression they fed"
Haman can never be happy SO long as "Mordecai
the Jew, sitteth at the Kings gate" 1t is "locefo
coism p" of which the Herald complains.
"Wealth and luxurious ease where is that to
be found by the emigrant, or by any one, except
the result of long years of anxiety and toll? And
when it comes, what is it-this luxurious ease
what is it worth? Rather curse than blessing.
In the sweat of thy brow" Mr.. Editor of the Her
aid, shalt thou eat bread all the days of thy life"
We are glad of it, and it is good for you But you
have no right, as loyal citizen, to attempt to in
jure the State by telling the people that it would be
wise in them to abandon North Carolina for other
lands. Factous, unloyal, churlish man!-you ought
to be thankful that you live in the nineteenth
tury, in the full blaze of Gospel light, on the North
American continent, and that you are citizen of
North Carolina. A fig for your "regrets," when
you deliberately declare that it is the part of wis.,
dom" in the people Of the State to abandon her soil
and take their departure to other lands! You make
q great outcry about nothing having been done by
the late Legislature for the "welfare of the State "
and yet out of forty members of your party in the
Commons, thirty-three voted against making pro-
vision to pay the principal and interest of the exist
ing State debt Shame on your hypocrisy, as well
as on your disloyalty, Mr.. Herald!