Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1857-04-22

Inc deposit act WHICH passed the last house Ol
Representatives, is literal transcript of the por-
tions of the act of 1886 on the same subject and
the vote upon it was 10 to TO- Such Democrats as
Bocock, Caskie, Faulkner, McMullen, Millson,
Branch, Cingman, Craige, Ruffin, and Winslow vo-
ted for it; and such Democrats Cadwallader, j. |
Clancy Jones, Letcher, Quitman, Orr, Garnett, and
Goode voted against it. majority of the Democrats
of the House, it must be confessed voted against it
yet the X. Ms and black Republicans also divd.
ed, voting for and and some against it. Those
who sustained the deposit act Of 1886 and the bill
of the last session, did choice of evils. They
thought it rather better to place the surplus
deposit with the States than to leave it in the
treasury, to be used to corrupt officials, members of
Congress, and portions of tbd federal government
This surplus revenue had unavoidably accumulated,
against their wish, and they felt they ought not to
evade the question of disposing of it in some way.
Those who voted for the bill OF the late session,
ted also for the reduction of the tariff and they
in favor of still further reduction, so to avoid,
if all possible, an excess of surplus for the future
Distribution occupies different ground. That is
looked to by its advocates perpetuity-as dis
pensation of money from the Treasury by almost
every Congress--as a gift-as "charity," so to
SPEAK, Dy lile Cehra gov eIlueHt W tile CtateS. "A
deposit now and then-for example, every twenty
ycars-would not seriously impair the independence
of the States; but perpetual distribution would,
in the end, destroy every vestge of State hts and
consolidate the federal government. The States
would become mere pensioners on federal bounty,
and the liberties of the people would be snothered
in showers of gold
Good Democrats as we have shown, voted for
and against the deposit act of 1886, and for and
against the deposit bill of the last session. Gen.
jacksonville soundest and best Democrat, without
exception that ever ived-approved the act ofiS36,
reluctantly, we know but he afprured it, If the
principle involved had beea a vital principle he
would have applied the veto. He did not make the
question a test Of Democracy, but he did consider
distribution such test. No national Democratic Con-
vention has expressed an opinion on the dePos-
it question; neither has any State Democratic Con-
venton, so far we know. North-Carolina recciv-
ed her sixteen hundred thousand dollars under the
act of 1S36-uscd it, and is still using it, and acW
return 1t, if called for; yet no Convention of the
Democratic party of this State has disapproved
the act, or held it up dangerous precedent or
as policy fraught with injury to State rights. No
party test can, therefore, be made on the deposit
question; nor, lift made, woudit be practical
question: for the tariff has been reduced, and the
surplus now On hand will be exhausted or greatly
lessened, in the course of year or two. We may
differ on the deposit, but all agreed on the
distribution question. 1t is here that the opposition
! is seeking to make inroads upon u.s. Let US rouse
I up and confront the real Let insist still
further reduction of the tariff on economical admin
isration fthe federal government a rigid app-
! ooto of fO
the army and navy and on such disposition of the
| land proceeds will tighten far as possible our
tarftaxes. Here we can all unite, and the Democ-
racy when united always victorious. "Sam"
apparently oblivious as to foreigners and Catholics
is astride the land hobby There is an odor
of suspicion about any thing which he advocates
Let unite our forces, unhorse him, and drive him
again to his native culverts. He may disturb and
annoy the country by his isms and his humbugs,
but he can never give laws to or control it.
Found IN DYING SrATE.-A woman named Sarah
Peel was fou,.d Saturday night lying upon the
sidewalk in 7th Avenue, ne lr 18th street. in state
of intoxication. Three little children lying
with her, clothed in rags and covered with filth.
They conveyed to the 10Th Ward Station
House, where the mother soon exhibited signs OF
being very i'll. physician called to attend
her, but death ensued after he arrived. The
children taken of by the police authori.
ties.-N. y San, april 13.
Two squares distant, fashion lavishing its
Thousands and tens of thousands in the frivoltes
luxurious afiuence, and there a human mother lay
drunken and dying in street gutter. Three little
children were lying near her "clothed in rags and
covered with filth" while within hearing of their
shivering cries many Dives kept wassail "cothed
in purple and fine linen"
"Aas for the rarity
OF Christian charity
Under the SUM-"
Pet. Democrat.
Such things are common in all large cities like
New York. London, and Paris; but they seldom il
ever happen to white or black in the slaveholdine
States. We saw it officially stated not long since
that the paupers at Auburn, New York, were starry