Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-08-28

do % no more;ns batF d6saH II mean b make .
debt and then not only CHE responl1biiH
% the debt and loss pothfng, bur s6tulAy 1910
over the Other shouldsr 81 dshoaueing and accu.
sing others Of making. e snsfiely Thsy also klsf
after it is over, and taxation odious 10 whatever
shape it comes hence their motto in tis campaien
seemed to be, Tn Ggin high taces and JSr t1e Nfrt
par. mtr RoilroGds and agjn poS5kt ~ 'sm.
Last year the Democrats should1fed prejudice
that had been ground in Us from our infancy. and
rolled it out Of the ring, whers It belonged. Know
ing that we had removed the greatest obstacle they
ever rolled in our way, they seemed to despair Of
ever meeting us in fair fight again, and turned
complete sommerset backwards, and we could hard
ly tell what sound it was when we heard them away
over on the other side Of the railroad question. We
asked them what they meant; they cried . taxesl
taxes!l taxes!!l" We poked reputation at them,
they cried "distributionl" Expecting them to be-
gin where they had left off two years ago, had
tuned my ear to the howl about our native land or
the oft repeated sentence about falling Wsrsaws
height bleeding at every pore for the liberties Of
Poland" TISSUES 'si4
Whenever any public distress occurs, they seize
It and make the most they can of it; and Ramsay
would stand up, with face hard as knights vizor,
and declare that it was democratic misrule and
government extravaganza that brought on the com.
mercial crisis. l heard one of his well informed
supporters say, know better myself-any intelli-
gent man knows better; but the crowd believed it."
There is nothing new in this but the confession.
Ramsay seemed hardly to remember how badly
he Was once scared about foreigners, until the last
speech of the campaign at Mocksville when he said
that he heard that there we're about one hundred
foreigners to be naturalized at Salisbury before the
election. l am surprised that anybody should fail
to see through such transparent trick-why was
nothing said about it at Salisbury, where it could
be investigated?
Up to this time he seemed loath to sketch the
nf fho v,SCf hioI,
presented, but delighted to point away to the far
West where continents of public land reposed in
prospective eAulgence, brighter than ever divine
threw over the elysan fields of paradise-or he
seemed more concerned about it.
Five years ago we would as soon have expected to
see them carry out their pledge by drawing their
apple pealers and uncoopering their protestant souls
as to desert the old settled States to cussed urren.
ers, (for the same dangers threated as them
and promise TO vote for Democrat just for the sake
Of few acres of a "howling wilderness, filed with
wild injuns that want to scalp what white folks are
already there.
Ramsay blowed so loud and long about public
land that some Of his poor hearers actually believed
! that if he was elected every man would get plan.
tation. Why did he not elevate his strain little,
and preach to them of rich bottom lands covered
with punkins-of meads covered with lowing herds
be we'll rained upon-of corn fields that should
| never need replanting? I have not seen hon dead
the people have killed this old horse again; but l
would like for you who well read to keep an &C.
curate account of how many times the people have
killed him; and beg politicians not to dig up any
more dead boss in Denmark. They have kilt the
poor old boss agin and agin, like the old woman
who was sitting in upper window fast asleep and
the sash slid down on her head and kilt her but
knocked her out and she fell across the edge of
hogshcad, and that kilt her agin and she fell head
foremost into the hoshead and it full of water
and drowned her, and that Kilt her agin but she
lay there all night and there hard freeze and
that kilt her agin; and in the morning twelve mer
"sat on her case and broke it in and that kslt he,
agin! So mote it be with Distribution
A DAVE VOTER