Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-06-26

Duncan Il, McRae lis deyoting his time and talents
to canvass of the State with the view OF awaken
ing the people to true sense Of their condition,
prospects and rights Raleigh Reyister: -
What kind, philosophical. good hearted person
Mr.. McFae isl How sha1lthe poor benighted people
repay him for all this zeal il their behalf this
desperate and most disinterested attempt to rouse
them to I" a true sense Of their condition p They
are ruined, and know it not they are asleep. and
will realize their true condition, unless Mr..
McRse should succeed in rousing them from their
leaden slumbers. How kind in him, We repeat
And with what praise should not Mr. Syme be greet
ed9-Mr Syme, whose happy privilege it is, as Mr..
Mckaes agent, to announce these facts to the world!
Federalism has always been kind and considerate
in its attentions to the people. From the days Of
John Adams until now it has invariably sought to
take care of the people, to instruct and enlighten
them, and to protect them against themselves. 1t
would do SO now here in North Carolina. 1t con-
siders that the people are ignorant-that they do
not know that the taxes are running them-that
thousands of them make their escape as emigrants
every month or so-and that they aosW not, being
either asleep or demented ask the general govern
ment for some lands. IL they would only ask for
theml "There's the rub" OF course they would
get them. Federalism, Know Nothingism, and all
the sms say they would but oh, their stupidity-
there is the bag of gold just at the end of the rain
bow, and they soiU not take it! "What peeblsl"
Of course Mr.. McRae has no other "view but to
awaken the people. He might consent to go to
Washington to get the lands, or some of the pro-
ceeds to the old State from total ruin but his
course is just now SO "selfsacrificng" that he will
not listen to the promptngs Of ambition He "leads
the boys Mr.. Syme in front-with the sole view
of awakening the people to a true sense Of their
condition" Mr.. Venabe "leads the boys" about
in Spots in sort of irregular guerrilla charge; but
he does not lead Applewhite Richardson
How these people sleep! Some of them snor-
ing, and that too under Mr. McRae's eloquent dis
courses. "What peebles!" They wiU not rouse
up and be enlightened. Talk to them, brother
Syme-put your dark lantern to their noses and see
if they really asleep. Shine their eyes, bring
them to a halt and then preach to them. Tell them
that their true condition is awful one-that they
have been asleep these many years, while all other
peoples have been awake-that some one has come
while they slept and sown tares among their wheat
that the chinch bug, the Philistnes, and the Nor
mons all about to be upon them-that their riv.
ers are about to dry up, their Railroads sink. and
that chronic rheumatism is shaking them from
Currituck TO Cherokee-that they taxed in their
toenails in their knees, in their loins in their eye
brows, on the tips of their noses and even taxed in
their patience-and that, in short, they stand
ing on slippery rocks while fiery pillows roll be-
meath their unhallowed feet"
This is something like the strain in which Mr..
McRae addresses them. Catch that lofty strain,
neighbor Syme and if all this does not save the
people from themselves-does not rouse them from
their stupor-does not awaken them to "a true
sense of their condition." We cannot tell what WILL
Messrs. McRae and Venable.
reliable and influential Democrat writes us as
follows from Oxford. under date June %, 1858:
"If an old Democrat of 1910 could have dropped
down here on Monday last, and seen Messrs. McRae
and Venabe, and watched their movements he
would have opened his eyes to see them bowling and
seraping to Know Nothngs Why, Sir, they do no:
keep company with Democrats nova days. They
seem to find olt the old Democratic enemy by in
| stinct 1t is the most remarkable change that
have in all my life. They scarcely speak to the
old line Democrats and if you want to either Of
them, you have only to 60 to some room where the
old enemies of the Democratic party congregate, and
there you will find them, g hail fellows we'll met -
see that the Know Nothings have been calculating
on this County; but let me make one prediction
We have good and true anti distribution candidates
for the Legislature, and We will carry this County
by the largest vote that has been given for twenty
years. do not think M. McRae get twenty
Democratic votes in the County; and am certain
Judge Ellis will get twenty old line Wings for every
Democratic vote that he loses. put down the ma
jority for the Judge at from three to five hundred
| Mark the prediction. do not think we shall have
any opposition candidates for the Legislature, but
we shall see what We shall see. l am sure the Know
Nothings will not nominate any of their own party
| and if Democrat should come out Tor them il
would be better for him, politically to have mill
stone tied about his neck and be thrown into the
| sea-"
| "a Mr.. John w. Graves of Caswell, was ex.
amined by the Judges of the Supreme Court on
Tuesday last and license granted to him to practice
in the Superior Courts Mr.. Graves was detained
at home by severe domestic affection and in con-
sderation of this fact the Judges consented to ex.
anime him. though the time fixed for examinations
of young gentlemen for license had passed.
FEMALE NORMAL School, HIGH PoINr, N c.
The Examination of the Students of this Institution
will begin on Tuesday, 29th instant A Sermon
will be preached at night by Rev. S. s. Burkhead