Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-05-08

81 our stats in Is really
srayieabe the ancient mn for or friend 0f The
West. now within go miles q orr sskt miueral ~
soarcea and just % this moment cut and Bolassd,
may be restored to cOmmunicatiop With her former
customers Steam enterprise from our Eastern har-
bors may be undertaken, md oil worthy objects Of
improvement entered on and completed Withouf 0d-
dstio1dl burden upon our people, while the present
debt may be speedily extinguished and our present
heavy taxation removed.
Mr.. McRae is opposed to any increase of the State
debt-he is an advocate of internal improvements,
but thinks too poor to prosecute them unless
we obtain aid from the general government.
This is his position. What tbenf If distribution is
not obtained our system of internal Improvements
must be arrested, and the State, instead of going
forwards in the career of prosperity now opening
before her, must 60 backwards and decline. He
says he wishes to see our Railroads continued still
further westward, Fayetteville revived and improved,
and other important works pushed forward; but he
is not willing to put his hand in his pocket will
he ask the people to put their hands in their pockets
and pull out cent to aid these great enterprises
He will stand by and beg Hercules to help, but he
will neither help himself nor encourage the people
to help themselves. His policy in this respect is to
beg or starve. Never, never did any public man Of
fer to any intelligent people unsubstantia policy
for the accomplishment: of substantial good. 1t is
idle, it is chmerical, it is ridiculous. 1t is mere
mockery. 1t "holds the promise to the ear and
breaks it" even before the "hope" is born. No
intelligent man beeves-we do not see how any in
telligent man can believe, as Mr.. McRae does, that
distribution be obtained at least during this ad
ministration. The House would hardly pass such
bill, and if it should, the Senate would vote it down
almost two to one and if both houses should pass
it, the President who is strict construction Demo-
crat and who is also bound by the resolution which
Mr.. McRae reported in 1852, would certainly apply
the veto to it. But Mr.. McRae holds out no hope to
the friends of internal improvement at the next
sion of the Legislature. Congress will adjourn in
the course of month, and will not assemble again
before December. And il, after re assembling in
December, they should do what is next to impossi-
ble-pass distribution bl-it would not be in time
to afford any aid at the next session of Legsa-
ture. This, then is his plan for improving the State
for building up Fayetteville for reaching the Missis
sippi valley, for "speedily extnguishing our debt
and removing taxation! Why, Mr.. McRae has
learned already during his brief stay in the federal
ranks, to underrate the intelligence of the people
Why Sir, the mechanic at his work bench the farm
at his plough, the miner with his pick, the bust.
ness.man behind his COUNTER the railroad official
and the people generally will laugh at you-wil
laugh at you, sirl The mountains will ring with
scornful laughter. And Fayetteville, your native
town, dear to you by every tie which can bind man
to his fellow-Fayctteville, which we all desire to
see improved Fayetteville asked you for bread !"
and you have given her "a stone!"
And yet Mr.. McRae promises if elected, to guide
old North Carolina out Of her difficulties and en-
barrassmen into the paths of prosperity and peace
We prosperous already, and peace stretches her
bright wings over all our borders. We shall be
more prosperous still, when learn o depend
more on our own resources. We shall never get
rich by imploring the general government for aid.
We desire no such aid. All we ask, all the people
ask Of that government is to execute the laws with
justice and 6delity-to acquire manage, and dis
pose of" the public property the public lands nclu.
ded, in such way as to promote the common good
to conduct intercourse with foreign nations and
then to let US alone. That is State rights Democra-
cy. Neither do want any such leader as Mr..
McRae. "Sam" communicates every thing he touch
es and if Mr.. McRae should be elected "Sam VI
would "guide old North Carolina" and not Mr.. Nc.
Rae. "a man is known by the company he keeps
We have cheerfuy given Mr. McRae hearing in
our columns, and have thus hurriedly replied to his
letter. We will do him the justice to say that he
has presented his issue in ingenious manner and
that he brings more than ordinary ability and elo.
quence to its support But he will be met upon the
stump by of the sbl=st men OF his age in the
State, in whose hands the good old cause will moi
only be safe but triumphant, as in past time Broth
Democrats let US rouse up and rally to our stan
dard bearer. Let us cheer him by our presence
wherever he speaks, as we'll as by our words; and
let US make his cause our own. The majority o.
1856 must not only be maintained, but increased
Let resolve that it shall be, and then go to work
from the seaboard to the mountains to make good
the resolution.