Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-06-09

18nceyVlie, OdSWeiI, fTiOav June lStn
Wentworth. Rockingham, Saturday, June 10th.
my taxes are already as high as 1 can pay-I
don't want them any higher. "-Duncan X. McRae.
We copy the above from the Goldsborough 7ri.
bunes report Of Mr.. McRae's remarks at Mosely
Hall and we take it for granted that Mr.. McRae
used the language attributed to him by that paper.
Now, Mr.. McRae has right to complain, if he
chooses, of the taxes which he pays; but must
be allowed to say that have great respect for
such q complaint when it is uttered by gentleman
who wears shoe boots and store-clothes If the
complaint came from poor man, or from a hard
handed and sun-burnt farmer or laborer, we could
not only respect it, but would do all we could to re-
move the of it, or at least to tighten the bur.
den; but the opposition candidate for Governor is
not likely TO be oppressed by taxation, will his
complaint after the august election, be either very
long or very loud
But is that the language of statesman? Hear
him: my taxes are already as high as can pay
don't want them any higher" How would that
sound in Governors message? How would it oe
received in the Senate of the Union, to which body
Mr.. McRae is supposed to be aspiring? When was
candidate for Governor ever before known to com.
plain of his taxes?
In addition to this, Mr. McRae, in order to induce
the people to accept his distribution notions repres-
ents the State to be in chronic decline, and draws
a picture to show that all her great interests are
anguishing Is this SOP If it is, it is an migrate
full task to have to publish the fact to the world
but If it is not so, the gentleman is mourning
heavy weight of responsibility. Such a course,
though certainly not intended, is calculated to
lower the character of the State in the eyes of the
people of other communities, and may affect the
value of her bonds in the markets of the world
But Judge Ellis. we are gratfed to state, triumph
antly meets these representations of his opponent
and shows that old North Carolina was never 20
prosperous as she is now. He does not go about
complaining that his " taxes already high as"
he ''can pay"-he INDUCES in no such dismal croak
ines, the effect of which be only evil, and not
good.
Our taxes, it is true are high but they have been
imposed for useful purposes, and they have been
generally well applied. The State debt must be
paid, whether they remain as they or have to be
raised: but then Mr.. McRae says he !" don't u.s.t :
them any higher" They are not half as burden
some as the taxes in Virginia and yet we have
never heard that candidates for Governor in that
State have complained Of high taxes, or declared
that they "are already as high as" they can pay"
We repeat people who wear shoe-boots and store
clothes, as Mr.. McRae does, and we do, should
be the last to complain of high taxes That gentle
man is now throwing away, in useless and most
improbable campaign for Governor, as much money
as would pay his taxes for dozen years to come;
but this is free country, and he has right to do
as he pleases with his own. Still we insist that,
under the circumstances, complaints against taxa.
ton come With no very good grace from him.
If the old State is declining-as we earnestly in
sst she is Dotlet all 60 to work, cheerfully and
hopefully, to give her start aud better start
on the high road to prosperity. Nothing valuable
can be obtained without labor without sacrifices Of
time and money; and no State can be improved
without judicous and liberal expenditure of means.
This leads of course to taxes; and here Mr.. McRae
begins to complain. Very well. let him complain.
and let him beg the federal government for help
We at least will not join him in any such business
TIE UNIvERslrY.-We are under obligations to
an esteemed correspondent for an interesting &c
count Of the late Commencement 1t Chapel Hill.
Even II we had been present-and we regret We
were not I've could have added nothing to What our
correspondent has said, and SO well said. ~
1t is matter for congratulation among the friends
Of education and Of progress generally, that the
University is 80 prosperous II has reached posi-
ton of usefnlness which It has never occupisd be-
FORE and its future prospects are Of the most cheer
ing character.
DsArH or SENATOR HsEDERsoN.-Hon j. P. Hem
doraon n Sensto, frosn TeY.a Aie3 In shine.