Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-06-12

MIR. McRae assAiling Messfs, Wiley and Courts;
Our readers win perceive BY the report d the
discussion in Greensille, that Mr.. McRAe has deem.
ed it necessary, in order to sustain his position and
to strengthen his caase, 10 assail publicly these
faithful and meritorious public officers ss rs. S
Mr. Wiley is patient, energetic, laborious, and
faithful public servant No man could be more de-
voted to his duties than he is; and he has been
and is doing much more for the State. physically,
morally, and intellectually. than Mr.. McRae can
or hope to accomplish. We have always found him
accurate in his figures and calculations, and thor
ouohlv informed in educational statistics. It does
not follow because, when quite young man, he
wrote novel and some poetry, that he is not
man of judgment and common sense nor is it,
We submit, in good taste in Mr. McRac to sneer at
his holy calling as minister of the Gospel. Surely
Mr.. McRae intended no such sneer but wherefore
the alusion? The gentleman has done both him.
self and Mr.. Wiley injustice. We would rather have
tbe reputation which Calvin H. Wiley is building
nm and be instrumental in doing the good which
he is doing, than to sit in Senates or in Governors
chairs or lead armies to conquests over fields of
blood His work will endure. Marble will decay
and brass fret to dust but he who works on the
intellect works not only for the perishable present
Int for the etens! hereafter. Generations to come
will rise up and honor and bless this man, who is
,aboring to educate. and elevate his kind. Common
School teachers, and the ingenious children of the
oeoDk in thousands of schoo-houses from the sands
of Currituck to the mountains of Cherokee already
know him and love him and such illusions as Mr.
McRae has thought proper to make to him, will be
remembered and resented by the friends of educa-
ton in all portions of the State.
1t seems too, that Mr.. McRae, in order to produce
the impression that the State is in chronic decline,
so as to induce the people to beg for government
lands, went far as to say that the State credit
would have been dishonored on certain occasion,
if friend of his in New York had not come to ner
relief And when Judge Ellis read a letter from MIR.
Courts the State Treasurer, showing that Mr. McRae
was utterly mistaken, all the gentleman could say
by way Of reply was, that Mr.. Courts was Of late
so "bewldered as not to know what he was
about! Now, undertake to say that Mr.. Courts
head is never clear when he is engaged in pro-
vding means preserve the State credit; and that
~ to this tme that credit has been preserved with
ou>even the shadow of stain. And it aoiU be pre-
served hereafter happen what may. Look, Mr.. Nc
Rae, at the stock market in New York, and then
say if ourbonds declining, if credit is in
peril. On the 7th instant-we quote from the New
York Journat\of Commemorative "stock market
opened at farther decline, and yet North Carolina
stocks went up frop 95 to Sc, standing IL cents
higher in the dollar than those of the young and
fourishing State of Missouri Will Mr. McRae,
when addressing the people, now and then lay facts
of this kind before them?
But Mr.. Courts can afford to laugh at all this
Mr.. McRaes illusions will pass him as the idle wind
and harm him not And all we have to say in con-
clusion is, that if Mr.. McRae does not like Mr.
"iley's and Mr. Courtss figures, let him deal less
with them, and rely more on his own financial skill
Let him 60 to work, in the first place, and figure
out his vote on the first Thursday in August next
That, we hesitate not to say, will give him more
thorough disgust for figures than he has ever hai
before.