Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1858-06-16
Mr.. McRae assailing Messrs. Wiley and Courts.

Mr.. McRae assaiiing Messrs. Wiley and Courts.
Our readers will perceive, by the report OF the
discussion in Greenville that Mr. McRae has deem
ed it necessary in order to sustain his position and
to strengthen his cause, to assail publicly these
faithful and meritorious public officers.
Mr. Wiley is patient, energetic aborious, 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 ev-
er hope to accomplish We have always found him
accurate in his figures and calculations, and thor
oughly informed in educational statistics 1t does
not follow because, when quite young man, ne
wrote novel or so and poetry, that he is not
man of judgment and common sense nor is 1t,
we submit in good taste in Mr.. McRae to sneer at
his holy calling minister of the Gospel. Surely
Mr.. McRae intended no such sneer; but wherefore
the alluson? The gentleman has done both him.
self and Mr. Wiley injustice. We would rather have
the reputation which Calvin H. Wiley is building
up, and be instrumental in doing the good which
he is doing, than to sit in Senates or in Governors
chairs to 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 perishabe present
but for the eternal hereafter. Generations to come
will rise up and honor and bless this man, who is
Iaboring to educate and elevate his kind. Common
School teachers, and the ingenious children Of the
peopze in thousands of school 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 friepds of educa-
ton in all portions of the State. Il \
1t seems, too, that Mr. McRae, in order to produce
the impression that the State is in chronic decline,
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 letter from Mr..
Courts the State Treasurer, showing that Mr. McRae
was utterly mistaken, all the gentleman could say
by way Of reply was that Mr.. Courts of late
so "bewildered as not to know what he was
about Now, unoertake to say that Mr. Courts
head is never so clear when he is engaged in pro-
viding means to preserve the State credit and that
up to this time that credit has been preserved with
out 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 our bonds are declining, or it our credit is in
peril. On the 9TH instant-we quote from the New
York Journal of COmmerce-the stock market
opened at farther Decline" and yet North Carolin.
stocks went up from 95 to 96, standing IL cents
higher in the dollar than those Of the young and
fourshing State of Missouri. VIII 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. McRae's illusions will pass him the idle wind
and harm him not. And all we have to say in con-
cusion is, that if Mr.. McRae does not like Mr..
Wiey's and Mr.. Courts's 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 had
before.