Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-12-12

Distress among the People.
The federal treasury is without funds, and the
consequence is that government officers and thou
sands Of their creditors in small way suffering
for money The greatest hardship it is stated, pre-
walls in New York and Brooklyn among naval Off
GERS sailors, and sailors wives, owing to the nom
arrival Of the usual monthly money from the treas
ury. Butchers, grocers tailors and Others to whom
money is due clanorous. The Herald says a
terrible winter is before the working people of New
York, Philadelphia, and other Northern cities It
is estimated that there even now ten thousand
men walking about New York seeking work Some
of these men no doubt voted for Lincoln, and now
they feel the effects of it.
In the South, too, the laborng portion of the pop
ulation is beginning to feel the hard times Nearly
all the mechanics of Atlanta for example, are out Of
work. The Locomotive of that place says there is
indeed great deal of suffering among the laborng
classes in midst and we think something should
be done for them" Georgia has passed law sus-
pending the collection of debts This is partial re-
pudiation.
We hear already in North Carolina the notes of
coming distress. Under the disunion panic which
has been gotten up specie is being boarded the
Banks have contracted their accommodations credit
ors are pushing debtors, and the prospect is that
vast deal of property will be sacrificed under the
sheriff hammer. Creditors will demand the spe-
Gle, and then property worth one hundred dollars
will be knocked off at twenty-five dollars, for the
specie is not to be had. Mr.. Buchanan says the
election of Lincoln is not good for diss6ving
the Union; the ire-eaters say it is, and hence the
distress with which the people of this State are
threatened.
The federal treasury is really in very straitened
circumstances Mr.. Cobb is straining every nerve
to meet the January interest on the United States
bonds; but>it seems that even in this condition of
things "the members of Congress from SouthCrro-
lima, Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi have drawn
their pay and mileage which leaves the treasury
without money for similar service to other members"
We find this fact in the Washington correspondence
Of the New York Herald. And yet some of these
members refuse to vote or to serve on committees,
because their States are going out of the Union
We state these facts with humiliation and shame al
Southern Editor We beg the true men of the
North and West not to judge the Southern people
by the conduct of these members of Congress. The
government they say is sinking, but they are care
full to clutch the last dollar the work Of Washing
ton disappears forever Oh chivalry!
In 1851, Henry S. Foote took ground against the
Democratic States right party of Mississippi, and
fused with the Wings in what they termed the
Union party. For this he was mathematical by
all good States Rights men, and by the Editor of
the Standard. Foote succeeded in defeating the
Democratic States Rights party once and by small
majority. Soon thereafter Mr. Foote "heard some
thing drap" and the country has heard very little
about Mr.. Foote since. Begging pardon of Mr..
Foote for the association We the Editor of the
Standard and others of that k.-State Journal
In 1851 the Hon. Howell Cobb and many other
Southern Democrats pursued the same course which
Mr. Foote did; and Mr. Cobb has since served near
ly four years as trusted and honored Democrat in
Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet. The Union was safe in
| 1851 compared with its condition now. At that
day there was necessity for a fusion with the
Wings to save it. and the national Democratic party
so decided at Baltimore in 1852; but now the dan
ger is imminent general alarming, and plain to all.
The eaters declare that this question party
| lines are wiped out but if a Union Democrat hap.
pens to say the same thing and to act accordingly,
he is denounced as disorganizer and reminded oil
the fate of Foote and others. Now, the Editor Of
the State Journal was Wing in 1851, and thought
and knew no more about Mr.. Foote and the general
state of the country than if he had ben in hold
| Hingland. He must, therefore, have obtained his
information about the course of Mr.. Foote from some
one of the clique. But his informant stopped at the
very point where the secret of Mr.. Foote'S fall be
gins Mr. Foote joined the Know Nothings, ana
soas run by them for office in California. That de-
stroyed him as Democrat. 1t is true, the fate o.
those who joined the American" party in thu
State has been different Such persons are now al
the head of the party, leading and controlling it
and they will doubtless remain in this position as
long as they think the party has a majority. ON
Democracy is not of that stamp. On all questions
which properly belong to party we are Democrat
but on the questions of Common Schools, interna
improvements ad calorem, and slavery and thu
Union, ace knos0 no party. This has been our pc
sition since 1913, and it is our position now. The
man who cannot elevate himself above party at &
time like this and look alone to his country, is
sparrow hawk among eagles, and would "mouse'
and plot for his own advancement in the midst o
the ruins of his country's liberties.
W The Hillsboro Plaindealer is disposed tt
censure us because we do not bow down andapprov,
the disunion recommendations of Gov. Ellis's mes
sage. We repeat what we have heretofore said
that Gov Ellis was reelected as a Constitutions
Union man and that if he had announced in hi
campaign the views contained in his late message
he would have been defeated by large majority
His proposition to commit the State and consul
the people afterwards, is undemocratic and refec
ton on the popular power and intelligence. If thu
Paindealer is disposed to assal U.s. let it do so in
direct and manly way. The South-Carolina leaders
to whose car an effort IS now being made to hitci
North Carolina, have respect for the great bod!
of the people, but would first drive them into dis