Newbern weekly progress. [volume] (Newbern, N.C.) 1858-1863, 1860-04-03
"A New York zeurnn,s., i'm North Carolina

A New York Leurnniist In North Carolina
We take the following extract from letter from
the senior editor of the New York Express, writ
ten from iHsleigh. N, c., March =. 1860 The
writer thinks primitive people:
THINGS Ix NORTH CAROLINA.
The good Old North State is snch staid State
that it is delight TO look At land and people
that have not all to seed like the poppy, and
that has really some of the old staminn left. The
isms have not reached here, nor the otoyaes. nor
the ties They hang man for murder, and they
whip thieves and robbers, and put lesser rogues
in stocks and pllories, as did our English Fore
fathers, or as. did before we Invented Peni-
t.niaries and Sing Sings TO lock rogues up in.
What is wonderful to say, all men here, all of all
parties, while they boast of their Lunatic Asy yums,
their Deaf and Dumb institutions, &c, boast not
less, that they have not Penitentiary in the
State! The rogues and rascas they tell US, quit
them that is, quit the State. after public exposure
in the piilory and stocks. Even New York pick
pockets shun the practice cf their profession in
the Old North State because no "gentlemen "
like them would wish to have broadcloth thus
soiled in the face and eyes of every body. These
relics of fantiquty,-these stocks.-the thirty-nine
lashes laid thiefs back they reason, one and
ALL are better invent not only for the correc-
ton but for the prevention of crime, than all the
penitentaries and prisons in all the other States
Are they right. or are we wrong? Have We pro
gressed" backwards, do they need guing
ahead
After few days tarry in Raleigh, have come
to he conclusion that this is now the only really
fresh, new, virgin State in the union. l mean
not that its soil is virgi that it is fresh
like California, or Minnesota,--but mean that ii
is novel. new, fresh, virgin, in lis very antiquity
'ProgreSs'' has not got here; that is. that Pro
gress which turns things upside down and inside
out, and that ploughs SO deep as to turn all the
loan under and all the sand over that loan. The
politicians not thieves robbers yet
| They do not enter into politics just now to make
money; but strange to say and this shows THEN
virginty. for pleasure or for glory The loco
motive is here, sputtering all about, and putting
his nose into even the venerable and far-renown
ed mountain region of Buncombe.-bnt the loco
motive is not yet politician. The State is not
| Gridironed New York city fashion. If TWEEN
ty North Carolina Senarors, slave-holding
rascals they are. were to do what twenty
New York Shareholder hating Senators did Ia
Il night and day session. all of them would go int.
the stocks the pllory. and receive thirty mine
| lashes in a,ld;tinn.-so much behind the age y
are these Patyes Conscripti of l5uncombe! Every
thing thus rnus in this old-fashioned, primitive
way. The people speak the English,-aII of them
that i'll New England spoke i'll earlier
days AS defined in old Perry s now abolished die
tionary or as set forth in Websters A b G spell
ing book, where :" the old man found the rude
| boy &c, &c. Stealing means stealing here yet
Aud lieing. Icing! Rubber is robher, whether
| dressed in broatcloth rags! When Il lady is
out': she is out at the head of the stairs
listening to hear ho rang the bell, or who knock
ed at the door! Blessed people! What pity il
| is that. the railroads Will sooner later come
| +" the spirit of the age!"