The Van Buren press., 1860-04-27
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IHrNGs IN NORTH Hon
James Brooks, who has recently visited the
Old North State, sends his impressions of
the State to the New Y Iork Erpress OF which
he is Editor:
The good old North State is such a
staid State that it is delight to look at a
people that have not all run to seed like the
poppy, and has really some of the old ssona-
ma lett. Ine isDas have not reached here,
nor the otoytes nor ties. They hang man
for murder, and they whip thieves and rob
bcrs, and put lesser roSues in stocks and
pillories. as did our forefathers. or, as did
we, before We invented Peniten,iares and
Sing Sings to lock rogues up in. What is
wonderful to say, all men here, all of all
parties while they boast oi their Lu4,at io
Asylum, their Deaf and Dumb institutions,
DC, boast not less that they have not a
penitentiary in the State The rogues and
rascals, they tell us. quit them, that is, quit
the State, after public exposure in the pllo-
~ and stocks. Even New York pickpock-
ct, shun the practice of their profession in
the old North State, because no gentle
men y like them would wish to have broad
cloth thus soiled. IN the face and eyes of
everybody. These relics of antiquity
these stocks-this piilory-the thirty nine
lashes laid on thiei's back, they reason.
one and all, are better inventions not only
Tor the correction, but for the prevention of
crime, than all the penitentiaries and pris-
ons in all the other States. Are they right.
or are we wrong? Have we progressed -
backwards, or do they need going ahead
After few days tarry in Raleigh, | have
rnD tn fpa ..op.tuvinn k,t ~.
only really fresh, new. virgin State in the
Union. l mean not that its soil is new or
virgin, or that 1t is fresh, like California or
MnneSota-but l mean that it is novel,
new, fresh, virgin, in its very antiquity
=" Progress has not got here /; that is that
Progress which turns things upside down,
and inside out, and that ploughs so deep as
turn all the loam under. and all the sand over
that loam. The politicians are not thieves
nor robbers as yet They do not enter inta
politics just now to make money but
strange to say. for pleasure or for {" glory
The locomotive is here, sputtering all about
and putting his nose into even the venera-
bic AMI far renowned mountain region OF
Buncombe-5ut the locomo olive is not vet a
politician. The State is not gridiroacd.
New York city fashion. If twenty North
Carolina Senators, slavcholding rascals as
they are, were to do what twenty New York
Shareholder hating Senators did in nigh,
and day session. all of them would go into
the stocks or the pillory. and receive thirty
nine lashes in addition-so much I" behind
the age" are these Pafres Conscripn Of
Buncombc! Everything thus runs in this
old fashioned, primitive way. The people
speak the English-all of thcm-that We
in New England spoke in our earlier DAYS,
as defined In old Ferry's now abolished die.
tionarv, or as set forth in Webster's a 3
Z spelling book, where " the old man found
the rude boy" DC. de. Stealing means
stealing here yet. And Icing, Heiny. 4
robber is a robber. whether dressed in broad.
cloth or rags. When lady is =" ont" sht
is :" out, not at the head of the stairs, lis
tening to hear, who rang the bell, or who
Knocked at the door ! Blessed people
What pity it is that on the railroads will
sooner or later come :" the spirit of thu
age!''
@ A Dutchman, whose business lee
him to spend few weeks in Chester, con.
cluded, one night that he would attend q
revival " then going on in one of the
churches. He accordingly walked into the
church just before preaching commenced
and taking seat very near the altar, list
ened very attentively to tho sermon. As is
customary, after the sermon, the mipistel
began to e2hort the sinners to s. fee from
| the wrath to come" After q lengthy and
! warm exhortation. he addressed himsel
more particularly to cur friend, the Dutch
man and, among other things, told him te
come forward anu get salvation, I" without
money and without price" Our Dutch.
man seemed rather astonished, and. with 9
business-like expression on his face. looked
at the minister, and in An audible voice ob
ssrved !" Too cheep to be ronf >,