Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-01-01

TrE GREAT YANKEE FAILURE.-Since the with
drawal of the Southern States the Yankees have
had everything their own way and the fairest posi-
bc opportunity of demonstrating what manner of
people they are. They had government which
they believed and yet claim to be- the best in the
world. They had army and navy, immense
commercial marine, revenue and postal system,
international treaties, courts, laws-in fact the
whole system. machinery and apparatus Of govern
ment, ready made and in full operation, and three
fourthS OF Il ccnturys training and teaching in the
art of working it. They had IN addition, railroads,
canals, mines workshops warehouses, and all the
cnginery of commerce and industry. They had re-
laonS of trade and at peace with all the world
With such advantages, with splendid stock
in hand and so vigorous send forward, with the
capital the name and the good will " of the "old
concern" it would not have seemed extravaSant to
have prophccicd for them 4 career Of unexampled
prosperity and happiness. With such beginning.
a nation but erni.cvilized might have been expect
ed for few decades at least, to 80 with seeming
success The very momentum of the government
Sutfi ,ent Of its own force to carry it forward
with an appearance Of being properly handled But
those who may have entertained the idea that the
Yankee could manage the government, or even per-
init it to manage itself knew nothing of his infinite
incapaeity for affairs OF State 1t had not been six
months in his hands before it smashed into
Smithereens and the stranger looking upon it for the
first time in its wofu wreck would find it mpossi-
bic TO conceive what its original form and purpose
and moduS operandi were.
They came into possession the 4th of last
March, and of what was a Republic they have al
ready made Despotism; with warnings and pre-
cedents against the danger Of armies free govern
mentS, they boast Of having twothrdS of million
Of men under arms; with atmonitions and re-
straintS against extravaganza they are spending
more in week than the earlier administrations
spent il twelve months with constitutional guards
for the protection of the liberty and rights of the
citizen, they have abolished hdJeus corpus, provided
State dungeons instituted lettres de cache violated
mails, disarmed communities, quartered troops on
private families, muzzled the press, senced free
speech, debauched the pulpit, tortured women, and
brought into service depraved and pensioned band
of spies and informers; instead of pursuing peace
as their best policy, they have plunged into hope
less war with the very people from whom they re-
ceved the patrmony of their government and their
wealth, and with whom pacific intercourse was to
them matter of incalculable Importance; they
have seriously weakened and diminished and are in
fair way to destroy their revenues their commerce,
their industry, their very means of subsistence.
What are we to think Of such race but that they
were meant to be the slaves of slaves and that for
their arrogance they are accursed of God in being
permitted to attempt to govern themselves l-Rich-
aaOHd Wing.