Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-02-01
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THE STAY LAW.


The necessity isr Stay4law We think is apparent
all who will take Reconsideration the condition
OF the country and the necessities of the peope At
this junctuFe Of Affairs when We consider the large
anRupt Of additional tsxE 30 Be paid for the suppo5t
Of tpe Confederate government -asd the voluntary
contributions BY the citizens, which also add LARGE
ly I'd our expenses Salt has gone up from Al S6
to $50 and S25 per sack shoes from 81 and 81 so
to SSiand 81 per pair; iron from and s cents per
pound, to 25 cents; sheetihg from 81 cents to 10
cents per yard; coffee, from IS tcs to 81 per h.
molafes rom 70 and 80 cents per gallon to 81
leathfr from 20 cts. to 81 PSF pound and we might
continue the list but the above is sufficient to show
the Ghormous rise in prices which the consumers
hayft pay. 49, 4 ~
TiIrn to the other side of the picture The de-
probation in the price of products or portion of
Hcin is as great and even greater than the advance
those @e have to buy. Our ports are blockaded,
and not ship load unless it accdentallyruns the
bfoesadet OF cotton spirits of turpentine tar tim
Der, lumber, rosin, shingles, &C. can be sent to .
foreign market, and the consequence is spirits Of
turpehtiBe is from Is to Is cts per gallon at which
price it will require three or four barrels of spirits
furpentine to purchase one sack of salt Eighteen
months ago. that amount of spirits of turpentine
would have purchased 80 or 40 sacks Of salt and
the same is the in regard to the other items.
Large quantities of each of the above articles are
going to waste for want of foreign market owing
to the blockade, and cotton and, other staples are
greatly below. what they would be, from the same
cause. How, We would ask those who raise the
cry against the Stay law are those who are left at
home, to support their families-pay their former
contracts-support the and the families of vol
unteers, when they have to pay such enormous
prices, in cash, for what they buy and receive so
small compensation for what they SELF The
principal products of large portion Of North Caro-
lima are entirely excuded-all of last years product
being still on hand Butfew who have volunteered
and gone off were out Of debt and consequently the
greater number are indebted to those at home and
are without the means to pay, or to make the
money to pay with. Ought such men be forced to
to pay? 1t the execution law was still in force the
sharpers and s!ylocks, who do not care for their
country or its citizens, would have property sold at
rllnous prices, and hundreds of families of honest
bard working men would be turned out of house
and home on the cold charities of the world Beg
gary want and their attendant train of evils would
follow. Many of our people taxed to their ut
most capacity to support their families and the
We believe the people honest and will pay their
Indebtedness, but they cannot do it at this time,
Consequently let the Stay stand for the present
There are other things, which, we think, demand
more the attention of !he Convention now in SEES
sion, than the Stay-law -. p.
The Installation of such large quantities of corn,
&c, the staff of life, into whiskey is one of them
And suppose the Militia throughout the State should
be ordered off who is to make support for the vast
army that will be in the field? Should not the
present crop of corn and grain be taken care off,
1t is grave question.
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