Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-01-15

We ore assured by those who have the matter
in charge in this town and County, that they E"o"
that the moor have never been so veil PROVIDED ior
as since the war-FayetteUiIs Observer.
we have heard of statements similar to the above
as having been made verbally, but this is the nrst
time we have seen such statement in print. We
do not believe it. 1t is not possible with corn at
s15 per bushe, bacon So per pound, -four 60 cents
per pound, leather $14 to $40 per pound, cot
ton warn at $40 to $50 per bunch, and cotton
cloth at So so per yard; while the amounts real
lied by seamstresses, laborers, and workingmen
are not at all as high in proportion as the prices
they are compelled to pay for the necessaries Of
life The truth is, "the poor" as they are called
have never suffered as they have suffered since this
war. Thousands of families are half clad, and
without morsel of meat and many of them ind
it difficult to get bread The spectre Of gaunt pow
sty and want stalks this day through ths cabins
Of thousands of our people, who before the war
were in comfortable circumstances " The poor"
as they are sneeringly called have been reduced to
want, and in some instances to beggary by this
cruel and wicked war, and when they complain and
want peace, they are told to be quiet for they have
never been so we'll provided for as since the war;
Indeed many who lived comfortably before the
war and even in afluence are now so reduced that
they do not know one week how they will secure
support the next It is all very well for those who
have an abundance of corn and meat or who have
made fortunes during the war oVt Of the necessi-
ties of the people by manufacturing and selling cot
ton cloth and yarn, or by speculation, tn s:sJ that
"the poor" have no cause for complaint; but no
statement of this kind in print or otherwise can
change the facts. The following extract from q
communication in the last Spirit Of the Age writ
ten BY a gentleman who has recently visited the
mountain region of this State, contains a golume
Hundreds Of almost naked and stGrusa9 moth
ers and children may be budding together in
hVtS and Ing cabins among these monntGiRS aoitb-
out supplies of ta0d or clothing, seemingly aDaiting
The result Of JGte. Ny hear: swells with deep emo
tons and my eyes are ready to overflow with tears,
When reflect upon the helpless people"
Here is picture to which we would direct the
eye of the Observer. almost naked and Starving
mothers and children haddlRg together in huts and
'os cabnsl and the wioter Only half gone, with
The pnChing scarcity of the spri'Ag and summer be-
'1e 'aea and 40 prospect Of even as full crop as
vas made last year, This of itself, it seems to US,
san argument for peace which should reach the
ouieS' ear and me hardest heart; and yet when
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:utlou Uf tho PA0Pi1 is urged, or uhAn ii ia
proposed that the State take some steps to end the
war and relieve this and other miseries the 06ser
ser cries out that the poor are in better condi
ton than they we're before the war; and that the
advocates of peace are false to the country. But
g@e VII! show who are true and who are false
Inc day is not distant when the people will take
'ne'r affairs into their own bands, and those who
may stand in their way will "break like pipestem
in the torrent" -