The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22
Emigration from North-caroli &,

Emigration from NOrth.CarOllna.
We regret to have to record the fact that
emigration still continues from North Caro-
lima Hundreds of our best people are leav-
ing for new and distant regions, where they
hope to better their condition. Previously
to the rebellion these people wereprosperous,
contented, and happy. As stated by our
correspondent, the war with its exactions and
expressions, laid the foundations of their
ruin; but there was hope that their fortunes
might be repaired-that they might be able
still to make comfortable support and to
educate their children. They have chung to
this hope as long as they could. They are
10th to leave their native land but when
they look around and see the State school
fund gone, and think of the high taxes, and
seetheir dilapidated and impoverished FARMS
and above all, when they reflect that the
State government has passed into the hands
OF men who are doing all they can to exas-
perate the South against the North, and to
prevent the restoration of the Union. and
thus to cut off all hope of future prosperity,
it is no wonder that their hearts fail them.
and they are inclined to seek their fortunes
IN new countries. We deplore the causes that
have led to this emigration, and we trust the
period is not distant when these causes will
cease to operate.
The Greensboro Patriot was once a Union
paper. A majority ofthe people of Guilford,
and of the section of country in which the
Patriot circulates, are still devoted to the
Union; but that paper has passed under
strange influences, and its recent and present
course is not such as should commend it to
Union men. t
rt3..., For the Standard
THE EMIGRANTS.
In the last issue of the Greensboro Patriot.
there Is an article in regard to the emigrants
who lately started from Guilford, and the
adjoining counties for the North West. Said
article is in the usual style of the editorials
OF that delectable sheet. Among other things
1T says: And from such information as we
have been able to gather, we are satisfied
that this train did not depart on account of
the bitter prosecutions of that terrible ghoul,
Jonathan Worth, &C., &C."
But does not the Patriot know that it is
on account of the wrongs and expressions
that most of these people have suffered, that
they emigrate? Have they not been con-
scripted and tithed till they are impoverish-
ed so that they are unable to support them
selves and educate their children? MANY
of them have families which they wish to
raise and educate. Can they do SO in their
native State, which is financially ruined, and
whose school fund was squandered by such
men as zeb. Vance, Clingman, Rutfin and
Others in rebellion9 Rebels and latter-day
war men bear sway at present, and wish to
regain their former power fully, and can
any State prosper under the rule of such
men?
Why these slurs from the Patriot Did it
devote as much ink to the incubation of
truth, and correct principles, as it does to
lauding Lee and other traitors, and to
sympathizing with the "illustrious'' inmate
of Fortress Monroe, it might be power in
the land for good. Verify, the clique whom
the Patriot serves are hard masters
CALAMUS.