The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-10-03


TO our article last week about using the State
Capitol for public Concerts, Lectures, &c,
say that there is no other suitable building
in Raleigh, and that the officers of the Capt.
tol have felt obliged, owing to the condi-
tion of the city, 10 admit lectures. concerts,
&C., for strictly benevolent purposes" and
that the parties who use the Halls bear the
expense of lighting, cleaning up, &c. We
are aware that it has been no unusual thing
for the Capitol to be thus used; and the
present State officers are no more to blame
than their predecessors but precedent does
not always make right. The Sentinel says
that public hah is in process of construc-
ton, and intimates that when it is compile
ted, there will be no necessity for using the
Capitol for concert purposes We are graft
fed, therefores to believe that the bad habit
is to be discontinued Charlotte Democrat.
We take issue with all of our above CO.
temporaries in this respect. The Commons
and Senate chambers ought never to be used
except for great State or National purposes.
Our contemporary of the Democrat is mista-
ken in conceding that the Capitol has been
used heretofore for the insignificant purposes
for which it is now used by permission of Gov.
Worth. Mr.. Everett delivered his great ora
ton in the Commons Hall, and it has been
used once, we believe, for the celebration of
the fourth of July; but Gov. Worth has es-
tablished new rule, under which every
straggler is permitted to pitch his pipes,
thumb pianos, and hang his pictures in the
Commons Hail. A week or two since a
young man of the name of Wheat, we be.
heve, gave concert in the Commons Hall,
in the course of which he significantly said
he would play medley of the national airs
of England, France, the Confederate States,
&C., emitting the airs of the United States.
The attempted slight to the United States
was so marked and palpable that several
Unionists rose and withdrew, whereupon
they were hissed by a part of the audience.
This circumstance should have led to the
prompt closing of the Capitol against all
such wandering performers, but it did not.
On Monday night last, by permission of
Gov. Worth, the Hall was occupied by q
wandering Snowman with some dissolving
views. Some of these views are of battle
scenes. We learn that, upon the close of the
exhibition of these things at Chapel Hill,
"the boys" gave three cheers for jeff Davis.
The public will perceive, from this incident,
what sort of milk there is in this cocoa nut
1t is very coolly claimed, by those partizans
who are now in possession of the State gov
eminent and State property, that it is not
expedient to close the Capitol against these
exhibitions until suitable Town Hall shall
have been constructed for them. We are
not surprised at this claim. 1t is in keeping
with the conduct of the clique which has SO
long ridden and oppressed our people. Gov.
Vance acted, during his term of office, as if
the State property belonged to him and his
particular friends; and Gov. Worth seems
to be pursuing the same course. The Capt.
tol should be devoted solely to State and
National purposes. No one should be per-
mitted to desecrate it with his footsteps who
would inculcate sectional sentiments, or re-.
fleet, in the most remote degree, on our glo-
rious national government.
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