The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-08-21
Emigration from North-carolina.

Emigration from NOrth.Carolina,
-: 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 thew
hope to better their condition. Previonsl',
to the rebellion these people were prosperous
contented. and happy. As stated bv on,
correspondent, the war with its exactions and
expressions, laid the foundations of +bo;-
ruin but there was hope that their fort,,,o.
might be repaired-that they might he abIo
still to make comfortable support and ~
educate their children. They have clnno -
this hope as long as they could Tho, 49,
10th to leave their native land: but whon
they look around and see the State soha~,
fund gone, and think of the high taxes -
sect their dilapidated and impoverished farm
and above all, when they reflect that H.
State government has passed into the bona.
of men who are doing all they can to evna
perate the South against the North and 1.
prevent the restoration of the Union al
thus to cut off all hope of future prosnarit.
it is no wonder that their hearts fail tho,
and they are inclined to seek their fortrn0-
IN new countries. We deplore thecausesth ae
have led to this emigration, and we trust tho
period is not distant when these causes win
cease to operate.
The Greensboro Patriot was once a Union
paper. A majority of the 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,
For the Standard.
THE MIGRANTS.
In the last issue of the Greensboro Pot,.;ot
there is an article in regard to the emioront,,
who lately started from Guilford and tho
adjoining counties for the Northwest Said
article is In the usual style of the editorials
OF that delcctable sheet. Among other tbinos
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 ohonI
Jonathan Worth, &C., &C."
But does not the Patriot know that # 10
on account of the wrongs and Expressions
that most of these people have suffered that
they emigratea 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, Ruffin and
Others In rebellion? 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
men2
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 "iilustrious' inmate
of Fortress Monroe, it might be a power in
the land for good. Verify, the clique whom
the Patriot serves are hard masters.
CALAMUS.