The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-31
For the Standard.


MEssRs, EDIroRs 1t is very natural to hear
many cries and calls rom people who are pass
Ing through such COMMISSIONS as have and still
arc bewldering us as people. While some OF
these doubtless shallow, yet many are deep and
distressing; and though our Legislature, the
peoples agent, tor their welfare may not be able
TO alleviate all these evils yet they may greatly
mitigate some l have witnessed the proceed
lngS of our Legislature in its late sessions and
closely watched the columns of our Journals, es-
pecialy those which profess to speak for the good
of our pcople-but in vain have looked and lis
tened for definite reply to the thousands of
cries Tor relief from pecuniary embarrassments !;
cries which are long, loud, deep and distressing,
swelling like billow, as if they must reach the
skies.
Messrs. Editors, ask why is this. WHY have
not our Legislators attended to this cryI Is it
because it is local, not universal enough for their
legislation? Docs it not gather on the coast like
the frghtful raging billow, and rises and spreads
like the surging cloud, till it walls and thunders
round "our every mountain ~ It reaches from
the Roanoke to the French Broad. 1t comes
from almost every town, hamlet, cottage and hut
IN our State. Is it because it is not deep enough
to reach Il fear deaf ears? Surely, every wind
walls it, every mountain howls it, every vale signs
1t, and every stream weeps it, it is now extorting
the agoniZing tear from the widow, the honest
rustic, the unfortunate orphans-blighting the
prospects, chilling the SOUL enervatihg the nerve
of our noble sons and daughters; ye, noble Leg
isators do you not hear it?
Again, is it too much of the aeryous to claim
their attention! All, Messrs. Editors, nervous af
fections the excruciating the most torturintr
because the convalescent is q little irritable Is
that proof that "no deep-rooted disease is still
prowling on his enfeebed system? Does he not
then need the most wholesome attention and aid !?
Consider it well, We guardians of North Carolina
Does not this, the peoples cry merit your kind
treatment! Give us no relief, let creditors push
theii debtors Gas every one is now doing) and
what will follow? Look at the relative condition
of each party at present. Is not the creditor DO
ing equally as well as the debtorY Why not con-
tinue thus for time? Why sell out majority
of our best citizens and TINS destroy the energy,
life and welfare of chr dear old State! Suppose
fifteen men owe A, fifteen thousand dollars Let
A collect his money by selling out the fifteen men
Here we have one enriched, and fifteen broken
up But, says one, owes fifteen thousand and
he must meet that demand Well, in relieving
the fifteen will not A be relieved? We plead not
for reputation We want it not, but we ask for
proper indulgence. North Carolinas sons cannot
pay their debts n0W and live to honor her And
say what every rejecting mind knows that
without relief our people will certainly emigrate,
forsake the old North State. Must protract,
by scanning the inevitable results of no relief?-
Shall l recitc the tale of suffering misery and
woe-rather let reader pen tell the Immediate
and then draw the more remote effects of such in
constituencies. But still I ask, why has not the
Legislature done something for the people?
Will not PREJUDICE, but let me ask that grave
and digniied body why are You Still deaf to
your constituents cry? Why so many con-
ficting bills for the peoples relief? Must
say you wish no relief, that you are acting
behind the curtain for precious sef2 That there
are more creditors than debtors in YOUR au-
gust Assembly? Yet permit me to ask why were
the yeas and nays called on a relief bill and other
bills that look to the welfare of the people of
North Carolina and yet those votes never pub
lished? What meaneth such2 O conseripti la-
tres! Ye who are our chosen guardians in times
of deep distress: ye Senators, We Commonors
when are you going to plant the banner of pros
perlty over Carolinias Responding sons? Shall
we go on under your guardianship to success and
prosperity, or shall We writhe beneath your neg
lpff N hn ai6 1ffa
tale, that is told, gone forever? I'VE leaders
OF the Legislature; ye lawyers, who fain would en-
rapture the car with your eoqucnce, may it never
be said, your oratory savOrs OF &iESl,.eSs will We
oppose what the times, your constituents, your
country demand OF you because you love fees
more than your people? The day may and will
come when you shall he blessed or cursed Mes
srs Editors, personally much less than is
due me but want relieffor my distressed friends.
In short something defnite, something for the
peoples relief must b. done orwe people are
broken up, ruined Shall We have help from the
Legislature. If not they need never ask the peo-
pies confidence and support again II. s.