The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-31
Something to he POndered.


edited by a rather favorable specimen
of Rebel reconstructed into loyaltyto
Andrew Johnson and the Constitution
.. Z. pleases himself to construe it
iere is it's chief editorial OF the 18th
inst:
WHAT THE MEN OF THE NORTHWEST
ASK THEMSELVES IN THEIR OWN
MINDS. AND WHAT THEY ANSWER.
QUESTION. What is the name of the
skeleton in Eastern closets? ANSWER.
Reputation of the National Debt.
Q. Why does the prospect Of Repu-
diation frighten them so? a. Because
thew are the receivers, and the North
West. West and South are the payers
of the Debt.
@. How did Eastern men manage to
have it so arranged? A. BY bringing
on the late war.
@. Why did they bring on the late
war? A. Well, they saw that Negro
Slavery was profitable to the South,
and they conceived the grand idea OF
reducing all the people of the United
States, White and Black, to a state OF
Slavery to themselves.
O. What is Slavery? A. Slavery is
that state of society in which the sur
plus earnings Of the slave are applied to
the sole use and benefit of the master.
@. What is the amount of the surplus
earnings of the people Of the North
West, West and South, annually? a.
They amounted last year to the sum OF
about S575, 100000.
@. What became of those surplus
earnings? A. After deducting small
amount to support the Government,
the balance went into the pockets OF
foreign and Eastern Bondholders.
@. What proportion of the debt of
the United States is held by foreign
ers? a. About one-ffth.
@. Who owns the balance? A. Eas-
tern men.
.. How did they come to own it ? n
During the war, they did the contract
ing. while the West and Northwest
did the fighting. The East furnished
the shoddy, the bad pork and beet, the
wormy bread, the guns that bursted,
the old rotten transports, in which so
many soldiers were drowned, the fire
proof whisky, the Yankee notions, the
negro substitutes, the hollow talk about
loyalty, "the life of the nation," and
ali that; they gathered home all the
silver spoons and other portable prop
erty, and so became rich, while the
West and North West furnished the
food for powder, and are now gathering
their dead from thousand battle-tields,
and with the South are now called up
on to pay the National debt.
Q. What is a summary the result of
the war? A. Why, the negroes are to
be paid for at very high valuation !;
but, instead of their owners getting
paid, the price goes into the pockets of
the shrewd Eastern Yankee, and comes
out of the surplus earnings of all other
sections.
g. Why are the surplus earnings of
the people of the Northwest, West,
and South so small A. Because of
the enormous amount of indirect taxa
ton they are compelled to pay to Eas-
tern manufacturers.
9. Explain? A. Eastern men have
SO arranged the legislation in Congress
that the tariff on foreign manufactures
is so high as to exclude them from the
country so that Eastern men charge
what profit they choose on their own
manufactures all of which profit comes
out of the consumers, goes into the
pockets of the Eastern manufacturer,
and so lessons the surplus earnings of
the other sections.
g. Now that the negroes are free,
why do the Yankee fuglemen, Butler,
Sumner, Stevens, &C., keep up such a
howl about them? A. By this they
expect to keep the people of various
sections of the country by the ears, and
thus prevent them thinking about Re-
pudiation.
9. Will they succeed in doing so?
A. No.
g. Why? Because the people are
beginning to think.
9. Why do the people begin to think
SO very hard ? A. Why they know
and feel that everything they use costs
about three times as much as it used to,
and they are thinking where all the
money goes and what becomes of it.
q. What is to come of all this hard
thinking? A. The people are going to
act
@. How? A. Why somebody out
West will run for Congress on the
liquidation ticket, and, if elected. then
several others will run for Congress on
the same ticket, and be elected; then
somebody will run for President on
the same ticket, and be elected; then
they will reconstruct the Supreme Court
on the same ticket, and then comes
liquidation.
.. What-repudiate debt to which
the faith OF the United States is SOL
EMMY pledged? A. Yes-it was a
Yankee trick getting the pledge, and
it is Yankee chicanery that keeps up the
talk about the pledge
y. 10 what other institutions was
the solemn faith of the United States
pledged? A. To the great United
States Bank and to the institution of
Negro Slavery.
Q. What became of those institu-
lions ? A. The first was repudiated bv
Gen. Jackson, and the other by Mr.,
Lincoln.
Q. Who is the coming man for whom
the people of the Northern States so
anxiously look? A. The man who will
make dollar be a dollar; who will
bring free trade and cheap goods: who
will aho1icb 4 bo T,+o.I n Q