The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-07-31

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the proceeds of their labor, will not
develop the resources of a country !.
faster than slaves, Who have no objects
or aims in life, and no incentive to Ia
Dor, save fear.
II any portion of my audience have
not surrendered old prejudices on this
subject, let me inquire Of them, why
have the Northern States, with poor
er soil and colder climate, SO far sur
passed their Southern sisters? Why do
the bleak and naturally barren hills OF
New England bloom like gardens,
while your fertile and sunny slopes are
covered with broom sedge, and are
commonly and properly described as
sold feld''? Why do churches, school
houses, railroads, canals, steam boats,
factories, work shops, cities, towns,
beautiful villages and neat farm houses
exist and flourish there, while poverty
and pride surround us here? The one
is the result of free labor, the other OF
slavery, which has been blight and
mildew upon every landit ever touched.
Educated labor and machinery are
what we now need, to make this coun-
try what it should be. Heretofore we
have not used the most improved i'm
plements of farming, but have content.
ed ourselves to drudge along with the
rudest and must awkward tools. Those
who have experimental with reapers,
and other labor saving machines, have
thrown the ruder tools aside, alleging
various objections, but the truth is they
did not know how to operate with
them, and when the least part was bro
ken or out of order it could not be re-
paired this side of Yankee land. To
remedy this we must at once educate
our laboring classes.-There has been
general breaking up of old ideas, and
we are now taking new start In the
world. The future veal or woe of this
country depends upon the foundations
we are now laying. If we are to have
any prosperity, l tell you frankly, we
must make up our minds to look at
several things in very different light
from that in which we have been in the
habit of viewing them.
We must bury thousand fathoms
deep all those ideas and feelings that
prompted those cruel laws against
teaching these people, and must quicken
our diligence to see that the means of
light and knowledge are placed within
the reach of every one of them. Let
school houses dot our hills at convenient
distances for all, and then we may hope
that those who were curse to the
country as ignorant slaves will prove
blessing as intelligent freemen. The
scythe and cradle will give way to the
reaper, the shovel to the sulky plow,
and one intelligent laborer, with their
aid, will do more and better work than
is now done by ten ignorant and
clumsy hands.
There is another thing that must he
reformed at once. 1t has been very
fashionable to denounce yankees and
ridicule yankee notions. l tell you
that yankees and yankee notions are
just what we want in this country
We want their capital to build facto-
ries and workshops at our magnificent
water powers, which to-day are monu-
ments of Gods bounty and of mans
Incidence and ignorance. We want
their intelligence, their energy and en-
terprlse to operate these factories and
to teach us how to do it. We want
them to make all of their yankee no.
lions here, and then we will not have
to throw our labor-saving machines
away ifa cog or bolt breaks. We
want some of those same yankee tricks
played down here that have covered
the North with railroads and canals.
Heretofore this has been purely an
agricultural State, Notwithstanding we
have more natural advantages, as a
manufacturing and mining State, than
most of those which have drawn their
wealth from those sources. This should
not be SO. In starting afresh, let us
start new interests. We can do it by
kindly inviting our Northern friends
who are seeking investment for their
surplus capital to come here, and by
showing them that they and their fami-
lies are welcome in our midst, that we
want them here as neighbors and
friends and not as enemies. The new
States and Territories have emigration
societies, and their agents are in all the
Northern States, begging foreigners,
yankees, and the "rest of mankind" to
take their capital, their bone and sinew
to the great West. We have no one
there to invite them or show them the
way; on the contrary, most of our
newspapers seem to regard it as sol
emn duty to remind them every week
that they are very dirty set of fel.
lows, unfit to associate with Southern
quality. Let this folly cease at once
and forever. We should never again,
in public or private, indulge in single
expression calculated to call up any Of
the bitter memories of the past. "Let
the dead past bury it's dead;'' oul
thoughts and hopes should be on the
future. We should all teach our chill
dren to love the whole Union, to cele
brate the fourth of July, and to whistle
yankee doodle.
They tell me that yankee loves q
dollar most too well. I do not know
Tow that may be. but if they love il
any more than some men that I know
who were born and raised in Rocking
ham, they are to be pitied. The WORSHIP
of the golden calf was not the last in
stance of idolatry that some of vol
have heard OF. | take it that you and
the yankees are just alike about money
All Of you like to have it, and it is RICH