The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-25
No. 52.

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 a curse to the
country as ignorant slaves will prove q
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. as
There is another thing that must he
reformed at once. 1t has been very
fashionable to denounce yankees and
rldlcule yankee notions. / 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
indclence and ignorance. We want
their intelligence, their energy and en-
terprise to operate these factories and
to teach us how to do it. We want
them to make all of their yankee no
tions 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 o
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 fell
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. 'sL Let
the dead past bury its dead;" our
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. A4.t
They tell me that yankee loves
dollar most too we'll. I do not know
low that may be. but if they love it
any more than some men that 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 you
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 right
that you should, for it requires money
to educate and elevate mankind and to
develop country. iaa
Now, convince the Northern man
that it is to his interest to come here
instead of going West, that he can
make more dollars here and invest them
more proftably and securely than he
can elsewhere, that he can buy, at a
low figure, good land in North-Caro-
lima adapted to the cultivation of corn,
wheat, rye, oats, cotton, tobacco, pota.
toes and all kinds of fruits, or if he
prefers it he can purchase for song
splendid water power and build a
factory or dig into some of our hills
and bring out gold, silver, copper and
iron in greater abundance than they
can be found in the United States, exs
cept perhaps in California. Do this and
the Northern farmer, mechanic and
miner will rush here and aid us in de.
veloping the resources of this magnifi-
cent State.
The factories will supply the farms
with all they need, and the farms in re,
turn will supply their wants.
There is another fashion that had as
we'll 90 out of date. Some of our peo-
pie are daily declaring that they are
better friends of the colored people
than the yankees; that the yankees are
putting bad notions in their heads, and
various other appeals calculated to
produce bad feelings. Now all that'is
foolishness; first, because you can
never make the colored man believe
it, and secondly, if you could it would
be wrong to do so. Sectional appeals
of that character are unpatriotic. IF
they are going to prove what they say
to be true, let them at once freely and
cheerfully, not grudgingly, accord. to
the colored man the fruits of freedom.
If they are doing it freely and IN e.
friendly spirit, why criticise any body!
else for doing the same thing This
is new business, and our success and
prosperity depends upon the good feel
ing that ought to exist between the
two races. ., - tssliiszs7 S aast