The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-02-06
something to be Pondered.

Here is its 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.
@. Why does the prospect of Repu-
diation frighten them so? A. Because
they 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 state OF
Slavery to themselves.
@. 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 $575, 100000.
@. What became of those surplus
earnings? A. After deducting a 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 ? A
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 beef, 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-felds,
and with the South are now called up
on to pay the National debt.
@. What is summary of 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.
@. 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.
@. 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.
@. 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.
@. Why? Because the people are
: beginning to think.
@. Why do the people begin to think
q SO very hard ? A. Why they know
g and feel that everything they use costs
: about three times as much as it used to
t and they are thinking where all the
e money goes and what becomes of it.
: @. What is to come of all this hare
e thinking? A. The people are going t.
Y act. -
n @. How? A. Why somebody out
+ West will run for Congress on tn,
Reputation ticket, and, if elected, the,
several others will run for Congress OF
the same ticket, and be elected thel
n somebody will run for President OF
n the same ticket, and be elected; ther
they will reconstruct the Supreme Cour
Y on the same ticket, and then come
n Reputation.
a @. What-repudiate debtto whicl
/ the faith OF the United States is sol
!, emily pledged? A. Yes-it was
u Yankee trick getting the pledge, an
It it is Yankee chicanery that keeps up tn
is talk about the pledge.
e, Q. To what other institutions wa
If the solemn faith of the United State
y pledged? A. To the great Unite
L States Bank and to the institution {
Negro Slavery.
j, Q. What became of those institr
tions !? A. The first was repudiated b
n Gen. Jackson, and the other by M
Lincoln.
n, @. Who is the coming man for whol
y the people of the Northern States s
y anxiously look? A. The man who wi
n make a dollar be dollar; who wi
y bring free trade and cheap goods; WI
- will abolish the Internal Revenue, an
~ paper money; who will utterly suuelc