The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-13


overtbrow of an unjust and tyrannical
Government IF such an act as this was
considered so infamous and deserving the
most condign punishment, how much more
infamous must be an attempt by force OF
arms to destroy the free Republic OF the
United States,-the nation our fOrefathers
founded,-the most liberal and benignant
government on the face of the earth! 1t
i'll becomes red-handed traitors to oppose
Reconstruction, confscation, or any other
measure of Congress, when their poor lives
tremble at the altar of an injured country.
This class of men will do nothing, abso-
lutely nothing, and the loyal men need
hope for nothing from them but abuse and
villifcation. They will never more, until
their lands or their lives are placed IN
jeopardy, and then they will flock TO
save the Union Let none Of us for one
moment suppose that the United States
government will be regardless OF the duty
it owes to the South. That duty is at
present to guard tt e country against such
incendiary madmen as poor Toombs. 1t
will perform that duty with jealous care
But when the people of the South have
evinced a determination to accept the sit
uation and to work together for the COM
mon good, then the duty of the govern
ment will assume new shape, old diff
culties will be finally adjusted, every in
terest, public and private, will be rapidly
promoted. The "anded proprietors' should
think of this, as also of the great and
active part a majority of them took in bring
ing on the Rebellion 1t will be to their
interests for some time to come to study
cause and effect, and so educate themselves
to the duties of the hour. Every man they
employ recommends duty they owe. That
duty is to instruct and assist him. They
have always had his labor for nothing, now
he should be well paid for it. The landed
gentry ought to consider how very valuable
it would be for them to retain the respect
and confidence of all coored freerlen. They
should begin early to ask themselves it they
would not gain something by selling them
parts and parcels of their land BY this
means they will gain a good, industrious
people for their friends and neighbors. II,
however, everything continues to be a mon
opoly among land owners, and they are rem
dered yearly less able to carry on the bust
ness of agriculture, the country must suffer
severely, and all will feel it keenly. The ac-
emulation of taxes, previous pecuniary
obligations, Or sudden end unexpected re-
vulsions may sweep all this wealth of land
away from the present owners. How much
better then, as mode of protection to
themselves, would it be for them to become
inspired with a correct appreciation OF the
condition of affairs and at once make their
offers to the public They should form land
protection societies and secure good prices in
time. In our midst is an industrious, hard
toiling honest class of laborers, who would
be glad to purchase homes in Il fair, open,
honest way, and besides these people, hun
dreds of men, who yearly emigrate from the
New England and Middle States might be
induced upon fair representations to become
purchasers of small farms.
Right here in North Carolina we have
room enough for thousands of Just such per-
sons. Consider our wide extended territory
and the immense amount of uncultivated and
half cultivated land which under good train
ing and excellent management might be
made gardens of abundance and profit
Very little has been done in years gone by to
develOpc our great and almost ineXhaustible
resources. Few of our natural products are
properly cared for, and none of the many
Improvements in agriculture can be consid-
cred to have been introduced with liberality
The hand of nature has been excessively
proflse in bestowing rich gifts upon the
good old State, all over whose surface may
be seen the most beautiful sites for
fine farms, pastures, mills, towns and
manufactures. The whole State abounds
in great woods and groves, where tower in
strength and beauty the oak the cypress and
the pine with a fair sprinkling Of red CEDAR
ash, birch, holly and chestnut Within our
borders all kinds of fruit trees flourish with
almost tropical beauty, such as the apple, the
pear peach, apricot, mulberry, cherry and
many Others Grapes of various kinds
grow wild and the vines in September hang
from the trees of this most delicious fruit
The agricultural products of the State are
unsurpassed in variety. Cotton is grown
successfully and shipped in large quantities
to Northern markets. Wheat rye, oats, In
dian corn, rice and potatoes are produced to
the greatest perfection. Our Sounds and
Rivers abound in fish of all kinds. Our
mines are rich and valuable but they have
lain for years in undisturbed repose, valueless
to the inhabitants, as the rocks which hide
their immense riches from our sight. Cities
and manufactures must spring up in our
midst and soon open for us the use of these
vast magazines of wealth, and Northern la
Dor and capital joined with that which we
have with us, must deVelope and DIG out all
the riches of the State. Industry, skill, in
telligence, and forethought, Joined with
morality and good government must work
up all our resources INTO the State and Ma
.ional Treasury. The strength and skill of
North Cardinals sons joined with Northern
brain and muscles assisted by the mechani-
,al and productive energies of the world,
IAN accumulate the wealth which degrading
slavery has hid from sight
We are now beginning a new era in the
history Of the State, and it is the duty of all
good men to study its importance, with view
20 laying foundation for our future great
less and prosperity.
If men of all shades of political sentiment
will unite with the Republican party, throw
ng aside the mantle of false pride, and
placing their shoulders to the wheels of pro-
gress, they will soon see the good old State
'egenerated. We must obliterate old, dis
5orted, poisonous idiosyncracies, which
nave been the evil of our DAYS of in
activity, and we must build up in their stead
new and better principles We must be the
enthusiastic friends of freedom and politi-
,al equality. IF men, however, are so blind as
to cling to the misery and corruption of the
past they can only expect to reap its rewards
poverty and suffering We have an abb
ding faith, true confidence in the principles
OF the Republican party. We believe it's
v1gor and power can raise our State to honor,
prosperity and happiness, and we feel that
North Caroinians will rally from the snow
clad !a, mountains of the West, from the green
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