The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-07-22

you mix In politics and endeavor to have
things adjusted to what you thought best for
the interests of the place where your capital
was invested2 Yes, you would. You have
been so long accustomed to oUn all the col
ored people, and almost " own" the poor
white men, that you would think you had
right to do so; but then you are different
from the Northern "mud-sills, !" "carpet- bag
gers" &C. You made your money by the
sweat of your slayes brow, while the North
ern man made his by the sweat of his 0son,
and his brains. At the present time there
are men representing millions OF capital in
our midst, looking out, not for the means of
profitable investment, for they know where
to find that, but to see if such investments
would be secure, and how they and their
families would be treated if they came here
And what do they find2 That the ribald
rebel press of the South are trying their ut
most to infame the minds and passions of
their readers against every Union man, he he
from the North or from the South, and using
scurrilous abuse in place of temperate argu-
ment. We already know one gentleman
who has returned with the most unfavorable
impressions on his mind, who will report ac-
cordingly, and SO stop Q large capital from
flowing into our State for investment. 1t
will never do II we expect ladies and gen.
tl.men to come among US from the North
we must treat them as such. Southern hos
pitality, Southern courtesy and Southern
friendship used to be proverbial; let us not
now make the prefix "Southern" syn
onym for everything the contrary of what
it used to be. Let us treat gentlemen and
ladies as such-leave politics out, in the 80
cial treatment of our neighbors, and confne
them to the stump and rostrum-then you
will see capital flow in on us in abundance,
and in few years the good Old North State
will be once more in the van of her South
ern compeers, her bonds will rise to pre-
MUM, her debt will be extinguished, the
| banks of her streams will be studded with
mills and factories, and the fertile swamps
will become blooming fields.
Look how Southern men are and have
been treated when they went to NewYork,
Philadelphia and other Northern Cities.
Were they not heard with the courtesy due
to gentlemen from gentlemen and that too
Immediately at the close of the war, when
households were drapedin mourning from the
fratricidal war brought on by the Rebels of
the South assisted by the Copperheads of
the North. The Southern men went there
not with capital to invest but to seek a I've
lihood at the hands of the very men and ma
ton they had tried to ruin and many of
them to attend political meetings and try to
stir up once more the embers of discord in
stead of joining heart and hand in rebuild
ing the injured prospects of the country
Look on this picture and look on that. In
the one case courtesy and Cancellation both
in words and money, in the other vitupera-
ton and calumny accompanied with threats
and in too many cases murder and robbery,
| and then say who is to blame for capital not
coming South As we said before, we must
alter the treatment of these gentlemen
The Rebels of the South threw down the
gauntlet, it was long beforeit was taken up,
but when the old flag was fired on, then up
rose the nation in its strength and accepted
the arbitrament of war-the fight was
fought-the Rebels, conquered in the field,
and willing in the first instance to accept
any terms, thought c0ntiscation and fire,
death and imprisonment would follow
But no, the North fought for Peace and pre-
servation fthe Union. They got it, and with
it a magnanimity unparalleled in the history
of Nations they forgave all. This instead
of being accepted in the spirit with which
it was offered, has been looked on as con-
cession of fear and the Rebels rendered ram
pant under the Vaccinations of Andrew
Johnson, who was bidding for another
term of the Presidency, again began system
which had it not been for the wisdom of Con
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country to chaotic state and placed the
negro in worse situation than before-fol
he would have been literally slave still
with the mockery of the name of Freedom
Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Stakeholder:
of this Road was held in this city, on Thurs
day the 18th inst Hon. D. NJ Barringel
was Chairman of the meeting. Gen. W. r
Cox, aud Maj. W. W. Vass acted as Secre
retaries. Dr.. W.. Hawkins, President OF
the Road, read the annual report of the
President and Board of Directors. On mo
ton of Dr.. Jno. R. Hicks, the reading of tn,
Treasures report was dispensed with, as the
same was printed, and in the hands of thu
members of the meeting. On motion, the
reports of the President and Treasurer wert
referred under the rule to committee, con
sisting of Messrs r. s. Tucker A. NJ Nc
Pheeters and T. B Venablc who afterwards