The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-02

would exist in that little community, and
happiness and contentment peryade every
household2 M
Prosperity willfollow such means and such
only. When prosperity exists among the
resident population you present the greatest
attraction for emigration.
mere are some suggestions, however, to
De considered in reference to the present in
debtedness of the people. How are they to
be relieved? The most mischieyous legisla-
ton ever had among people is that which
lnterposes legal barriers between debtor and
creditor in the shape of stay laws. It is
only necessary to observe the effect of such
laws since their existence. Can instances be
cited where the condition of the debtor has
been improved2 Have debts not increased
instead of being diminished 2 Has the in
tegrity of the community been fostered 3
rather has it not wasted away, until dishon-
esty itself unblushingly stalks about in open
day. Were King, Lords and Commons, 1
would sweep all such laws from the statute
book. Then people would soon learn pru-
dence If not economy. 1t would lie an era
whence you might date new career of
prosperity, and until it is done, blight and
mildew will hover over the land
There exists debt due by the State for
money borrowed to bsild your Railroads,
your Asylums for the Insane and Deaf and
Dumb. The interest is not provided for the
credit of the State is sinking, your Railroad
enterprises are languishing, enterprises which
are SO promising of good to the whole peo-
pie in promoting the interests of agriculture,
mining, manufacturing and emigration. AS
the want of Integrity in paying debts effects
an Individual, so Il like want of effort to paw
a public debt effects the entire community.
1t stamps every man comprising the commu-
nifty with the mark of Cain on his forehead.
A repudiator of either private or public
debt deserves the scorn of every honest man.
But some are inclined to say we have not the
means and can't pay. Such an excuse will
answer the purpose of those only VINO don't
want to pay.
Now few thoughts as to the best mode
of overcoming the difficulty of short crops,
low prices, &c. So far as prices are concern
ed those only are effected who have needless.
ly contracted debt. The price of every
thing has declined except bread and bread
stnffs. They will continue at high figures
until there be witnessed in the land a dispo
sition to work.
The same rule exists now that has always
existed. Man must earn his bread by toll,
let his complexion be white or black Con-
gress neither makes corn nor has any meas
ure to prevent its growth been suggested or
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going to work to earn an honest living &C
cording to Gods holy commandment, are
lowering about the towns and cities and
cross roads trying to get employment in lit
tie stores and shops, and so play the gentle
man and the ladies, God bless them keep up
one incessant tune in abuse of the Yankees
All this is wrong, my countrymen.
If Congress were tomorrow, to clothe
every white man in the South with the priv
ileges enjoyed before the rebellion, the cry for
bread would still exist unless corn is planted
and cultivated. But intended to ask what
legislative bodies gave us these abominable
stay laws, and have come so near running the
credit of the country by failing to provide
for the payment of interest on the State
debt?
Such legislation is wicked enough to cause
our dead fathers to become restless in their
graves. Who that has left spark of
patriotism can repress II desire for change,
even though power should go into the hands
of the Radicals and the negroes. Can the
condition OF things be worse than they are 2
Echo answers, can they? Nous uerrons