The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-12-30
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The North Carolina Standard.
y At the outset of this journal, just commenc-
ing its thirty fourth year, the Editor asked
great things of his friends, but theyhave vastly
exceeded his request. They have placed the
STANDARD first on the list of political papers
in the State and achieved for it circulation
greater far than that of the whole of the 1
other papers, of all sects and parties, COM
bined. This comparison, of course, is not
based in the circulation of the STANDARD in
the recent campaign, when the excitement
was at its height, but on that Of the present,
when novelty is gone, passion has subsidized
into reason, and the circulation has become
fixed and natural. The temptation is very
strong to exaggerate the amount of circula-
ton in order to procure advertisements, and
parties without principle are but too ready
to fall before it and hence it is no uncom-
mon thing to represent circulation as
double, or treble, yea, even ten times its
amount During the last few years, large
established in this city, and nearly all of them
have failed 1t must be remembered also,
that the STANDARD, since the close of the
war, has been the unhinching advocate Of a
cause prescribed, and for time, apparently
hopeless in North Carolina. The risk of a
fearless Republican organ, under such cir
cumstances, was tremendous, and failure
would have been one of the greatest calami-
ties to the State The unexampled ccessof
this journal lays the Proprietors and their CO.
adjutors, under ten thousand obligationsto the
liberty-loving children of old North Carolina.
To each we would say: do you want discus
sions and instruction on points relating to
the Constitution of the country, illustrative
alike of its excellence and its defects, and of
the absolute necessity of revising, improving,
perfectng it in all its parts, and adjusting it
to the wants of the times which are pressing
over us (? Read the North CdrOlina Standard!
Do you, in the spirit of true patriotism,
and enlightened Christianity, resolve as an
act of the highest social duty, to watch the
proceedings of Congress on all subjects, at
fecting peace, justice, taxation, trade, COM
MERGE, liberty, and generally the public weall
Do you wish, from time to time, in aid of
your judgment an ample supply of enlight-
ened, candid, upright and fearless comment
upon all the great measures of the govern
| ment, explaining and defending the good,
exposing and denouncing the evil? Read
the North Carolina Standard!
Do you feel it high duty of citizenship
to cherish spirit of watchfulness of both
Houses of Congress, to inspect from day to
day, both their sayings and their doings, that
you may compare the promises of the hust-
ings with the performances at Washington
To these ends, are you anxious to possess and
preserve careful digest-of the debates on
all general business, and on all great occa-
sions, to have the chief speeches with all
desirable and necessary fullness? Read the
North Carolina Standard!
Are you deeply alive to the importance of
the subject of Education, as an enterprise in
which thousands are ineffably interested
Are you strongly impressed with the convic-
ton that Internal Improvements are abso-
lutely necessary to the prosperity of our
State Are you anxious to become acquaint-
ed with the extent and condition of the
mighty Wests Do you feel it duty of
Christian patriotism to keep steady eye
upon the movements of the State Legisla-
ture? Are you wishful to read from time to
time, the best and ablest speeches delivered
by your Representatives? Read the North
Carolina Standard
Are you DESTROYS to obtain and preserve a
correct and general acquaintance with the
practical operations of the great movements
of the age2 Do you wish such intelligence
as comprises facts and illustrates principles
worthy the attention of intelligent men
news without nonsense-instruction rather
than amusement-records of events which
concern the wise and the good, and which
admit of being digested for the enlargement
and inauguration of the mind ? Are you
Filling to submit to small measure of the
pftable pain of little thinking2 Have
Athe mental and moral courage to enter
an article of moderate length, and
mped with the impress of conscientious
Abor? Are you ready to become pupil
that you may be trained into a good and use
full citizen You are our man Read the
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