The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-09-09
Give it Circulation.

We are gratified to see that the poor old
morning rebel concern of this city has
given copious extract from our recent
article on Retaliation for the benefit of its
readers. BY so doing, that paper has aided
in giving publicity to few plain truths;
which would otherwise never have reached
the minds of the ancient fossils who draw
the sum total of their political information
and opinions from the columns of that ante
dcluvian sheet In ordinary fairness, the
whole of the article should have been quo
ted. But little leavcn leavens the whole
lump. and, upon the whole, we are rather
under obligations than otherwise for the
publication. ,... 1,~,.,g ,,l.,d .2'o-
Did the Sentinel man ever take up the
census OF North Carolina and sec how Gerry
small was the number of those landed lords
with their thousands of acres and formerly
their hundreds of slaves? We may pub
ish some interesting statistics upon
! this subject for the information of the peo-
I! pie before great while 1t was to serve
| the interests of this landed and slave nobil
| ity that the war of the rebellion was inau
| guratcd; it was to make them still grand
er and greater that the poor wool hat
boys were conscriptcd and forced to the
front while the sons of these same land bar
ons took shelter behind the twenty negro
exemption" and worked their immense
farms and filled their pockets with money,
while the families of the soldiers were suf.
fering for something to cat and wear.
There is no particular sympathy, that we
are aware of, i'll favor of the possessors of
these vast landed estates. The ordinary
small farmers are compelled to pay taxes to-
day for the expense of suppressing rebel
lion which they always opposed and which
was brought on us by the overweening pride
and arrogance of these great land holders
This is neither just nor right Those who
made the rebellion and the debt and fought
out the one and piled up the other, ought
to pay it. il it took their last dollar, before a
single cent should be levied upon the friends
of the Union. This may be impracticable
in all the details, but whenever We can ap
proximate the result, justice demands thai
it should be done. These large nd-holders
who are now using their wealth in Cypress
ing all Republicans who were not born with
silver spoon in their mouth ought to be
made examples of. If they let their devilisl
spirit of hostility to the government and Of
revenge and malice towards the friends o.
the government carry them so far SO to FL
the country with paupers, they ough
to be taxed to support them; and those who
allow every man to vote as he pleases ough,
not to be taxed for this purpose. These mcr
have ruled this country with rod of irol
and they have ruled it long enough. It il
about time that a stop be put to their high
handed proceedings. they are using tn
! property which mercifnl government Ina
restored to them after their treason 70
starving voters into submission, thrcatenin,
war and laying their plans to break up tn
government and plunge us into all the hor
rors of intcrnecine war; if they are dom,
these things as many of them are doing, le
the law be turned upon them. If anybod
is to nc reduced to starvation and beggary lie
it he the enemies and not the friends of til
government. Sentinel please copy. .al