The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-06-16
Martin County Crops-Suffering among
the people from high water-Flattering
condition of cOlored labOi-A favOra-
BILE contrast-Public sentiment i'm.
proving-Resources of eastern North
Carolina, &c.

Carolina, &c.
Especial correspondence OF the Standard
MEssRs. EDITORS A line or two in rela-
ton to matters and things in this part of the
old North State may interest your readers.
First, the crops The corn crops is as
likely as could be expected at this season o.
the year. The bud worm has not troubled
the farmers as they usually do in wet and
cold springs at least there is no complaint
about the depredations of that little insect
But our cotton is very much injured by the
many cold and wet spells that we have had.
A great deal has not come up at all. And
much OF that which has come through the
ground has dropped and died, so that we
shall not make an average crop. But we
shall make amends for that in our corn
and wheat, especially when we take into
consideration the extra quantity of land that
has been planted; that is, it we should have
anything like favorable season hereafter.
We have little of old hard times just
now, owing to the fact that several hundred
laborers, white and colored, who earn their
daily bread at lumber getting, have had
their support cut short by their ,eing kept
out of the swamps by continued freshets in
the Roanoke river. The merchant. The
the mechanic, and the professional part
of our community have also come in
for their part of this calamity. We would
prosper with fair chance 1t is not owing
to laziness, for we have as industrious pop
ulation as can be found in any portion Of
the State.
There is great hue and cry among the
Democrats that negroes will not work, &c.
but think as a class they are as industrious
as the whites, when they are we'll remunera-
| tel for their labor; for the latter are con-
stantly trying to get into some kindof bust
ness to keep clear of work-merchandisiag
grog-shop keeping, and other occupations.
| And will add III this connection that the
colored people have as much respect shown
| them here as in any other part of the State;
they come nearer having equal justice melted
, out to them, that is according to my observa-
ton. And if they do not prosper as d gen
eral rule, it is their own fault. 1t is true.
that their ineXperience and want of educa-
. ton and proper information are taken adj
vantage of by some of the DISCONTINUED Con-
servatives to make money out of them. I
, know one thing, that is, they have built up
| our little village since the war ended Some
OF their most deadly enemies are living in
came out of that deadly struggle, who would
be to-day as poor as Jobs turkey, unless
they had gone somewhere else, if it had not
been for colored labor. Many Of these indi-
| viduals who never owned slave, but fought
| that others might be the greai slave aristo-
Gratis of the land, and after fighting and
being defeated, wished the poor negro sent
to the ID or the Feegee Islands, and not
live among us as citizens, bave been mostly
| benefited by them. .,,,t
But, Messrs. Editors, am proud, to add
that that spirit is dying out as people grow
wiser. 1t only comes now from that class
of unreconstructed rebels who wish for an
European war, or that something may turn
up to aid them to get their cherished Con-
federacy, and have negro slavery restored
upon its old basis, Qor they say that the
colored people are fitted only to be slaves
Notwithstanding it may include some peo-
| pie as white as themselves
The resources of Eastern North Carolina
have never yet been properly developed.