The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-05-19

How They Encourage lmm1gratx0hs
In the Sentinel of May Sd and editorial ap-
peared under the heading "ForneY and
Fourteen !" the burden of which vas to rail
against Northern men canning into the South
10 invest their grecnbacks in land. The
supposition was made in that article that
Col Forney's party left money IN trusty
hands in this city 10 be invested in LANDS TO
be sold under the sheriffs hammer. Inc
prices brought Ivy several parcels OF iands
sold hy Sheriff Lee were quoted, coupled
with statement that Sheriff Lee said some
of the land was worth $40 per acre in gold. :"
This was made the text for a general at
tack upon Col. Forney. Gov. Holden, and
the Carpet baggers." 1t says land worth
$40 in gold sells for less than one dollar in
greenlacks. The writer seems to be struck
with moral blindness to the truth and hatred
to "Carpet-baggers" generally, and closes
with the liberal advice, 1--WE say be gone:
Stand not upon the order of your going, but
go at once"
The Western Nindicator takes up the
little item of false intelligence and dilates
upon it as follows:
ION the list instant, Sheriff Lee, of Wake
county, stood at the Court House door, and
sold twenty-three plantations, containing
1882 acres of land under the hammer. The
land was valued at $40 per acre. 1t
brought $7,71S, or, less than one dollar per
acre. Carpet baggers and sleek-looking Off
cials, with pockets full of Greenbacks, stolen
from the State Treasury, stood around the
sheriff and gohbed up the last acre. Oh.
shame! Oh, Radicalism ! Oh. oh poor
plundered people of North Carolina
By careful inquiry, we have ascertained
the following to be the facts: In the first
place the title of the land was so very pre-
Curious that it would be unsafe to advance
money for it; Second, the Sheriff said some
of the land was worth $50 or $40 an acre
before the war, not that it was now worth
$40; Third, not an acre was bought by
"cqrpet baggers" or for them, nor by any Of
ficer, federal or State; it was understood
that the original owners desired to bid in
their lands, or that friends should bid it in
for them, and for that reason, among Others,
outsiders stood aside and did not bid, and a
large portion of it went back to the former
owners This accounts for the low price
realized, which is not the real value.
Under the light of these facts the animus
OF these men is readily seen through the veil
of falsehood which covered it. They are
boiling over with hatred to those who at
present control the political affairs of the
the State, hence their cry against "sleek
looking officials" They attempt to cast
upon them the odium of the de-
pressed condition of the State, when they
well know the South has not yet recovered
from the ruin and havoc of the latecivil war,
and that the rebellion was the cause of all
our woes. The same number of the Yin
dictator says, referring to ''earpet-baggers,
"let them 90 to Cuba or the devil, we
don't much care which," This is not very
friendly expression towards American fel-
low citizens, hut it is all we expect from
such source These are the men who keep
away immigration, and they follow their
course of denunciation and SANDER so per
sistently that We must believe they desire to
prevent capital from coming to us. Their
ideas are curious compound Of the Rip
Van Wrinkle and the Don Quixotic schools,
and their oblique vision is only caused by
their incapacity to comprehend the necessi-
ties of the hour. Let them rave, capital
and immigration have commenced to flow
in upon us; and come they will, in spite of
their opposition.