The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-01-06
The People Need Rest.

God Knows they do. They have lived on
unrest formany years. There was the ante
6ezlum time when secession" drove the
public mindinto tempest-then came the
four years othorror and blood of the Rebel
lion, in fact when there wasno rest, and this
has been followed by more than three years
of effort at reconstruction, when the popu-
lar mind has been in a fervent state, almost
bordering on delirium. Really the body
polite needs repose-and calm season for
review and restoration is demanded by all
men but political fools and scoundrels. No
wonder we have done foolish and wicked
thingA This state of excitement has over
taxed the human mind. No wonder private
interest and personal welfare are suffering,
no heed has been bestowed on them. If it
is desiiable to preserve aught that we love
or value,Nwe must have rest. The people
their edictt demanding of demagogues, all
political trfksters and disappointed office
seekers, that on pain of banishment. they
must -desist rom their nefarious, wicked and
unpatriotic d -f tsips... s,.ss
the State and depriving the public mind of
needed rest. Erery one needs rest. So rapid
have been thu public movements, and so
great the political changes, that the wear
and tear, the friction of opposing interests and
views so seYerei that quiet is needed for re-
pair and forrea& &ustment to new movements
Ecen politicians need rest We use this
term in the bett@ sense-those shams and
tricksters do not deserve rest, and the SOON
er they finish theii career the better. We
speak of those wh6e high duty it was to
steer .'the Ship of State" during the late dis
astrous storm, and Who never saw the hours
in all those dark days when they dared take
their hand from the Aelm. After those ter
rible alternatives of alarm, doubt and hope
that wrought their minds to the utmost ten
sion, exhausted mentatpowers ask for rest
for season in which th| may examine the
changes effected in the State-may satisfy
themselves as, to the pronriety of what was
done to avert calamity in the moment of ut
most need-to take leisurly sweep of the
distant as we'll as near horizon lying off in
the future. After such succession of storms
it must needs be-there is occasion for re-
adjustment to new events and new future.
Yes, good people, give the men of the State
"a rest'-they can serve you better in the
future
The capitalist needs rest What rest
for bulls and bears? 1t is not exactly
these ''6easts" that we had in our minds
when we wrote those words, yet may be
they had better take it n0w with all the rest
of the land and let US have real Sabbath.
Wedid mean, however, those men who hav-
ing money wish to invest it SO that while it
rewards themselves, also aids in establishing
manufactures and in bringing into use the
resources of the whole country. The times
have driven such capital to uses not so le-
gitimate and patriotic, and we need rest to
this class of men that they may feel it safe
to invest their capital where it may serve the
interest of the State and afford its indirect
benefits to all men engaged in industrial
pursuits. Let there be season of rest to
those timid men who hold capital until they
gain courage to invest it where it has long
been driven away, and is now necessary to
the beginning of more prosperous condi-
ton Of the people.
1he men acho labor mast hace. rest. All
those Years, labor was uncertain of its reward
NO man could calculate that he should he
perimnlittted to realize any plans he should
make. Even after the draft and that dread
ed conscription were no longer seen in the
distance like horrid spectres to unfit for the
daily duty ofearning bread, there followed
those yearsof political excitement, during
which labor had to contend for recognition
itself-when day and night was demanded
for the contest-when organizations had to
be formed and meetings attended, and a
ceaseless round of devotion to the welfare
of freedoms cause had to be made; all this
time there was no rest for the man OF toll.
Now he asks rest-not rest for his plough,
nor rest for his hammer, trowel, plane or
saw, but for his mind eEIe wishes a. season
when he shall be allowed to devote all his
time to the shop and his farm-when
he can attend to the education of his