The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-08-18
CORRESPONDENCE.
For the Standard.
Edaecombe County-GreatCro ps-Rrigh
Prospects-HonOr to Colored La
borers-A Happy People
The Political Situa-
finn Sc
EDeEooMBE Co., Aug. 10. 1880

LDGECoMbE TO-, aug. III, 1869.
MEssRs. EDITORS: hope you will pardon
the intrusion of the quill, which I am sure
you will do, as know that you, having the
veal of North Carolina at heart, will be glad
to hear cheering news from old Edgecompe,
which has always been acknowledged by
those OF agricultural erudition as being one
OF the leading counties in the State, and
"secundem multi" in the production of cotton
and corn. At present she is emerging proud
ly from the gloom of dependency which
has OF late years o'ershadowed her, and with
the watchward Onward" she bids fair to
regain in few more years of assiduous ex-
ertions and constant toll, her pristine beauty
and opulence. When again seated on the
pinnacle of prosperity, she can easily COM
peer any county in the State, both in intel
lect, agriculture, and in the jealous promo
ton of all laudable enterprises. The people
are rapidly advancing from the restitution
caused by the late civil wal, and are regain
ing in a very commendable manner their lost
fortunes. The crops are unusually fine and
promise luxurious harvest. The season
was not very favorable at the first of the
year, but since the first of June the weather
has been exceedingly fnr,and all nature seems
labor. The corn crop is not so good in some
parts of the county, but in this particular
region, around Tarbor)', Ceres has been very
proptious; the stalk is green and healthy,
and the ears large, and in few more weeks
the granaries will he groaning meath the
yellow grain. The crops are now laid aside,
and both farmers and laborers are enjoying
the holidays with pic-nics and barbecues
Every one looks joyful, and the prospect
of an abundant harvest and plenty of
greenbacks is already depicted on the
countenance of every farmer. The laborers
have behaved creditably, and have worked
hard during the year, for which they de-
serve praise Some Of the farmers have in
troduced Swiss laborers on their farms, but
think they have finally concluded that
Sambo is indispensable.
l dislike to say anything concerning poll
tics, but the Democratic party is assuming
such ridiculous aspect in Edgecombe that
can scarcely restrain myself from inform
ing you what a change has transpired IN
the last few months. The party zeal which
was displayed by the Democrats before and
during the election has nearly cooled off,
and the most sensible of our people have
seen the errors of their way, and have deter
mined to amend their course Still some of
the ultra Democrats, most of whom remain
ed at home during the war, nourish the old
hostile feelings towards the government,
and cling with the last hope of despair to
the masts of the sinking ship "Sham De-
| mocracy," and there they will re-
main until the Democracy has pass
ed into oblivion when lacking the
moral courage to express their real SEN
timeuts, they come forward as Liberal Re-
publicans, which, a year, ago they would
have denounced as an outrage and the one
committing such crime would have been
| branded with the name Of "scalawag," and
Radical" which last name characterized
the Democratic party during the whole cam
paign. From the bold, domineering, So
called followers of Jefferson, they have
dwindled down into a mere nothing; the
neuclus of their party is dead, and they are
now vagabonds without name or principle
| At last their mortal career is ended, and the
wise and enlightened portion of Edgecombe
have determined ito let the dead past bury
| dead;' to let the lost cause pass into
| oblivion, and to exert their utmost endeay-
ors in the dissemination of knowledge, in
agricultural improvement, and for sustaining
the Constitution of the United States as the
palladium of all their rights and liberties
| God grant that our quiet may not again be
disturbed by wars and civil strifes And I
am thankful that. as North Carolina was the
last to break the united chain, she was first
to restore the broken link