The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-10-19
The Conservative Party bars out Labor
and Capital.


and Capital.
We published an article day or two since
in which we set forth the war which the
Conservatives are carrying on against the
interests of the State. We showed that they
have persistently and maliciously done all
they could to keep out immigration, in order
that they might be able to continue to hold
the reins of power, and gorge their already
plethoric wallets at the public treasury.
The Sentinel alludcs to that article, not
to answer the charges, but to say that Mr..
Ashley has always kept the very best society
in North Carolina. Most certainly-that is
why he is never seen with the Sentinel man.
We are in favor of immigration. The
body ofthe people of North Carolina favor it.
We are in favor of stimulating immigra-
ton because it will add to the wealth OF
the State. Political economists estimate
that every man in the vigor of his faculties
adds ten thousand dollars to the productive
capabilities of the State. This vastly in
creases the estimate which we made in a
former article, and which contemplated the
value of the man as an article of merchan-
die and not his value as a producer.
On this estimate ten thousand persons
annually entering the State would be a
real addition to its wealth of the vast sum
of ten million dollars. We say that so
many persons per annum are only the
proper share of North Carolina in the thirty
thousand per month that land at the New
York battery, and we charge the Conserva-
tives of this State with defrauding the
treasury of this ten millions per annum by
their opposition to immigration.
It is further estimated, on careful obser-
walton, that on an average each immigrant
brings with him the sum of seventy-five
dollars. We made the entirely safe estimate
of twenty-fi five dollars. Ten thousand per-
sons having each seventy-fve dollars, would
bring in the State the gum Of seven hun
dred and fifty thousand or three quarters of
a million of dollars in clean cash. We
charge the Conservatives of this State with
defrauding the treasury of this sum.
The immigration of such numbers of per-
sons to this State would raise the value of
farming lands four-fold in five years. We
charge the Conservative party with de-
frauding the farmers of the State of this
vast aggregate of wealth. .l so.
But we need these immigrants for an
other reason. We want peace. We dep
recate this incessant quarreling which, like
the chafng of waves after great storm,
fills journals and neighborhoods-
ings, which grew out of the war, and which
will never die except as the men die who
took part in that dreadful and bloody con.
fict. The natural, the feasible, the easy way
of softening this quarrel is to invite immi-
grafton. This will turn our attention away
from our feuds to the development of the
resources of the State, at the same time that
it will introduce population who can have
no possible interest in our past contentious,
and who would therefore serve as peace
making element. 1'I Eu-o ~ iaaI /
Why is it that in our railroad depots we
see posted up advertisements from the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad, with both sides
garnished with names of locations to which
it may be desirable to migrate, and addressed
especially to PARTIES emigrating from
North Carolina2" 1t is because the Kuklux
party are driving out hundreds of our best
citizens, as they recently drove from the
State that eminent and irreproachable man,
Senator Shofner .l t@I- % goT