The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-06-01

my apprchcnsions, which ! ,m sure
shoul 4 mt now be able to maize ineligible
by any amount OF explanation believed
myself liberal in disposition towards the
new classsof frccmcn, and snp ,sed that ulc
measures which advocated ii played that
liberality. But now they al par as anti
auatcd as if they belonged to lie world be-
yond the flood.
The Republican party in this State is a
party mainly composed of poor men. The
interests of the poor ought therefore to be
its great care. may say that it is in this
point Of view especially bound to take care
against extravaganza in public disburse
ments and high taxation. maintain that
the class called non tag payers arc more in
terested in regard to taxes than any others.
Tn other counties where taxes are high, the
poor are prnportionately oppressed. The
burden filters down through the higher
classes and rests without chance of ielief
upon the heads of those below-upon the
heads Of men whose names do not appear
upon the tax lists Your merchant, or your
lawyer, who is taxed, puts his taxes into his
bills, and so from one to another the weight
is shifted until It falls upon that class which
has no bills to present. You will be false to
IN
;act ~ uonr carr have looked ,bronoh
eorn, . IA 90, mn reason lor tha as.,,
-; - III p 81 q marry Won have boen in r,ma.
electromagnetic. Ifthe possession of major
itics IN the recent Assembly implicate.yon in
expenditures and engagements imprudent
in extent; and not well considered rs TO de.
tails-,as to certain extent it must-al
though that extent and those details were
IN. p...,r y,,nr own ;,to,ost a. =: .ne
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eaII ,n,,,1lv far nrotest and tor sch ao.;or
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IT s.yftbis bearino in mind ali tha ,st,;io
.h,, sironS, inducements wh;rh oy;st %" e..
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wEicIi an a,e or .ss,ssa.,s s,.. .,ad
N flat Intelligent and manly class who
ssek TO better their. fortunes by i change or
nome, that the existence Of the iron horse
and the iron way near enough to distinguish
| their breath and clattcr. has become indis
pensable Such was tl,t temptation to in.
ternal improvements and large expenditures
which swayed the VOTES of :, MINORITY of the
last Assembly. Great as has been the mis-.
carriape connected with tins LEGISLATION we
should not forget that it held out homes
which ooyerned oood men amono those
some leaders of tbc Conservative nartv in
the Assemblv. and wa must uot IF II no
nossible alIoy tbc c,nsc of internal inn.
nrovomnnt ,bercforo IN ba ,,;sn,;rod ,f
Ro;lro,dc arc M Jnnaer in tbis oo,a a Irv,rr
mr. ovor n,orolv /. conron;,.noo. tbov Lo1o
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ro;IrnadS nor,noatn o,orn o,rs;dnraI,," na;,.h
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POI Th..ni .,,,,or ,,ra.. o,u.o ,,h;.h l.
,,.nds ,,rt ,,r Tho aar,;ost r,,,,l;,' un "o
cdncat;on 10 meet tbe cit;pans If nnr els
Ter states upon an equality 70 nrcscnt onr
local views and local interests unnn = com.
mon nIotform as fnrcibv and ,s intcll;g;blv
os ,r,. ,I,ns, If ntbor Ioc,Iit;es onr c;tizons
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can stahdard, anu that Is now hiSh, ana,
Win every passing DAY, Is becoming hl9her.
Progress IN Nortf-Carolina lies mainly in
this direction.
Our new citizens must not forget that in
the Providence of God they have at once, as
it were, been presented with blessings of op-
litical and personal liberty which that Prov
idencc has granted to other raccs-notably
to the white races herc-only after centuries
of unsuccessful exertion and bitter bondage.
But, with themselves alone docs it rest
whether those rights shall be preserved. 1t
is as true 1or thcm as Tor any, that, VINO