Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-11-22

TRIBUTE TO THE NORTH-BY SESAroR PREsroX
We extract from the Co|amtia (S q Telescope, i
sketch Of The speech Of Mr. Senator Preston, at
public meeting Columbia, reference To the Charles
and Cincinnati Rail road. In this speech he took
occasion to bear honorable testimony from personal OBJ
servati"n Ia the character the enterprise, aud public
spirit of the Npth We give place to this sketch with
great prasur"-not merely gratifying tribute, from
eminent munrr as beautiful specimen Of his rich
aud wing orat"ryhut indication Of the growth OF
better understanding and better feeling among the CT.
tzcns Of The South with relation to lri. Nuirrn b.cl
rem The facilities of intercourse rapidly tending
the removal modification of merely sectional and local
preudces-and hope that in the continued and in.
creasing in:ccommuncaon of the North aud South,
they Will entirely disappear We would commend the
remarks of Mr. Preston 10 the especial attention Ut
readers i5GStot .4uaS.
Mr. Preston, in his speech concerning the Rail Road,
on Monday last drew very striking contrast between
the difference of character OF the people Of the Northern
aud Southern parts OF the Union, and the consequently
opposite condition of the countries that they inlabt.
lie said, that Southern man can journey Gas lie had
lately donel through the Northern States, and witness
the prosperity the industry the public spirit which they
exhibthe sedulnns cultivation of all those arts by
which life is rendered comfortable aud respectable-wil
feelings o! deep sadness and shame us Inc remembers
his neglected and desoa,e home. There, no dwell
ing is 10 be seen Abandoned farm uncultvalcd
man idle, waterfall: even, unemployed Every per-
and every thing performs part towards The grand
result and Tie whole land is covered with tI tile fields,
with manufactures and canals, aud railroads, and pub
lie edices and and cities Along the route Of
the great New York canal Qhat glorious monument Of
the glorious 'nemory Of De Wilt Clinon) canal rail-
road, and turnpike to BE- in the width Of per-
haps hundred Yards each of them crowded with travel
or ovc!hrwiag with commerce. Throughout tllcr
| course, lands that benre their construction would
scarcely Command five dollars the acre, sell for fifty
seVenty-hvr. or hnndied Passing along it, you
no space "i 'Arre miles without village and
you are ncver nni G" the sound Of the church bell.
| we oil thc So"th are mistaken in the character of
these people when We '''n Of them only as pedurs in
horn Hints ana oaTA hnimsgs Their energy and enter
their reach At The fall OF scany rvur, they sci M
their liltlc mandatory Of wooden buttons or
they plant barren hillside with broom corn and mako
it into hrooms al the bottom and lis top they crrcI ,
| windmill. Thus at single stop you may the air
the earth and the water, all working Tor them But the
same time the is witened its extrcmilics With
the sails Of their ships and the land covered with their
works Of art aud usefulness.
Massachusetts is perhaps the most Furnishing of The
Northern States Yet OF natural productions She ex
ports but two arclesgranite and ice. Absolutely no.
thing but roeE and tec Every thing else =: her COM