Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-11-14
TRIBUTE TO THE NORTH-BN Mr.
SENATOR PRESTON

We extract from the Columbia Is. G. Ttics-
cope sketch of the recent speech Of Mr.. Scna-
tor Preston, at a public meeting at Columbia,
in reference to the Charleston and Cine n at Il il
road. la tins Speech he took occasion to bear
honorable testimony, from personal observation to
the character, the enterprise, and public spirit of
the North. We give place to this sketch with great
pleasnre-noi merely as a gratifying tribute, from
an eminent man-or a beautiful specimen OF
his rich and flowing oratorv--but an indication
ola better understanding and better feeling among
the citizens of the South, with relation 10 their
Northern brethren. The facilities of intercourse
are rapidly tending To the removal or modica-
ton OF merely sectional and local nrcjrdiccs and
we hope that in the continued and increasing in
accommodation of the North and South, they
will entirely disappear. We would commend the
remarks of Mr. Preston to the especial attention of
our readers. Bo,tou tiiay
Mr.. Preston, in his speech concerning the
Railroad, ON Monday last, drew IA very striking
contrast between tine difference of character of
the people of the Northern aud of the Southern
parts OF the Union, and the consequently opposite
condition OF the countries that they inllab
lie said tiat no Sonihern man can Journey (is
lac had lately done) through the Northern States,
and witness the prosperity, the industry, the public
spirit which they exhibit, the SedulouS cultivation
ot all those arts by which lie is rendered condorta-
bic and respectable, without feelings of deep sad
ness and shame, as he remembers his own nee lect-
ed and dc>oiate home. There, no dwelling is to
De seen abandoned, no farm uncuivatpd no man
'dir, n" waterfall, even, unemployed. Every
person ANA every thing performs IA part towards
the grand result, and the whole land is covered
with fertile fields, with manufactures, and canals.
and railroads, and public eij[ccs, and towns and
clles Along the route OF the great New York
canal, (jmt glorious monument of the glorious ne
mory OF DE Witt CInion,) canal, railroad. and
turnpike, are To be in the width of ncrl,aps
hundred yards, each of them crowded with trayei
or Overlooking with commerce. Throuohoot lIeir
course, lands that before their construction would
scarcely command five dollars the acre. now sell
tor MY, Sc1enty-hvc, or a hundred. PASSING A.
long II, Noa STE no space Of three miles without =
town or village, and yon never out of Inc Sou,d
OF Il church he'll.
We OF the South aie mistaken in the character of
lheN people, when We think Of them only as ned
lars IN horn ntS and bark nulmce<. Their rncr-
eN ana enterprise are directed to all objects or,,t
ana small, within then reach. At the fall of =
sc'ntv r'niei, they set up their It'll, manuactorv
oi wooden buttons or combs they plant A barren
hill side with broom corn and n,al - !, ;,,, -,
~ NO po''on-dhd on ITS top they erect "A wind
m'1' linus, alta SINGLE spot, YOU may see the air.
tic 'ar'l' and the water. all WORKING fnr tIo,o
'"' ~ '''e same ,'ne, The ocean is whi,ened 10 IFS
N"en''''S win inc sal> of their ships, and III,
'''' N covered "ti' tiicr works Of ART and useful
Ness. ~ i"'
M"ssachp>e'ts is perhaps the ,na,t d,u,,.l,,,o
Ut inc >o''nefn states. Yet, OF natural nrodu,-