The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1838-11-02
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have started night. One end Ut this Rail.
way is al our principal seaport town, and
the whole Road will form base line or
foundation which already connects that port
and our State with the main route OF trav-
cling North and South-oi itself unites The
three grea. rivers at point within the
State, and upon which every line Of com
municatlon to the interior, whether long or
short, will increase the profits OF this Road !;
enlarge the trade OF our own port; aud be
sides the local advantages 10 those sections
where new lines shall 90, will also add 10
the general prosperity and wealth OF North
Carolina.
When New York constructed her great
works, 10 bring the trade Of her Western
Counties and the Lakes TO her chief port,
was II local sectional work
When Pennsylvania has expended mil
lions 10 open an internal trade to Phlladel
phla, are these expenditures sectional
Whist Mary land is pursuing the same
policy IN reference TO a connexlon OF her
back country with Baltimore, and South
Carolina is straInlng every nerve to bring
her trade to point al Charleston, do any
of US denounce their action as sectional +!
As with these States, so has II been with
every other, whose career Is worthy to stun.
ulate our ambition or warm our zeal.
But | must descend to details: l. this
local work One of too little importance To
clam support for It as STATE Improvement
IL is indeed So Let me ask IT they Who
urge the objection. really know the route
of the Road they denouncel Have they IN.
formed themselves accurately on thls point,
so as to state where 1t runs greatly
doubt 1t. For It they had done So, no eau.
did man amoHgs, them would perse,ere III
the objection.
What viii constitute any work State
Improvement IL surely wlli not be re-.
quired that work of tt,s kind shall pass
through ALL the counties OF State, before
# can b. denomna;ed general or State,
Improvement How many will do Ii II
terminate at the chief Neap9rt aud rul
across the Irhoie State, shall that pass Tor
noth.ag! Ii II unite at one point the des
cendng trade OF all the chIe Rivers Of the
I Stale, and the ascending traJe Of tao OF
three, IS that nothing
But there are facts, heretofore two LITTLE
noticed, which def hostility itself TO attach
10 this work the odium OF a selfish locail,
IN us benefits, Including IN my estimate
those counties only ~hch he immediately %
the line OF this Road, hud thai heir pnpu
a,oo is 1880 TINS rs equal 10 one SIKH
OF the whole State These counties pa,
one fifth OF the State take, They erct
10 Senators, OF ole iilh Of thaNbod,
But all the counties east Of the " lImlug
ton and Raleigh Rail Road. and those on thu
west, 0dJ4cenf to II, are directly benefited
BY n; aud all i6at portion vt the State ~
connected with the road as nearly as II ii
practicable they shall ever be brought to
any work Of the kind and most Of It Is
directly connected with the road, by streams
0i sufficient SIZE - make It useful TO the
people; and where II - otherswls-, they
are more or less pfofiied BY II. No~ It Is d
fact, that that pars OF North Carolina which
hes east Of this road together with ada.
cent counties on the west of II, contain a
population OF 2J3,O00-or one. third Vi the
population Of the uhole State.
The area Of this section IS little, II any
thing, short OF A 600 square miles, or one.
ihird Of all North Carolina.
luHsaA tbus r.,rt,on r -.
tory which comes within the immediate 10.
t1ence of the road, alone exceeds one fifth
OF all the Commonwealth.
do not trouble YOU with tedious state
ments and calculations 10 demonstration n
these facts. pledge myself that the est
mates are tree OF Intentional error, aud ihey
have been carefully made.
Dare any man, then, ~ho has a regard fol
public sentiment, 10 affirm, with these facts
before hun, that our last Assembly applied
the peoples money 10 purpose which i.
not 10 ITS fullest sense State purpose-a
State .rork-ahen they pafronlzedlhe VII.
mneton aud Raleigh Rail Road
I trust none wall be found so reckless. II
any one there be, however, leave him with
these facts, to be dealt with as an .ntelll.
gent community shall determine.
Ii might as soon be proved tina, our Cap.
ltol Is not State work, because II Is, Of
Necessity, located IN Raleigh. That our
Capitol at Washington CITY IS no, a Nation.
al work, because II IS bull, 10 the Dldnc,
OF C0umbia-or that our Forts are no; Ma
ilonal works, because they are erected on
the sea board. MEMOIR.
Anecdote.-A celebrated English preach.
err, how deceased, ~ charge which he de.