The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1838-11-02

ACT prudently.
Do YOU believe that the system already
adopted, the plans now 10 progress, are 100
limited. and that the necessities OF the slate
demand more-then let the subject be dis
cussed and brought before the Assembly
the responsible servants of the people. Let
us. however, remember that small and IN.
considerable as the plans OF 1886 may be,
with one exception, they were 50 great that
our people were not willing Ia unite IN their
execution, by subscribing 3-51hs OF the re.
quIsite stock.
Above all things, we must take care not
TO press through any new 81 stem, against
the voice of the people. Experience has
proved tina, no plan of improving the State,
can succeed, with the public sentiment a.
gslnst IFS execution.
am very Far from believing that there
is nothing for the Assembly of 1885 to do
on this subject; as hope to prove IN the Sc
quel. Nor do obj CT to meetings Of the
people, or Conventions, to foster the spirit
OF improvement. only deprecaie any az
temp, to organize self constituted bodies,
for devisiug other general plans OF Improve.
menl, whist we have slread, devised plan,
and II has beeo ratified by law. shall be
greatly deceived If any such attempts do
not create sectional dlsvislons on the great
question, or else end IN some gigantic
scheme, which the Assembly will not dare
10 approve, and cannot prudently adopt.
Unte and persevere 10 completing the sys-
ten already proposed. and It's success viii,
in due time, ensure the extension Of our
improvements TO other points. la word,
let US DO-not islk.-le, Us execute what
We have planned-not plan more before We
have worked out to the end of single pub.
lie Improvement. But | propose TO discuss
this matter more hereafter.
fear the excltenenis Of party politics ;
the want Of intercourse betseen the differ
ent sections of our State, and the frequent
disappointment Of the people on the subJec,
Of improsement-to say Doihing OF the apa.
thy which all condemn and few iaIi To prac.
lice-have co operated to keep off pubic
attention from the results already achieved
IN our plans Of internal improvement, and
those IN immediate prospect.
The frs, Ink 10 the chain Of improve.
ments, proposed aud patronlzed BY the As.
semhy Of 1896, was Rail Road beginning
at Wilmington, on the snuth SIDE OF the
State, aed running across the rh0te State,
10 the X ,anoke River, near Halifax. This
work goes on bravely at this time more
than 81 miles of the road are 10 use and
In few months the cars viii run over 81
miles OF the RGad; stretching from Wal.
mngton to Neuss River, near Waynesboro'
In the course Of the mex, year, the other
half Of the Road sill be- Completed; large
part of the heavy work beng already don-
Thus We shall have our principal seaport
town Wilmington connected BY a single
cham Of RaIIsay, with The rivers Roanoke,
Tar, Neuse, and Cape Fear. The Com.
pany have 10 operation, al present, two
Steam Boats Of the first class, running from
Wilmington TO Charleston. THIS Road, al
lis northern termination, uIltes with tn
Petersburg Raj K ad, aud also with the
Portsmouth, Rail Road; and IT forms the
basis or foundation upon which our North
Carolina system Of Improvements is pro.
posed to be erected. IL is now used /; and
experience so far confirms the calculations
heretofore made, that II will be exceeding.
" profitable. Some estimate the profits al
90 per ceni-n0ne estimate them lover than
8 10 10 per cent.
Nov. If we stop TO look at the results Of
this single chain 10 the system. we see the
following: Our principal Rivers, Roanoke,
Tar, Nsuse, and Cape Fear, are ali connec.
ted together By II at port Of our State.
That port Is connected BY this Railway
with Norfolk and Portsmouth, Pelersbur .
and Richmond, 90 the north; with Char.
lesson, on the south with Fayetteville, on
The ses,, BY the Cape Fear; Newbern,
through Neuse River; directly from Hail.
fax; and through the Ocean, are opened to
our trade, all Europe aud other foreign lands.
What VIII the magic Of Improvement
bind into one, ans Of The divided sections OF
our BELOVED State Has she port OF so
much Importance, and Que thus connected
with all the world The fact is even so !;
and you will anticipate me 10 the obvious
conclusion, that We need only to Connect
Fayetteville, by some practicable road, with
our Western Counties, and the State viii
then have brought her children 10 one home
market; will have tied together some Of her
different sections and will have laid open
TO the husbandman and the planter, more
markets than any one work IN the world
ever did, by the same amount Of expeudi.
tUre. A North Carolina planter, SO soon
as he strikes the Road, has access to tie
following markets: Wilmington, Ports
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