The North-Carolina standard., 1844-12-04

enclosure around the Square is too obvious to re
quire from emmy recomm edation.
Its bad economy, aherslaying out half million
of dollars in a building that does honor to the
State to withhold the small amount necessary to
enclose and protect it.
THE SWAMP LANDS.
No sale of the Swamp Lands drained by the
State have been yet made. An attempt was made
to rf; ct sale in 1871, shortly after the drainage
of portion of the land, but the general pccuniary
embarrassment which then prevailed, caused but
little attcn ton to be paid to the sales; and the few
bids made were so, low, that the Board did not
deem it proper TO accept them No attempt to sell
has been since made, because the Board deemed
the times unpropitious and believed the lands to be
daily increasing in value by the decomposition OF
the vegetable matter greatly fastened by the drain
age.
PUBLIC LANDS.
To make such public improvements and to
erect such charitable Institutions as need the
State must have money. To raise. funds for such
use by taxation, would be burthcnsome to the citi-
zrns. Ii seems to me no fund can more appropri-
atry belong to the States hanthat arising from
the sales of the public lands and that that fund can
be in way applied more advanta geously than
in the Improvements of the social and natural con-
dition of the States.
There can be no further use for withholding g
the fund from the States under pre- cncc that it is
needed for the use of the General Government
The present tariff will raise an amount amply
sufficient to all the exigcncrs ofthe General Gov
ernmcnt, economically administered and we now
have some assurance that the Tariff will continue
uninterrupted, and the protective policy become
firmly established. Indeed so thoroughly con-
vinccd have The people become, that The doctrine
of Free Trade whatever it may be in theory, is in
practice mere humbng, that in the Late contest
for the Presidency, candidate appeared advo-
eating that doctrinP-both the rival candidates ad-
vocating the principle Of protection. Now is the
lime 10 press for distribution of this fund. In
deed its distribution should at all times be pressed
1t appears 10 me surprising that any one should
hesitate on the subject Thn sum received by this
State under the distribution ordrcd under General
Jackson's administration, (rlthongh one fourth of
the sum ordered was never Tcceivcd) amounts to
more than the whole land and poll tax paid into
the Treasury of North Carolina for the last
twenty years. So large sum cannot be annual
ly expected from that source; but asssum that
would greatly aid this State might basefrlied on
with certainty. |, therefore, respectfully direct
your attention to the subject.
With the present year, by constitutional pro-
vision, closes my official connrXion with the Gov
rrnment of North Carotin1. In retiring from the
Executive Chair shall carry with me but one
rcgret-and that is-that your department of the
Government did not assign to me, during my a,L
mnstration, the execution of some work of great
and permanent public utility. whereby, in the
faithful and Jealous performance of the duty,
might manif st TO the people, of North Carolina
the profound gratitude which feel to them for
the confidence they have rcposed in me- AMI for
the kindness with which my official acts have
been received by them.
Wishing yon, Gentlemen, session OF pleasant
mss TO yourselves and Of usefulness to your con-
stuCnts
remain your Fellow Citiz'n
and obedirnt servant,
JNO. Nj. MOREHEAD
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