Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1844-11-29

how quickly would we make that propitious time
arrive! Now is the time. You have only to Wilt.
and it is done. The means are at your command.
Fha: misery constituent who grudgingly yields
the little portion which he would be required to
contribute towards so good a work, deserves not
the showers and sunshine of Heaven, and need not
hope for blissful futurAy. Without the aid of
your branch of the government, gentlemen. that
unfortunate class may bid farewell to hope. and
welcome despair.
PENITENTIARY.
Foryears past the subject of changing our Grim
Inai Code by the establishment OF the Pententiary
System. has engaged public attention. Doubtless
you are aware of the wishes of your constituents
upon the subject, and will fully comply with them
am satisfied that criminals often escape convic-
ton from a humane feeling in the iury-and their
unwlhngness to subject the offender to severe and
lgnominious corporal punishment. And if a GRIM
NAL be convicted, the present mode OF punishment
Is but lily calculated to reform him or to benefit the
State. Solitary confinement and hard labor are
Wholesome remedies for desperate moral diseases.
1t Is believed that the adoption of the eystem
would be good economy the profits Zig from
the labor of criminals would exceed the expenses
OF carrying the criminal law into execution and it
would be all admirable system to apply the pro-
ceeds arising from the punishment and correction
of vice and ideness to the Common School fund,
to aid in the moral and ntelIe, tual cultivation of
our youth. 1t would be rearng the beautiful and
delicate flower of Virtue out of the fetid hot-bed
Of Vice. .....
HISTORY.
| AS long as the American Union shall endure,
so long will the History of the establishment of
American Independence be subject of deep in
terest to every Patriot The Revolutionary histo-
ry of this State is fraught with incidents of the
| tlreDeSt interest docs honor 70 o1r nofriotic
sires. While another State boasts of being the
cradle of Liberty, North Carolina alone can boast
of possessing its birth place. 1t was on her SOIL
on the Goth of May ITS. that her sons reared the
standard of Liberty, boldly declared their indepen-
dence of the British Crown, and declared them
selves {" a free and independent people," % a
ereign and selfgoverning association" We are
wholly unworthy such illustriOus descent if we
neglect to preserve by all means in our power, the
history of the gallant deeds by which they sustain
ed that declaration
The Index to the Colonial Documents of our
State printed by order of the last Legislature, to
| which | refer you shows that very important his
torical information relative to this State, may be
obtained from the Archives of the British Govern
h ment. Access to these Archives has been gene
rousIy rendered by that Government to this State;
and permission granted to take copies of any doc
umen:s we desire. 1t is believed that an agent.
we'll qualified for the purpose, can be found who
will proceed to Eng land and procure such copies
as may be deemed useful, for a sum but little ex-
ceedng the expenses of the trip AM pay to clerks
for making the copies. 1t is submitted to you
whether it is not due to ourselves to send such an
agent.
CHEROKEE BONDS.
lie debt due to The state for the purchase of
Cherokee lands is but Little reduced in amount by
IL. &c
mon. y IN that region
), nen we look a; the difficulties. incident to
new s@ulementS which the debtors who reside in
me cxr, me western counties have to encounter
trr renDt ness from market, and their dcstItution
{" go ii roads we are not surprised that large pay
ments not made.
The lands sold for good price besides other
st ufty, the sta.e hollis the titles until the pur-
C as money Is paid: The lands are increasing IN
value 10y settlement. Good policy. therefore, die.
rates that such indulgence SHOULD be extended to
csc debtors as Will eventually secure the payment
D. the det and induce them to remain among US
, rs useful citizens
THE CAPITOL. ...
r i Elm it scarcely necessary to call your atten-
ton to the Public square and the Capitol They
arc before you the poprlety of putting suitable
enclosure around the square is too obvious to ie-
RI quire from me any recommendation
: 1t il haj &c nomy, after aying out half mil
lion of dollars in building that does honor to the
state, to withhold the small amount necessary to
enclose and protect it.
a. The SWAMP LANDS.
,N No sale of the swamp Lands drained by the
$ state have been yet male. An attempt made
g to effect ii sale in lS4I, shortly after the drainage
+ of portion of the land, but thegeneraI pecunia-
nv embarrassment which then prevailed, caused
] I;,+Io bo fho
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 deem
ed the times unpropitious, and believed the lands
: to be daily increasing in value by the decomposi-
ton of the vegetable matter, greatly fastened by
# the drainage. =
PUBLIC LANDS.
4 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 burthensometo the citizens. Il
seems to me no fund can more appropriately be-
long to the states than that arising from the sales
f of the public lands, and that that fund can be III
5 no way applied more advantageously than in the
: improvements of the social and natural condition
: o the states.
: There can be no further use for Withholding The
fund from the states, under pretence that it i:
: needed for the use of the General Government
= The present tariff will raise an amount amply sui
licent to meet all the exigo ncies of the Genera
F. Government, economically administered: and We
v now have some assurance that the Tariff will con
= tinue uninterrupted, and the protective policy be
j. come firmly established Indeed, SO thoroughly
d convinced have the people become. that the doc
trine of Free Trade, whatever may be in theory
2 is in practice mere humhug that in the late con
test for the Presidency, candidate appeared adj
: vocating the doctrne-both the rival candidates
advocating The principle of protection. Now is
the time to press for distribution of this fund
Indeed, its distribution should at all times be press
It ed. 1t appears to me surprising that any one
i should hesitate on the subject. The sum receiv-