The North-Carolina standard., 1844-09-18
The Imrmpike-the North Carolina,


Our friend of the North CaroIinian must n,
misunderstood that portion of our article in VIII,
we made an alFhsion to the interests of Favs,,
vile and the West having been slighted jp6,
State expenditures for Internal ImprovemeDl.
We said only that it had been the case-pub,
it ought to be so-by reason OF federal partvn
position In those sections to the election o5bs
own leading statesmen. We were endeavorn,I
show how the Federalists, who advocated Inleml
Improvements, yet sacrificed them and every tbm
else to the advancement of their party intersa
Had Louis D. Henry been elected Governor fan
ne ought to have been supported by all parties
the Cape Fear and Western counties) we do
believe that these interests would have been sigh
ed and sacrificed as they have been. We don
believe, for instance, that 100000 would bad
been given to the Raleigh and Castor Rail Ra
Company in 1910 to pay their debts, and
means of the State, which had been reserved {
1886 for improving other sections, thereby uTs
y pledged and misapplied. We believe, in won
as we said in our first article, that section i
country which will not support its own prOmns
men must expect to be slighted. If their panin
bitterness is such that Federalists cannot and wi
not elect Governor who is an enlightened advo.
cate of their interests, and from want Of InGr
support he is defeated, the fact ought to learnIhas
a lesson of caution as well as of patriotism forth
future. By our allusion to Fayetteville and Wa
tern interests we meant this much, and no n@
The Carolinian is no doubt patriotic in his Wn
es in respect to Turpiking, and we are not ours
hostile to the course of improvement prudH4!
conducted. But zoe are opposed to any intra
of our State Debt, and so we believe the DEM
cratic party are and will be. Every item ag
menting the State Debt, no matter for whatrF
pose will plunge US into still deeper difRcuAa I
The principal is too large now-we do not vii
to see interest paid upon interest, until it ab@H
the entire revenues of the State. The CarOnnb
says: The first duty of a wise and good co.
ernment is to make good roads-and thus 6Sa
It's agricultural interests" That is sound anh
nent, but in our opinion the first duty Of "a 4
md good government is to pGy its debts, andlAa
put itself in condition to be just at all tines
Ill interests and all sections. However "abt 1
North Carolina may be to +" build Turnpib
We say let the existing Rail Road debt hri
If. first IF the Carolinian does not agree VII
IS in this, we regret it, but we cannot help
In our opinion Mr.. Henry is all the NOrlhV
= e
Gilman says hei is, and more too; and it saS
for the Western and Cape Fears
ions that they did not resist the influences oD
ederal party and elect him Governor.
We apprehended the meaning of the NOrtbo
Gilman when he spokeof Road to the Ws
We supposed he designed, as he says, to take
he valleys of the, Yadkin and Catawba but
Wished to hear the Federal leaders say Thap
West means in their scheme of TurnplknS0
7ui!tOrd is as far west as many of them ever
end their vision, when benefits aretO be cOntsfS
ut when ootes are to be obtained they go @n
ther side of the Western streams to rally n>
orces, and any man who resists them the" Is
ounced as demagogue.
We again say, let the State debt bepaid Oh, ~
i've the country fair start, and then it Will
cen whether the Standard is opposed to tayu
lille and the West or to either. We pred@ "
1uch, that no such Turnpike will be made ur
1e Federalists ofthe West and the Cape ~
'rce the people to open their eyes upon the r.
nd see 1t as 1T IS That period is not distant
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L[Messsrs MASON & TUTTLE are our Age
1 the City of New York, and are authOnao
eceive and receipt for any amount due US '0