The North-Carolina standard., 1847-09-08


Il then embraced a population of little more then
three millions, occupying thirteen States, on the
Atlantic coast, and covering area of less than
j hive hundred thousand square miles. Its popula-
tion is now swelIed TO more than twenty millions,
and II has added nearly o million Of square miles
to ITS represented territory. has more than
doubled the number of States, and new sovereign
lies still form themselves in the wilderness to
claim its confederate honofs. With this astonish-
ing increase OF its numbers and of its peopIed and
cultivated territory, has grown up also in a ratio
equally rapid every important interest which can
possibly add either TO national wealth national
glory In agriculture, it has invented new i'm
plements of industry, and applied them to fresh
fields Of toll; and from the rich abundance of its
gathered harvess, it not only lis each avenue Of
want at home, but freights its *tore-ships with a
peoples tribute to the famine-srickeu children of
kingdoms abroad In commerce, 1T whens the
very ocean with its enterprise, and exchanges pro-
ducts with every cline under the sun; while in
the rapid advancement of its manufactures it bids
fair, at no distant day, to rival even the skill OF
English industry, and TO transfer to this side of
the Atlantic the sc workshop of the world" ~,
| Pursuring with boundless, because unfttcrcd,
zeal each opening Of foreign traffic. it at the same
time unites its own territory by constantly extend
| ing and improving It's means of internal inter-
course and trade. The remotest inhabitant OF the
Confederacy is not beyond the reach of its post
office, and lis civilization travels not only with the
marvellous power OF wind and steam, but with the
speed of electricity, subdued by the art of man.
along the lines Of its Magnetic Telegraph.
Scarcely moro than twenty years ago,it was with
out single mile of railroad; in 1886, its iron en-
gincs traversed acompete track of sixteen hundred
miles, and i, has now more miles of railroad than
in the lime Of Washington, it had of post routes
In proportion 10 its population, it has more than
three times as many canals as England, and more
than fOur t:rnps as MANY France. md the
connecting the Hudson with the Lakes, is the long
est Of these artificial rivers which has been con-
structed in the world. a.. ,l,s.-g. ...-,.
! In the year 1907, Robert Fulton attracted ridicue
oy building its first steamboat and ten years after,
it had no regular line of Steamboats, in all its wes-
tern waters. They now crowd IN hundreds upon
its ocean rivers and It's inland seas, gathering the
rich products of the most remote and land-locked
regions Of our country and pouring them into the
lap of commerce they defy every form of danger
! upon the Atlantic coast they keep company with
It's navy against the norlhers Of the Gulf Of Mex
! leo; and under the fostering care of Congress,
they will soon cross the Ocean with It's mails, and
minister to the wants of our ships of war, and
protect our merchant marine in every quarter Of
the globe. A sing gle one of its Western States
possesses more steamboats, than the " hole king
dom of France, and there are said to be as many
steamers on Lake Erie as in the Mediterranean
sea.
! It's increasing means Of communication thus
keep pace with its extending settlements, and its
whole Union is bound together in the strong en-
braces OF mutual Intercourse. mutual knowledge,
and mutual interest. In this way it administers
with facility Government for twrnty-eight
sovcreignties, and from single central heart diff
fuses the healthy life-blood of law and justice
through all portions of the body polite. Ye
with u.s. Paris is not France, and that heart would
soon become corrupt aud the stream of sanitary
circulation torpid but for the purifying application
of the Federative principle, and the Christening
and correcting influences of the subdivisions Of
power amongst the States and the people, TO whom
so large share in the duty of selfgovernment is
wisely confded.
| The same influences, 100, which have thus de-
veloped with almost startling rapidly, the var-
Gus sources of its physical power, have adorned it
at the same time with cheering monuments of its
active benevolcnce, its scientific ingenuity, and its
improving taste. It's charities parake, at once, of
the vigor of its enterprise and the abundance Of
its means, and worthy object ever yet appealed 10
i, in vain. Shrcwd and unyiefding as il doubtless
is in the concerns Of trade, it is characterized by
the waImest sympathy for human suffering. and
the most generous disposition to give it adrquat,.
relief. It's capacious heart, sharing something of
its broad nationality, has gathered around ii none
of the iron of avarice the numbness of exhaust
ed feeling, but never fails to respond with warmth
and feeling to the voice Of misfortune, no matter
from what climeS it comes, what disaster may
have produced it. In our own country it aess
the magnitude Of its beuefccnce By its charitable
institutions, which attract respect, not only on ac-
count OF the purposes 10 which they are devoted,
but from their elegant construction and convent
eut arrangements. Its care of its poo. has been
censured by foreign writers so extfavagant as
Ito invite pauperism aud with equal bounty it en-
braces in its ministrations the aged and the sick
the deaf and the dumb, the blind and the lunatc.
These institutions, numerous and so well adapt
ed to their ends excite our admiration, not so
much al their number, as that in so new a coun-
TRY time has been found 10 establish them Firm
in the maintenance of law, its system of punish.
ments is characterized by christian benevofence,
and the pecuniary fines imposed on numerous
classes of crimes are devoted to the promotion o
education-5eautifully taxing vice TO support vir-
f tue. b; ai g.. --a~t Isl. d: a...l 81 .. 5' -.
If America has not yet equaIled older ma.
Itions by her advances in literature and art she
: has at least laid firm foundation for them and
bright examples of generous attainment and lofty
. intellect arc not even now wanting among her
cultivated citizens Her craftsmanship has been
! proved in the strictest school of diplomacy; and
:. her public speaking, in true eloquence, will moi
country. In history, in painting, and in sculp
ture, 10 poetry in the eloquence Of the pulpit, il
the severe reasoning of the bench, and in the i'm
posing diction of Senatorial elocuon, our coun
Try has produced successful competitors for com
panionship with the most gifted sous of genius in
? other regions Of the world. .'- - :,
But, whatever may be thought Of its literature
and its taste, its contributions TO science and to
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