The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1849-01-26
Editorial correspondence.
RALEIGH, Jan. Il, ls49.
RAIL ROADS.
Internal Improvements.

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The right sort of spirit seems TO be a.
reused at last, in regard TO Internal I'm.
provemenis. Members who have turned a
little Of their attention 10 II lately, have
discovered the importance Of the States
doing something in the way Of developing
her resources. They see that she has
within her borders vast agricultural re-
sources yet undeveloped, and within her
unshafted and un,unnelled mines wealth
tina. enterprise nlone can reach and esil'
mate. They see that no State IN the u
MON has been able, without the comblna
ton of individual effort and State munifi.
cence, to develop its resources, give en-.
ployment TO its industry and TO call into
active exercise the various pursuits Of its
citizens. Where would New York now
be, il she had no, long ago built the Ere
Canal and other works Of internal improve.
men, Not able perhaps TO build respec-
table turnpike road. Where would Penn.
syivania, Massachusetts, Virginia, Geor-
sia, Alabama, South Carolina be, bur for
the enterprises Of this kind they have en-.
gagged 10, the States themselves being CO.
partners in them. This fact has recently
struck members with force they could
not resist, and al, the unpopularlly which
w;,bon, csass or reason (more than an INA
ginary dread Of" something undiscovered
hung around appropriation, has vanish
ed before the better and clearer lish, which
inYestig cation has thrown around II.
| The truth Of The above remarks do not
depend upon our mere enunciaiion They
are endorsed By the most talented aod the
leading men OF both Houses Of the present
Legislature-by such men as Wash'us'o ION,
Woodfin and G,lmer Wings Graves and
Ashe (Dcmocrats,) Of the Senate. Stan
Iy, Rayner, (Whigs.) and Dobbin Demo
Graf, } Of the House.
This question Of whether It is eapedi
enl and polite for the State 10 gran, aPpro
priations for Internal Improvements, is no
party one. The fac, tina, the person
named above favor the idea, sus,alns III
| assertion. If we are TO do any thing 70
the State at al-if we are TO build NOR
!. factories and -four mills, make more corr
0 wheat and cotton, extend our mining OPP
. ratons, supply our own towns and Charlie
/. ton, Savannah, Columbia, and other Sour
n ern cities with coal, Eyes with coal y
IS mus, have railroads and 10 have raIro
appropriations by the State, We know
. is an ugly lrord. But there IS no 9th
be way do the thing men must away WI
be their dread Of lis terrors, terrors only
~. The Imagination, come up 10 the work DO
", discover that there Is no real Jack
idn'ern to lead them through swsmps 4
briars, but only visionary igaus fdtuu'
oil their way. come up with determination
Ton say We riH raise our State into sgnifica
ent
,ye aud prosperity even though we have
A.. make appropriations by the STATE"
err D.magogues have made the word .
nc preparations unpopular nothing else
20. the world has had tina, effect; but tn
ller Heaven, that power is about to be Ia
rds, from them, and the wise and candid
ic,' prove TO the intelligence Of their cons,
80 ents that there is no chance for this s
u, TO improve herself and take an exa
&c. stand among her sisters, unless the er
aP, pie Of some Of them be followed in en-
and
EN-. prise; and that this bugbear about "
the propriations " has been made use Of
Demsgogues to exalt Memseires and
their State in a continued decline.
f.. We did not intend extending these
. II marks to such a length; they were
,ch gesied by rejecting upon some intellig'
Sc: conveyed in another article.
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