The North-Carolina standard., 1849-08-29
NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD.
RALEIGH:
WEDNESDAY,. AUGUST %. IsAs.
NORTH CAROLINA RAIL ROAD.


The Times of this City suggests the importance
of another Internal Improvement Convention, to be
held at Greensborough, about the 10th or 18th Of
October with the view of pushing forward the sub
scrip tons to the Central Road. Such Convention,
we make no doubt, would be well attended and use
full in its results. r.
We learn that some fifty thousand dollars. have
been subscribed in Guford County; and that while
the friends Of the work in Orange, Alamance, Row.
an, and Davidson are determined to do their full
share, Cabarrus County alone is expected to raise
over one hundred thousand dollars. This informa-
ton sounds well, and we hope it may prove true.
But what is Raleigh doing' We suppose we
may venture to assure the friends of the enterprise
in other Counties, that though up to the present
time but little has been subscribed, (some $25, ,OGo)
this place will make up, altogether, $75,0oo-prO-
pided the people here perceiving their interests,
as we think they must do ultimately, perform their
duty. But will they do it That is the question,
and an extraordinary it is, to be put and to re-
uuire an answer under suck circumstances and at a
time like this.
What is the proposition? What does this work
promise to do? II proposes to pour out three mil
lions of dollars from Goldsborough to Charlotte {;
to open fertile vaIlies and mineral riches fof scsses
new towns and revive old ones; to make Raleigh a
depot for the trade of vast interior region, and to
benefit aNthe people here in the proportion as if
unG.iling navigable stream were at once to gush
out from the mountains and flow on by our doors.
Is not that SOL Does any man doubt it? And can
be necessary, with such truth staring the people
of Raleigh in the face, to demonstrate the advan-
tages which must accrue to them from the con-
n 81.
peal on the subject! You might well urge
man to take ticket in a Lottery when he knesO it
would draw prize, or beg Californian to stretch
forth his hands and take up the gold dust glittering
at his feet. Every property-hoder here-every man
who earns his living BY his daily labor-every me-
chanic and trader-every citizen, matter what his
calling or condition may be, who desires to see the
City grow, and who is anxious to witness its places
of business thronged, and its suburbs filling up with
4 and vigorous population, is deeply interested
in this work and ought to contribute to have it DONE
If the people of Raleigh should suffer this opportu-
nifty to pass unmproved, and if, by any backward
stinginess Of theirs the Road should fall they
may rest assured they will lose advantages which,
will never be held out to them again; and in addi
tion to this they will richly deserve to be regarded
by other portions of the State, the most selfish
and illiberal among the most favored-as men who
can talk, and make great show paper, but who,
when money is to be subscribed, and that too for the
advancement Of their interests, are found hesi
Iating and holding off. We speak plainly, because
we feel deeply.
But whatever the result may be, we have discharg
I'd our duty, and. in the opinion of many of our
friends, more than our duty. After much reflection,
and as the result trust, of sincere regard for
the public interests and the welfare We ad-
sccatcd the passage Of this bill through the Legis-
ature, together with other Internal Improvement bills
not necessary now to be mentioned. We hope the
Road will be built, but nothing that we could say
now will affect the result. We leave the whole mat
in the hands of the friends and projectors of the
work, with our best wishes for their success and
We do not know that we shall have any thing more
% say, Edorally, the subject, until the enterprise
succeeds or fails. Our columns, however, will be
open, heretofore to The Proceedings of Internal
Improvement Meetings, to statistical information, and
o communications for and against the measure.