The North-Carolina standard., 1849-11-21

States here they limp along, stop, hesitate consider
Consider What do they consider? They consider
whether they shall run into sand bank or a swamp
Nature is angry that she is treated and outraged
Nature loves ALI works for all, Shines rains, burns
freezes, thunders and lightens for ALL Nature is not
to blame for the freaks of the Raleigh and CASTOR
road, but they to blame who attempted pen hel
up IN so horrible and monStrous a manner. B ut II
this other road is built running through the Ca p
tails of dozen States, through the heart of ghty
empire, attracting to itself all the travel which mus
necessarily pass through such empire, then will
nature work, then win she have fair play, then will
fire, will move through your State, like whrlwind
casting off with the rapidty of lightning before you,
doors, the bounes of all climates, the treasures OF
the world, diusing wealth, prosperity and happiness
around. On the other hand, if you sit here and do
nothing, stand still with your hands in your pockets
while other States and doing, and drawing their
lines OF rail road around you, then must they increase
you must decrease; they must drain you of your sub
stance, and eat out your very vitals must become
great, powerful and intelligent while you must be-
come miserable, poor, wretched and naked. Great
events sometimes take place in the world, which
bear society far in year, it advanced before in
centuries. Such have been the discovery of the
electroelegraph, the art of printing but more esPe-
cially the propulsion of machinery by steam. Ma
tons must avail themselves of those discoveries,
stop short in their career of glory and renown.
Europe has appropriated them. She has become
famous and powerful. Asia has rejected them. She
is miserable and in darkness, blinded and dazzed by
the very beams which would have filled her empires
with life, beauty and splendor. But what does
steam? 1t does wonders, and brings important
events to pass. And will ye reject this power, drive
this giantess from your bordersa Will you say to
her, we dislike your hoarse and troublesome voice
our sleep, our tranquility shall not be disturbed by
your swift mpetuous temper therefore hegone and
leave US to our slumbers She says admit with
in your borders, and you shall sleep then than
now 5; will carry you five hundred miles per day,
and rock you to sleep in the mean time. When you
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in horrible hacks, drawn by iaded horses, whose
swollen limbs and painting chests make you wish to
walk rather than ride She says to you, go to sleep
with your wives and children; | shall never fall
alter have feet of iron, limbs of brass, and
blood all flowing with impetuous speed and resist
less power. Go to sleep with your wives and chill
dren, or leave them behind will carry You far away
to distant cities and return before they miss you.
will do all your work myself. will build up towns,
cities and villages wherever l go, even in desert
places. Sleep, sleep day and night, sleep for
ever. Your old fields shall grow green with the
products of industry and labor. will give the poor
man prudence, economy and strong heart for will
take his produce, which IS worth comparatively moth
ing, and bring him back many, many comforts and
luxuries in return. The poor shall rejoice my go
ing and my coming, for will feed their children,
elothslthem. educate them, build them good houses
for their bodies, and give peace tranquility and
shine to their hearts. will turn all your water falls
into mills and factories. Admit within your bor-
ders, and you shall become great and powerful. l
Will DO all sell; Seep sleep on ana night,
sleep forever. But this power says, if you admit
me not, will awaken you with a start. will tor
ment you with cold, hunger and famine. Your
State shall become skeleton OF dry bones and rock
ing joints. Capital shall leave your State. will
drive your sons away to die in unhealthy climates,
your towns shall waste away, you shall become
wretched, worse and worse shall grow your perplex
tiles other States shall eat up your commerce, your
wealth shall be given to the cities OF the North your
ships shall in your harhors and your seapors be-
come the habitation of beggars and fishermen A
gloom shall hang over the land, heavy and deep-the
gloom of poverty and ignorance. Ignorance shall
tell your children they his broth
and his sisters; that he will eat drink and sleep
with them that he will lead them through caves of
darkness and dens of crime; that he will blind them,
strike out intelligence from their eyes, and blast out
the rose from their cheeks like lightning. The pro-
pulsion of machinery by steam was the work of one
of our own countrYmen. And by it, we have paid
Europe the debt we owed her, and more than paid
her so that if we owe Europe much, she owes US
more She has given us pleasant books; we have
gi ven her great principles of government, and the
useful If the soul of her bards is here, the
spirit of Washington the genius OF Fulton and Morse
are there. 1t is the of Washington that strikes
on the plains of Hungary, Piedmont and Italy. Far
away by the rushing Potomac, the worlds great Lib
orator sleeps while his spirit is building up repub-
lies on the banks of the Rhine and the Danube. No
laborng vessel, weary sail carries out our prncl-
ples our messages, and our love to the struggling
forth with Them Does she traverse, does she sheer
offto suit the caprice of wind wave? hat cares
she for wind or wave2 She walks the ocean like
tyrant. and dashes the billows from her side with
scorn. She laughs in the face of the tempest, and
her dark hot throat ouroars, outburns the thunder
and the storm which descend to devour her up. She
goes to the wharves of Europe-the bold swift mes
senger of the Eagle Repubic-Proud OF her strength
and her origin. Nor does her mission end here she
meets her sister of the land. The two glantesses
shake hands and exchange friendly greetings. The
queen of the delivers to her sister her news,
her letters and her messages for the people OF Eu-
rope She receives them and tarries not. She stops
not in the marts of commerce, where the domes oil
power shoot heavenward but strikes off for the in
land country, where the oppressed and poor
till the lands of wealthy lords and noble tyrans. And
she scaters all along her track, the sons of Amerl-
can Liberty, who teach the people their rights and
the foul wrongs which are done them. She throws
off her commands to the wires in every direction,
CRYING in her thunder-yoice, write, write oh Light
ninp write the name of Washington, Liberty, Amer
lea, upon every door, post in Europe! The genius
goes, North, South, East and West, through every
country in Europe, casting her dark and fiery shadow
upon the brows of yrants, and giving hope and cour-
ace to the oppressed. This power is the great re-
Generator the great teacher of mankind She teaches
man every thing, prudence, industry, economy, liter
ature, the arts and sciences. She Is changing the
face of society, tearing down old despotisms and
building up republics. And how IS she doing TINS
She brings thousands, nay hundreds of thousands, OF
the oppressed of Europe to the shores of America
YEARLY She carries back their sentiments, their let
fers and their opinions, by which American prlncl-
pIes are planted all Europe; and spring up de-
sirous of revolution and armed for war. The people
are beginning to believe that they are not Cattle,
and their tyrants not Gods. The bits set hard l9