The North-Carolina standard., 1849-11-21
NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY MORNING NOVEMBER a.

ed-there is gap somewhere; what is it, where is
II! The Raleigh and Castor road has gone down.
Has it, has it, he exclaims perhaps this is only
mistake Truth at length asserts the fact it has gone
down. Fhis man is at first half crazy, like drunk.
ard deprived of his dram. He almost swears at him
sef and at the State, blames himself, blames every
thing wishes himself and the State at the bottom of
the sea. At last, comes sober reflection, what am
to do, whittier am to turn He turns to his wife :
he tells her he suddenly finds his produce worth moth
ing; that they cannot lives the children cannotb ed
seated. Ut course, the prudent wise woman calms
his passion, stills his TEMPER advises him to sell the
home of his fathers and leave the land of his BIRTH
He does it, uthe does it sadly, and with deep regret
These will be your feelings. ye citizens of Raleigh,
if this road goes down. Ye may not curse but you
viii be soreiy vexed You may allege that the far
who leave this country, will sell their land to
others consequently change will take place, save
that of possession but in this you sadly mista
ken, sadly in, an error. There are but two things
which give value to land situation and fertility. If
land is fertile and good Market it is very highs
if it is FERTILE and far distant from market, it is very
low if it has neither of these advantages, it is worth
comparatively nothing. Now if the CASTOR road
goes down, the land Of Wake County will be worth
almost nothing for it will have neither Of those quail
tiles which give value to land. '..
Who then will purchase this land-will they be
men of enterprise, men who care to improve them
selves or others No, they will be men, who care
for nothing but to live, and who will be contented to
live upon the spontaneous productions of the earth.
You may think to leave this business for the next
generation-may say let US take care of ourselves
let those who hereafter do the same. You have
right to do this. Had your foreathers acted upon
this principle, you would now be grinding the of
rants, TO sever your own necks, and forging chains
to bind and gall your own ankles. How mean, how
barren is the idea of acting only for self! The
hours of existence belong not to self, but rather
to posterity and to God. What is the value Of one
man, or one generation of men, when compared with
the establishing of great principle, which shall
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bracng the soul to virtue, and raising it to that noble
destiny which the laws of Nature intend it shall
attain! generation of men that acts entirely for
self, is of value than generation of trees
it is less so for the tree leaves its kind in the earth
and Nature the same as it found her; while peo-
pie who entirely for SELF leave behind them des-
olation and darkness. They have not left Nature
they found her; they have been dead weight upon
the world and drawn 1t back wards, and they deserve
the curses and no: the blessing of poserity. Beast
bird, fish, insect, reptile have higher value,
noble dignity in the universe than that people who
consult for nothing but the interest of their gen.
Grafton for the former leave their species unlmpaired
while the latter attempt degrade Nature, strike
her heart hack and hew at her limbs, and dves her
of her noble proportions, by reducing their chill
dren to dwarfs and pgmies.
Were all beings influenced by that dark and mar
row despotsm, which sub jects all action to sel-in
teIest, society must first suddenly to a stand,
then 90 backward, and lastly perish. God must
stand STILL for he works for the universe the sum- the
moon, and the stand still for they move by
God, rejecting his power and his glory. There
could be but one hand upon the face of time, destruc
tion-but one movement in the universe, DEATH
Leave this business to posterty the very idea is un
natural, unmanly. degrading Besides, your poster
tv will not be here. Other States will have your
children for be assured, be assured, if the CASTOR
road goes down. the broom of emigration will sweep
with powerful and mighty hand. All the wealth
Ind intelligence will leave your county, and this
,art of the State You must see the wealth leave
rour city, and go to other places of more comforts
md greater conveniencies. You must see all your
merchants and mechanics depart, who are able. All
If you who are young and vigorous and can depart,
will do so. But many OF you cannot leave-you
ave not the means, you have families; and women
md children, without money, are fixtures; they grow
o one spot like trees. mean no diresPect to the
wife and children-they are round our hearts like
unshine round cloud we would die for them dy-
mo- is nothing we would be slain a thousand times,
o save them. But mean to say. can man who
las family take them up at any moment, and move
where he pleases like young man who has no fam
ly? = Who changes his situation as fortune chan
res and varies his pathway like the winds of Heav-
IN! He it is whom destiny favors-he it is to whom
ort,Ine reaches out her hand. He has the unbroken
the elastic step, strong faith, endurance and
he indomitable will are his; and his Imagination
makes the far-off to come all brightness and sum
shine. He is unincumbered, fetterless. free the
Wild wind He throws himself into the great world
ace. and outruns the world. The world cannot keep
is eve upon him, he is out of sight IN moment,
,rVlnp this way, LnlS "dy-OH "oliu, bho Sooi 10
before! All these will leave your city, your coun-
v and this part of the State. But many of you are
3ast the meridian line you do not love to leave
he land of your childhood. Your grand-fat
your grandmother your fathers and your mohers,
ived and died here. Old associations wrap them
selves around YOU like garment, and cling to your
hearts like ghost to the ruin it haunts. If you
start to 90 away, Time bids you stop shows you his
,cythe ready to cut you down, points to your gray
1ars points the graves of your fathers, makes the
all fear and darkness and beds the far-of to
.ome with fire. Your feet upon that section of life
where the shadows of age darkly fall and the sun OF
existence begins to 60 down; your limbs begin to
lose their strength, and your knees their swttness,
and the bounding energy of youth is gone. You are
climbing the thunder-sricken hill Of time and DEATH
Now here you must stay, because you are afraid to
And We who have not the means must stay, because
vou cannot co. Here must you linger out your days,
midst the dark-crowding troubles that beset you.
must see the young and the strong depart, and all
wealth and enterprise quit your capital-must see
your houses decay, your city dWIndie to nothlng-I
he place where you born and raised, that place.
above all others, the most sacred to the sou-God
mas made it and has rooted it in the heart strong
IS death, as deep as eternity. ,s =. 10 .rra -
We citizens of Raleigh, it seems to me that
great danger threatens you that fearful enemy Is
,bout 10 strike, and to strike fatally. And will you
jevise no means to this danger-will ye hesi-
late to give the sum of seyenty-hve, or hundred
thousand dollars, to avert it? Were hostile foe
upon your borders would you sit in your houses until
vour hroats were cut upon your own threshholds or
would YOU 90 out and meet the enemy in the open
field, and pour out your blood like men Now which
IS the worst, be killed by the quick rapid strokes
of battle or to die the still, slow, horrible death by
lingering consumption! Were 1t tiettto me, would
choose war doubly dark, rather than endure the tor
,,onstor that kills hV wears of torture.