The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1849-01-19

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Of about $4,000. Il is not 50 easy 10
estimate their advantages in the time and
expense spared in travelling, which Is
probably not equal so far as our own ci,i.
gems are concerned, TO the diminuiion on
transportation bu, in our con,emplauons
Of this subject, We must bear IN mind. that
il these Rail Roads shall cease TO operate,
and the people in their neishborhood shall
be driven back 10 The old modes of Con-
veyance, that the change will be equal to
the imposition upon them, OF tax OF
certainly Eighty, aud perhaps not less than
Oae Hundred thousand Dollars, per year.
Such is the inducement to sustain these
Roads, even though unproduclive as stocks.
! Ii il be possible TO render them profitable
to the State, as a proprietor, while they
thus promote the interest Of the citizen, IN
their region Of country, II is surely con.
summation mos, dcvou,y to be wished
And if this can be accomplished, as have
endeavord TO demonstrate, BY extending
new Railroad through the very heart of
on. territory, from Raleigh by Salisbury
to Charlotte, with provisions for connecting
with lateral Roads, from Raleigh to Colds
boro', and from some place East Of the
. Yadkin to Fayetteville, or other point Oh
. Cape Fear River, and with Turnpikes from
The country farther West than Salisbury
thus forming bond Of union between all
. sections Of the State, and giving TO the
people who now labor under the greatest
embarrassmcnts, all the facilities Of Rail
, Road transpor,a,ion-we have every mo.
!. tive to undertake it without delay.
al And although the digestion may OF frs,
|. view appear feasible, tina, in the present
II state Of our Finances, no new liability
!. should be incurred, ye, it vanishcs at once,
!. when We consider the grea, objects to be
v attained. Economy is cardinal virtue,
!. in States or individuals, bu. parsimony is
). as often miscellaneous as productivity. One
y Of the best modes Of insuring the pay
}. Of debts and OF rendering the operation
d easy TO the debtor, is to increase his ability
" to pay. Every work of Improvement
d judiciously located and constructed, has
n. the immediate effect, lowering transpona.
\. ton, TO raise The price of produce in the
r. interior, and TO cheaper the price Of goods
d carried there for consumption. Give to
/ your farmer then, the facility to get 25
,e cents more on every bushsI Of wheat, corn
N or potatoes, tina, he may raise tor sale, aad
is to carry off hundreds vi bushels that now
n rot, or are wasted Tor want Of ranspor,a
a iion-enable him al the same time 10 save
:. only one dollar on every sack Of salt tina
:, he uses, and SO on the other articles tina
i. he sells or buys, and you viii enable him
;. even by the most rigorous modes Of taxa
ton, TO pay of the debt you now owe il
!. due time, and WITHOUT Inconvenience
Ia Convince him that these facilities may b.
had at reasonable cost, perhaps so ia
~ as he is concerned, for no more than tn
On increased price which he would obtain o
an the crop Of single year, and that on
:, great cause why he is less prosperous tina
or the people 10 many other States, and tina
!. he himself was in former years, is iha
:, men engaged in precisely similar pursuit
;, with himself in these States, and who la
8 bored under like disadvantages, now &C
: their crops 10 market, and their supple
"a from thence, for a fourth or tenth G
I, what they paid formerly, and he pays now
!, Convince him of this, and he will at ono
-. perceive, that as the cotton pianter VII
~ should pick by hand, could not compel
!, ~ with his neighbor who uses the inyentio
=. of the Gin, so neither can the wagon an
.os team over distant aud ruiaous roads, bea
:, any comparison in cheapness and despatch
No with steam carriage on land or water al
-, il i, be at all practicable, within the con
y, pass Of our means, he will not only sanctlo
20 measures for the provision Of such faciiitit
no here, but will demand why they were NJ
:. adopted. II he looks abroad TO otht
- States, Massac husetts, New FORK or Geo
~, gia, for example, he will fad that the
- had as great distances, and as difficult OIL
-, siructions to overcome in the constructic
Al, of their public works, as any which lie
E, our way. But with a sagacious and n!r'
- pid craftsmanship, they looked through ii
90 primitive and disadvantageous CONDITION
,s their country then, to what il would be
q, its present improved state; calculated ii
"a cost of their works, and their value whe
-. completed borrowed money for The purpo:
VA, on cheap terms and long credits; expende
nv II judiclously and economically, Away 81
10. inlniny their credit by punclualliy 10 the
has engagements; and the result has been as
W. monied operation merely, that their cost
we likely to be borne and paid of in due tim
90. by The works themselves, whilst they hay
he renewed The face Of the country, "makin
lv glad lis waste places, and causing the wi
H. de,aess 10 blossom as the rose"
ter Ii the present Legislature shall COME
be on their constituents similar advantage
- by the adoption of similar means, and th,
I'VE place them on an equality with the peop
Of Of these States, whom they mus, meet I
leb competitors 10 the markets OF the world
Be OF even il they shall pu, the 400, 900 PEE
md pie Of the interior on an equal footing vii
bel those on the nayigable waters Of Roanok
lille and Cape Fear, and along the lines Of OF
Is present Railroads, on whom the State ha