North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1850-12-11
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sa031 j Eoa theNdEtiI Caroline Standard
Ma. HOLDEN: That there d tidai in the affairs of
men which taken atis food leads fortune'' is none
the less srne when aPgsd g the present
of many Of her patriotic Shall we not take
it, and thus be led on d e Eortuns and fame?
spirit of Internal Is abroad in her bor-
deIs, which it is .as of az her sons to deepen
pirate money for This object-tha is foreign from the
present article. tits melancholy TACT, that with
but two three exceptions, al the works Of Internal
Improvements now completed incur State, those
the present Legislature are designed 70, d,aa do CART
the produce of the State market towns without her
iimitsthe tendency of all those now completed in
me counties bordering on the Virginia line, begin
Railroad the Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad, and con-
nuing to the Tennessee line, has been to carry our
trade to enrich and build up the market towns of Vir
ghia and now projects innumerable are agtated to
continue this drain good old State for the bene-
nj OF our arlstocratc neghbors. While this drain
continues and increases daily, how much better are
we OFF on the Southl The South Carolina market
towns are straInlng every nerve. and too successfully
to take the balance of the State The Buncombe
Turnpike and Greenville Railroad will carry from no
the extreme west, the Columbia and Charlotte Rail-
road and the feeders they are designing to throw ont
will take another large portion, while Camden and
left. can call to mind but three works IN our State
that will carry any produce to our own towns The
Fayetteville and Western Plank Road, the Deem and
Cape Fear River Improvement, and the Wiminpton
and Manchester Railroad. i believe the Wilmington
and Manchester Road the only work ever projected
in our State, likely to draw trade into this State from
another. We never shall be State of any impor-
lance until change in these things takes place. and
all our efforts directed to centre the trade of our
State to market towns within hefimits. was for
chilly struck the other day Tin looking over Martins
old collection of Laws) with the reasons piyen for
establishing the ancient town of :. Cross Creek"
now Fayetteville in the year 1885, in the caption to
the laws establishing that town, the following mas.
sage occurs. " That; ,oiH greatly encourage honest
and able traders 10 reside therein, b means ,ofereof the
trade Of the counties Of .3,,son and ROWAN auhich at
present centres Charleston South Carolina to the great
prejudice Of this Provice, tOiE be r1,cn doaun to said
toaUn." Nearly century has passed-the warnings
of our ancestors pass by UNDECIDED. South Carolina
continues to draw away eade-the time has ar
rived to actthe South is waking up from her sIum-
bers, and seems determined to throw off Northern
yassaiage-each State must act for her own interest
propose that no charter countenance be given by
our Legislature IN ALL FUTURE to any work the
tendency OF which is TO carry produce markets
of the State. Are we forever @ belong to and be
divided between States North and South of as
Georgia has adopted this policy long SINCE and she
is now the :. Empire State - of the South-her sea-
port towns rising up, and hernterior towns flourish
lng-an example worthy to be followed, and sure to
produce the like results. Then, sir Il hope when
schemes are presented to this Legislature avorng
these Virginia and South Carolina improvements the
cry will be away with them, I've are the represen.
tatives of the good Old North Stale and will have
nothing TO do with you. Act up TO this principle and
in few years North Carolina will be all that we can
DESIRE A NORTH CAROLINIAN.