North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-01-01
For the North Carolina Standard
To the Legislature of North Carolina.


| GENTLEMEN Caswel County addresses you
Turn not deaf ear to her voice. In the course of
few days you will be waited on by Delegates APP
pointed for that purpose, and asked to charter Rail
Road from the town of Milton, N. c., to connect with
the Central Road at the town of Graham. N. c., or
| some other convenient point. This appeal, gentle
men. for branch road comes not from few indivd-
uals particular neighborhood-H is tile appeal of
CdstUeH County, whose gallant son-at moment
when the honor and destiny Of the Old North State
tremble in the Enthusiastically cast vote that call
ed the Central Rail Road into existence CaswelI
County, then, appeals to you as hgh-minded and
honorable men-as Just as you are high-mnded and
honorable-to grant her a branch road tapping the
Central route at some convenient point Without
such road the Central route will not benefit Cas-
we'll the value ofa dime, although, if We mistake not
she pays into the Treasury, and is tax
ed higher, than any other County in the State.
With such branch road, gentlemen, the town of
| Wilmington. N. c., would flourish as she never
fourished BEFORE The fertile valley of the Dan would
pour its rich products into her market and buy of her
Groceries, &C., of every quality and in anv quantity
In addition, such branch road would give the Cen
trail line thousands and thousands of dollars (from
freight and travel,) that it must otherwise lose Ex-
perience teaches the fact that the ofener you tap
Rail Road the better it is for Will you not, them
give us connecting roadi' Have you the heart, the
face and the nerve to deny US? You have iegsIated
for the benefit of every section of the State the
Northern section. You have, as yet, done nothing
for us-nothing calculated to promote and advance
the welfare and interest of the people of Caswell.
GU may remind us tnat the central road I'll
within some 20 miles, or less, of the Caswel line.
But this avails good, and we would as soon it
did not come within a hundred miles of US.
We need not adduce arguments to convince intel-
ligent gentlemen that Rail Road running ftom Mil
ton. in connection with the Central route, would re-
dound to the great interest Of the Central Road
Suffice il to say. gentlemen, the Cars upon the Cen
trail route would gEoan under the weight Of our To-
bacco, Flour, So, all seeking Southern markets
As is, and it will continue be, if you refuse
US charter, when we wish to send our products to
Charleston, Mobile, apd New Orleans, we are pre-.
vented, by being compelled to travel all around the
elbow to get to the thumb" The cost is enormous
and we can seldom afford it.
Running. then. as the Central Road does, direc-
ton that dePves of the enjoyment ofts advantages
and benefts-and paying az we do very heavy tax
to build it. appeal your sense of Justice TO give
US branch road, or eede US to Pirginia! We ask
you not only to give the charter, but we demand
as an act justice. some aid from the State had
the road. But if you deem US unworthy the StaIe's
assistance-not entitled to her fostering care and
aid-we will thank you for charter without the help
of the State. We call upon you as STATESMEN,
to hear the 'sooics and grant the request of si
CASWELL.