The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1853-02-23

LIONS Of dallars would bring Cp the va
lSasi~n Of The State from three hundred
millions to one thousand millions o.
dollars. That Is. 1--WE millions would
yield seven hundred millions and this
seven hundred millions being taxed At
the rates which our present three hun.
dred millions worth Il taxed, would
pay Ger all the<improvements. Thus.
Enough the aggr<tate amount OF taxes
would be snormausly increased, the rate
,of taxation would remain; and these
taxes would be collected from people
mofe happy and contented. apd POI
prlation rapidly increasing. with the
pleasure Of existence multiplied ten
fold.
But this Is not all. In such state Of
sthings.fhe taxes would be more equal.
~ d.ilused over the State ; and our rich
eastern friends would M longer have
the sad lnxury Of complaining that
they pay all the taxes.
Nor Is this all vet, for IL our three
hundred millions should be increased
TO one thousand millions, our improve
tments w0uldt become capital invest
ments, and more than pay for. them
selves. They would be osercrowded
with business; and their income would
paw back the cost Of construction while
they, would be adding SO prodigiously
. to the taxable prrperty.of the country.
Oar Treasury, therefore, would over
flow: and then, sir, we could add new
and large sums to our Literary Fund,
and make arrangements for the educa-
ton of every child in the State.
!. All judicious improvements are an
cillary to each other. and all combine
to develop that chief growth Of earth,
man, to stimulate his powers to ennoble
his faculties, and to ministerto bis hap.
piness !.
All these improvements tend to null
: tiply employments and this is a fact
{ which universal experience opposes t.
/ theory. 1t was once thought, and some
/ reasoning a priori. still contend thai
4 the invention Of labor saving machines
0 throws people out of employment; Blu
such has never vet proved TO be tn
/ fact. Take a State without improve
e ments; there are but one or two cal
r lings, and these are laborious and pa,
: badly, while vast proportion of the pc
o pulation are driven oil or left in idle pc
(. verty. Take any State on earth witt
! many improvements, and we find al
: opening for every body. We all know
= that mankind are created with an inf
/ mite variety of tastes, aptitudes and ne
cessities, mental, moral and physical
:. and unless improvements open wide
! field for diversified talents, the major
4 part of the people are left to pine witt
intolerable lassitudc, are driven OFT, o.
rust away in ignorance and dissipa
r tion.
. In States without improvements
universal languor seems to emasculat
/, the public mind here is no excite
1 ment but in politics, or in vice, ant
i life is robbed of more than half it
). charms. In wen governed State wit
: improvements, all is life and hustle, en-
!: ergy and hope; every steps quick an,
elastic, every face is ruddy with tl
! glow Of health, produced by yirtue-im
e proving labor.
> The mechanic, the agriculturists
the inventive genius, the mathematics
i genius, the engineer, the gardener. tn
: pomologist, the man of calculations
the tradesman, the mariner, the scho
\ lar, poet, historian. schoolmaster ant
philosopher, the adventurous and tn
: tnid, the strong and the weak, tn
! coarse and the refined, all find employ
! ments suited to their several tastes an
= capacities, all find their right Level, an,
," .all fall into and carry out the law Q
: their nature, and thus are happy.
$ Thus, Sir. our feelings Of pride for tn
! honor and independence of our Stat
are appealed to--our sense OF duty a
legislators is appealed to by the abso
lutte necessities of the people; Will
: considerations Of high moral and phi
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