The Hillsborough recorder., 1853-06-22
From the Nsfs.rra Ne~s.
STATE INDEPENDENGE~


From the Nsrtrra Ness
STATE INDEPENDENGE~
The commercial independence Of
our State. for which we contend. con-
sisls. a. we have before saId. in placing
and keeping. so Car as is practicable.
her trade and commerce within her
own control. aud securing 20 her avn
people. in preference to those OF other
States. the profits and incidental bene-
fits Of that trade aud commerce. How
is this to be done
Certainly not by prohibiting com.
mercial intercourse with those States
most likely to be ambitious Of securing
il to themselves. or by placing any di-
rect restrictions upon free inter-
change of their trade with our citizens.
How then can IL be done?
We answer. by dining as other States
do which enjoy good degree Of COM
mercial prosperity-namely BY making
Internal improvements, which is the
grand lever OF modern times Tor con-
trolling the course of trade. and dis
tributiag its benefits at will. auxiliar v
10 this end.
A State which desires 20 secure to
itself, primarily. the benefits of its
trade, BY securing them to its own CT
tizens, as trade Is now controlled,
must not only be liberal in providing
facilities for its own p, ople and those
of other States for reaching good mark
cts, but il must have a system Of In
ternal improvements. Ii must not ON.
ly have system. but that system must
have for its aim and end certain and
definite objects to accomplish Among
these, that system should be shaped,
Edesigned and calculated 10 keep the
trade and commerce Of its people, so
far as practicable, within the control
Of its avn people. The leading aim
and end OF this system shouiu be to
make as great portion Of the direct
profits, and of the incidental benefits
resulting from the trade Of its own ci-
tizens, and Of such trade as IL can at
tract to itself from other sources, be
experienced and enjoyed on its own
soil, within its own borders. The this
end, so far as practicable. all mere sec>
tional local objects, calculated only for
the commerce or benefit of portion Of
the State, but which do not properly
form a portion Of this system, nor con-
trabute to the advancement of its pri-
mary object, should be discouraged
and irowned down in. their inception.
Every Improvement, planned or exe-
cuted, provided for or iostered by the
Legislature Of a State, Or by individual
enterprise, should be part Of one
grand whole--a link in one great chain,
designed to bind together the CONNER.
cial interests Of the whole State, and
cause the profits of her trade to be re-
allied within her own borders.
/ If to secure this kind Of commercial
independence, it Is. essential that a
State should have within her own bor>
tIers. one leading commercial citw-a
grand mart, towards which should How
the main streams of her commerce-a
commercial metropolis at which her TO-
reign, coastwise and inland trade should
centre-then, as a powerful auxiliary
towards placing and keeping the trade
Of the State within the control of its
own citizens, her s,stem of internal I'm
provemeuts shruldbe shaped, design
ed and calculated 70 buiId up such
Icommercial metropolis. To this end
every local and temporary interest and
preiudice should bend, and the whole
system of improvements should direct.
-ly'or indirectly be made to promote
this object.
That the building up Of such a mart
of coinmercc within our own bnr,lers
is necessary, yes, essential. to the de-
velopment four resources essential
to the throwing off the yoke that is now
on our necks-essent.al, in short, to
the Commercial Independence OF North
Carolina, we have not dnubt. This
and other prominent paints connected
with this subject, we must leave tor
future consideration.