Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-10-28


tavorably with the best Southern agricultural jour
nails; but by increased patronage shall strength
and stimulate conductors to make it still more
susef1l vehicle of information-a journal of which
every North Carolina farmer shall feel proud. -
When we look abroad, and take a survey OF the
Industrial enterprise of the world its influence upon
the destiny of race and the prospects and pro-
misses held out by the future-we have cause, not
only to be proud of our country but to thank Heav-
en- that we can lay claim to a title no less to be
priced than that of the Roman, in the palmiest
days of his countrys glory that of CITIZEN
We have country extending over "a degrees OF
latitude, and 81 degrees of longitude suited to the
cultivation of almost every product known to agri-
cultural wealth with a commercial marine, second
to that of Great Britain alone, and promising soon
to exceed that with manufactures in all the usefut
arts equal to those of any country, and making rapid
progress in the ornamental Also with literature
which, for nation in its infancy, is unsurpassed
and which is extorting the reluctant tribute of admit
ration from the most rigid critics of Europe; with
mountains and rivers lakes and praires whose vast
ness and grandeur excite feelings Of subimity and
poetic with the language of Shakespeare, and
Milton, and Bacon with the law of Coke and Mans
field, and Blackstone; with the religion of Luther,
and Cranmer, and Whitfield, and Wesley with arms
not only halowed by the blood of revolutionary
martyrs, but ILLUSTRATED since, by the glories OF
Perry and McDonougn the water, and of Scott,
a jackson and a Taylor on the and-situated in
the great highway between Europe and Eastern
Asa--the seat of those vast. stores of commercial
wealth. viii for centuries it has been the object of
dream of fancy to suppose, that in the designs of
Providence the destined agent for civilizing
the world?
To come nearer home, as North Carolinans
have no cause to feel ashamed, but rather to feel
proud of the position we occupy in the great drama
being enacted the theatre of Christian civil
zation So far the past is concerned in patriotic
sacrifice, in devotion to free institutions, in con-
sentative regard for law and order in veneraton for
the Union of the States and in the cultivation of the
private virtues that adorn and dignity human nature
all is secure. Our past history may not have been
much elnblazoned by the imposing and the grand
but in every thing that implies heroic devotion to
the useful, the true, and the good there is COM
munity on earth that can more safely defy the inn
preston of historys pen. In all the resources of
industrial enterprise and wealth, whether agrcul-
tural, mechanical, commercial, hazard nothing
in saying that there territory of similar extent
in this broad Union, possessing superior advantages.
Situated midway between the chilling frosts of the
North and the scorching heat of the South,
in great measure free from the disadvantages of
either; whilst our temperate climate enables us to
avail ourselves of what is most profitable in both
For the great staple of Indian corn every portion of
our State is peculiarly adapted. For the staple of
tobacco there is tier of counties on our Northern
border, which grow it proftably, and of
fine quality, any portion of the United States.
Our midland and Southern counties produce cotton
abundantly, and as remunerative crop 1900 pounds
per is common yield, not only in Edgecombe,
but in Hartford. Wheat has long been successfully
grown in almost every portion fthe State and the
Improvements now going on in the renovation ofour
lands promise to soon make State one of the
finest wheat-growing regions of the Union. Rice is
great staple in some of our Southeastern counties
and there are thousands of acres of our Eastern
swamps, now awaiting the hand of industry to con-
vert them from stagnant wastes into waving rice
fields. Rye and oats, and peas and beans find in
North Carolina soil and climate particularly adapt
ed to their growth There is not finer country in
the latitude for the production of hay and
consequently for the rearing of fine stock, than the
vast liedmont region, extending from Raleigh west
10 the Blue Ridge. The census returns show that
fax is produced in North Carolina, to an extent l
had not supposed-whst our fertile mountain slopes,
under temperate sky, offer to the sheep raiser and
world. The peanut crop, trivial as it may appear
to some, is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
showing that the barren wastes ofsand in South
eastern counties, contain vast resources of wealth,
awaiting only the hand of labor for their develop
ment The resources of our forests almost meal
culabte; and they are peculiar to North Carolina.
The naval stores, and ship timber, and sawed lumber
of our pine forests the slaves of our oak forests
and the shingles of our cypress, andjunper swamps,
give employment to tens Of thousands of laborers;
and their fertile soil only awaiting the hand of the
farmer to be converted into luxuriant fields as soon
as the huge forest growth is removed Our mineral
far exceed those of any other State of the
Union, except California. Our gold mines are not
worked by rowing adventures in search of alluval
dust but by invested capital paying good wages
to the laborer and realizing good dividends to the
Our coal mines have passed through the ordeal of
scientific scrutiny-their wealth is incalcuable and
they only await the completion of those improve
ments necessary for their transit to market pour
their rich treasures into the great house of
North Carolina wealth. Our copper mines equal in
richness those Of Wisconsin, and it is uncommon
sight in the streets of Raleigh to see the miners of
Cornwall vending their way to their caverns The
bowels OF our mountains TEEN with the finest iron
ore in the word-endless in quantity, tough and
malleable as that of Sweden, in quality. Our
facilities not exceeded by those of
any country earth. All our rivers and their tri-
butaries have the finest water power that
bled over cascade, leapt down mountain-sde: and
that too in regions blessed with health and fine air
with the richest at hand and fertile soil contig
uous to supply the wants, and furnish the of
to a manufacturing population.
An examination of the last census statistics in re-
ference to agricultural products will exhibit results
to our people, in regard to our re-
sources and productive industry. Ihave taken the
trouble to prepare the following comparative table
of the agricultural products of North Carolina and
those of Virginia and South Carolina, the two States
contiguous, on our Northern and Southern border
whose Writings and upstairs have been in the habit
OF jecring us with our poverty and ignorance ever
since the days Of the revolution:
. ... VIRGINIA.
Aggregate Population, :. l421 1861 500 O39 66s, SOY
Cotton, bales, 3947 73S45 sol
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