Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-10-21
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And besides this large amount of Cherokee bonds
have been lately appropriated by the State in aid OF
Turnpike Roads i'll the West.
You will now readily perceive that of these Four
Millions One Hundred and Thirty Thousand Dollars,
the entire section of North Carolina, lying East of
the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad, only re-
ccved aid from the State to the comparatively in
significant amount of Sixty-fve thousand Dollars
In proportion to the extent Of country this neglect
ed Eastern sectien of the State pays into the Public
Treasury double the amount eff Taxes of any other
portion of the State of similar extentl Ought not
something TO be done by the State for this Eastern
section? IS this fair justice? Give it but one half
of it's fair proportion, to which in natural justice it
is ertitled and it would ask more. The State
surely cannot be deaf to an appeal like this, upon
such exposition.
A sense of Justice if the importance and nccess-
ty of this work did not suggest it, would
prompt every to exclaim, 'this is unfair and
unequal distribution of the means and aid of the
State and something substantial and effective in its
character ought to be done for the Eastern section
Of the State"
We need enlargement and increase of the cap
ital stock of the Atlantic and North Carolina Rail
road Company, to One Million Two Hundred Thous
and Dollars. The present capital ($900 GOO,) with
the increased high price of work. labor and provis
IONS is not sufficient to build the road and furnish
it. Of this increased capital the State ought to take
Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars. VIII she doit?
OF this if the signs of the times and the open and
avowed expression Of public opinion all over the
State, are at all indicative of the will of the people,
there can be no doubt. And in making this avow
al, I may be permitted to say that the State can
realize the of this subscription large
may appear by judicious location of the road and
termination thereof at the town Of Beaufort; and
this result can be produced in our humble judgment,
by its tel animation at no other point on the waters
of Beaufort harbor. The State. and not the Literary
Fund, is the owner Of large and invaluable prop
erty, adjacent to the town of Beaufort and connec-
ted with the waters thereof This immense property
is now valueless but if this improvement is made,
and the road should terminate at Beaufort, and but
one half of the fond expectations of its friends
realized, it would rapidly increase in value to ar ex-
tent startling to behold. All the immense water
front between the high-water and low-water mark
bordering upon the harbor; the great shoal spread
ing itself to the deep waters in front Of the town
tho valuable Islands and Marshes that lie within
the harbor would become not only Immensely val
liable, but would constitute fund more than amply
sufficient to remunerate the State for her subscrp
ton of eight hundred thousand dollars to the road
This can be said of no work, to which the State can,
or has come to the aid of her citizens, by way of
subscription, or appropriations of money And there
is no other point Beaufort harbor which can pro-
duce these results, and thus enrich the State by
giving this great value to these lands. The State
authorities and the Literary Fund sensibly alive
to this state ofthings, and full exposition thereof
will be made to the next Legislature. If the State
makes the desired subscription prirate interests and
tho AaGcinations Of spectators will not be permit
ted to interfere or come in conflict with the public
good. In the year 1886 the Legislature incorpor-
aLeU . BOARD OF Literature, unQer the naIne anu
style Of the president and Directors of the Lit
erary Fund of North Carolina and gave to this
Fund all the swamp lands Of the State, not hereto
fore duly entered or granted to individuals, and
certain Bank Stocks and other funds, and under
certain restrictions by former act forbid the entry
Of Harsh and Scamp Lanaa 1t is held, and we
must confess with much show Of reason that sea
fats in the Sounds and adjoining the Shores there
OF, are neither Marsh or Swamp lands in the COM
mon acceptaton of the TERMS or as used by the Leg
isature in the grant to the Literary Fund. This too
is not only apparent from the in which they
are directed to be surveyed for entry, Ibut Marsh
and Swamp lands exist, and are confined to the