Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-02-24


we pay to those who do import % per cent for do
ing it, when could just easily do it ourselves,
and the % per cent. Now, to illustrate this,
take your merchant who buys 500 of goods from
New York:
His exchange is Ii per cent, $3.50
Profits to N. Y. Merchant 25 per cent. $500
Insurance II l,oJ
Dravace, 1926
VIVA rfage, I,Io
Freiohf 800
$3.50
Making in all $3.50 on every hundred dollars
worth of Merchandise buy in New York. But
say this is much that the figures are too large,
vet at the most moderate calculation which can
make it will amount to at least $25 the hundred
for every hundred dollars worth we buy. Taking
this for data let of what incalculable ben
eft it would be us, to import direct to SOME one
of our own ports According to our best advices,
at any rate according to the best information have
been able to get on the subject, we import into
North Carolina annually about $780, 10000. Now
if we save $25 on every hundred or one fourth, we
would therefore one fourth of $50 600 OOO that
is ST., 500 OOO That is, if we were to ship this d.
rect to North Carolina instead of shipping to New
York first, and then to North Carolina, would
save for North Carolina $12 900, annually En-
ough, Mr. Speaker, in one single year. to build eve
ry foot of Railroad to ret and complete every pro-
ject of improvement in the State. BY this simple
arithmetic it can easily be seen how the North has
grown rich at the expense of the South, how beau
tfu palaces have been erected on the banks OF the
Hudson, how opulent cities have sprung by mage,
as it were, into existence But on the other hand
if we adopt this policy of direct importation, we can
easily see, what salutary effect it will have upon
our Northern brethren. 1t will take from their
pockets, $25 the hundred and place 1t In ours,
or in other words we do our own importing instead
of paving them $25 on the hundred to do 1t for u.s.
Now sir il is charitable neither is it desirable to
impoversh ncighbors; but charity should always
begin at home and it is both charitable ana ecoho-
mca to buy where we can buy the cheapest. What,
it NAV be asked is the North to do if we withdraw
from them our patronage? II we don't pay them
the usual % per cent or more, they must starVe.
Well sir can tell them what to do they must pour out
from their aboitonhives into our cstern and South
western territories and their bread oy the sweat
of the brow, like honest southerners. Then will
they see to what use slavery is applied then and
not till then will the hue and cry against slavery
cease So long as feed them up in their North
ern repose like fatted calves, just so long will they
be deaf to the overtures of the South but when we
bring them to a sense of their dependence, by di-
rect mportation our barren territories will flourish
like the valley of the Mississippi and the institution
ofsavery no longer be villified
But sir in addition to the many advantages which
Won d arise from direct importation, i'm CONNER
cia point of view, it cannot be denied but that 1t
would benefit North Carolina materially in manu-
featuring sense. 1t has always been a paradox
among that were unable to establish manufac-
tories in the south which would compete with the
North. We have productive lands good streams,
any quantity of material and in fact every ad-
vantage we could desire, yet we send ma
terial to the North, have it manufactured bring it
back all this expense incurred, and still the article
is cheaper than we can manufacture 1t. Some have
attributed this to want of Skill and experience IN
such busneSs--others to the absence of high pro-
tccve tariff but the true and only cause is the want
of capituA How did the North build up her manu-
factories? By southern capital of course. She inn
ported direct from Europe and specialized on the
South that is sold the South for profit, and in
this way amassed sufficency of capital upon which
to base her operations
Now sir if we wish to build up our institutions
and fill that sphere in the family of States which
our position and importance demand must
lcgslate both in federal and state councils as to
keep our capita, at home 1t is OLD but true maxim
and one peculiarly applicable to North Carolina to
buy where we can buy the cheapest, and sell where
we can get the most this say is the proper policy
for us to adopt
It NAV be said that il is better to send capital
to the North than to England. [ answer no. 1t is
far better to build up other countries than to tear
in pieces our own. The North has grown naughty
and arrogant because of her power, insomuch that
she disrespects our interests. And the only safe
method of perpetuating Union and of binding
together its different parts in harmony and concord,
is to create as much of equilibrium possible
and the South has it in her power to effect this by
direct importations Sir, if effect this proposed
line of road bind ocean to ocean, and world to world,
embark in this scheme of direct importation, blot
from memories the technicalities of North and
South we have but to gaze upon the stupendous
grandeur of free people, unite. IN sentiment un-
trameileO DV preJuHce. as uISlihSuisHeu ioI ou
virtue and patriotism as we are invincibe in the
protection of our institutions. The time it is pro-
bable is not far distant when people will either
be the happiest most miserable people on earth.
Our government has not yet been sufficiently tried.
And when angry clouds of fanaticism obscure and
daren our political horizon, we are perplexed, we
are dismayed almost doubt of our stability. Our
old seers, as they stand upon the watch-towers Of
our political ramparts, and gaze upon the dim vista
Of the shadowy future are overwhelmed with evil
forebodines and unseen calamities. Our destnes
seem at one time mote in the storm, at another
as a rock in the calm. Heaven seems, at one time,
to still the political atmosphere while she is gather
ing materials for our destruction, at another, to
chasten with of fanaticism because she loves
u.s. And in the event the whirl wind of disunion
does sweep across our beloved country, which we
pray God to stay, what historian record poet
sign the awfulness of that wonderful catastrophe
Thebes, my sons, is more,
She is fallen FER again to RISE
Naught her health strength restore,
The mighty city sinks, she droops, she dies.
REMARKS OF MR. NoRMENT,