Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-03-10

$50. 600, 900 in canals and railways which colnmun-
cate with and centre in that city.
w hat prevented the city of orfok. with harbor
eoual TO that of New York, and superior 10 the har
bors of Philadelphia and Baltimore from being built
up like those cities? The want OF the same com
mercial ABILITIES being furnished. and by the i'm
pIovements made being SO loca'ea as 20 olVeH uaoe
from instead of 10 these Cities And by greater ia
c,ies being FINISHED TO reach the cities OF Virgin
ia and South Carolina, commerce was diverted from
the former 10 the latter
And in the same manner Virginia by being too
slow to furnish commercial facilities lost her east
Tennessee trade. and South Carolina and Georgia
gained it. Al time the commerce of east Ten.
nessee was carried by wagons and teams from Lynch
burg, Va. to Knoxville, Tenn. The construction OF
the Railroads which connected Charleston and Sa-
vannah with Chattanooga on the Tennessee river, con-
nected from that point by Steamboats, with Knoxville,
by furnishing cheaper and quicker transit, transfer
red the commerce OF East tennessee from virginia
tn rough the ports of Charleston and Savannah. 1t is
that commerce that has increased rapidly the pop
uatiop and wealth of those cities in the last five
years. The loss of that trade by Virginia taught the
people of the old dominion the Importance of furnish
ing commercial facilities.
1t was the loss of that trade which contributed to
break down old ogyism in tnat State and gave rise
TO liberal system of internal Improvements. That
State is now forcing railway from Norfolk TO Knox
vile to regain the commerce she lost by neglect, and
South Carolina is extending the Blue Ridge road 10
the same point to retain it. Old togies
now in those States those who wore the ancient
dress dnC6StOrS-SnOTI
and large knee buckles. And 60 there and advocate
the doctrine that sovereign State has right to
control her trade and commerce. and ought TO permit
other States in and exercise those functions for
her, " procided they charge no money! you would
be answered as Virginia answered Mary land and
Pennsy Ivania-'' Virginia is able to make her own
Improvements And to crafty small portion of
her population is unwilling TO surrender portion of
her sovereignty" that OF controlling her commerce
for the benefit of her Improvements and her
own Cities" If she makes CONCESSIONS to other
States she requires concession 10 be made which
of equal value to her. his is what North Carolina,
if she claims TO be sovereign State, ought to do.
And when she grants cross charter instead OF ask
ing olher question than "lS any money regured?'
SO often repeated during the present session, the
question should be, what advantages TO be gained
the State! they equivalent TO the concessions
made! Acting upon this principle, If charter
to connect Greensborough with Danville be granted
the State ought to require Virginia to make similar
concession and 10 make provision for the extension
CT railway connect the North Carolina Road
from its great bend. near Greensborough, through
Virginia with the Virginia and Tennessee railway
near WyihvIe. This would act feeder TO the
North Carolina Road east to that point in furnishing
freight increase the commerce of Wilmington and
Beauf fort. And would increase the through travel
;he roads west from that point, coming from Rich
mond when connected with Danvie, which without
such connection will, the Virginia and
Tennessee road is completed, be transferred that
road. And the tobacco of Rocking ham and other
Counties, both in this Stale and Virginia.
that seeks Southern market, would be carried
the North Carolina road with the travel going in that
direction.
And even the ole commercial town of FAYETTEVILLE
which is threatened with destruction by being
ditch ed round by Railroads, but unconnected with
any, VIII en- connected by Railway which ought 10 be
done at this sesson-with her coal, and iron mines
and extensive water power situated at the head Of
steamboat navigation, will become one Of the largest
manu- featuring towns in the State.
But some OF the eastern members representing the
planting interest, reply all this, what interest have
We in western extension and protecting commerce,
even if it should accomplish all those results! The
east pay most of the taxes and consequently il is not
riI ut 10 tax them effect a Railroad connection
with The west and the Mississippi valley. and is it
not cheaper to grant cross charters for which
money is asked
In this it seems probable that eastern Senators
have overlooked the interest and undera,ed the
intelligence OF the planters of the eastern portion of
The State.
Is il any harder the eastern planters of North
Carolina, being navigabIe streams and Railroads
which furnish the cheapest modes of-transportaon,
10 be taxed 10 extend Railroad the valley Of the
Mississippi than it for the planters similarly Sit
nated in Mary land, Virginia., South Carolina and
Georgia TO be taxed by those States for the extension
Of similar improvements TO The valley Of the Msss-
sippi! Suppose the extension of the Railroad west
should benefit The extreme western portion of the
State and with II nearly one half of The white popu
ialon of the State, in furnishing them with C. cap
which compared TO Wagon trans
portation reduces the Of transportation nine
Ienihs The articles OF production and consumption,
and in the same ratio increase the former and d.
the latter, and thus developed their agri-
cultural. manufacturing and commercal resources,
that it should result In doubling the value of their
lands and quadrupting the population of that portion
of the State, that it should enable them to reach
the seabourd of their State from the extreme
west in twenty hours would not the middle and
tern portion of the Slate also be benefited, the
amount they would be required to contribute to c.
compsh these results
AS Railroad facilities were furnished in the west
would not the commercial towns in the middle and
eastern portions be built up? AS the value prop
erty Increased in the would it increase in
the commercial towns OF the east? And if not to the
same extent, would it not lessen the burhens of tax
alton upon the planters of the east? AS the popula
lion increased in the would it increase in the
towns of the east1 And after the State
has in her revenue laws Disseminated in favor of
cles which are the growth and the manu- facure of
The State, " to benefit farmers and mechanics,
they justly complain of discrimination being made
IN the construction and location of improvements TO
benefit the commercial interest of your Stale |?
Why should you that interest and refuse it the
same protection that is extended all other interests
in the State! But taking the eastern portion of the
State including the commercial towns, what right
have they to complain of being taxed effect wes
tern extension, as bearing more heavily them than
The west! Does that portion of the State paw any
more than the west in proportion 10 the property they
have Does not the owner Of one slave pay in pro-
portion for the protection of that slave paid by
The owner of five hundred and what right would
The latter have to be always complaining of the great
inequality in the payment of taxes, which existed
between him and the owner of the one save1 The
same rule applies to all othe! descriptions of property.
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