Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-12-09

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Sase " yodr slaves q $500 szch, of your improved
farms and farming implements, and live. stock Of all
kinds, was $780, 1926; and Of the productions OF
yonr aoil, and your home made manufactures. &4!7'
O9S73; making in all $5.316,9l9.73 This takes
no account of cash in hand, money at interest,
household furniture, naval stores, or umimproved
lands. A fair estimate Of these, added to the sum
1juat mentioned, would give $500 to each white per.
son in the County, which is fully equal to, If not
shove the amount per capita among the white PEG.
pie of the State at the highest estimate Of the value Of
the State to wit, five hundred millions of dollars
These estimates for the three States mentioned and
for your County, based upon the census OF $780,
which was taken eight years ago.. l have no doubt
that since that period the population and wealth Of
the State have increased twenty per cent, and some
of her productions fifty to one hundred per cent.
You have therefore, gentlemen, much in the past
and the present to be proud OTTO encourage you to
further exertion and still greater improvements.
You have benignant Skies generous SOIL fine tila-
bic and grazing lands, and a market near At hand;
and the display on this occasion. which we see
around us, furnishes the strongest guarantee that
your efforts in agriculture in improving your stock
of all kinds in the mechanic arts in domestic
factuues, and in all beautiful and useful handiwork
will continue and be crowned, hereafter as they are
now, with gratifying and increasing success. l.ai
But as we have already seen, North Carolina makes
the staples and other States export them largely,
and get the benefit of them. We have suffered our
selves to become their neutrality-suspicious. for their
benefit nearly much as for own We sell to
them and take their current notes in most cases,
bringing back little if any specie to add to our own
circulation or to strengthen our Banks They ex-
port for us to foreign countries New York is our
main importer; and Virginia, South Carolina, and
Tennessee bank for US to large extent;- not
content with this of these States refuse to take
our paper currency decry it, underrate it, and keep
it below par. For sixty years We have contributed
to build up Petersburg, Norfolk, Charleston, and
other Virginia and South Carolina towns while our
seaports have been neglected. ant Beaufort, the
finest Of all upon the Atlantic coast has been commit
nicated with from the interior until recently by
one horse weekly mail Look, look fellow citizens,
a: extent of territory. varied and fertile soils.
our staple products, GU. almost untouched mineral
wealth, our position on the surface Of the earth our
sweep of seacoast, and our means of commerce; and
then say if North-Carolna ought not to be great.
a growing, a commanding, Empire State!"
Our population is not thar twenty to the square
mile We could support six millions more Of human
beings in comfort and abundance Ii our population
only equal to the square mile that Of Massa-
chusetts, originally of the most sterile States in
the Union, it would reach 600 600 if equal to that
of Great Britain, which has about the same
North Carolina it would reach 100000. Our
great interest is that Of Agriculture. OF 100000
by the Census of 1850 80 600 casscd farmers.
Oar leading staples cotton, corn, heat, rice and
tobacco So great is the demand for cotton that it
must always pay well. The cultivation of tobacco
is rapidly increasing; and if the federal government
should succeed in efforts to induce Great Britain
and France to reduce their tariffs upon it, which
amount to than the value of the entire crop
ported from the United Staes-$1S, 900 Goa still
further stimulus will be gwen to it's cultivation We
can make corn and wheat, and rice, and potatoes
enough for our use, and to spare and We have
the best labor in the world for agricultural purposes
mixed labor, that Of the white freeman and the
black slave. No panic, commercial crisis affects
| slave labor. 1t is always at hand can be always
commanded, day and night summer and winter, and
! is always reliable. They the best fed, the best
clothed and the happiest laborng population the
globe. Next winter it is estimated one million of
mouths in the free States will be crying for bread.
| Hundreds Of thousands of working men, the bone
| and sinew of the North have been driven from en-
| poyment by the stringency and inso> ency perva'
! ding nearly all departments of business; and these
| working men, with their wives and children, must
be fed for time without charge, for they have moth
| ing to pay, by those who able to feed them
they will starve. The great question in Paris is en-
poyment and bread for the masses and revolutions
changes in government there are projected and
| achieved by hungry patriots, and because men
| hungry. The same state Of things threatens the
Northern States Of this Union. Large Cities, which
Mr.. Jefferson pronounced sores upon the body poll
tic, and free society, socalled beginning to yield
their fruits But what slave among all the three
millions in these Southern States, is suffering for
bread? Not one. The white race, the master race,
have not only the necessares but the Injuries Of life;
and the black have not only enough in food and
clothing, but something to waste, and luxuries also
suited to their taste and fancy. We have no acres
here covered with paupers-no oup-kitchens, sur
rounded by clamoring and sta wing hosts But there,
| as the twilight deepens and darkness falls, and as
the cold moon shimmers down upon the still colder
pavements, and as those who have homes retire to
| th"E the pale victims Of poverty and want SEEM
begging for a morsel to stay their hunger, and for
| shelter from the piercing wind-fOod and shelter,
| which are given to the brutes but denied to them
And there also, every Sabbath, and sometimes thrice
| = week, the fashionable and the wealthy crowd to
their splendid churches, in shining broadclo,h and
rustling silk. to worship the poor mans God Ito
besiege Heaven with welcomed words and icy
forms, vain'y imagining. perhaps that their prayers
ascend above the resou"dng aisles fretted domes
while their white brethren the immortal images of
the God they pray to. are " an hungered, SICK and
| in prison., with none to care for them and while
scores of ministers dilate upon the negroes wrongs
and foment contention, hatred, and fratricdal war,
| careless Of the want, and woe, and agony around
them, which have cutched their very blood, their
poor white neighbors, booming whole mult,udes to
condition more forlorn than any single slave in all
these States ever heard Of much less endured. "Ye
serpents We generation Of vpers, how ye escape
| the damhation of hell !"
| So long, gentlemen, as cotton. tobacco rice and
sugar are produced long will African slavery en-.
dure. II is founded in the nature of things in the
necessities of mankind, and is as fixed in all these
souther" attitudes as the soil itself: 1t will remain
| where 1t Is, and the surplus will seek new regions
just as the ocean remains within its old boundaries
and other waters seek their level despise the "a
natics, but do not fear them far as the durability
Of the institution is concerned They who figh,
against African slavery fight against cotton, tobacco
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