Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-12-14


ton would become populous city, and the enhanced
value of real estate at all three points and along the
line, which would greatly swell the amount of taxa
ton, together with very great increase of the poll
tax form considerations of vast importance to the
revenue of the State, which ought not to be over
looked In an able speech delivered by the Senator
from Guilford (Mr. GorrelD two years ago, think
he estimated the amount of taxable merchandise i'm
ported into the State at thirteen millions Of dollars
add to this the sum of two millions not taxed
all this, as well as the iron imported into the State
must be paid in exports in money which is liable
to the difference of exchange Here, then, is debt
of twenty millions subject to the deduction of our
exports. There are no certain means of ascer-
tanning the quantity value of our exports, but
have heard them estimated at ten millions of dollars
This then would leave to pay exactly ten millions
in money subject to the difference of exchange; add
to all this sale of State bonds and those of railroad
companies, both amounting to several millions sub
ject to loss in exchange. No State can prosper
long where the balance Of trade is against it. That
is the law of political economy from Adam Smith
down; and there is no product on earth which
be developed so cheap, quick and so abundant as
that of coal, and hence it becomes the most impor-
tant article in equaizng the exchanges Of the State
Sir, if Georgia or South-Carolina had treasures
like these, they would have been heralded to the
world and this very coal would, ere this, have
given motion to steamers in the Of China, or
to those of the South Pacific ocean.
These are the only mines of coal and iron ore
known in the South Atlantic States The day may
not be very distant when their value may be felt
Sir, you recollect the period of 1850 when that
lofty statesman with giant mind stood in the midst
of the Senate and gave warning of the approaching
danger-when the patriots of all parties rallied
around him for the safety of their country-and
when those stars of the Union, which had shone so
brilliantly in peace and in war, began to grow dim
YOU recoect sir, the period of 1856, when again
those stars began to lose their accustomed lustre
and the heart Of every lover of his country hrobbed
for its safety. If sir, those stars should ever fade
away, and those stripes be torn asunder-if this
Union should be dissolved-then may ask where
is your iron to cast your cannon and your ball. and
what will put in motion your infant navy? Sir, I
do not speak OF this to harrow up the feelings of the
Senate trust it may never be; but such has been
the fate of other governments, and such may be the
fate of ours. In whatever aspect this measure is
viewed It's marked with interest to the State If
passed, North Carolina will become the richest of
the southern States.
Sir, we have advocated almost every measure of
internal improvement. I appeal to the extreme
East. We sustained you in your greatest work-we
stood by you in your Albenarle and Chesapeake
Canal-will you stand by us now? Iappeal to
those on the long line of the Raleigh and Castor
Road We stood by you at your natal hour and sus
tanned you, and that too at time when it required
mind to conceive and nerve to executc-the
members from Cumberland voted for your road, and
returned home to meet an astonshcd people. They
justified the act and were sustained, will you too
stood by you from the beginning to the end, and
never deserted you. And appeal to the friends of
internal Improvement We have stood by you
| all. 1appcal through the Hon. Senator of New Han
over CMr. Ashe) He has devoted his time his servi-
ces his talents, to your appeal through my
friend from Bladen, (r Mcdowell )who, in like man
ner, has sustained you upon every occasion, though
| he asked for nothing, and his people wanted
nothing. l appeal through own great and
lamented Dobhin, whose metallic voice held the
fnn,r, in and ryhoc j.
lighted the ear and captivated the heart; but
that voice is heard more-'tis hushed in the
deep silence of death, and the eloquence of my
| try is buried in his tomb Will you turn your back
upon your most ancient ally, who stood by you in
, your infancy, followed you in your progress and
| gored in your ascension, until you have now be-
come the ruling power in the State? Gratitude was
the highest the nobest virtue of the Romans yea it
was the brightest jewel in the rich dadem of viz
| tues; and bright that jewel then, it is
as brilliant here to-day as it ever was in the
proud Senate of the commonwealth of Rome
| When the illustrious Cicero proclaimed that graf
| itude was the mother of Virtues, he render
ed his fame more immortal than he did by his
mastery defence of Milo his unrivalled phillipics
against Catiline. Sir, it is not my voice you hear
upon this occasion. It is but the echo of 1875
| voters who have sent me here. It is the united
voices of the counties of Cumberland and Harnett
In making these appeals here to-day, it is to show
| where we have stood, and where we are now 1
justice is all that we desire-more than that donot
ask, and less than that you ought not to give. We
have passed resolutions unanimously nstructing our
Senators, and requesting Representatives to
all proper means in procuring the establishment of
work shops by the General Government for the
| manufacture of machinery and National Foundry
to be located at the coafelds. If this bill should
pass, ensuring speedy outlet to the ocean, the
| General Government would be encouraged speedily
| to commence the work If we fail to pass it. our
| own confidence will he dStrnSted No mpacrra bac
ever been presented to the Legislature that came
with the same merit, or occupied the elevated
position. In the Gubernatorial canvass it was pro-
claimed in almost every county in the State, from
| the remotest confines of Cherokee to the distant
shores of the Atlantic 1t was heard upon the noun
tains in the valleys, and in the towns and OPP
| posing voice disturbed the harmony of the sound
The rival candidates both sustained the measure
and it was carried in triumph through the State
In candor and in truth I can say, it was approved
and ratified by the people. May 1 not here appeal
in confidence to those Senators who feel themselves
trammelled by their constituents, and ask if this
docs not show conclusively that this measure was
not regarded by them as leading to an involvement
of the State? If this bill should pass, it will be-
come the most popular measure ever presented to
| the people trust the Senate will sustain it. and
rally around it, as they would the flag of their
| try's safety.
Sir, lwere ambitious to live in the recollection of
| Posterlty-to connect my name indssoluby with
| the State, and to create fame which should en-
dure as long as her history should survive, would
ask no higher claim than to record my name in ia
vor of the passage of this bill.
lwould here do injustice to my own feelings
| were L not to return my warmest thanks to the
Senate, for the kind and indugent manner in which
have been heard on this present occasion.
! HoGs.-Several large droves of hogs have passed
through this place within the past week. We OBJ
served several car loads Thursday last, on their
| vIou fn ,r,,hso r
on board the cars, who had just returned from Chat
tanooga, Tenn, and other places in the West, that