Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-10-23

whose effects hold out such strong temptations 10
the avidity of the greedy and ambitious Its pro
vinces naturally fertile, and once so prosperous
have been so long pundered by the various Iunc
tionares that have immediate control OF them tnat
they in a wasted and dying conouon' WINE
Constantinope is the point of attraction ana expen
diture.
The immense British corporation which has so
long controlled India and its population of one hun
dred and seventy millions is draining that country
of its wealth. with skill and efficiency, and COM
pleeness which throws entirely into the shade the
Clumsy methods of plumber practiced hitherto by
barbarians. The rebellion still prevailing there,
seems to be a struggle, it may be only death strug
gle, to shake off the gigantic vampire, which will
otherwise draw the last drops of blood from the
heart of its victim.
The great principle, which I would deduce from
all these examples is that while feeble States may
be ruined by powerful neghbors, who are hostile,
great empires have always been destroyed by their
own governments. A small State is safe from ex-
terna violence can watch over, and restrain within
due bounds, its own rulers, hut in large ones the
central power great and its territories so ex-
tensive and remote that there cannot usually be
sufficient understanding, and concert of action
among the sufferers, to enable them to make an ef
fective opposition In fact where resistance begins
in any section the other portions of the empire can
generally be used for its suppression before any ex
tended organization be effected. 1t thus has
usually happened, that the oppression of the govern
ened and destroyed in great measure, the country
subject to its domination
Having some years ago attempted to present this
view, hope to be excused for repeating it, be-
cause think it can be shown that the great danger
to US in the future, is one of this kind To pros
porous system of agriculture, then it may be as
sumed that there should exist territory of suf-
cent fertility, with congenial climate. an intel
gent and energetic race of men, and such political
and social system will afford security to industry
and stimulate, rather than repress its activity.
North. Caroline has fifty thousand square miles of
terrtorv-just about the of England. But while
England exclusive of Scotland and Wales, has pop
ulation of seventeen millions. North Carolina has
barely one million. If this difference is not to con-
tnue, can ever equal, or even approxir ate. the
population of England? When at Washington. per-
sons comparatively strangers to State, often have
said to me- $50 you are from the piney region of
North-C Carolina" They sometimes seemed sur
prised when told them that the section from which
| came more remote from that district covered
with pines than Washington City itself, and even
less like it in its external features. The fact that
the principal lines Of travel through State have
been along that comparatively belt of level
pine forest, has made most persons from abroad
suppose that the whole State is of that character
1t was in the month of july 1884, that the first
Europeans who ever touched the shores Of any
of the old thirteen States, approached the coast of
North Carolina. under the command of Amadas and
Barowe In the report to Sir Walter Raleigh,
drawn up by the latter it is said that two days be-
fore they came in sight of the land, 1--WE smeled so
sweet and strong smell as if we had been in
the midst of some delicate garden, Astounding with
ali kinds of odorferous flowers" On reaching the
land it was found $50 full of grapes "a the very
beating and surge Of the overlooked them, of
which we found such plenty, as well there as in all
places else both the sand and the green soil,
on the hills as in the plains, well on every little
shrub also climbing the tops of high cedars, that
| think in all the world the like abundance is not to
be found; and myself having seen those parts of
Europe that most abound, find such difference as
were incredible to be written" Inside Of the long
narrow tract Of islands. along which they coasted
for two hundred miles, they found what appeared
another great sea" between them and the main land
Everywhere they were struck with surprise, they
beheld the Variety the magnitude and beauty Of the
forest trees which not only surpassed those Of b.
hema Muscovia Hercynia," but "betterins the
cedars of the Azores, of the Indies, or Lybanus"
Two years later, after residence Of twelve months
on the main land with party of colonsts Ralph
Lane declared 1.-The main to be the goodest soil I'M
der the cope of heaven" 'the goodliest and most
pleasing territory in the world land the climate so
wholesome that we had not sick since we touch
ed the land here" He affirms that VI it "had but
horses and kline in some reasonable proportion, |
dare assure myself being inhabited with English, no
realm in chrstendom were comparable to it. For
this already, find, that what commodities soever.
y,
to lis. &c.-these parts do abound with the growth
of them ALL and sundry other rich commodities that
no parts of the world, be they West East Indies,
have, here we find the grea' est abundance of
When contemplate North Carolina at the pre-
sent day, we recognize the features here described
There is on the coast the same long line of low
dy islands, probably formed by the deposits of sed-
ment, where the fluvial waters from the interior
are checked in their by the opposing current
of the Gulf stream. With the exception Of the fine
harbor of Beaufort there the same difficult nets
which terrified these early voyagers. and on their
maps were marked with figures of sinking ships In
side ofthe range, there the broad and shallow
SEAS most abundantly supplied with fish, and those
other inhabitants Of the deep, which alike calcu
lated to minister to the necessities and Injuries of
mankind On the 'main" there lands not infe-
rior in fertility to the famous Detas of the Nile,
or the Mississippi. Cultivation for one hundred
cessive years, in the most exhaustng of the rain
crops, has not diminished their productiveness.-
Though it has cost something to render these swamp
lands suitable for cultivation, vet agricultural in
vestment ever made in America perhaps, yields a
better return and this fact affords another lustra-
ton of the truth that Providence has decreed that
the best things in life shall cost abour to attain them.
And yet, up to this time but small proportion,
ny persons think not one ftieth part of the swamp
lands in the Eastern portion of the State have been
put into cultivation. When after the manner Of Hol-
land all this region shall have been reclaimed the
tire present population of the State might be remov-
ed to It, without being able to cultivate the half Of
it. Almost every portion Of it, too is penetrat by
navigable streams Passing inward a hundred miles
or more from the coast, reach that belt of pine
land, which was formerly regarded as only valuable
for its timber, and naval stores generally, but which
latter experiments show may, without difficulty be
rendered highly productive. By the application OF
mari or lime it has been ascertained that most OF
this region can be made to yield abundant crops both
of cotton and the cereals. Westward of this there
stretches for two three hundred miles, a moder.
| ately elevated, undulating country presenting al.
most every variety Of landscape soil and production
At its extreme borders, there rises up a mountain
GUS region with holder scenery and more bracing
climate. Few of our own citizens realize the extent
of this district. Of the fact, that it is
three hundred miles in length, and has probably