Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-03-23
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LETTER NO. ].
Our Southern Traced Where it has hitherto
CONC Where "a soW nom go-CentraI NORTH
: Uaroliaa- Waters ditto Hills and VallsgE
Heretofore, no sooner came the heats Of Summer
than every hotel north Of Mason & Dixon's line at
al vel located expected ., portion Of Southern
travel. And no southerner was considered refined,
unless he had made the tour Of the Lakes, seen
Niagara and the thousand islands, and spent while
at Quebec The winters tale by the cosy hearth
was about the North 1.-THE inevitable Yankee and
splendid things generally. Even our four year
dds knew more Of railroads and steamboats, than
the oldest away down South, and thus while this
intercommunion lasted between one portion of the
nation and the other, all seemed to be in flourish
ing condition The South was happy, and the
North very much So for the latter usual had the
best Of the bargain. And thus would things have
gone on, had no disruption of feeling taken place
between extremes in both sections.
But already are the first class hotels closing for
lack of Southern custom. And if thus early, what
shall the end be9 The idea has too generally pre-
vailed at the North, that all their prosperity was
incident to inherent activity among its people merely
result that would always be, but the truth was
considerable portion of them subsisted all the
while on Southern patronage, and even among all
classes an invisible element at work. was this very
patronage. 1t extended from the little boot-black
in the street to the minister in the pulpit 1t was
universal; never rightly appreciated But how is
the case now?
The Girard House closest And how many must
follow? Perhaps scores And with hotels what
other institutions must follow? Trade railroad and
steamboat lines, all must suffer; and with these
many a poor man will find his daily bread less
plenty. The prevailing sentiment at the North has
thus turned things upside down.
But where will the travel 60 !? 1t is destined to
seek other localities And among these it is pre-
sumable hill country and water-side For it has
all along been considered shame that Southerners
knew so little about their own States. That while
they were familiar with every point Of interest from
Baltimore to Montreal they had not visited their
own mountains or seaside. Their money was all
spent upon Northern people
Now, it is well known that whilst the South is not
wanting in fine sea-lne extending from the Chesa-
peake to Florida its ranges of mountains are unequal
led for scenery, and the pleasantness in soourning
among them is only equaled by that to be found at
very lew localities at the extreme North, as the
White Mountains and little further south, the
Catskills &c a chief attribute of the pleasures of
visiting northern localities of the kind named has
been the facility of accomplishing the journey to and
from them, with the accessories of good hotels and
active attendance generally. little of the same
patronage bestowed upon places further South will
in time render them equal to those North.
With little encouragement many new points
would be brought into notice. and when once the
inhabitants OF different sections began to associate
together it would become kind of necessity every
season, and sooner would the summer open, than
this habit would begin its operation of collecting at
our various watering places and the like citizens of
different States rendering our own Union more po-
tential and happy, and soon substituting new con-
venience for that lost in the sectional feeling now
existing, here and at the North. |
1t is not too much to say, that every State has |
its points Of interest whether it be hills valleys,
or seaboard, rendering sojourn at them
agreeable and useful and even were this not So the
States less favored can afford to seek such in neigh
boring one thus Strengthening the bond of amity.
And whilst not designing to disparage Others we
shall attempt in next to show that North Caro-
lima is entitled to particular esteem for her many
points of interest, and must soon command it