The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-06-19
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with Mary land, is something larger than the

| with Mary land, is something larger than the
fifth of North Carolina
Greece whose history is more generally and
lntehtiy stunned Ia American schools than our
own, WIN Macedonia for her Eorthern bound
airy, was tstimated BY Heeren at 20 600 sousre
miles. South. Carolina has 20 1856 or three
ffths Of North Carolina Greece, with her
present. boundaries, is about equal to t,co ffths
| of North Carolina. Greece aud Macedonia
| combined under the dominion Of the great con-
queror, were somewhat smaller than this State
Attlca, the most renowned of all the Greciau
States, with intellectual supremacy wider
and more durable than the Roman empire, was
a little triangle of seven hundred square miles,
similar in outline, and equal in extent to the
county of New Hanover, embracing an srea of
a seUe"tteth of North Carolida, or u seUen thou.
sdmdh part Of the land surface of the globe
The puncture Of needle on an ordinary ter.
restia globe might serve to Indicate her relative
extent, position and proportion.
These cumpaI isOns may be rendered more ex-
pressTe by preparing s.n'ap or diagrams upon
the black board, to. exhibit them to the eye,
somewhat similar to the manner that the COM
parative heights of mountains, aud lengths of
rivers are frequently deneAted on the margins
OF modern maps. If North Carolina shall be
assumed as the unit in such arrangement,
this State aud England may be represented by
the central circle or rarallelogram, Prussia oy
including douIte, Frauce qu0drrp!e, and Aus
tra qui"fap/e space. A circle or parallelogram
forty times as large as that representing North
Carolina, will show the relative extent OF Russia
in Europe; sixty tunes, the United States or
British America; aud the exterior, seventy
times the extent of North Caroliua, will delin-
cate Europe
The population of the globe is ordinarily ca.
timated at thousand millions, or twenty to the
square mile. North Carolina, with q thou
sandth part Of the land surface of the globe, has
thousandth part OF the population and the
average density OF each is twenty to the square
mie, SO that in both respects North Carolina
may be most conveniently referred to for COM
putation aud illustration The average density
OF the population Of the United States is some-
thing more than half, England twelve times,
Prussia and Austria eight times, and France
niue times as great as that OF North Carolina
and the globe.
Vivid as your Impressions of the horrors OF
war may be, they may perhaps be intensified BY
a comparison Of the extent, resources aud pop
ulation OF sparsely Inhabited orlhwestern Geor-
gla with Belgium, the most dense!y populated
country ON the globe Belgium has fur hun
dred and ulne Inhabitants to the square mile
more than twenty times the average OF North
CaroIina, and probably thirty titpes great as
that portion Ut your Stale north of Atlanta
Wellington, with the soJriquet of the Iron
Duke, was the most humane, and with the OK
cepilon, perhaps, of his great competitor at
aterlOo, the abest commander of noder8
times Such devastation in the neighborhood
'ot brussels as that witnessed around Atlanta,
would have produced u spectacle at which the
world would have STOOD aghast
A comparative view Of the financial condition
of hp diff. mo- in MIR
will exhibit facts not less impressive, suggestive,
and instructive. The whole expenditure of the
Government during the four years of John
Quincy Adams administration, complained OF
at the South as extravagant, were S49,3l3.2l3,
andtess than The hundreih pnrt OF the expeu-
dtufes OF the Confederate and Eederal Govern
ments during four years of frdtermdt strife.
The average annual expenditure by Mr.
Adams is small in comparison with the Interest
Of the war debt of the United States, in de-
gree that do not care to exhibit by an attenpt
precise computation.
The public debt Of the United States, the OBJ.
jcct of such intense concern ard anxiety to Gen.
Jackson, mainly created during our three
years war with. Great Britain. 1t attained its
maximum in 1916, when il amounted to Sl27,-
1884. The aggregate is greatly less than
the interest Of our present national debt.
DIscouraglng as these hgures may seem 10 %
at the first. glance, assure yourself that, with the
blessing Of God, patience, energy, industry and
frugali,y at the South, with kindness, forbear.
aud waenanimity at the North, will enable
US to retrieve our fallen fortunes in shorter
period than is ordinarily antici pated. Most
earnestly do pray that the proper spirit may
be manifested promptly and fully on the part of
both sectious, aud that the Great Disposer Of
events may crown our efortsswith success, and
in this suppcation, from my remembrance OF
your collegiate career, l have no doubt you will
heartily unite.