The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-24
IS are given by brandy and whisky SO often

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tire energies to planting vineyards of til
vine, and in manufacturing the wine on
large scale"
The Ohio Farmer recently remarked =
I'VE hold the Scuppernong grape in yer
high estimation, for the locality where
f1ourishes, in the upper regions of Nortl
Carolina and Georgia. In the summer e
1850, we were on a tour in the South, an
were treated to the Scuppcrnong, which W
assert was the finest American wine we hav
ever tasted, and have no doubt but that vint
ners could make good thing by investing
in the culture of this grape in Nortli-Caro
Ina
There are single vines on this river which
have been known to produce one hundred
bushels of grapes in one season.
! 1t is needless to remark that our section
! abounds in the choicest timbers, thus rem
tlering building expenses light. We are sor
! ~ to say that owing to the peculiar situation
| of affairs in the past, our section is almost
! wholly undeveloped and unimproved, but we
will leave to Hon. VIM. d. Kelly, in his
speech at Philadelphia, on his return home
from Southern tour, to portray our natural
advantages we'll as our past mistakes
Judge Kelly said:
In North Carolina spoke at Charlotte,
Concord, Salisbury, and Greensboro, and
my reception in each case was as cordial as
at Memphis or New Orleans, but less de-
monstrative, because the cities were smaller.
| came thence to Danville, Virginia. where |
made my closing address to a very large as
semblage of citizens Thus you will see
my friends, that 1 crossed Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and, leaving
the last-named State by Lake Pontchartraln
and the Cult, for Alabama. and coming
',
North Carolina and Virginia, on the home
ward trip, l saw something of the South.
l now know from observation and inter
course something of its people, and L but
say to you what said to each of my audi
ences, large or small, in school room, or from
public platform, that the whole people will
soon regard the terrible war through which
we have just passed IS the throes and agony
of the birth of q new, holier, and more
blessed nation than the world has yet known
saw during my trip country upon
which the Almighty has with most lavish
hand bestowed His richest material gifts
1t is gorged with every mineral. | have
scarcely been in State that does not abound
in coal, iron, copper, and lead, and have
travelled for days over region of country
as richly underlaid with collaborating quartz
as the mountains of Colorado or California.
Let ME speak specially of North Carolina,
us is equally True Oh pOV-
erty has driven hundred of thousands of
her native citizens into exile My friends,
North Carolina is the most beautiful and
richest portion of Gods earth upon which
my vision or feet have ever rested You
know that she produces cotton, rice, indigo,
tar, pitch tnrpentine. and superior timber
You know that her soil and climate are
adapted to the cereals, wheat, corn, rye,
buckwheat, and oats. But You probably do
not know that that State long known as the
Rip Van Wrinkle of the Union, from which
more than fifty thousand free white people
have fed to the two States of Indiana and
Illinois, is the land of wine and honey, the
apple and peach, the fig and pomegranate,
all of which saw prospecting in open field
and under the most artless culture Its ma
tive vines made the fortune of Longworth,
who carried cuttings thence. The wine pro-
ducing vineyards of Western Pennsylvania,
around the base and on the islands of Lake
Erie, and scattered through Missouri, are
from the cuttings taken from the native
vines of North Carolina. The Catawba, the
Lincoln, the Isabella, and richer than all the
Scuppernong, of which, as it has not vet
been successfully transplanted, Eastern North
Carolina has the monopoly. There it grows
spontaneously as Il weed
The woods and hii-sides TEEN with the
richest honey-bearing flowers. and the
bees invite you to put up rude box, that
they may reward your kindness with the |
sweetest treasure. There is not vegetable !
we produce that will not thrive in North |
Carolina, and under these Astounding stores |
OF agricultural wealth, belt ranging from |
forty to one hundred miles wide across the
entire State, so richly underlaid with gold |
that person with common frying pan
may wash the sands of many of the rivulets
and make from one to three dollars per day.
My friends, as l travelled from day to day
through this native wealth and beauty. I
saw how sin had driven man out of Paradise,
for never had | seen such poverty as l found
IN North Carolina, save in South Carolina.
and Mississippi, where people are
starving in the midst OF natures richest
bounties.
You cannot comprehend and credit this
statement. 1 tell you it is true Icuuld not
credit it myself. 1t was long before obser-
walton enabled me fully to comprehend it.
My friends some of you, tired of CITY life.
may think of emigrating. To SUCH l say.
put not thousand or fifteen hundred miles
beteen your families and their old homes by
going to the distant West or Northwest
There is,a more genial climate and country
Is rich and beautiful within few hundred
niles OF your home, where you can buy agri-
cultural and mineral lands at from two to
i've dollars an acre; in which you can buy |
and contiguous to towns destined, under ,
he influence of freedom, soon to he large .
titles, whose railroad connections arc already 8
established, at from five to fifteen dollars an
ere In this region your skill as machinists
viii be OF immense value. Many of the rich
old and copper mines of North Carolina :
ave already passed into the possession of
Northern men, and are being worked by the d q
lost approved machinery
AS experience demonstrates their richness.
his held will become largely productive of
'ealth and employment. But the rivers of I
he South furnish boundless water power.
luch OF which washes beds of iron, coal and
mestone. 1 have visited Lewiston, Me-.
'ashua and Manchester, N. H., and Lowell +
nd Lawrence, Mass, and assure YOU that
single stream in each of the States of Ala
anna, Georgia, South Carolina, and North F
arollna, furnishes power vastly in excess of b
lat required to move the machinery of the t.
ties have named. Much of the cotton IA
'op will yet be spun and woven by this s.
over, near to the fields on which it is grown. d
o enterprising and ingenious Immigrants 1 I